The Royal Wedding in Britain took place on April 29, 2011. So, of course, South Park was going to have an episode all about how people get so caught up in the lives of people halfway across the world. Instead of commenting on the actual Royal Wedding, Trey Parker and Matt Stone made up their own Royal Wedding.
The Princess of Canada is Captured
Their Royal Wedding follows the prince of Canada. Of course, Ike is super excited about the wedding since he is from Canada. During the wedding, the princess is captured. Ike is instructed to open his “box of faith” that everyone Canadian receives in a time of crisis. It’s Ike’s duty to rescue the princess.
The wedding scenes were the funniest parts of the entire episode. The announcer continually makes references to how everything that is happening during the wedding is part of tradition, including scraping the pudding of one another’s arms and the mushroom people of Nova Scotia.
Mr. Mackey Shows His Angry Side
Meanwhile, Ike is so distraught over the princess’ capture that he cannot perform as “Tooth Decay” in the school play. Kyle has to fill him for him, but Mr. Mackey is less than pleased with his performance.
Mr. Mackey cusses out Kyle and the kindergarteners repeatedly throughout the episode. This is a different side of Mr. Mackey that we have never seen. It was quite shocking to see Mr. Mackey, a pretty calm guy, get so angry at a bunch of 5-year-olds over a school play.
The Royal Wedding storyline was great, but the writers seemed to be scrambling to find a way to interconnect it with the “Tooth Decay” storyline. In the end, it was “Tooth Decay” who captured the princess. Ike, Scott (who is now giant Scott after he got radiation poisoning in Ottawa) and Ugly Bob (who actually looks like all the other Canadians) end up saving the princess.
In the end, the storylines didn’t connect. It would have made more sense if Scott had taken the princess since he was the villain in the episode, “Its Christmas Time in Canada.” However, the writers seemed to have added the tooth decay part at the very end trying to save grace.
Parker and Stone clearly dropped the ball on this episode; it had its moments, but overall it was confusing how they tried to intertwine the two storylines together. This is definitely not part of their “tradition.”
- Original air date: Wednesday, May 11, 2011
- Season #15 Episode #3
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