"South Park" Mr. Garrison's Fancy New Vagina (TV Episode 2005) ⭐ 7.6 | Animation, Comedy (original) (raw)
Episode aired Mar 13, 2005
22m
Mr. Garrison gets an operation and becomes a woman; Kyle gets surgery to become tall and black so he can play basketball; Gerald decides he wants to be a dolphin.Mr. Garrison gets an operation and becomes a woman; Kyle gets surgery to become tall and black so he can play basketball; Gerald decides he wants to be a dolphin.Mr. Garrison gets an operation and becomes a woman; Kyle gets surgery to become tall and black so he can play basketball; Gerald decides he wants to be a dolphin.
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If you do not find this funny...
... then you are the joke.
Just like every other South Park episode, this one focuses on yet another aspect of society that is absolutely ridiculous. And this is one of the examples where they arguably predicted the future!
The funniest thing about this episode is that back when this first aired it would have been inconceivable for this to be mainstream... too ridiculous to be true... NOW IT IS MAINSTREAM!
We are 10 years since it first aired and there are scenes that have become a everyday occurences only recently!
If this offends you, well, I hope you find your path back to reality quickly.
I love South Park, but this was bad.
Firstly, it is incredibly ironic that South Park often criticizes vegans for using grotesque imagery to guilt-trip people into no longer eating animals, and force their views on others. But then in this episode, they do the exact same thing, but with a different topic. They show grotesque imagery, very deliberately, to force their personal perspective at the time.
If you're gonna do satire, it is best you avoid hypocrisy, otherwise your work will lose its bite, and will make you look like someone who doesn't know what they are doing.
This episode lacked what I like about South Park, and that's intellectual satire towards absurd and terrible things humans tend to do. South Park has a few episodes like this one, where they end up doing a satire on something they don't understand, and in turn butcher the delivery.
In conclusion, this episode is a product of its time, but that doesn't justify the bad faith and frankly insulting depiction of an already marginalized and heavily discriminated group.
Even more topical today than then
South Park has succeeded for so long with, among other reasons, its scathing social commentary. In this episode, it challenges the notion that you can be whatever you "identify" as. Many people will be disgusted by the live action surgery scene-and that really was the point. The mutilation and ever increasing absurdity of characters' transformations were designed to be off putting. But in it all, there was a valuable message: learn to love ourselves for who we are. Of course, South Park does not present that in as pleasant of a way as I have. The jokes, as with many other episodes, are not for everyone, and that is ok.
There's a few good notes, but oh god
This definitely has one of the worst scenes in The show's history. Mr. Garrison wanting to be a woman is believable enough in itself, and there are a few decent jokes, but the episode is seriously weighed down by the imagery. The sex change scenes are nauseating and the scene where Kyle's knees explode is not immune either. I'm just glad I knew about the imagery before I watched the episode, but it was still awful to watch. It does have a few interesting ideas, but they don't get explored outside of a few jokes relating to the topics at hand. Anyone squeamish should definitely skip this one.
Watched this when I was 10, watched it again in my early 20s, still disturbed.
The episode shows the brutal realities of going through sex change surgeries unapologetically. Obviously controversial for the current times, but still ask questions about sex change surgeries nature, which still reign true.
I do not think Matt and Trey are transphobic, by simply showing off the procedure and using perspectivation to transracial and trans species psychology, which are real real phenomenon.
For critics i think it would be more constructive to try and tackle something specificly transphobic, instead of something seeming transphobic, or apparently being transphobic through some bigger, or meta lens, because truly I don't think Trey or Matt cares what you do as an adult in 2020's, and forward.
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