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'Whale Whores' is the eleventh episode of the thirteenth season of the American animated television series South Park. The 192nd overall episode of the series, it aired on Comedy Central in the United States on October 28, 2009. In the episode, Stan joins an anti-whaling crew in order to save dolphins and whales from Japanese whalers.

The episode was written and directed by series co-creator Trey Parker, and was rated TV-MA LV in the United States. 'Whale Whores' addressed the topic of Japanese whaling, condemning both the whalers themselves and the activists who fight against them. The episode is particularly critical of the reality television series Whale Wars and its star Paul Watson, an environmental activist who is prominently featured in 'Whale Whores'.

In a response to the episode, Paul Watson said he was not offended by the portrayal, and was glad the show brought the issue of illegal whaling to a large audience. The episode also featured references to the show Deadliest Catch and a rendition of the Lady Gaga song 'Poker Face' sung by Eric Cartman on the game Rock Band. A downloadable version of the song was released for the game in March. 'Whale Whores' was released on DVD and Blu-ray along with the rest of the thirteenth season on March 16, 2010. The episode was nominated for a Genesis Award, but lost to the Family Guy episode 'Dog Gone'.

Plot[edit]

The Marsh family is spending Stan's ninth birthday at a public aquarium in Denver. As the Marshes enjoy interacting with the trained bottlenose dolphins, Japanese armed with spears suddenly storm the dolphinarium and kill all the dolphins. The Japanese perform similar attacks at several other aquariums, and at an NFL game, where they kill members of the Miami Dolphins football team. Stan asks his friends Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny to help him take on the cause of saving the dolphins and whales from the Japanese. Kyle declines, feeling they can't change Japan's views on the issue, while Cartman and Kenny are much more interested in playing the video game Rock Band, professing they 'don't give two shits about stupid-ass whales'. Eventually, Butters (who is also too busy) informs Stan about the television show Whale Wars, stating that they can take volunteers to help them. Seeing this as his chance, Stan takes Butters' advice and joins host Paul Watson and his crew aboard the Sea Shepherd, but is underwhelmed by their method of throwing 'stinky butter' at Japanese whalers in an effort to deter them. After the Japanese whalers kill Watson with a harpoon, Stan destroys their ship by igniting their fuel barrels with a flare gun. Stan becomes the new captain and leads a more successful campaign in impeding the Japanese whaling effort by employing more aggressive methods. The crew ends up getting interviewed by Larry King, who describes Paul Watson as an 'incompetent media whore' and questions Stan on his intentions of increasing ratings with violence. Stan dismisses the charge and contends he is only interested in saving the whales, not ratings.

Wanting to be on television, Cartman and Kenny join the ship's crew under false pretenses of wanting to save the whales (especially, in fact, since they are more interested in the fame and fortune). After a brief run-in with Captain Sig Hansen and his crew from the show Deadliest Catch, Japanese pilots launch kamikaze attacks on the Sea Shepherd. The suicidal planes kill the Whale Wars crew except for Stan, Cartman and Kenny. The trio are captured and brought to Japan, where EmperorAkihito tells them retaliation for the bombing of Hiroshima is the primary motive for Japan's whaling efforts, with Cartman finding the whole nuclear drop and mass devastation hilarious. He shows them a doctored photograph—given to Japan by the United States after the bombing—of the Enola Gay piloted by a dolphin and a killer whale. According to him, Japan was so grateful the Americans gave the Japanese these photos they declared peace. Knowing the picture is a fake, Stan decides to reveal the truth about the bombing, but Cartman reminds him that the Japanese seek to drive the entire species of the perpetrators to extinction. Claiming the U.S. government has authorized him to show the 'original' photo, Stan presents the Emperor, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, and other Japanese officials with a new doctored photo showing a cow and chicken in the Enola Gay (created by Kyle, who Stan managed to phone beforehand). The Japanese become infuriated, now believing cows and chickens had modified the original photo to frame the innocent whales and dolphins. The Japanese agree to cease their whaling efforts and start slaughtering cows and chickens, storming farms full of the animals. The episode ends as Randy congratulates Stan for making the Japanese 'normal, like us'.

