Chinpokomon
Episode 310
Original Airdate: November 3, 1999
While many of us here love the Pokemon games, when the toy/cartoon phenomenon was at fever pitch, there were only two camps to side with. Either you were head-over-heels enthralled with the bitty beasts or left bewildered and annoyed by the whole affair. The episode wasn't so much a skewering of the beloved Nintendo games,but a hilarious comment on fad culture, and the "Gotta catch 'em all" mantra, which was little more than brilliant marketing term for saying "buy all this useless crap or suffer the schoolyard consequences."
Of course, in the traditional South Park spin, the Chinpokomon were actually transmitting "subliminal" messages to overthrow the capitalist American government.
The Japanese owe their near success to the brilliant manner in which they dealt withany form of questioning-lavishly complimenting the penis size of any American who got too close to their nefarious plans. Once again, it proved phallic flattery will get you everywhere in out country. How do you think we got our last raise?
Speaking of wangs, in Japanese "chinpo" is a infantile term for a unit, akin to "pee-pee" or "wee-wee" so the title loosely translates to "penis monsters."Still wanna catch 'em all?
