Why Good Times with Weapons is a PERFECT South Park Episode

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Season 8 of South Park began in 2004 with one of the most beloved episodes in the series' entire history: Good Times with Weapons. On its face, it’s easy to see why people love this episode. The overt, stylized anime parody was something very unique for the show at the time. But I think beyond the obvious stylistic influence, Good Times with Weapons is an early masterpiece in what I think is the real golden age for South Park, at least in my opinion. So today I wanna dive deep into Good Times with Weapons and explain exactly why this is a perfect South park story.
Edited by Joe Murphy @nazchoz798
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[@johnny2channels]

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[@PopculturedDSun]

Johnny you should do a video of your favorite episode of each season of South Park ! Love your videos 🎉

[@eljay2224]

Casa bonitaaa casa bonittaaa

[@eljay2224]

I never thought much about south park lore, but its good to now look back on it and delve into this great writing, thanks for doing a great job of it!

[@Boco_Corwin]

Best Episode Ever

[@CarsonWolford]

Cartman turning Kyle into a chicken after asking him for his powers back will always be my favorite moment

[@heehoopeanut420]

I laughed way too hard at that part😂 And even tho I saw it coming, I died when Kenny hit Butters in the eye. I actually just watched this episode for the first time the other day so this video is perfectly timed!

[@jamesgarrett6504]

Heh, Heh, Heh, Heh I turned you into a chicken 😂

[@gigachad-kk1jj]

Fr

[@bananamanchester4156]

The angry chicken yelling "GAWD DAMMIT CARTMAN" was the funniest visual 😂

[@FairyPrincessNia]

That had me cracking up when I first saw it.

[@23mustang32]

Imagine a stick of truth or fractured but whole style of game but with Ninja powers now

[@BadDaysForever]

Hold up let him Cook

[@obsessedncrazy1329]

Holy shit that would be GOLD

[@skeletonbuyingpealts7134]

Fantasy RPG, Superhero Tactics, Fantasy Action and maybe JRPG?

[@TheRedRobin96]

Well we got Snow day coming out so it shows they’re still interested in making games.

[@TheCopyNinja733]

Said this for years. Should’ve been the third game in the new trilogy after Fractured But Whole

[@whosdooley]

My favorite part is when the bystander driver just looks at the group of kids play fighting in a dingy alley, so glad you mentioned it.

[@cailieisidro5758]

My favorite has to be the whole Let’s Fighting Love sequence

[@kyrasoze516]

Professor Chaos stomping out of his house to go to war with the boys will forever be my favorite South Park scene.

[@thatonekira4780]

I think one part that you didn't bring up always makes me absolutely love it is with chef. With him being in the anime style it means two things 1 The boys see him worthy enough to be in their game unlike with butters initially, 2 because we do a match cut it shows that chef also views them in the anime style meaning he's 100% down for their game

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Let's fightning love is also one of the BEST South park songs! Perfect for the episode😂😂😂😂😂

[@capitanenterich9845]

In the German version to is sung by Frank Schindel. The guy who sang a lot of the German anime and songs.

[@LadyHawke78]

PROTECT MY BALLS!!!

[@fieryphoenix586]

I honestly never knew the Japanese Parts of the song were actual words. Until I saw a Japanese Reaction to the song. 😂

[@cailieisidro5758]

This song is so iconic that it was Tweek and Craig’s ultimate attack in TFBW

[@Bittamin]

I seriously remember being a little kid obsessed with Naruto when this episode came out and this episode might’ve been one of my favorite pieces of media to ever come out ❤

[@seanmcloughlin5983]

When I was around 9-10 (yes I was too young to be watching Soth Park) my brother showed me this pirating site where you could watch every episode of South Park But I only ever watched “Good Times with Weapons” and “Make Love not Warcraft” over and over and over. I just loved when shows had anime/video game episodes

[@goldglovegrappler1382]

I was the exact same dude, those same two episodes.

