I was gonna fix the editing mistake at 22:57, but I was too lazy

The joke isn't "Woke = Bad", the joke is "Disney insulting their audience by throwing women of color into everything and expecting people to praise their fake progressiveness instead of creating a good movie with well written women of color characters = bad" Also my favorite part of the special is the lore drop that Randy has a doctorate. Randy Marsh is a doctor.

I think the funniest part about the cast is Cartman's change. He became "Woke" by being the "Angry Black Woman" stereotype. It's not exactly the only time that happens here but it's the most prominent. With South Park's writers, I'm willing to bet that this was intentional and maybe a commentary on how some of the shows made to pander still fall back to contributing to offensive stereotypes.

Personally, I think Kenny's female design fits so much because it feels like a natural character instead of just a girl with Kenny's clothes on. You can see hints of his Mysterion persona through the purple accents, and the fact that she has the most makeup out of the main 4 also ties in to him being the most "mature" and "adult" kid out of the 4.

I love how they intentionally parodied Disney's weird portrayals of people of color. The black woman having giant gold earrings and the asian being alt/emo with hair highlights are really big trends when it comes to lazy pandering

The put a chick in it and make her gay joke was hilarious

diverse cartman scamming kyle and his mom to build an epic gaming pc for baldurs gate 3 was fucking hilarious.

PC Principle in the regular universe implies an opposite, but NON-PC Principal in the Panderverse.

Another thing to note that people never really talk about is that the Cartman-Kennedy is not just a bash on Kennedy, but is the literal embodiment of Cartman's bigotry and Kennedy's pandering, they quite literally "Made each other" and that's who she represents, she pushes the "woke agenda" but in such a way that she acts as the stereotype that conservatives expect woke to act, aggressive, loud and without regard. Especially with the line "put a chick in it and make her gay and lame"

A problem pandering has caused that no one talks about is that a POC actor can't just get a role if they are the best actor, people just assume it's pandering

I think this show's general message was that you can take 2 people who are opposites in terms of woke/anti woke, send them into the absolute extremeties of both sides and they essentially become indistinguishable from each other

I like how it's about laziness and pandering and apparently that only means it's "anti-woke" The culture war is dumb.

From a Star Wars fan, I don't have any issue with a diverse cast, I don't have an issue with Rey being the character. What upsets us is that Kathleen Kennedy makes shallow films with zero character development. It's lazy writing and pandering to women being "perfect" and not her simply pandering for the mere sake of having diversity.

One aspect I see the episode rarely gets praised for is how they handled black female Cartman. She isn't used to make some point about how Cartman is a terrible and prejudiced person like most "woke" media would in a situation like this. She just IS a terrible and prejudiced person like Cartman. Only difference is the whole race and gender thing being reversed. It was pretty on the nose when they called black Cartman a racist, to which she replies "you can't be racist against white people." That was clearly a dig at "wokeness," or at least elements of it. Arguably the entire point of black Cartman was to point out the fact that "wokeness" is in many ways just an inversion of the bigotry they claim to be fighting. They're interesting reflections of one another and it was a satirical stroke of genius.

They declared war on woke when they added PC principle as a character. Anyone who actually paid attention to the special knows this was their way of saying that in hindsight they now think the whole culture war thing is kinda dumb and both the woke and anti woke movements are cringe.

female kenny kinda bad though

I like how diverse now means only one group of people. Witch is the exact opposite of diversity.

My husband is a handyman who fixes appliances. And I, for one, love that people don't even try to fix their own shit. It's a great market to get into. But also, Tbf a lot of the new appliances require some level of intelligence on the subject to do it as well. And alot of people don't have time for that.

Detective Harris having the same exact voice in the Panderverse gave me side-splitting laughter the entire scene. Could barely keep my eyes on the screen I was laughing so hard

I just watched it. I loved it. Cartman apologizing to Kathleen shocked me a bit, and I was a bit surprised at how Kathleen Kennedy wasn’t a mockery like most celebrities are. Even a nod that feels like Matt and Trey give the benefit of the doubt to her when she says they have to try harder and not pander and Bob Iger just “we’ll see” which is just a “no.” But the Randy plot was better and I loved nether commentary on how repair people become unaffordable for everyone because they all start bidding against each other to get it now and offering more and more, instead of just waiting a bit.

Game theory joke hit differently knowing mat pat is gone now 😢

The Miles Morales multiverse movies are also one of the best variation on the multiverse theme that we have, everything about them is fantastic. The characters are beautifully developped, the plot is good and the animation is just mindblowing. It's really the best comparison they could choose to face Disney's lazy live action remakes.

