April 20, 2008
Given the day, it seems only appropriate that we would pay respect to the most laid back, easy-going group of all: the stoners. April 20 is as close as we come to having a Nation Weed Smoking Day in this country, so what better way to celebrate here at BuddyTV than to reflect on our favorite pot-smoking television characters. Well, I imagine you could think of one or two better ways.
For this list, we've put together five of our favorite television characters with reefer madness. Sure, there are many characters who've experimented, such as Seth Cohen from The O.C. or Ross on Friends, but for this list, we wanted honest-to-God, red-blooded, bong lovers. And indeed, we've found characters who all have a need...a need for weed.
March 26, 2008
Sick and tired of having to download their own show illegally all the time, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have come up with a legal alternative in the form of an all new Southparkstudios.com. The show runners have teamed up with Comedy Central to bring forth a website that features free, streaming, full-length episodes and clips from the entire 12 seasons of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning animated series.
"Southparkstudios.com is a true representation of Matt and Trey's vision and is the ultimate online destination for South Park fans allowing them full access to every South Park episode ever created," MTV networks' entertainment group president Doug Herzog said in a statement.
March 19, 2008
On the season 12 opener of South Park, Eric Cartman is afflicted with HIV after a routine tonsillectomy went horribly wrong. The doctors advise the boys, consisting of Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Butters, to treat Cartman normally, although when an AIDS benefit was held for Cartman, hardly anyone attends. Cartman berates Kyle, Stan and Kenny for not coming to his benefit and decides to teach Kyle a lesson by injecting Kyle with some of his HIV infected blood. Following their squabble, Cartman and Kyle take matters into their own hands hoping to find a possible cure with the help of Magic Johnson, who's been living with HIV for about “50 years.” At the end of the episode, they come up with a theory that sleeping with money every night might just be the cure. They distill Magic's cash down into a concentrated form, inject it into their bodies and the boys are cured.
Expect another round of laughs and antics in tonight's episode called "Britney's New Look." Read on for a preview.
March 18, 2008
On March 11, Comedy Central Home Entertainment released the uncensored, never-before-seen director's cut of South Park's Imaginationland on DVD, and BuddyTV has three copies to give away!
In this uncensored, never-before-seen director's cut, the doors of the world's imagination are thrown wide open and the boys of South Park are transported to a magical realm in their greatest odyssey ever. Stan, Kyle, and Butters find themselves in Imaginationland just as terrorists launch an attack that unleashes all of mankind's most evil characters imaginable. With the world's imaginations spinning out of control, the government prepares to nuke Imaginationland to put an end to the chaos. Racing against time to prevent nuclear annihilation, the citizens of Imaginationland realize their only hope of salvation lies with the unlikeliest of heroes: Butters. Ignoring the impending apocalypse, Cartman goes all the way to the Supreme Court to get for his case of dry balls.
March 12, 2008
The twelfth season of the Emmy-Award winning animated comedy series, South Park, hits the screen tonight, beginning with an episode entitled "Tonsil Trouble." The show is coming off record ratings in season 11 and the now infamous "Imaginationland" trilogy.
To find out more about the twelfth season premiere of South Park, read on for a preview.
February 11, 2008
It's been nearly three months since Comedy Central aired a new episode of South Park, but fans of the animated comedy series only have to wait for a couple more weeks until the brand new season of the show premieres.
Early last week, Comedy Central announced that South Park's 12th season will begin on Wednesday, March 12, at 10/9c. It will be succeeded by the premiere of Lewis Black's Root of All Evil, a show that features Black presiding over comedians like Greg Giraldo, Paul F. Tompkins and Patton Oswalt as they debate over who is more evil. The show's “cases” include Oprah vs. The Catholic Church and Paris Hilton vs. Dick Cheney.
January 21, 2008
On television, there appears to be a gender bias when it comes to the portrayal of homosexuality. While gay men are catty best friends and deeply dramatic teens, lesbians are much rarer, unless you only count Showtime's The L Word. Why this is we're not quite sure, all we know is this: we love lesbians.
Going back through the years, we put together a list of our five favorite TV lesbians. These aren't the most socially important or famous like Ellen DeGeneres. Instead, we thought long and hard about the TV lesbians we loved to watch, the ones we fell in love with, and the ones who made us laugh out loud.
December 24, 2007
Check out all our lists for BuddyTV's Top 7 of '07 to relive the best and the worst of the year in television.
Don Williams ranked South Park 3rd. He says...
It's unfathomable to me that, after being on the air for 11 seasons, South Park is still able to make me cry from laughter almost every week. This year, Trey Parker and Matt Stone ruthlessly skewered the Easter holiday, The Da Vinci Code, Tourette's syndrome, Guitar Hero, 300, Hillary Clinton, and Bono, amongst other things. The series is still as cutting edge, topical, and hilarious as it was back in 1997.