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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ayn rand who wrote (17285)	8/12/2009 8:12:04 PM
From: ayn rand	Respond to of 103300

ok, i'm sorry. what was i thinking? grapes of wrath. give me a break, right? this is much much better, from south park, that presumably more have seen this than henry fonda Congratulations to the South Park crew on their most recent Emmy nomination for Margaritaville in the Outstanding Animated Program (for programming less than one hour). southparkstudios.com plot summary: Randy thinks it is important for Stan to learn how to save his money, so they visit a local bank. Stan gives the bank employee the $100 check he received from his grandmother, which is lost a second later in a mutual fund investment. Other people come up and lose their money in the investment, as well. At dinner, Randy explains to Stan that the economy is failing due to people spending their money on luxuries, and ironically continues his tirade while making himself a margarita in a Margaritaville-brand mixer, the noise of which drowns out his voice. People in South Park are struggling with the recent economic downturn, and many people on the street are castigating those whom they would blame. Cartman is there too, and predictably blames the Jews. Randy convinces everyone to reduce their spending to only "bare essentials" in order to propitiate the economy's anger. He recommends wearing bedsheets and riding llamas. Kyle, getting annoyed, responds that the economy is not actually angry with them, and that they should be out spending money. Kyle continues to preach that the economy only exists as a mental construct, and that if they want the economy to be strong, they must have faith in it. Randy and the council, upon hearing this, decide that they need to kill Kyle. Cartman, in his desire to obtain a copy of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, says that he will deliver Kyle to Randy and his friends in exchange for the game. Kyle and his friends go out for pizza where he laments that he feels they will not be able to get together like this anymore because he thinks one of his friends will betray him. The next day, Kyle sets up a table with a credit card machine in the town and begins "paying everybody's debts" with his American Express Platinum Card. Kyle's mother begs him to stop because he will be in debt for life, but Kyle feels he must to help everybody in the town. The episode ends with a news report giving credit to Barack Obama for the recovery of South Park's economy. It ends with Kyle being indignant at the news ("Aw, come on!"). As a subplot, Stan spends most of the episode trying to return the aforementioned Margaritaville mixer. The trendy retailer Sur La Table will not accept the return because it was bought on a payment plan. He tries to find out to whom he can return it, each person saying the debt has been packaged and sold to someone else (much like real-life mortgage-backed securities). Eventually he goes all the way to the United States Treasury, where a group of associates "consult the charts" and tell him the mixer is worth $90 trillion. One of the three treasury workers says that another insurance company is failing and asks what they should do. They say they have to "consult the charts" again. Stan follows the men inside. He sees a round lit-up gameshow style board. The men cut off a chicken's head and let the decapitated chicken run on the board while one of them plays a tune on a kazoo to emulate gameshow music. The chicken falls on the "bailout!" spot, so that is what the men do. In anger at the ridiculousness of the system, Stan breaks the mixer on the platform by the chicken and walks off.