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Episode's message: The one to get laid is...

posted 8 years ago by DreTam2000
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...the one who finally is no longer online or on social media (even if not by choice).

That was the point made at the end of the episode. The person who pursues a social life outside of the internet and social media is rewarded, in this case with genuine sexual invitation.

Basically: "Get off the internet and go seek life outside of social media. It just may do you some good, and bring sincere, more wholesome interaction into your life."

That's not necessarily my personal opinion I'm giving. I'm only deciphering that moment in the episode for what it was.

I'm not a control freak, I just like things my way

[–] RoadSideAssistance 8 years ago

Right....

Although I know a friend who is on Tinder 24/7 getting laid. And I don't use ANY social media and haven't been laid in a few months LOL. Granted no girlfriend and have been traveling and wrapped up in home purchase, but still....

[–] scoulter2 8 years ago

I figured everyone understood this episode's message. It's not as if it's really a new message.

[–] Sluggr-3 8 years ago

Hearing it and getting it are often two completely different events.

Matt and Trey are in the select few who "get it" and are able to stand back and accurately report on what is happening, much the same way that Vonnegut, Carlin, Bill Hicks did, and probably most recently Bill Burr and Louis CK do. I seriously can't keep a straight face when I go into our local "WholePaycheck" clone store. They seem oblivious that everything they stand for has been openly exposed and mocked relentlessly. The millenials may hear the jokes about millenials, but they don't "get" the jokes about millenials. I wonder how many viewers have never seen "It's a Wonderful Life" and therefore the entire scene on the bridge was lost on them. If the shows don't seem as funny now, it is probably because you are getting much less of it.

They are doing a good enough job with Cartman having a change of heart that I am 99% believing that it is real, even though 99% of the time in the past it was a ruse to get something.

My Chimp DNA seems to have lost its password temporarily. Sluggr-2

[–] rmontro 8 years ago

I agree that is the message. Although it is somewhat undercut by the fact that it appeared that EVERY guy in school had a girlfriend. I thought that was a little unusual, how old are these kids, are they still in the fourth grade?

So let's say Cartman finds out what is at the bottom of a vagina. Does that mean Stan has been dating Wendy (on and off) all this time, and they've never given in to curiousity? Or every other couple in the school, for that matter?

[–] DreTam2000 8 years ago

Whoa! You're taking SP way too seriously.

You do realize that the kids have been in the 4th grade for approximately ten years, right..? It's fantasy. It's supposed to be assumed that, at this stage of their lives (although they're still in the 4th grade), they're only now just wondering what's at the bottom of a vagina.

You do realize that even kindergartners had girlfriends in that episode. It's pure exaggeration.

It's supposed to be implied that Cartman is about to get some. You've missed the point. He's not literally about to find out what's at the bottom of one. Obviously there's nothing there. And what makes you think that none of the other couples in the school have given in to curiosity? Cartman didn't plan on finding out what's at the bottom of a vadge. He was offered. So if Cartman didn't plan on finding out what's there, why must Stan or anyone else have planned to? And what makes you think they all had the same misconception that Cartman had about whatever's at the bottom of one?

I'm not a control freak, I just like things my way