Super Best Friends (South Park)

"Super Best Friends (South Park)"
Super Best Friends, go!
Series: South Park Part of Season: 5 Episode Number: 3 (in season) 68 (overall) Air Date: July 4, 2001 Previous episode: "Cripple Fight!" Next episode: "Scott Tenorman Must Die" (airing order) "Terrance and Phillip: Behind the Blow" (production order)

Super Best Friends is the third episode of Season 5 of South Park, and the 68th overall. Going by production order, however, it is the 4th episode of Season 5.

Why It's Our Super Best Friend

1. This is the first episode to introduce the Super Best Friends, who are all religious prophets, including Muhammad, Buddha, Joseph Smith, Krishna, Lao Tzu, and Seaman (who doesn't seem to be a deity, but is instead a parody of Aquaman). Moses from "Jewbilee" also makes an appearance as the group's computer.
   • The group is presented as a superhero group similar to the Avengers or Justice League, in that they all have their differences, but work together as a team to protect people from evil organization such as cults.
2. David Blaine is an entertainingly creepy antagonist, as he manages to not only convince almost everyone in South Park to follow his cult (Blaintology), but even brings the Abraham Lincoln statue in Washington D.C. to life to stop the Super Best Friends.
3. The animation is better than usual, with some standout areas including David Blaine disappearing into a swirl of Bicycle cards and reappearong, and also the giant stone Abraham Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth scenes.
4. There are plenty of funny moments one can expect from the series, such as when the boys can't tell each other apart except for Cartman or when Jesus reveals how he did his magic.
5. Excellent ending: The Super Best Friends construct a giant stone John Wilkes Booth to stop the Abraham Lincoln statue that David Blaine brought to life while Stan saves Kyle from drowning in the plastic bubble he was trapped in. Soon afterwards, David Blaine escapes, but Stan and the Super Best Friends remind everyone in Washington D.C. (and the audience, for that matter) of how dangerous cults are, with Buddha saying that all is as it should be.
6. Good moral: Cults are dangerous organizations to be in, as they may promise a better life and happiness, but they often rely on suicide or other dangerous methods to achieve these things.

Bad Qualities

1. The very concept of Blaintology is a novel one for a show like South Park, but sometimes it crosses the line into borderline creepy, such as making Stan beleive he was in his own way instead of the Blaintologist preventing his exit.
   • Perhaps the worst of all is when, after Cartman told on Kyle for trying to leave, the latter gets trapped in a glass dome that fills with water and almost DROWNS HIM.
2. Due to the depiction of Muhammad, this episode no longer airs on Comedy Central and can't be found on the website or even Max, so the only legal way to watch it is the Season 5 DVD.

Reception

The episode holds an 8.2/10 on IMDb.

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