Hybrids set to rule roads of South Park?
Leave it to South
Park to pick up on a thread weaving its way through popular culture. This week's episode, "Smug Alert," is
summaried thusly:
"Stan persuades all the citizens of South Park to buy hybrid cars."
Leaves much to the imagination, doesn't it? So how is South Park going to spin this one? A tongue-in-cheek, yet moral lesson on the importance of alternative drivetrains to the environment? One thing's for sure, fans are unlikely to see Chef piloting a new Prius lovemobile.
Jot your predictions down in the comments section -- we're eager to hear them.
(Thanks to Autoblog reader Jay for the tip)
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Michael G 10:32AM (3/28/2006)
Hybrids killed Kenny!
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Cap'n Crunch 10:33AM (3/28/2006)
Not sure what kind of spin it will have, but someone's guaranteed to be offended, as in any other episode. It'll be great.
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Dave 10:34AM (3/28/2006)
I can't wait for them to attack the hippies who think they are saving the world by driving hybrids. I'm all for saving gas but I'll be honest, its only to keep my wallet full. Hippies that think that conserving gas will somehow keep us from burning it are foolish.
Oil will be used until it is gone. If everyone drove hybrids and demand went down, oil will simply become cheaper again and people would start buying lots of large SUVs again. Its just a cycle. So actually, the environmentalists would lose if we all drove a 60 mpg hybrid.
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Carbsumer 10:36AM (3/28/2006)
They've picked up on the fact that many hybrid drivers choose the vehicle not to help the environment or reduce foreign oil dependancy, but to feel superior to the people around them who don't drive hybrids. I'm sick of the smug hybrid drivers, too.
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Speed Racer 10:42AM (3/28/2006)
Umm... Chef is dead. He ain't be driving nothing.
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Poe 10:50AM (3/28/2006)
"Umm... Chef is dead. He ain't be driving nothing."
Are you sure about that? he looked somewhat alive (in a Darth Vader sort of way) and the end of the last episode. I'm sure we'll see more of him. That just allows them to use another voice for him. Wouldn't it be awesome of they actually landed James Earl Jones for the job!!! LOL!
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Elliott 11:07AM (3/28/2006)
It will be extra hillarious if they make fun of the smug hybrid drivers AND the fat people who drive Excursions and Suburbans with Yosemite Sam mud flaps.
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Charles S 11:31AM (3/28/2006)
"Hippies that think that conserving gas will somehow keep us from burning it are foolish."
LOL. So the grasshopper says to the ant.
Let's party and burn as much oil as you like. Nevermind that America's economy will collapse if we run out of oil.
Do people serious think that we can just switch to a non-oil economy overnight?!? Hate Hybrids? GREAT! More power to YOU! But please don't go around criticizing responsible citizens who decided that we should use less oil.
YOU should thank *US* that we are saving YOU MONEY! Take away all that hybrids today and gas prices will shoot up immediately!
Yeah, I'm sick of the smugness of hybrid-haters, too.
Whatever.
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Chris 11:47AM (3/28/2006)
I don't think there are enough hybrids on the road to make a big difference in gas prices. Also many , not all hybrid owners feel like that by driving a hybrid that it put them on a pedestal. I have been lectured 6 times by hybrid owners, 4 times when I had an F-150 (used for towing) and twice since I leased a Mustang GT. I have only had that since October. Anyways Chef is dead because Issac Hayes (Chef) quit because they made fun of scientology and he is a scientologist. Funny, he had no problem making fun of Christians, Jews, Muslims, and Buddists!
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Kyle 12:03PM (3/28/2006)
I don't understand the logic here: based on the fact that some hybrid owners have been assholes (none of the ones are know are), the hybrid is an inferior form of vehicle?
Boy, the intelligence of the comments pages has really gone downhill.
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JOSH 12:54PM (3/28/2006)
Why is it so hard to read some of these comments. Wether or not you drive a hybrid, will you please read your post before you submit it and make sure that it makes sense.
I just realized that not very many of you will like this post...woops.
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Poe 1:00PM (3/28/2006)
I don't think all hybrid owners are a-holes - or smug. Certainly, some are though (and some of them post here). Those are the ones that are so easy to make fun of - and South Park makes fun of EVERYBODY. *Nobody* is safe from their satire (including cast members - as Isaac Hayes found out). If you can't take a joke, don't watch it.
I seriously doubt the number of hybrids sold so far has impacted demand enough to affect the price I'm paying for gas one bit - but if it makes you feel better about yourself to believe that, then OK. You're AWESOME!!! SOOO much "better" than the rest of us. Sheeze... can't you see that it's exactly that attitude that's fueling the backlash? I'm looking forward to that South Park episode.
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Brian 1:06PM (3/28/2006)
Oh great, now Matt and Trey are going to preach to us about the cars we drive.
Add it to the long list of other things they have preached to us about yet know little about.
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james f. 3:33PM (3/28/2006)
I think that the humor will spring from the "hollywood" angle of hybridization. And only less so from other more valid discussions.
If they rip on larry david i will be cracking up.
ps Im really impressed no one has advertised for their own crap yet on this thread.
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Ryan 4:23PM (3/28/2006)
You know this entire thing with hybrids, the savings to the world are SO irrevenent.
It's not the auto industry that desperatley needs to change there fuel forms, it is JET airplanes, I mean assuming all cars from this second forward stopped using gas, think about how much gas is still burned by JETS?! Nobody is getting off of oil anytime soon.
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John 4:29PM (3/28/2006)
I predict someone will be called a "douche" by the end of the episode.
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Torsdagsapan 5:37PM (3/28/2006)
"Stan persuades the town to start driving hybrid cars. Just as everyone is finally feeling good about the switch and helping to save Earth's environment, scientists find a stormy, dark mass forming over the town of South Park." - tv.com
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john1701a 8:41PM (3/28/2006)
It's pretty clear that the greenwashing has been effective. Many people are becoming so focused on the aspects of oil consumption that the other benefit of hybrids is no longer discussed. That's what those fighting their success want.
The fact that true hybrids also deliver an emission rating of SULEV (or better) in addition to improved efficiency is what they don't want you to know. That's a genuine gain no matter when the oil supply runs dry.
The reality that what comes of the tailpipe is cleaner (less smog-related emissions) irritates the heck out of those attempting to undermine. Well, too bad. I'm going to keep telling people that.
JOHN
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Heydn 11:37PM (3/28/2006)
I bet Kenny will be run-over by a Prius. Running on electricity, the car will be completely silent, Kenny will not hear it and he will be squished under the vehicle's weight. The driver will be too busy drinking their frappa-cappa-skinny-bongo-java-latte to notice. Or whatever Prius drivers drink.
I wouldn't know. I drive a Civic Hybrid :)
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Kacey Green 9:19AM (3/30/2006)
I think it was very funny and I run a hybrid club. www.flhybrid.com, or see our take on it http://www.grlt.com/j/content/view/47/2/
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