Best Six South Park Clips From Season 8, Part One: “Up the Down Steroid”

More of the best clips from South Park are coming your way. We have now arrived at Season Eight, as we move backwards through the twelve and a half current seasons of the show; we will touch on season thirteen once it concludes in the fall of 2009. While we found that choosing the a beginning episode was difficult, in the end we couldn’t veer away from the comedic prowess of the first episode in this season, “Up the Down Steroid.”

What Made this Episode Rock?
This episode touches on some very sensitive topics: the handicapped, the mentally retarded, steroids abuse and the Special Olympics. What happens when you mix those all up in a bowl that is the salad of South Park? Really funny things (namely Cartman and Jimmy) are what happens! In this episode, Eric Cartman devises a plan to act like a mentally retarded boy so he can enter and win the Special Olympics – and make easy money – but all hell breaks loose for him. Meanwhile Jimmy starts to abuse steroids so he can win the tournaments, and ends up beating up his mother and his girlfriend for talking back to him.

How Parker and Stone Can Offend and Get Away With Their Antics
There is one answer here for this always ongoing question: morals that are implemented coyly at the end of each episode. We have learned that you can do anything in the name of comedy, virtually. But, if you sum it up with astute moral values, all is forgiven. Good to know. This is how the show gets away with comedic murder on Wednesday nights.

Best Clip from Up the Down Steroid: “Doing His Research”
When Eric Cartman decides that the only way he can pull off his plan to win the Special Olympics and be awarded the bonus prize of a thousand dollars is by transforming himself into a mentally retarded boy, the laughs spill out. In the clip below, Cartman is researching how to look and act mentally retarded. He tries on a variety of different outfits, and utilizes different hairstyles to implement his scheme. After much intense internet and video research, Cartman finally concludes what he deems to be the most convincing retard act ever. Included in this great clip is a famous South Park montage called, “Push it to the Limit.”