LeeB99
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This will ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY blow your mind! South Park COPIES "The King of Kong"
Hey everyone,
This evening, U2 is playing in Nashville, TN at the Vanderbilt stadium and a lot of people that I know from high school on Facebook are going. This reminded me of a South Park episode that came out a number of years back which poked a LOT of fun at Bono. I went to re-watch it this morning. You can view the episode at this link:
http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s11e09-more-crap
So, here is where things get REALLY interesting. "The King of Kong" was released on August 19th of 2007 and finished it's limited release on October 21. The South Park episode "More Crap" was released on October 10, 2007 just before the theatrical run of "The King of Kong" was finished. So exactly WHAT makes me think that the creators of South Park copied "The King of Kong"? Well, if you watch the episode and imagine replacing the characters as follows:
Randy Marsh is Steve Wiebe
Bono is Billy Mitchell
Stan Marsh is Steve Wiebe's wife
The President of the European Fecal Standards and Measurements is Walter Day
The story goes like this: Randy (Steve Wiebe) THINKS that he may have a new world record, so he calls the Guiness people, but they don't keep records for what he has done. He then contacts the European Fecal Standards and Measurements institute, who DOES keep such records (the Twin Galaxies of the story) and they set up a meeting to provide him with the award. Just before the ceremony takes place, Bono (Billy Mitchell) sends a VIDEO of his record and they immediately crown Bono as the record holder. Randy gets all down about it, and his friends try to cheer him up and tell him to train more to go after the record. Randy poses the question if sending in a video is the same as being there in person or does that make it legit? Stan (Randy's son) goes to visit Bono and tells him that his dad has never been "number one" at anything and that it is really important to him (sound familiar?) that he be the best at SOMETHING. Bono goes off on him and tells him that being number one/the best is EVERYTHING to him and that absolutely NO ONE can say that he is "Number 2" at anything. It turns out that The President of the Fecal Standards (Walter Day) had a close personal relationship to Bono (Billy Mitchell) which made him favor him and it gets exposed in the end.
It is CLEAR that this episode was made as the direct result of the South Park creators viewing "The King of Kong" during it's limited theatrical showings. Thoughts???
Lee
Edit: apparently this HAD been noticed by a couple of others before, but I suspect that MOST people do not know about this, and any fan of South Park or "The King of Kong" should check out the episode to observe the similarities. At the time the episode was originally aired, "The King of Kong" was rather obscure with limited theatrical showings. There was nowhere NEAR the number of people (back then) who were familiar with the material as there is now. The vast majority of people who saw this episode when it originally aired on TV would have NO WAY to observe that this story line was "inspired by" the movie...
Hey everyone,
This evening, U2 is playing in Nashville, TN at the Vanderbilt stadium and a lot of people that I know from high school on Facebook are going. This reminded me of a South Park episode that came out a number of years back which poked a LOT of fun at Bono. I went to re-watch it this morning. You can view the episode at this link:
http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s11e09-more-crap
So, here is where things get REALLY interesting. "The King of Kong" was released on August 19th of 2007 and finished it's limited release on October 21. The South Park episode "More Crap" was released on October 10, 2007 just before the theatrical run of "The King of Kong" was finished. So exactly WHAT makes me think that the creators of South Park copied "The King of Kong"? Well, if you watch the episode and imagine replacing the characters as follows:
Randy Marsh is Steve Wiebe
Bono is Billy Mitchell
Stan Marsh is Steve Wiebe's wife
The President of the European Fecal Standards and Measurements is Walter Day
The story goes like this: Randy (Steve Wiebe) THINKS that he may have a new world record, so he calls the Guiness people, but they don't keep records for what he has done. He then contacts the European Fecal Standards and Measurements institute, who DOES keep such records (the Twin Galaxies of the story) and they set up a meeting to provide him with the award. Just before the ceremony takes place, Bono (Billy Mitchell) sends a VIDEO of his record and they immediately crown Bono as the record holder. Randy gets all down about it, and his friends try to cheer him up and tell him to train more to go after the record. Randy poses the question if sending in a video is the same as being there in person or does that make it legit? Stan (Randy's son) goes to visit Bono and tells him that his dad has never been "number one" at anything and that it is really important to him (sound familiar?) that he be the best at SOMETHING. Bono goes off on him and tells him that being number one/the best is EVERYTHING to him and that absolutely NO ONE can say that he is "Number 2" at anything. It turns out that The President of the Fecal Standards (Walter Day) had a close personal relationship to Bono (Billy Mitchell) which made him favor him and it gets exposed in the end.
It is CLEAR that this episode was made as the direct result of the South Park creators viewing "The King of Kong" during it's limited theatrical showings. Thoughts???
Lee
Edit: apparently this HAD been noticed by a couple of others before, but I suspect that MOST people do not know about this, and any fan of South Park or "The King of Kong" should check out the episode to observe the similarities. At the time the episode was originally aired, "The King of Kong" was rather obscure with limited theatrical showings. There was nowhere NEAR the number of people (back then) who were familiar with the material as there is now. The vast majority of people who saw this episode when it originally aired on TV would have NO WAY to observe that this story line was "inspired by" the movie...
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