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Wednesday 16 June 2010

Whale Wars

NOW I think I know why it's so bad to kill whales... or at least, part of the story why!

I know this article's only from Yahoo! News, but nonetheless it's pretty cool to know that something as base as whale poo can help our planet: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20100616/tsc-whale-poop-fights-climate-change-stu-c2ff8aa.html

The title for this post comes about from the name of a reality TV show in an episode of South Park.
 _:_:_

The story: One of the kids (Stan) is at a whale and dolphin park for his birthday treat and a whole pile of Japanese randomly kill all the dolphins and whales there. Stan is so upset about how the day went that he goes to his three best friends (Kyle, Kenny and Cartman) to tell them of the problem, only to find that they're playing a videogame where you are part of a band, complete with insturments for controllers.
 This video shows how apathetic/uncomfortable the kids are in response to the issue [WARNING: Some bad language, but it's only 1:30 long. Sorry about the bad quality, but I didn't upload this myself]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5whxrvlb4Q



After that, Stan tries to get his friend Butters to help him with the cause. Butters says no but tells him about Whale Wars, an [apparently real!!] US reality TV show about an environmental activist group who try to prevent illegal whaling. Stan joins them, is unimpressed with their 'stinky butter' 'weapons', lights a flare gun and sinks the ship.
  As Whale Wars becomes more popular, Kenny and Cartman join Stan just to be on TV.

A battle between the Whale Wars team and the team for another reality show - Deadliest Catch - ensues, with the three children being cptured and taken to Japan where they learn from Emperor Akihito that whaling is done in retaliation for the Hiroshima bombs and shows Kenny, Stan and Cartman a doctored photo of a fighter plane with a whale and a dolphin on board. Stan declares that as a fake and shows then Prime Minister Hatoyama the 'real' photo.... with a cow and a chicken on the plane instead.
 In the end, the Japanese go on a rampage killing lots of cows and chickens and Stan's dad congratulates him for making the Japanese "normal, like us."

4 comments:

Kirk Masden said...

Thnaks! I would be interested to see the entire episode but I could only find tiny parts on YouTube.

selbydate16 said...

The whole episode is available here: http://www.southparkstudios.com/guide/1311. However, being South Park, it WILL have bad language and some gore too.

Kirk Masden said...

I saw the whole thing. I was torn between enjoying it on the one hand, and being disturbed by the use of stereotypes on the other.

selbydate16 said...

Yeah, that is one problem that I believe South Park does have - I thought there was a fair bit of stereotyping too.