They have a huge closet filled with great stuff they could use for real representation. Static shock, spawn and blade are just a few they could make. Not only would it bring more representation but also stuff people want.

Nerdrotic acknowledged South Park, making fun of him.

To be fair to cartmen, writing 10000 letters a day isn’t lazy, that’s just fucking dedication

A funny thing to note is that Stan Lee was really against replacing characters with alternate versions just to pander and now Disney has control of his creations. (*edit also funny to note that I wrote this before exactly two of my 3 references were mentioned) Rough quote of Stan lee's belief being "Peter Parker will never be gay, Peter Parker is a straight white man, Spiderman can be whoever you want, create new characters and play with the roles and situations." This was in response to the US conservative getting their nickers in a knot over Miles Morales being Peter Parker turned Latino/African... which he went on the record to say wasn't what Miles Morales is, he's his own character taking up the mantel of Spiderman, in his own way. Also important to note that Stan lee was probably one of the biggest allies of the LGBTQ+ movement to have lived, with X-men being an obvious reference to their struggle for equality and how people should be accepted for who they are, as long as they are good people. The idea being, that any gender/ race etc swapping for inclusion is just as lazy and silly as white washing but can also be just as destructive to the meaning of the story like WoT's plot which is centred on race and gender, with the characters learning the anti racism and sexism truths which should be the societal standard along the way. So obviously changing those things is a stupid move.... which amazon did in almost all instances possible. for those who haven't had the pleasure to read that series: Nynaeve is a raging feminazi with anger management issues at the beginning of the story who learns to see men as equals and not idiots she has to take care of as part of her job... the anger part stays! XD as the story goes her internal screaming about idiotic men slow turns to calling everyone except those she trusts and respects idiots. Equality for all! It also makes no sense to have black characters in a story set in medieval northern Europe when there was 1000000 Caucasian people per person of colour (I looked it up), without that being a major plot point, constantly mentioned, used to refer to them etc. This is why I was against the new little mermaid, if you were to take the context of where the story takes place (Denmark) and when (hundreds of years ago), then the little mermaid coming onto land as someone of the African race would at the least be a main plot point to the level of her later being revealed to be a mermaid, which would undoubtedly muddy the story with too many things to handle... especially if you consider her being a mermaid as already being a reference to race.... Imagine if you will if he heard the singing when she swam from her boat and hid among the rocks scared about being caught alone by men and when he met her for the first time she, the daughter of a tribe leader from Africa on business with his father, was using a magical disguise to hide her racial features since she was worried he wouldn't accept her race and didn't reveal her status since she was only along to see the world and only later he learns that she was black. See what I mean? Same story! Make new characters and put them in settings which make sense, write more of a background then "is diverse" and the only people who complain will be racists, sexists etc.

I think that the misrepresentation of this episode can be refuted easily by one single scene. In an episode where they say that invlusive characters and multiverses are lazy, they take the time to explain why Miles Morales (Spiderman) is a great character. They praise a character that is in a movie with multiverses and inclusivity. It clearly show that the problem is lazyness and spider verse is everything but lazy.

I like how they poked fun at all the design stereotypes for diversity stuff. You completely missed it but Kenny's design, the asian girl with bits of dyed hair, was one of those.

moral of the story , screw both sides of the extreme

This special was genius and the fact that a lot of reactors completely missed parts of the point of the episode just shows how genius Matt and trey are

Fun fact. Asian characters with purple hair streaks are apparently offensive because it's a stereotype of them being rebellious or something like that

Kenny is kinda bad ngl

Watching videos like these made me realize that the thing South Park hates the most is performative activism. They despise people who superficially pretend to care about social causes and the main message they have is the importance of actually doing something if you think the cause is important. Also the panderverse designs are mostly actually really good, showing that even this pandering has thought and passion put into it.

I like how they mocked both sides equally as usual. The big difference is if you can just brush it off as a joke or if you take it seriously and act out because of it.

I like how South Park making fun of Kathleen Kennedy wasnt even making fun of her, its just facts

Reminds of this nightmare I've had where I'm back in Elementary School and I'm surrounded by college girls who complain about nothing but the patriarchy. Then I realize... I'm in hell.