[@masoncook103]

Was it AllSp? I was the same age watching South Park back in the day lol. Had the old computer with no headphones and would watch episodes all day with the speakers on while my parents are trying to watch TV and such in our basement. (Yes I was a shit head)

[@seanmcloughlin5983]

@@masoncook103YES aaaah the memories Im pretty sure it gave my moms computer a virus but it was WORTH IT

[@autismoid]

Why would anybody of pirated it “back in the day” every episode was free on the Comedy Central website, and free on the South Park website before that

[@greyfox2822]

I read somewhere that one of the creators actually speaks fluent Japanese so the "Let's Fighting Love" theme song was written with full awareness of mocking the usual tropes with anime theme songs 😂

[@aaronwynn8114]

ive seen a few translations, but this seems the best. copied from the internets "Subarashii, chin chin mono Kintama no kami aru Sore no oto, sarubobo? Iie! Ninja ga, imasu!" I have a wonderful cock, and hair on my testicles. What's that sound, a monkey's pussy? No! It's a ninja! "Hey hey let's go!, kenka suru Taisetsu na mono, protect my balls Boku ga warui, so let's fighting Let's fighting love Let's fighting love" Hey Hey Let's Go! Let's fight It's important that I protect my balls I'm bad so let's fighting Let's fighting love ...Let's fighting love ... "Kono uta, chotto, baka Wake ga wakaranai Eigo ga, mechakucha Daijōbu, we do it all the time" This song is a little stupid, and incomprehensible. The English is messed up, It's okay, we do it all the time "Hey hey let's go!, kenka suru Taisetsu na mono, protect my balls Boku ga warui, so let's fighting Let's fighting love Let's fighting love" Hey Hey Let's Go! Let's fight It's important that I protect my balls, I'm bad so let's fighting Let's fighting love ...Let's fighting love ...

[@RobotWithHumanHair.]

Yeah trey speaks it fluently which is why whenever actual Japanese is used in the show trey is doing it and it’s almost always accurate

[@cailieisidro5758]

One of Trey’s former wives was Japanese too

[@s.henrlllpoklookout5069]

And it's why the Mongolians in 'Child Abduction is Not Funny' are speaking Japanese

[@andou_ryuu3205]

They just talk about cock and balls

[@beauregardheer]

I think its so funny that Tolkien is just Tolkien now, like no questions asked at all

[@Patch2112]

“Now”? What do you mean? He’s always been Tolkien???

[@CaptainEffort]

What did you think his name was??

[@giantturd5157]

That transition from make-believe to real life was so relatable when I saw this as a kid. Every kid has been playing with their friends when one friend gets hurt and you all feel that "OH SHIT" in your gut.

[@MidlifeCrisisJoe]

100% When I was a kid me and a bunch of neighborhood kids were playing tag around the local church, when the little brother of my friend Tony jumped off a short roof of a garage to avoid getting tagged and nearly bit his tongue off when he landed while yelling out and having his tongue out during the landing. It was the biggest "OH SHIT" moment of my young life. (he ended up being OK, but they had to rush him to the hospital and put him in surgery to reattach the halves of his tongue that got bit, and then his little bro couldn't play with us anymore and like a year later, Tony moved away after being grounded for what seemed like forever because he wasn't watching out enough for his brother during that whole incident)

[@JesusMartinez-rr2ry]

I just really wish we see more South Park characters in this anime style, like Timmy, Tweek, The Goth kids, and Wendy Testaburger.

[@fieryphoenix586]

I wish they made a three-part episode special in this art style, where all the kids in South Park are anime ninjas.

[@cailieisidro5758]

That would be cool. Such a missed opportunity

[@mikebaleWZaz]

The three parters are awful. Let it die

[@therabbitfollower5550]

As a creative, I really relate with how Matt and Trey’s perspective on their best episodes has changed over time. They said the same thing about their Warcraft episode and were scared to air it, and I don’t think it’s a coincidence that both of these episodes are experimenting with new/different techniques. Doing something new when you’re used to a certain routine with your work is always intimidating, and the result might not be what you pictured at the time, but sometimes your perspective on your work changes. Seeing two super talented professionals go through this is super validating.

[@koolkoala1813]

"As a creative" 🤓

[@therabbitfollower5550]

@@koolkoala1813 What would you prefer I call myself?

[@koolkoala1813]

@@therabbitfollower5550 well your name is the rabbit follower so I guess a beagle idk

[@soupersime9172]

I remember this was the first South Park episode I’ve ever seen on vacation on the tv i forgot about it and now a couple years later it’s one of my favorite shows

[@majorghoul9017]

It was just so cute to me how the episode was basically only about kids playing together. Complete with the only real break in the game being when one of them actually gets hurt by accident

[@professorkittyhawk]

I loved the brief appearance of Chef in the anime style in this episode. Classic episode all around.

