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Kyle's Speech

Kyle's traditional moralizing speech was spoken quickly and was exceedingly technical. Here's a summary and analysis if anyone wants to make use of it on the main article (I'm not going to write the rest of the article, and I figure it doesn't make sense to include this yet).

Kyle indicates that while the internet is cool, new, and exciting, it is an immature distribution source. Because of this, it doesn't make financial sense to disrupt production of traditional media (guaranteed money) for the sake of potential money when the internet becomes a more viable alternative. This matches the episode's theme of mocking the WGA strike as a pointless exercise. This speech is also ironic because South Park Studios (a joint venture between Comedy Central and Matt Stone/Trey Parker) was recently expanded to provide full episodes, which depends on the internet being a mature distribution source to make money. Baron von HoopleDoople (talk) 04:55, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like someone just added the entire text of the speech. I guess that works. Baron von HoopleDoople (talk) 06:02, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Showing stuff on the Internet for free can 'make money' by increasing interest in a project on a more profitable medium (TV, film) but is not technically making money unless you charge, in which case the RIDICULOUSLY inelastic demand will result in them simply watching something else. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.122.63.142 (talk) 15:54, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

For some reason the links to the youtube videos referenced in the show were removed. the links are needed for reference and are well within wikipedia policy.--Yourmanstan (talk) 05:07, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Star Wars Kid

Anyone notice that the Star Wars kid wasn't portrayed as a Canadian (w/ flapping head), or on strike for that matter? 71.136.15.172 (talk) 05:24, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Star Wars Kid is a French Canadian. Completely different species ;)
True although in the episode "It's Christmas in Canada" the French Canadians are shown with the flapping heads as well. But I don't think this is worthy to note in the article. Ttony21 (talk) 19:32, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

-G —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.117.158.83 (talk) 05:55, 3 April 2008 (UTC) All the YouTube guys were portrayed as closely as possible to reality. Even though he's Canadian, in this context he is a completely different category. Professor Chaos (talk) 22:45, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

One could assume that, in the South Park universe, the Star Wars kid is not Canadian, in the same way that Butters is not Samwell.—Preceding unsigned comment added by User:NAveryW

The abbreviation for the World Canadian Bureau (WGA) links to Writers Guild of America. Since this is only a not-so-subtle reference to the writers guild, I don't think this should be linked to here. There is already a link to the strike that the episode parodies, but if there is a link under WGA, it should be to World Canadian Bureau in this article. Discuss amongst yourselves, make changes if you want... Jlricherson (talk) 14:06, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I made that edit, feeling it would serve to answer the confusion: "Wait a minute... the acronym for World Canadian Bureau wouldn't be WGA". The strike is mentioned in another section, but I was under the impression each article section could function as it's own entity, thus repeating information was OK. I have no strong feelings if you want to remove it though. Hoof Hearted (talk) 14:19, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Butter's Video

Five bucks says that Butter's video is going to become an actual internet phenomenon. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 148.100.209.46 (talk) 14:56, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. However, unless it actually happens, that's not appropriate discussion here. Keep that to fansites. Professor Chaos (talk) 22:48, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Satire of the recent Writer's Strike?

I remember reading that the upcoming series of South Park would involve an episode parodying the writer's strike. There seem to be a number of parallels and it seems surprising that no one has yet added it to the main page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.142.243.163 (talk) 16:50, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to assume good faith and invite you to re-read the introduction of the article. Hoof Hearted (talk) 20:12, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Japanese Military Spending

Is it worthy to note that it's mentioned in this episode that Japan has decided to increase military spending? I'm pretty sure Japan no longer has a military, so it's most likely intended to be a slightly obscure joke. —Preceding unsigned comment added by NAveryW (talk • contribs) 20:26, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oh dear, please reaad Japan, buddahhy! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.96.251.179 (talk) 21:13, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
lol they have a military... Ttony21 (talk) 21:36, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I thought Japan had no military because in the in event of a war any citizen can be called up to serve. Jay794 (talk) 23:26, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've never heard that before...they do have an army all though it's mainly meant for self-defense because of the limitations placed on them after World War II. And they are actually ANTI-draft for the most part.Ttony21 (talk) 23:38, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Reference to Achmed the dead terrorist

The head of the WGA says what I hear as "stop! I kill you" at 12:05

This could be a semi-reference to achmed the dead terrorist, another youtube internet phenomenon.

Any thoughts??

Tehniobium (talk) 22:19, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Response?

Has anyone seen a response from the WGA on this? 76.84.230.183 (talk) 23:53, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Chris Crocker reference.

It's a big reference, but this article didn't mention it at the bottom section. Shouldn't we add it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.213.116.231 (talk) 02:53, 4 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have a reliable source to reference? If you do, then you can feel free to add it, and it would be a welcome addition to the article. Professor Chaos (talk) 06:35, 4 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just tried to add a link to the Chris Crocker "Leave Britney Alone" video but it was reverted by an automated bot. In this articles context adding such a link to YouTube should be allowed. The URL is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHmvkRoEowc

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