Theme[edit]

'Whale Whores' addresses the controversies surrounding Japanese whaling, which had been a subject of considerable media attention around the time the South Park episode first aired. The episode condemns all sides involved in the matter, including the Japanese whalers themselves and the activists who fight against them.^[2][3][4] By having the Japanese attack the dolphins at the Denver Aquarium in the middle of a dolphin riding demonstration, it has been suggested the episode highlights the link between visiting dolphins at marine parks and the reality of how aquatic wildlife are captured and slaughtered.^[5] In the final scene, the show also draws parallel between the Japanese whaling industry and the generally accepted meat and poultry industries.

However, the episode prominently features and mocks animal rights and environmental activist Paul Watson and his Animal Planet reality series, Whale Wars. Watson has received wide criticism for his method of disrupting whale hunts by at times attacking and sinking Japanese and Norwegian whaling ships. 'Whale Whores' presents Watson and his show in a way that mocks his attempts to garner media attention by simply lying rather than doing anything productive.^[2][4][6] The episode mocks Whale Wars and its attempts to present mundane ship-board activities as dramatic television. This is particularly illustrated in newspaper headlines after Stan takes over Watson's ship: 'New Captain Turns Vegan Pussies Into Real Pirates' and 'Whale Wars Gets Better: Things Actually Happen!'^[2][3] Watson himself is also portrayed in a physically unflattering way, with his stomach too fat to be entirely covered by his shirt.^[3] 'Whale Whores' also refers to the criticisms that Watson bends the truth in order to further his popularity. This is particularly reflected through the fictional interview with Larry King, who calls Watson 'an unorganized, incompetent media whore who thought lying to everyone was OK as long as it served his cause'.^[2][3][6] The fact that Whale Wars gets better ratings after Stan takes over and employs more violent tactics is a satire of the tendency in Whale Wars, and television in general, to exploit violence for money and viewership.^[2][3]

Cultural references[edit]

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are identified as the cause of Japanese whaling. The two Japanese cities were destroyed by atomic weapons during the final stages of World War II under orders by U.S. PresidentHarry Truman, which killed about 220,000 people. In 'Whale Whores', the Japanese are presented with a doctored picture of the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The picture shows a dolphin and a whale piloting the plane to bomb the city.^[2][3] The Miami Dolphins, a National Football League professional football team, are killed along with real dolphins by the whalers in 'Whale Whores'.^[2] Near the end of the episode, Stan and the crew of the MY Steve Irwin encounter fishing ship captain Sig Hansen and his crew from the Discovery Channel reality series, Deadliest Catch.^[3] The scene with Paul Watson's crew throwing 'stinky butter' at the whalers refers to Watson and his crew's practice of throwing stink bombs containing butyric acid, an acid found in rancid butter and cheese, at Japanese whaling vessels, including the factory vessel, the Nisshin Maru.^[6]

An Entertainment Weekly magazine cover is shown with the headline, 'We’re STILL Remembering Michael Jackson', a reference to the extremely large amount of media coverage surrounding the then-recent death of pop singer Michael Jackson.^[7] During one scene, Stan frightens off a group of Japanese whalers by uncovering a large statue of Godzilla, the famous Japanese movie monster.^[8] During the episode Kyle, Kenny and Cartman are shown performing Lady Gaga's song 'Poker Face' on the video game Rock Band.^[7][8] On March 16, 2010, Rock Band developer Harmonix released this version of the song (along with the original version) as downloadable content for the game.^[9][10]

Reception[edit]

'Whale Whores' was controversial and received mixed reviews. Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly described the criticism of the save-the-whales conservationists as a 'delightfully savage ridicule'.^[7] Brian Jacks of MTV complimented the show's focus on whale conservation, writing, 'Leave it to the hard-hitting folks at South Park to do more for conservationism than fifteen cable reality shows put together.'^[4] Josh Modell of The A.V. Club's said the episode was unfunny and mocked a television series that was 'culturally insignificant' and not particularly well-known. Modell wrote, 'The show's star, Paul Watson, seems to have really pissed off South Park's creators Parker and Stone [...] Fine, but could you make me laugh a few times while you beat me over the head with information about a guy that I couldn't care less about?'^[8]

