"South Park" takes on Honey Boo Boo

Alana "Honey Boo Boo" Thompson gestures during an interview in her home in McIntyre, Ga. / John Bazemore/AP

"South Park" has taken on its fair share of reality stars and TV personalities; now, the animated show is tackling TLC's "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo."

• Another ratings coup for Honey Boo Boo

In a preview clip of the show, Alana "Honey Boo Boo" Thompson and her mom June are seen in cartoon form shopping for pigs, trying to find the one with the most "pizzazz."

The season finale of "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" was the highest rated show on cable TV last Wednesday night, beating out "South Park."

While the show's critics suggest it mocks small-town Southern life, TLC has ordered more episodes featuring the show's 7-year-old star.

Bristol Palin, daughter of one-time vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin and a contestant on "Dancing with the Stars," recently told Inside Edition she's among Honey Boo Boo's  supporters.

"I'm a big fan. More power to her for having such a successful show," Palin said.

[Ajaxrose]

I am a total South Park fan and thought this episode was hilarious; however I'm also a Honey Boo Boo fan. I'm so torn! I think I like HBB because she reminds me a bit of myself, dirty, chubby little kid. Regardless of what people thing about their lifestyle June "mama" loves her kids and you can see that in the show. Alana might be a sassy-pants, but she's basically a good girl and I don't see her throwing fits like some of those other Toddlers and Tiaras brats, but Trey and Matt bring up a good point (as always) if it was a show about an African American family it wouldn't be on tv at all. My main concern with the SP episode is that bottom line Alana is a little girl with feelings. It's one thing to poke fun at adults, but it's not her fault things are what they are in her family.

South Park is famous for not holding back and putting it all out there. For those of us that watch the show regularly I think we all agree that their point of view is basically quit being hypocrites and let's all be good to one another. "I learned something today"

[Liam_Lowenthal]

It's okay. James Cameron just raised the bar. American's will not stop being ****-flinging monkeys, de-evolving themselves into mindless red necks who enjoy seeing a little fat girl on TV, with an attitude problem, who intelligent people recognize will have major issues on her journey to adulthood, and beyond. That's right, we're no longer retards who would rather enjoy the lifestyles of rednecks, instead of learning something of value to the human race. Thank you James Cameron, for making America a little less stupid. ...Oh.. if only that were true.

[masqueso]

This episode was brilliant. Long time fans, and even ex-fans that have long since parted ways with the show, will find the end very interesting. I'm a SP diehard, and it's the only show I make it a point to watch anymore. So I'm biased. At the same time, if you're anything like me you're a cynical eye roller at practically every obscene display that has defined television since the beginning of shock TV in the mid nineties. Don't get me wrong, I have fond memories of TV...I just can't stand it now. It's like a comedian that uses the same material over and over again. Only most comedians don't have the luxury of having hundreds of writers at their beck and call like the big TV networks do.

Then again...I laughed my ass off at HumancentIpad...so maybe I'm still in the gutter, somewhat, as they were last year. There was a real message in the last season. And that message was "whatever." We'll just have everyone spray diarrhea and the idiots will laugh. And laugh I did. But the message was there. Loud and clear. They were no longer amused. And I think, tonight, was the mark of a general shift away from everything that made the show popular to begin with and more in the direction of highlighting each and every "moral of the story" in the sane, calm level headed way that they usually do. I think they may feel a sincere sense of remorse and a lot of the responsibility for how low the bar's been set...pardon the pun.

Of course, I hope they don't beat themselves up too much at night over it...because Jerry Springer and Vince McMahon were the two major success stories that dipped their toes into this lake of fire and showed that, for a moment, it can be a relaxing sit. Well McMahon in particular quit doing anything near as bad when he went to Turner and seemed to remain calmer even when they moved back to the much more traditionally freer USA Network. Then Chris Benoit killed his family and Vince has completely neutered the product. It's now kid and girl friendly. One must wonder if Vince feels the same moral responsibility Matt and Trey do, maybe even thinking that lowering the bar so much made every we once held sacred into a joke. Maybe even to the point that a retard like Benoit would feel that the only light at the end of this tunnel of misery we now call life was through death. Unfortunately, he had to take his wife ad kid with them. Because, you know, he loved them so.

Of course, if McMahon did that...he did so with devastating consequences. I know I can't stomach the show anymore. If Matt and Trey are serious and they want to start focusing more on important issues then they don't have to turn into complete *******...oh no, as they have proven in the past they can make real waves in other ways. We still ain't done with the Mohamed issue and we sink further into the abyss economically watch for the mutation to arise, from the decades of disgusting excess comfort, this prosperity that's spoiled us all to the point of seemingly no return, watch it all come back around to bite us right in the ass.

We can only wait and see. But I think the days of diarrhea spewing ducks are over and now...the boys are going to start poking at some of the sores we've been complaining about recently. And it will be brutally honest. I'm not sure America's ready for that! We could see a mass exodus from the show...which wouldn't matter because they're filthy rich and they have a contract through 2016 with Viacom. I, for one, can't wait to see what they do after this. See, that 2-part episode last year meant something. They played it down but they're up to something. I'm excited about what may be to come.

Well done, this weeks episode of South Park gets 5 stars on a 4 star scale.

[ChewTheDirt]

First Honey Boo Boo steals the ratings from the RNC & Romney, now her South Park episode will compete with the debates, forget Obama, Romney needs to worry about Honey Boo Boo! Insider preview of the episode here http://www.chewthedirt.com/honey-boo-boo-officially-mocked-south-park-tonight/ . Only in America...

[twmat311]

Ashamed to admit, but I took a peek at "Honey Boo Boo" to see what the fuss was about. It's getting more press than "Life's a Tripp" (Bristol's, uh, show)? Wow. Maybe Sarah needs to take on Mamma Boo Boo as a consultant?