Review: South Park “City People”

Overview (Spoilers Below)

Because of the increase of remote workers coming to work in South Park, Liane Cartman opts to get a job in real estate to help with all of the rising demand and get some additional money in place due to the fact that the costs of living in South Park are increasing. The problem is, it doesn’t take long before Liane gets her first true test in the cut-throat real estate industry.

Cartman is pissed that his mother won’t be home to take care of him, so the future Jewish scholar opts to jump into real estate as well. Problem is, Cartman doesn’t have a real estate license nor an agency, but is still able to make a name for himself so much that his mother’s boss gets annoyed and wants to get back at Eric for taking all of the clients.

It doesn’t take long before the town council gets wind of everything going on and decides to take action by hunting down real estate agents. Liane’s company is about done anyway with most of the agents nearly killing themselves for back-cracking pictures, but when Cartman kicks off a showing from a recently moved Tolkien Black, then Liane has to race over there before the two are gunned down.

Cartman and Liane agree to go back to the way things were, albeit, with a slightly different home address.

Our Take 

Anytime Mr. Kim is in an episode, it’s an instant classic, and given the episode title I imagined he was going to show up somewhere this week. No Kenny, no Kyle, No Stan, no Randy, South Park shows that it can rely on just a few main characters and a bevy of seldom-used characters and concoct a hilarious real estate war rife with the “city” people.

As someone who has grown up about 45 minutes from NYC, I can’t say I agree with the assessment that they would all drive out to South Park in Teslas as most don’t even drive cars…but LA residents would. Regardless, the personalities are spot on regardless of which coast you pick, and Matt Stone and Trey Parker know plenty about both in which to satirize.  From douchey La Croix drinks and constant talk of pilates, I’m not sure a documentary about NYC/LA assholes could be more of a direct shot than what we were presented here.

There was a lot of talk the last week about the voices changing every so-slightly for Mr. Mackey and Eric Cartman, and while the former didn’t talk much, I didn’t notice much of a change in the latter. Eric played his classic spoiled-brat character-type to perfection, and South Park posts it’s best episode of the year thus far.