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![]() ![]() #South park season 22 episode 9 pixa club fullIt was fun to see the show break the fourth wall a bit and acknowledge how rare it’s become to see episodes centered around the full Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny quartet anymore. From there, “Unfulfilled” veered in several different but equally entertaining directions. Kudos to the animators for really nailing that blend of music and imagery. Amazon may not be quite in “company store” territory just yet, but that sequence is way too effective at summing up the dangers of a company with such wide reach and unchecked power. ![]() ![]() “Unfulfilled” got the obligatory and necessary Amazon criticisms out of the way early with that incredible musical montage set to the tune of Tennessee Williams’ “Sixteen Tons.” It brings to mind a similar montage from the end of 2012’s “Cash for Gold.” In both cases, the goal isn’t even to be funny so much as just deliver a sobering blast of reality. It instead pushed the Amazon conflict in an far stranger and more entertaining direction than expected. That happened way back in 2004 with “Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes.” What more is there to accomplish with that formula? Fortunately, this episode didn’t waste a great deal of time rehashing old beats. My concern going into “Unfulfilled,” however, is that we already got an episode geared around a massive corporation muscling its way into South Park and decimating the local economy. ![]()
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