It’s no mystery that some of the writers here show no love for T.A.P.S. or the Ghost Hunters show — in fact there are quite a few readers who agree, that’s why I got such a big kick out of last-nights South Park episode.
In true South Park fashion, they rip into Ghost Hunters as “the fucking gayest show on television”. You can watch the whole episode here (Show airs online 1 day after main broadcast then goes offline for 7 days then is back online permanently).
In the show Jason is constantly spooked by absolutely nothing and everything is a paranormal event, which I think is on-par with what everyone has come to expect from the show — even if it’s a producer pulling a string or something messing with his clothes:
As an aside the episode also had this hilarious clip knocking Chipotle — which isn’t the first time I’ve heard someone tell me it “messes up your stomach”:
The world is a just place…
I have to disagree with you about the episode.
I felt it was rather dull and lazy.
I especially got upset by their TAPS part. Not because they made fun of them but that they did it in such a lazy, unrealistic, and childish way. It was nothing like the actual show. They never get freaked out by anything on the show and often try to find a more rational explanation for things. More so in their earlier episodes… but still they do try to find reasons other than automatically thinking it’s a ghost.
Maybe they never get freaked out because most of their ghosts get added in post production(?).
But the old funny South Park would have been able to point out the real funny and fakery of TAPS without resorting to just being childish by metaphorically just calling them booger heads and buttpickers. OR whatever. It seems just like a little brat making up something just to make fun of someone else. Doing a little spastic dance claiming it as an imitation of you.
I found it pathetic and uninspired.
Why not make fun of them NOT reacting to the real ghosts but chasing down natural sounds and such? Why not have them talk more about roto rooter? Or commenting about adding stuff in post production? or have them do a really lame “reveal”? or sitting around doing nothing.
or show how it takes them so long to set up the cameras and take the cameras down that it only leaves a short time to actually investigate and most of that time is spent sitting around waiting for something or happen. or following little sounds, or talking to the cameras or how they ignore the camera man, or how the camera is spontaneously there all the time, getting shots of their faces that are way to close so you can’t see how they make the rocking chair move or whatever.
Doing things like faking having their collar being tugged, And feeling cold spots,Then they could have much funnier reactions by the ghosts who aren’t dong anything but just watching them.
TAPS guy:”I just felt someone touch my hand”
Celb ghost: “what? Nobody touched you.”
TAPS guy: yes, yes i thiiiink i feel something touching my hand” meanwhile some slutty celeb is humping them from behind – or maybe a gay ghost
TAPS guy: “I feel a cold spot. Is anyone here?” (waving hand around)
Celeb ghost: “but… but I’m over here. Helloooooo! Hellllooooo!”
THEN LATER AT REVEAL
TAPS guy: “We did pick up an interesting EVP in the kitchen on one of our EVP recorders (which, if you’ve ever noticed, never seems to get picked up on the camera sound, ever notice that? they are able to pick up voices on their EVP tape recorders but you never hear it from the camera mic which is right there with the EVP recorder. But I digress….) her, Mr. Marsh, listen…” PLAYS TAPE “I feel a cold spot. Is anyone here?” pause, sound of recorder being moved auspiciously then an obviously fake ghostly whisper “my ass itches” TAPS guy: “lets play it again for you” “my ass itches” “and again” “my ass itches” TAPS guy: “does that have any meaning for you?”
RANDY: “wow! it sounded like it’s saying ‘you’re sexy’ over and over again. that’s spooky!”
TAPS guy:”No, it only says it once, I’m replaying it for you, listen…” “My ass itches”
If you’re a professional writing and making a comedy and getting paid to be a professional then they should give more than just lazy crap that any yahoo with a fifth grade edumacation can do.
If you’re going to make fun of somone at least point out the real things of it instead of just making up something like that just to make fun of it.
ANYONE can take a show or a person and just make them look like scared dicks. To me it’s no different than TAPS faking their stuff.
And no different than FOX’s “Half Hour Crap Hour” where all their humor is nothing more than stolen jokes and just name calling. “She’s a lesbian”
By the way, is it just me or do most of the EVPs they get sound nothing like what they claim it says? And again why wouldn’t we hear them when we’re watching them getting the EVPs? And how many times do these shows have to miss getting things on camera, there’s a sound or a movement or a shape off to the side and the camera spins to it and then there’s nothing, then they zoom in on their faces reacting to nothing. How many times before they think, “hmmmmm, maybe we should have a camera pointed off to the side. hmmmmm.”
I like Destination Truth (awful name) but they are horrible about that. I really don’t want to watch people looking at nothing instead of being able to see what they see. “I just saw something move out of the corner of my eye!” well maybe have a camera pointed that way next time… or ONE of the next ten times! sheesh! A stable camera that doesn’t jiggle and zoom around would be nice. Maybe it’s just me.
Anyway, just found your ass and am enjoying looking up it… so far.
“Everyone enjoys looking up her ass… at first.”
Well, reading up your ass to be more realistic.
thanks
you just wrote a massive amount of bullshit and completely wasted your time. South Park made an excellent portrayal of that retarded show and It’s people like you who actually believe that they record ghost hauntings every episode. SOOO STUPID