Love this episode with butters happily oblivious, and especially Judd Crandall (the old farmer).
“One of us, one of us, gooble gobble gooble gobble’
This scarred me as a child. 10/10, still traumatised.
Such a great episode. Butters never looked back after this episode!
hahaha, butters. classic. I've been watching through the series. A first really for me. I never knew butters was this integrated into the show early on. I'd always thought he came later. Goes to show that you CAN learn something while watching South Park.
Hey MOM! you were wrong!!!
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParent2017-01-24T19:20:42Z
8.4/10. I have a soft spot for the episode. The combination of the horrifically dark stuff with Butters's parents, combined with Butters own chipper, oblivious attitude about everything, just tickles my funny bone every time. Butter is such a great character for South Park for that reason. You can throw him into any of the show's twisted situations, and his earnestness and bursts of naive sunshine are always funny and endearing from the contrast.
This episode in particular returns to a well that Matt and Trey like a lot, which is taking a traditional sitcom premise and structure and take it to some very dark places. The cheery little insets of "Everyone knows that it's Butters!" "That's me!" after each dark development are great, and the Full House-esque theme of Butters learning about the ills of lying, stretched to parodic ends to covers the Ramsey family, Gary Condit, and OJ Simpson, is the sort of thing the show does well. (The "it was some Puerto Rican guy" falsehood was a cutting jab.)
And the end, with Butters having his innocence shattered and admitting he's not going to be okay despite his happy demeanor is sad, but the kind of blackly comic beat that South Park pulls off like no other. Overall, this probably doesn't deserve to be on any Top 10 lists. It doesn't have particularly insightful social commentary or anything that out there for an already outsized show, but it's a sentimental favorite for yours truly for centering it on one the show's most hilarious and unassuming characters, and taking him to those bizarre places that South Park likes to tread.