[@TheMouthOfTheSouth]

For YEARS I despised South Park, basically viewing it as Terrence and Phillip, but an ex of mine showed me this episode and I was SOLD. Now it's one of my favourite shows of all time, I carry a Kenny backpack to work whilst wearing my Professor Chaos trainers and I couldn't be happier my ex convinced me to give the show another try.

[@piskolom3000]

Why is it an ex though?

[@TheMouthOfTheSouth]

@@piskolom3000 Cause she was a toxic cheater 🤷‍♂️

[@JackieDaytona1776]

What country are you from?

[@piskolom3000]

@@TheMouthOfTheSouth oh okay sorry

[@piskolom3000]

​@@JackieDaytona1776Russia UwU

[@Ashrudel]

Let's fighting love is such a classic song. The live concert version is pretty great as well.

[@jonathanngo7452]

Truly captures the boys being boys. Using their imaginations to the umpth degree and it's absolutely one of the episodes I look forward to the most anytime I rewatch the series

[@GS-xv7eg]

Season 8 might be the pinnacle of South Park as a series!

[@Howlingburd19]

At least to me, I’m positive season 8 is the best (and there’s A LOT of amazing seasons btw)

[@Scrinwaipwr]

2:54 I agree that South Park is at its best when it parodies childhood itself. There are lots of things we all (or someone we knew) did when we were kids and I love when this show touches on them. The episode with the folding paper thing that "tells the future" and the Warcraft episode being two other good examples.

[@CliveHand5th]

Good times with weapons was actually the first episode I ended up seeing! I saw clips of it when I was 6/7 on KZbin, probably way too young to be watching that kind of stuff. Nice to see the episode getting some appreciation.

[@cailieisidro5758]

Seen this episode when I was about 10 or 11 but it wasn’t my first episode. That was Mr. Hankey and I guess I was only 8

[@JOJ0606]

This also happens to be the first South park episode I ever saw 😂

[@Chao-One]

As a 90s fighting game fan, I loved the fact that they referenced art from Super Street Fighter 2 and the Alpha games (namely 1 and 2) for the boys in this episode. Will always be one of my favourites. SFA2 Sagat/Professor Chaos was glorious indeed.

[@steezeaustin316]

This episode and “Make Love, Not Warcraft” are probably my two favorite SP episodes of all time.

[@Will-tk7wo]

I still can’t get over how funny the ninja star scene is, the second I clicked on this video I started giggling cause I knew you were gonna talk about it

[@Polycomical]

Full agreement, love this episode. And the cut to Butters with the shuriken in his eye made me crease when I saw it the first time. Amazing.

[@LiminalMan777]

One of my favorite bits in this episode is Butters as Chaos holding the pie with two fingers.

[@pichugirl6]

I remember seeing this way back and laughing my ass off the moment i saw them imagine themselves as anime ninja with the music playing. Seeing the kids play with the weapons, is truly a callback to what every kid did growing up, It is hard to not see someone you once saw did that or you yourself did that at one point. I am truly glad they brought back the animation for professor chaos whenever you make Paladin Butters use his ultimate move in Stick of Truth.

[@kaiuniverse876]

I think stick of truth does that well at the end with the government guy fully not understanding that they're just playing a game

[@_mediogre_]

I want the next South Park RPG to be based off the weapon characters

[@MrWhite3777]

The next South Park game being in a Mortal Kombat style with the content of this episode being the focal point seems like a good idea.

[@bemasaberwyn55]

Want

[@Otakucardplayer]

7:12 - J2C saying Tolkien's name correctly, will always get a chuckle out of me. ^^

[@zoeyamon935]

I’m a HUGE fan of your new graphic style! You don’t see many people take influence from stained glass art and I think it really comes together well.

[@Howyanow]

Seeing what happened to butters was low-key traumatic as a kid

[@fairlyoddenginecreations]

I always loved this episode when I first saw it but I couldn't really fathom why, thanks to you now I do know! This is easily one of the best in the show, and considering how many episodes that are unanimously praised for commentary, comedy or character moments, I shouldn't use that lightly. But I'm sticking with it because this episode truly is a masterpiece for South Park.

[@maybe8985]

Season 19’s ninjas just couldn’t compare.

