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I have to give the creators of South Park some credit for this episode.  Actually, the remaining episodes for season 11 have been funny to nearly heart stopping hillarious.  This three part series was by far one of my favorites of all time.  Again, it demonstrates how Trey and Matt watch too much TV, movies and are kids of the 80's and early 90's.  This whole series was a fun throwback to nearly any kid growing up in the 80's favorite memories in terms of heroes and villains.  Not to mention Trey and Matt vindicated some of the awful memories of dealing with gay Strawberry Shortcake and Care Bear commercials with their brutal assassinations.

Honestly, I wish the epic battle had lasted longer since it was really a lot of fun watching.  I looked up on wikipedia all the cultural references they snuck in there and I'm certain that I still missed quite a few.  This is definitely a series you'll want to watch over and over just to see which characters you recognize.  I'm certain many other guys growing up also fantasized about the End-All battle where all their favorite characters have a massive war.

Also, there's a few good lines in the show.  I loved the whole "Dragon Wind to Faggot" line Cartman gives to Butters (although it is ironic that Cartman bestows the name "Faggot" onto Butters where, for the entire duration, he's seeking to get Kyle to suck his scrotum, once again bringing into question his sexuality.  My guess is that Trey and Matt will some day have to do a version of Brokeback Mountain with Kyle and Cartman playing the gay cowboy duo).

Despite my positive review of the show, the one thing that concerns me is the blatant copying that South Park manages to get away with.  Certainly, South Park is able to circumvent certain lawsuits since this all falls under the banner of parody.  However, I find it horribly underfair that a show like this doesn't get sued left and right for obvious copyright violations, whereas some person sticking a youtube video up with some copied background music gets a notice from the MPAA and/or the RIAA.  I might be mistaken but usually in these scenarios, the creators have to provide some sort of reference to demonstrate where they're quoting from.  However, it's not in the credits and three episodes, more than any, deserve their own notices in some way.  But it's obvious that these groups protect their own when their interest serves them and it's obvious that small people are shackled by lacking resources to combat these multibillion dollar empires/mafias that are able to control content at will.

I do applaud the creators for providing a great bout of entertainment, but I still feel there's hypocrisy involved when it comes down to something like this.  I just hope that more people realize what's going on here and can look beyond the simple entertainment value in seeing the type of playing field we're dealing with.