Ramsey Isler of IGN called 'Whale Whores' an entertaining episode, but said the episode could have provided more meaningful satire and did not explain the whaling issue very well, especially considering the show's target audience was probably unfamiliar with it. Isler praised some of the individual jokes revolving around the Japanese attacks, and called Cartman's 'Poker Face' rendition a classic South Park moment, but dismissed the Enola Gay twist as 'stupid'.^[11] Carlos Delgado of iF Magazine said 'South Park swung and missed' with 'Whale Whores'. Delgado said many of the jokes were random and 'weird', particularly the Enola Gay twist and the Japanese kamikaze attacks.^[12]

Paul Watson said he was not offended by his portrayal in the episode, and was glad 'Whale Whores' brought the issue of dolphin and whale slaughter to a large audience, as well as the role of the Japanese in the deaths. Watson said, 'It's a tough situation we are in. We can't hurt the whalers and we have to stay within the boundaries of the law in opposing illegal whaling operations. If that makes us pussies, so be it. It's better than being portrayed as killers.' Watson said the episode failed to portray that his actions have hurt Japanese profits from whaling, but that the episode demonstrated how successful Whale Wars and the Sea Shepherd has been.^[13]

In February 2010, 'Whale Whores' was nominated for a Genesis Award in the television comedy category. The Genesis Awards pay tribute to news and entertainment media for outstanding work that raise public understanding of animal issues.^[14] 'Whale Whores' ultimately lost to the Family Guy episode 'Dog Gone'.^[15]

Home release[edit]

'Whale Whores', along with the thirteen other episodes from South Park's thirteenth season, were released on a three-disc DVD set and two-disc Blu-ray set in the United States on March 16, 2010. The sets included brief audio commentaries by Parker and Stone for each episode,^[16] a collection of deleted scenes, and a special mini-feature Inside Xbox: A Behind-the-Scenes Tour of South Park Studios, which discussed the process behind animating the show with Inside Xbox host Major Nelson.^[17]

References[edit]

1. ^'South Park episode guide'. South Park Studios. 2009-10-25. Retrieved 2009-10-25.
2. ^ ^abcdefgMurphy, Dan (October 29, 2009). 'South Park puts spotlight on Paul Watson and his 'Whale Wars''. The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved January 11, 2010.
3. ^ ^abcdefgd'Estries, Michael (October 29, 2009). 'South Park 'Whale Whores' Manages To Hilariously Offend Everyone Equally'. ecorazzi. Retrieved January 11, 2010.
4. ^ ^abcJacks, Brian (October 29, 2009). ''South Park' Takes On Lady Gaga's 'Poker Face''. MTV. Retrieved January 29, 2010.
5. ^'South Park Whale Whores'. GreenMuze. October 27, 2009. Retrieved February 11, 2010.
6. ^ ^abcLoubet, Michel (October 30, 2009). 'Whaling, comedy and eco-terrorism'. Fish Information and Services. Retrieved January 11, 2010.
7. ^ ^abcTucker, Ken (October 29, 2009). ''South Park' and 'Whale Whores': Lady Gaga and Entertainment Weekly harpooned, er, lampooned'. Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2009-10-29.
8. ^ ^abcModell, Josh (October 29, 2009). 'South Park: Whale Whores'. The A.V. Club. The Onion. Retrieved January 28, 2010.
9. ^Frushtick, Russ (March 9, 2010). 'Lady Gaga Finally Coming To 'Rock Band''. MTV News. Retrieved March 9, 2010.
10. ^'Lady GaGa Hits Rock Band'. Harmonix Music Systems. March 9, 2010. Retrieved March 9, 2010.
11. ^Isler, Ramsey (October 29, 2009). 'South Park: 'Whale Whores' Review'. IGN. Retrieved February 11, 2010.
12. ^Delgado, Carlos (October 29, 2009). 'TV Review: South Park – Season 13 – 'Whale Whores''. iF Magazine.
13. ^Fears, Jeers, Cheers, and Loathing for Sea Shepherd In South Park, Editorial by Captain Paul Watson on SeaShepherd.org
14. ^Kilday, Gregg (February 17, 2010). ''Up' among Genesis Award nominees'. The Hollywood Reporter.
15. ^'Nominees for the Genesis Awards'. Humane Society. Archived from the original on March 7, 2012. Retrieved March 26, 2010.
16. ^Foster, Dave (December 14, 2009). 'South Park Season 13 (R1/US BD) in March'. DVD Times. Retrieved February 24, 2010.
17. ^Liebman, Martin (March 5, 2010). 'South Park: The Complete Thirteenth Season Blu-ray Review'. Blu-ray.com. Retrieved March 25, 2010.

