Presented as one of those re-enacted hellish experience documentaries, it was certainly a fresh take on the narrative - and it was nailed perfectly, causing me to giggle with each cut to the boys as they remembered some insignificant detail of the day.
Aiming to make use of their last hours of Spring Break, the kids decide to go ziplining. This unfortunately ends up in a massive group tour, and all the annoyances that come along with it - such as the late douchebag, the overly talkative douchebag, the old, whiney douchebags and people's inability to 'make a long story short'. Having recently been on such tours, I could relate.
What made me crack up was the actual ziplining bits themselves - the kids were so bored they were on the verge of passing out while ziplining out of boredom. The delivery was excellent, especially after the build up.
I'm so borreeeed!
However, the second half was nowhere near as strong, with the boys moving onto other boring adventures and then from animation to real life actors. For absolutely no explicable reason, other than Trey/Matt deciding to be obtuse for the sake of being obtuse. Fair enough, but the actors were terrible. That's probably to be expected, but none of them looked right, either - Kenny blonde? Kyle dark haired? Cartman not fat enough? Meh. This just seemed pointless and trying too hard to be funny - a bit like this blog.
On a more positive note, the episode pay-off was fantastic, revealing how they ended up ziplining in the first place. Oh, and the throw back to last week's Jacking Off In San Diego made me lose it as well, because apparently I'm a small child. That song will not get out of my head. It's going to be the death of me.
Jacking it, jacking it, jackity-jack...
All in all, another solid, if unspectacular episode - just like all of season 16 so far, really.
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