Why does al gore say serial in south park

While in 's South Park climate change was some silly myth, now it's a very real horror that most people still choose to ignore. The boys are able to track down Gore who forces them to admit they were wrong before he helps them face a very real ManBearPig. While the episodes paint Gore in a more sympathetic light than it did 12 years ago, the guy is still insufferably smug, reveling in how right he was back in In one scene in a Red Lobster, a man loudly critiques the shaky science surrounding ManBearPig as the beast itself tears people apart in the restaurant behind him.

South Park has never been one to say it was wrong. It's a show that will gladly stand by its depictions of everything from suicide to terrorist attacks and the prophet Muhammad.

So, to admit it was wrong about its take on climate change 12 years ago is a surprising sign of maturity. Most people in South Park are too busy playing Red Dead Redemption 2 to worry about the murder and destruction—and even the school shootings that continue to happen in the background. Others are busy attending group meetings that pose the question: Should I Start to Worry? One man says that he's pretty sure ManBearPig killed his family and destroyed his house.

Should he start to worry? Here, the joke is on Parker and Stone as much as its on anyone who continues to question the reality and severity of climate change. In , their take on the issue seemed reasonable—funny even. Why are we busying ourselves chasing this imaginary thing? But where Parker and Stone have realized how wrong they were in , today conservatives still continue to question the legitimacy of climate change.

In this two-episode arc, Parker and Stone go back even further than , to place the blame on another generation. At the end of last week's episode, Stan's grandpa reveals that ManBearPig is terrorizing South Park because of a deal he made with the beast many years ago.

After you beat him, he can be found lying unconscious at the church. At the end of the game, after Douchebag leaves the scene, he reappears as ManBearPig hiding behind the tree. South Park Archives Explore. The Return of Covid. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Al Gore. View source. History Talk 0. Universal Conquest Wiki. May Featured Article Winner. Jarvis Mr. It is a scientific fact , one that needs to be acknowledged and addressed through intelligent policies to avoid worldwide catastrophe.

Denying its reality, particularly when you are a popular comedy show with millions of viewers who interpret your satire as representing a deeper truth, was extremely irresponsible. The catch, though, is that Gore wants them to apologize for making fun of him all those years ago — and if their apology is deemed insufficiently sincere or "cereal," , the former vice president will return to his newfound love of bowling.

The scenes of the boys interacting with Gore are very strong, although that has less to do with the story itself and more to do with what Parker and Stone are saying to their former target. It isn't simply that they have the characters admit that they were wrong; by having them act exasperated and reluctant about needing to do so, as well as depicting Gore as evolving from humiliated hermit to exultant in his moral victory the real-life Gore has kept a very low profile for years , they seem to depict what an actual conversation between themselves and Gore would look like.

It's a brave and creatively honest thing for them to do, one that serves as a believable mea culpa that is still executed in the funniest way possible. The montage of clips from Gore's presidential campaign — as well as the South Park boys tacitly admitting that America would have been better off if he had prevailed in that election — is especially welcome. The best scene in the episode, though, doesn't include Gore at all. It occurs in a restaurant where an insufferably smug patron — one who we quickly realize is intended as a stand-in for man-made global warming deniers everywhere — lectures his wife about how ManBearPig couldn't possibly be real.