12:59 hits so differently now, MattPatt will be missed :(

Actual conversation I had about this special Me: “anti woke people really missed the point” Other commenter: “nah nah they speaking facts” Me: “ok so which character was having nightmares about wokeness” OC: “Cartmen” Me:”The same cartmen that is a literal nazi?” He then blocked me

i think my favorite thing about south park is how for the past 25 years people still can’t see that south park never chooses a side they say what they have to say about both parties

22:34 fix the *oven door* not toilet 👍

I absolutely loved this special. It was so well done and I laughed so much. 😂❤

And before anyone calls people tired of the pandering bigoted or something, things like diversity and talking about social issues in movies and shows are not necessarily bad things. It's been going on for decades and decades, and people look back on those works with fondness. We have had characters of different skin colors, nationalities, orientations, etc. for the longest time, and even works like the X-Men are said to be symbolism of social issues such as the Civil Rights movements. I think what most people have a problem with the in-your-face, uncreative, shameless pandering that seems to get in the way of making good content because they focus more on that than making something good.

The Kyle cereal ending was a callback to the scene where 5429F Kathleen Kennedy asked the server to put a chick in the linguini with clam sauce and make her gay; you realize that that joke wasn't as absurdist as it originally sounded. It also makes me wonder if Trey and Matt have a 5249F KK-eats-gay-and-lame-chick-linguini vore/mukbang scene drawn in the vault.

South Park is never on anyone's side. They hate everyone and everything and that's the brilliance.

Good analysis. This analysis not only explains the full story of what's being parodied, but also points out the bias in media that's easy to come across.

Butters was the best part of the special, the voice actress did an amazing job with Butters mannerisms. The special ends up being a good "Rorschach test" because you can look at it from either angle (Or both or neither) and get something different out of it according to what they want to see.

I think South Park is just South Park. They called out everyone in this case like they always have.

This is why I sub to you, you do the work, explain your opinion, and don't pander, are not lazy, and do what You feel like doing. Miles was an amazing character, I have yet to watch through the spider verse, but I did watch the first one, and it follows what its supposed to follow. Black captain america also follows the comics to an extent. Whereas black Ariel does nothing. Let's take the elementals for example, its a good movie with a good story that talks about all the problems in todays world without making it all about those issues, or being a boring movie because they try to drill in that lesson. So many people who hate on most Disney movies thought that it was amazing.

this might be the best video of urs, because i think u did a great job at spreading the message of this episode in a objective manner

Sometimes its easy to forget: no mater how much an episode of southpark seems to be an apology of your opinion, know that they are, without fail, poking fun at you too.

The first 10 minutes got me laughing my ass off, Cartman on a rant and the black cartman being called out as a racist while Kenny doesn’t care about anything besides knockers is absolutely perfect

They did the usual South Park, hit both sides with perfectly valid criticism. Did it so well the cringe anti woke KZfaqrs didnt realise they were laughing at them almost as much. God i love South Park, Matt and Trey are geniuses

I loved this little special and I also really agree with how Disney uses "hey look I'm the good guy I think woke culture is ok" as a excuse to push some more crappy movie replacing characters with a altered woke deuce version But I really like south park it's my favorite show and I thought this special was really funny 🤣

Fantastic video. I especially agree with your point at 20:55. There are so many KZfaqrs that are making bank rehashing the same points, but people watching are so blinded by rage that they don’t even realize that they’re watching the same video with the same points every day (sometimes even multiple times a day).

I find it weird that they had the whole "billionaires suck" when Bob Iger was literally in the episode. You can complain about bad pandering all you want but they didn't mention anything about Disney rushing to make like 5 mcu in a single year which is propably one of the biggest reason ther quality has crashed.

The fact that that I can imagine cartman using the doubling down arguement against his mum in one of the early seasons is what I think makes it a really smart story descision. It feels like something that didn't require cartman to really change, which is something he just isn't capable of.

Thanks for the fun blooms. Keep up the great work ya Beautiful bastard

That special was a banger. It's hilarious and I find it funny. Matt and Trey are geniuses for creating a show that makes fun of the whole world. It's cool to think about it. As a side note it's just proof how ridiculous both sides can get. And because of this South park had to endure a lot of flak from the media and it's because they don't know how laugh at ourselves. Props for South park that opened my eyes and I finally got the memo that the show makes fun of people that pretends to care and people who are willing to take things to absolute extreme without questioning their morals.

why do people always mis use the word woke. i thought it meant being aware of social issues but i guess not now 😂😂

I quite like the black Cartman, she’s a cool character

I honestly never even heard of Kathleen before this movie, and if I made a drinking game of everytime I heard her name I would be dead. Just beating a dead horse and repeating the same joke

I can finally have an opinion about the special, thanks Blooms

Thanks for making this video. I couldn’t agree more. The theme of laziness is so well done in the special, and I really appreciate that you talked about that.

Fantastic video, keep up the good work!