[@cailieisidro5758]

Naughty Ninjas is season 19 but facts

[@maybe8985]

@@cailieisidro5758 oopsie corrected

[@risenfromyoutubesashesagai6302]

I'll never forget coming home super late one night many years ago, buzzed out of my mind. I was laying in bed watching Tv, and found South Park on, and it just happened to be _this_ episode. At first, I was like "What the fk is going on here?!" Then as it rolled on, I started laughing my ever living ass off at the way the episode was playing out. Then after the Ninja star plows right into Professor Chaos' eye, and it switches back to poor ole Butters, gawd I was dead!!!!!

[@BroToastR]

Whenever someone tells me they haven’t seen South Park I show them this episode, it’s just a perfect episode.

[@JaimeBarata]

You and Blooms were my best finds on 2024! Love the videos, keep up the great work!

[@horseface31]

Reminded me of when my friends and I made "weapons" out of scrap lumber with my dad's power tools. We had this one friend that would always just go way to hard and long story short he broke my nose and we were all trying to figure out how to now get in trouble.

[@eljay2224]

I never thought much about south park lore, but its good to now look back on it and delve into this great writing, thanks for doing a great job of it!

[@CinnamonGrrlErin1]

This exact scenario basically happened to my dad in real life, except he and his brothers had wooden bows and arrows. And someone took the suction cup off the end of an arrow and aimed it and my dad's face.

[@jaystef1627]

The cut when butter gets hit and starts screaming made me and my friends laugh so hard that we missed 2 minutes of the episode.

[@rosierivits4782]

Loved the casabonita vid!

[@KrazzyKelsie]

Always been my favorite episode. Watched in the parking lot at red rocks before their 25th anniversary concert. Was so excited they played let's fighting love live!

[@SJNaka101]

Bro have you seen the live concert of south park songs? There's an amazing part in let's fighting love when the band stops playing to let the entire concert hall shout "protect my balls!" and I personally think this is one of the greatest achievements in human history

[@TopicalJuice]

I remember watching this as a kid when it dropped‼️Was one of my fave episodes ever then and still is now

[@LinkTheRipper77]

Ive been watching it from episode one straight through. Made it to 12 yesterday and watched 8 last week. Seasons 8 to 12 seem to have the most memes from it

[@cailieisidro5758]

Season 8 is one of the superior seasons and a lot of fans love it. However, I’m going to warn you that the next 14 seasons aren’t going to be as funny (Although I was fond of season 13 and the Coon Trilogy) as those seasons

[@SRSPRODS]

I just watched this episode over again last week. Never gets old, lol. Even watching the clips in this video makes me laugh out loud. It really is perfect.

[@scorchingemblem7873]

I hope the next South Park game in the style of Stick of Truth and Fractured But Whole will be themed around this episode

[@MovieMan1710]

Dammit Johnny, I just got the song out of my head XD

[@bemasaberwyn55]

😂😂 RIGHT. Try not to fall down the rabbit hole that I did the last time the song got stuck in my head which was actually watching anime openings that had been dubbed with let's fighting love

[@GrapplingIgnorance]

Using the Ninja powers setup for a third RPG style game would be INCREDIBLE. I'm so glad they didn't waste that premise on the non-RPG game they just released, so there's still hope for this.

[@chiefr9627]

My personal favorite above this episode is Lil' Crime Stoppers and just seeing them deal with the police situation escalating until they just get fed up with it.

[@DaftKermitThePunk]

Is this the one cartman walks on stage naked thinking he's invisible? he comments right before it's shown 0:25

[@jagnestormskull3178]

Yes

[@villie8532]

When I was a kid, I owned the DVD copy of the first season and I would have watch it over and over. It was a running gag at the intro to every episode that this one is Matt and Tre’s favorite episode, so this could possibly be one of Thier favorites but it’s probably part of the gag.

[@chrrmin1979]

6:53 Murphys law, eat your heart out. Butters law is here

[@ChakasCave]

I love your analysis videos

[@Born2beSPRA]

I loved the hard cut with butters with the ninja star I was shocked and almost died crying

[@Gentlemenpickleesq.]

This one was SO relatable if you played with friends outside as a kid. You got the one friend who keeps making himself stronger so he doesn't lose (Cartmen) and the one moment when you took it too far and someone actually got hurt (Buters) so you would immediately say something "shhhh" or "Don't tell mom! You're fine!". XDXDXD

[@kyethememer9836]

I have such fond memories of this episode. I agree its perfect and is one of my all time favorites.