External links[edit]

• 'Whale Whores' Full episode at South Park Studios
• 'Whale Whores' Episode guide at South Park Studios
• 'Whale Whores' on IMDb
• 'Whale Whores' at TV.com

Cartman Sings

'Insecurity' is the tenth episode of the sixteenth season of the American animated sitcom South Park, and the 233rd episode of the series overall. It aired on Comedy Central in the United States on October 10, 2012.^[1]

The story concerns Kyle Broflovski's belief that his mother is having an affair with a UPS delivery man. When public suspicion falls upon the delivery man, package delivery to the neighborhood is threatened, and Eric Cartman purchases a home security system in response.^[1] The episode parodies security alarm systems, and also contains references to Amazon.com and the film The Dark Knight Rises. Multiple characters, including Cartman himself, impersonate the fictional villainBane.^[2]

Plot[edit]

Gerald Broflovski dresses up as a UPSdelivery man in order to engage in sexual roleplay with his wife, Sheila. Their three-year-old son, Ike, sees this and is convinced that his mother is having an affair with a real delivery man, not knowing that the man was just his father in costume. He draws a picture of what he saw, and tearfully shows his older brother Kyle, who also mistakenly believes this. When Kyle confides in the other boys at Stan Marsh’s house, Stan’s father Randy Marsh overhears them and believes it as well and informs the other men in town. Soon, all the children and men in South Park, led by Randy, are under the impression that UPS delivery men are sleeping with their wives. Around this time, Eric Cartman decides to have a home security system installed to protect his mother. However, he accidentally triggers the device and becomes infuriated with the company's nonchalant reaction.

The old mechanic at Skeeter's Bar convinces the men that the convenience of ordering products online has brought this situation upon them, relating the UPS delivery men to milk men of the 20th century. He recounts how back in his day, men got lazy and wanted to have milk delivered to their doorstep. Little did they know that the milkman delivering the milk ended seducing their wives. He states now that history is repeating itself, only this time with Amazon, and declares none of the men safe. When Randy observes Sharon having made such an order without remembering it, he finds Ike's drawing in Stan's room. Convinced that Thad, the UPS delivery man is sleeping with their wives, Randy and the men ask the old mechanic for advice. At first he states that their is no getting rid of the delivery man, not in anyway they are 'prepared for', but suggests they let him keep sleeping with their wives until he gets tired. Stephen, however, states that it is not just their wives anymore, believing that the UPS man is now going after the men too now as he just received a product that he arranged to be delivered, not remembering that he had ordered it. The old mechanic tells them the only way to solve the problem is to kill the delivery man and resolve to returning to purchase products in brick and mortar stores, stating that his generation did the same with milk men.

The men each don Bane-type masks, severely beat up Thad, and leave Ike's drawing on him to indicate that they know what he did. When the deliveries continue, the men decide to install the Wolf Home Security personal alarm system, named 'INSecurity', which is physically installed inside the user and triggered whenever the user feels insecure. This leads to rampant false alarms caused by the men's insecurities. Kyle attempts to address the issue of his mother's 'affair' by having his parents sit down with the UPS delivery man. However, after Thad's UPS truck is destroyed by a bomb, he retreats deeper into the Broflovski's home before jumping out of a second story window to his death. The men tell the police that Thad killed himself because he was a psychopath who had been forced to have sex with his mother. They purportedly illustrate this by showing the police Ike's drawing, which they say they found in the man's pocket. When the police find a UPS uniform in the Broflovski's closet, Kyle and the men realize that Gerald was the UPS man that Ike saw.