One of the ways you can tell that Bloom is a quality content creator is the fact that if he wanted to he could easily make a whole brand out of ripping into people who criticize South Park by (accurately) pointing out that most of the conversation around the show is between two sides that don't actually watch the show in its entirety. The same way lazy "anti-woke" creators say the same things, Bloom could just as easily say this in every single video he makes but he doesn't and that's pretty admirable

as a black girl, i loved the new episode. these cooperations should make new characters, and if they really wanna race and gender swap, do it better, do more than changing the characters skin :/

Man, I just love this special. I loved seeing the different designs of each character 'diversified' and the va's and everything. It was fun. idc about the implications of wokeness and political messaging of it, I just think its hilarious and awesome

Great video! Loved your insight. ❤

I remember when Randy just goes up to Stan's room naked "Stan! How do you breed horses in minecraft?" "What?"

i feel miles also works because its a completely different story and the original spider man has a part to play its a good continuation to spider-man

*I'm looking forward to the remake of **_"Single White Female"_** starring **_Eddie Murphy._*

Great review. Love your input

The anti-woke praise for the special sounds an awful lot like Plato talking about Atlantis; the point absolutely missed and taken at surface level.

I wish that they could have done more with this episode honestly. There was so much happening and not everything seemed to have a proper bookend. Still funny as hell and a fun time though.

that's polarisation, the harder you push in a direction the harder someone else gonna push in the opposite direction

The "flipping the script" trope you mentioned was taught to me in film school as a "Prince and Pauper plot" because that's the central conceit of The Prince and the Pauper. They switch places.

Hey man! good channel!! good work

Since the title asked the question. No they did not. Their were plenty of cases to show the new 'woke' characters could indeed be good characters. It just took effort and time to properly write them. This is with all characters though not just the wokies. This is proven by the "We don't hate the 'strong female character'. We like good writing." Case in point, the abysmal handling of Rey in star wars versus the entirety of the show Arcane.

My favorite aspect was the message at the end. It was basically the same as post covid, cut each other some slack and move on.

For this kind of videos is that i love being subscribed

Not knowing The rope and stove reference reveals your age -> Poltergeist. Love the content, keep it up

Theres nothing that infuriates me more than hollow representation. I loved this special so much

13:45 my favorite part

South park has always been anti woke before that was even a thing.

Short answer: No. Long answer: South Park always make fun of every side equally, all people are flawed and ridiculous and best thing to do is to make fun of them. Nobody deserves to be a saint because no one can be.

Can we appreciate how they tried their best to make this amazing video for us 💖💖💖

Big facts, channels like “The Quartering” makes it obvious that they will be extremely obnoxious about it & are championing this episode to their own aims without actually taking the note that it’s ripping on him and others, just like the super toxic fucks over on Twitter that are using this episode as the smoking gun that everyone is a misogynist etc etc etc. It’s REFRESHING to see someone point out this fact. I’ll be subbing now, cause it’s rare for someone to be relatively unbiased in their criticism’s to these things.

Why they made Kenny so hot? Stan: "Oh my god, they f-ked Kenny!" Kyle: "It should have been me, you b@st@rd!"

He wanted to flex that butterfly knife 💀

This is why I love south park. It takes a step back from the talking points and shows how stupid both sides can be in any argument well also humanizing people.

South Park has the balls to keep comedy alive

I appreciate the perspective that ISN'T woke or anti-woke. It's an actual unbiased, informed hot take on the state of pop culture and media in todays world. Great stuff

People fighting about South Park being anti woke, conservatives fuel or r*cist, and all I can think is "damn, female Kyle and Kenny are so fing hot"

I think they handled this really well. South Park basically saying "stop forcing it, let it be natural" is the exact thing that was needed to say.

i love how your title specifically is like "look im targeting woke people", making those who hate woke end up watching it to the part where you show that the episode also attacks the lazy haters XD

As a Handyman type person (I do installations like tvs and intercoms and general stuff) I fricking loved this aspect being someone who does any repairs or fixes myself!

South Park always makes fun both sides, and will always be a great social commentary on current events, even admitting when they are wrong

I mean disney isn't going to be around if they keep going the way they are movies are flopping constantly and it's not just the woke stuff it's the fact you have zero reason to go to the theater

I have so much respect for people who take a more neutral, well thought out, and critically thought out approach to this sort of thing. And I'm not just saying that - I'm literally trans, so most would probably expect me to blindly agree with "woke" culture. All the points you made here are exactly what I agree with. I want inclusivity, but not at the cost of quality.

i just wanna @Blooms keep up the good work that you be producing. i like it very much