Kanye west doesnt have that option in south parks season episode fishsticks, in which the notoriously unpredictable rapper is incapable of understanding an extremely juvenile and popular. South park is one of the longest scripted animated series on cable television with its 23rd season kicking off in 2019. Lizzie widdicombe, on what its like working for south park and coming up with the kanye west fishsticks episode. He resorts to violent rages everytime someone attempts to explain the joke. Meanwhile back in south park each time cartman retells the story of how the joke came to be written his role gets bigger until jimmy just happened to be there when cartman created it then tried to steal it. Bill hader on working for south park and the kanye fish. The first great south park seasonsgreetings episode is also notable for including two of the shows funnier songs, a lonely jew on christmas and kyles mom is a big fat bitch. South park rekindles kanye west parody in season finale. Bill hader on writing the south park kanye fishsticks joke the. Trey and matt go behindthescenes of fishsticks from season episode 05, fishsticks. However, through its 22 seasons to date, there have also been some of the best topical comedy on television today. What, you thought kanye west wasnt going to say anything after south park accused him of being an egomaniacal gay fish or whatever last night. After his initial response, kanye west included a reference to the parody on his 2010 album my beautiful dark twisted fantasy, rapping choke a south park writer with a fish stick.
Kanye west, who is immediately offended and confounded by the insinuation that. South park kanye west gay fish episode to reair imdb. Kanye west gay fish lyrics performed by south park. Kanye west official south park studios wiki south park. He reappeared in the season seventeen episode, the hobbit. A hip hop superstar comes to terms with being a gay fish. So south park absolutely blasted kanye west last night, managing to squeeze in shots at his recent autotune fixation and at this picture. Kanye west also referenced the episode in some of his later songs, including gorgeous on his album my beautiful dark twisted fantasy 2010, with the lyrics, we make em say oh cause the world so pimpish choke a south park writer with a fish dick and the track made in america on his album watch the throne 2011, with the lyrics a. Being bored with nothing to do, cartman goes over to jimmys house, where the latters mom offers them fishsticks. Jimmy valmer solely creates the funniest joke in the world, yet eric cartman takes half the credit for it.
The 247th episode of the series overall, it premiered on comedy central in the united states on december 11, 20. Of all the celebrities ripe for a good south park skewering, kanye west is definitely up there, so when i heard that hed play a big role in tonights fishsticks i had high hopes. Kanye does not understand the fishsticks joke, and thinks that people are actually referring to him personally as a gay fish. Kanye west returns to south park to dispel rumors that kim is a hobbit by ross luippold kanye west made his triumphant return to south park on the shows season finale on wednesday, following up the 2009 episode fishsticks that posited that west is, indeed, a gay fish. Fishsticks season s episode e05 written by trey parker production code. Gay fish satirizes the rappers tendency to rely on audio processing to correct his mistakes in pitch. Kanye uses his genius to solve the fish sticks equation. Fishsticks official south park studios wiki south park. The episodes best bit is when we think kanye west is. That episode was so deep and comedic genius that honestly, i didnt even laugh for 85% of the time, because i was just like wow. Besides, if you really want to joke about kanye west, the real version of him has already done lots of outrageous things. Jimmy comes up with the perfect joke, but cartman wants to take half the credit for it.
Cartman and jimmy come up with the funniest joke of all time and it takes off everywhere. South park season 23 episode 9 basic cable full episode duration. South park kanye west gay fish episode to reair by adam b. Cocreators trey parker and matt stone talk about this idea originating from a road trip in washington to see the salmon jump, how bummed the van driver was to hear them talk about fish sticks for 4 hours and the unexpected reaction from kanye west. The boys are thrilled with how popular its become until somebody tries to take all the credit. Kanye west the gay fish scene south park the fractured but whole. On last nights fish stickscentric episode of south park, the most talented musician in the world, kanye west, failed to comprehend the most hilarious joke in history. The joke starts to take off and it even hits all the late night talk shows. With trey parker, matt stone, mona marshall, april stewart. Fishsticks is the fifth episode of the thirteenth season of the american animated television series south park. Except south park already delivered the perfect kanyeskewering episode five months ago, which is why comedy central will reair it tomorrow for two straight hours, starting at 9 p. Calling kanye west a gay fish all the time is just stupid.
Searching gay fish on youtube takes you to kanye wests. Used in the ending song, gay fish, as a parody of kanye wests thenrecent hit heartless. Cartman goes throughout the episode believing he had a big help in making the joke, up until he actually believes he came up with. South park has always been brilliant at lampooning celebrities, and fishsticks does an excellent job of mocking kanye west. Interlude yo, uh, uh cmon verse 1 ive been so lonely girl, ive. Meanwhile, rapper kanye west fails to understand the joke, and resents it being directed at him plot. However, kanye west doesnt get the joke, and vows revenge on the person who came up with it. Bill hader on writing the south park kanye fishsticks joke the new yorker festival duration. Kanye west returns to south park to dispel rumors that.
South park returns for its twentysecond season on comedy central tonight, but its a joke from an episode all the way back in 2009 that is still, unfortunately for kanye west, still lingering out. South park mocks kanye west and his late mother in new. In the episode, jimmy writes a joke that becomes a national sensation, and cartman tries to steal the credit while rapper kanye west is the only person in. At the end of the episode, after denying his latent feelings, west dressed in a green vest and skin. The only ego possibly larger than kanye west is eric cartman. Im not sure if youre all aware of this, but besides making hipandhop records and jamming on the one, its also rumored that mr. Maybe it was relevant to the jimmy kimmel twitter rant, but thats about it for how relevant and funny the joke is. The 25 greatest south park moments updated rolling stone. In bad taste, the creators of south park could have overstepped the line with its latest episode poking fun at kanye west and his late mother, donda.
The hobbit is the tenth and final episode in the seventeenth season of the american animated television series south park. South park kanye west my gurl aint no hobbit duration. Reforming gay fish, voice of a generation aliases aquaman the official south park studios wiki. By now youve all heard that on wednesday nights episode of south park, kanye west was subject to a longrunning joke over his inability to grasp a stupid joke about fish sticks because of. Kanye west still perplexed by fish sticks joke on south. For those who missed it, west was positively slammed on wednesday nights episode of south park which centered around a baldfacedly. The story centers upon wendy testaburgers attempts to raise awareness of media impact on body image, which leads to a crusade by rapper kanye west to. Cartman decides to help jimmy with his comedy routine. Normally, kanye wests puppystomping on the vmas last night would be exactly the kind of celebrity misbehavior perfect for parody on south park. Kanye west gender male age 37 hair color black occupation musicianrapper.
The episode fishsticks, which prominently featured rapper kanye west, includes a twoandahalf minute song, gay fish, that parodies wests heartless. The show also just received a threeyear renewal of 10 episode seasons to push it through 26 seasons in 2022. Free 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22. After kanye west interrupted taylor swift the episode fishsticks played for 2 hours straight on comedy central. Bill hader on working for south park and the kanye fishsticks episode bill hader talks with the new yorker deputy editor of talk of the town, lizzie widdicombe, on what its like working. A kanye west song in the episode about the fact that he is indeed a gay fish is a parody of the west song heartless. Fishsticks is the fifth episode of season thirteen, and the 186th overall episode of south park.
1345 418 1301 168 959 742 43 529 1378 1502 1292 879 1301 382 302 1155 904 133 976 1237 1269 1301 1365 253 1448 218 81