When the men inform the old man he was wrong about the trappings of modern convenience, and merely need to be secure with themselves, the old man suggests that the security salesmen are having sex with their wives. As a result, Cartman and the men, again disguised as Bane, confront the security technician. The episode ends with him dragged out of his truck in shock after Cartman tells him that he should have 'respected my authoritah'.

Production[edit]

'Insecurity' was developed from an idea created during meetings for the show's 2014 video game, South Park: The Stick of Truth. Parker and Stone and the team at South Park Studios had spent the summer prior to their fall run working on the video game, and one idea that came up was a character having to get into people's homes, and past their security systems.^[3] The idea got the team discussing in-home security systems, which Parker views as a 'big scam' due to the rarity of the system alarming for a real emergency.^[3] Parker and Stone spoke to a close friend who is a policeman, who confirmed that they received false alarms 'all the time.'^[3] The United States Department of Justice estimates that between 94% and 98% of all alarm calls to law enforcement are indeed false alarms.^[4]

Several scenes were completed before the run began, with 'Insecurity' set as the season premiere.^[3] Scenes scripted at this time included Cartman's dialogue back-and-forth with the security company employees, regarding his password.^[5] The storyline was still incomplete when its broadcast date neared, so they decided to wait on it for later in the season.^[3] At one point, they considered splitting the episode into a two-parter, between Cartman's battle with the security companies and the plot line regarding the postman.^[3] They decided to keep it one episode when they scripted scenes with the old man in Skeeter's Bar, feeling as though his dialogue connected the two stories enough.^[5]

Parker remarked that the episode was inspired by his own life, when he had ordered items from Amazon.com, only to forget what it is when it arrives. Likening the surprise to Christmas morning, he noted in the episode's DVD commentary he has a tendency to order random items when South Park episodes are near completion: 'I [order items] the most on Tuesday nights, when we're approving animation like crazy, it's like three in the morning, I'll just get on the computer and start ordering shit from Amazon […] just to make Thursday [its arrival date] like Christmas.'^[3]

South Park Poker Face Song

Cultural references[edit]

Cartman Poker Face

The episode references Bane, a character within the Batman universe, specifically, his depiction by actor Tom Hardy in the 2012 film The Dark Knight Rises.^[6] It also references UPS and Amazon.com.^[2]

Reception[edit]

Ryan McGee of The A.V. Club gave the episode a B, writing that the episode 'did its best to link up the fear of cuckoldry with the fear of home invasion, but the results themselves were mixed.'^[6] Max Nicholson of IGN called the episode an 'admirable entry' for the season, though noting 'While the plot here was clearly framed around recycling these two jokes over and over, they were both strong enough to carry out the 22 minutes in full.'

References[edit]

1. ^ ^ab'Insecurity (Season 16, Episode 10)'. South Park Studios. Retrieved October 8, 2012.
2. ^ ^abNicholson, Max (October 11, 2012). 'Banes on the Loose! (Seriously, like, seven Banes.)'. IGN. Retrieved July 7, 2014.
3. ^ ^abcdefgParker, Trey (September 2013). South Park: The Complete Sixteenth Season: 'Insecurity'(Audio commentary)|format= requires |url= (help) (Blu-ray Disc). Paramount Home Entertainment.
4. ^Sampson, Rana (October 2003), False Burglar Alarms 2nd Edition(PDF), US Department of Justice / Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, ISBN1-932582-04-5
5. ^ ^abStone, Matt (September 2013). South Park: The Complete Sixteenth Season: 'Insecurity'(Audio commentary)|format= requires |url= (help) (Blu-ray Disc). ParamountHome Entertainment.
6. ^ ^abMcGee, Ryan (October 10, 2012). 'Insecurity'. The A.V. Club. Retrieved July 7, 2014.

External links[edit]

• 'Insecurity' Full episode at South Park Studios
• 'Insecurity' on IMDb
• 'Insecurity' at TV.com