[@IllegallySighted]

This episode is pure perfection! I remember the first time I watched it, I completely lost it when they try grabbing the ninja star out of Butters' eye. I honestly don't think I stopped laughing throughout the rest of the episode, so much so, that I had to rewatch it later that evening with my roommates so I could actually catch the full plot. I absolutely want a South Park game using this setting!

[@nmoney6655]

I love Let’s fighting love it’s peak South Park

[@gsampson97]

I love the episode, the animation, the music, the fight scenes but I struggle to rewatch because of what happens to Butters, I just feel so sorry for him

[@Megalon-qc8pf]

“He he he he he he, now you are a chicken!”

[@Homodemon]

HEY HEY LET'S GO! KINKA SURU! DAISETSU NO MONO PROTECT MY BALLS BOKU GA WARUI SO LET'S FIGHTING LET'S FIGHTING LOOOOOOVE LET'S FIGHTING LOOOOOOVE

[@NoirTech83]

Great episode!

[@Sayne7]

Probably my favorite South Park episode, so relatable! (glad no one almost lost an eye when I was a kid having good times with weapons)

[@clownymoosebean]

You're absolutely correct. The next South Park Game should be anime themed.

[@0ri0nssuspenders]

This was the very first south park episode I saw when I was finally allowed to watch it as kid...such a good and funny episode to start with 😂 I still think of Butters going "awoof...woof woof" with a throwing star in his eye to this day

[@Howlingburd19]

Favorite episode. The moment when Butters, poorly dressed up as a dog, is actually mistaken as a dog by a human doctor is hilarious 😂

[@fvb7]

Let's fighting love is the first thing I think of when seeing anime park lol

[@guyledouche7939]

"Hey kid that knocks you down." "Nuh-uh" "Yuh-huh I got you!"

[@mvpfireant5188]

Butters getting hit in the eye with a ninja star might be the hardest I’ve ever laughed at a tv shoq

[@FictionalLuvus]

Also if we do get that Ninja style in a South Park game it would work welll off of the professor chaos end scene from fractured but while as Professor Chaos is in this episode

[@joaquinfernandezaracil1703]

Season 8 was the first South Park season I saw and it made me love the show. My fav season

[@dracomundo1498]

I'd absolutely LOVE a south park game in the visual style of this show

[@SnowpawShaw]

This episode traumatized me when I was a kid and I think it's why I was so averse to South Park until I saw your videos

[@tayhonorable7421]

I’ve never forgotten the lyrics to “Let’s Fighting Love” since I first heard it

[@RealJohnnyAngel]

This is in my top 5 if not my number 1. I cosplayed this version of Professor Chaos once.

[@isabellakling8650]

the song at the end of ur videos is a bop

[@egleal2000]

Kyle agreeing with Cartman over killing Butters will forever be funny 😂 I think it’s funny how Kyle will go through extreme measures to avoid his moms wrath 😂

[@shinton100]

Let’s fighting love.

[@mathieuleader8601]

Jimmy rockin' that *TOPKNOT!*

[@kaidorade1317]

An RPG in this style or set in Imagination Land needs to happen!

[@edwardmckenzie6988]

Lil Crime Stoppers is equally a perfect South Park episode.

[@_SYDGAMING_]

Butters screaming when he gets the Shuriken in his eye. Will always make me roll on the floor laughing.

[@justinlast2lastharder749]

This episode hit when I was in Middle School, everyone was talking about it for months and comparing episodes to it

[@joshstraub6972]

new vid dropped while I bing these videos? Hell yeah!

[@JesseBakerH]

Have to agree, Good Times with Weapons or Casa Bonita would be my GO TO episode(s) to show to someone for the first time

[@wolfofthepride]

No joke, this episode has helped me in my work with children on the Spectrum. I accept what they throw at me and don't ry to come out on top. It helps communication in that they see I understand what they're saying. I don't contradict them with whatever "powers" they have or overrule when they have too many (though I do let out a sarcastic quip). Then, sometimes, I gotta make them lose so they know how to follow rules other people make. Had one kid playing Rock, Paper, Scissors and waiting until the other kid threw his hand before throwing his own. No, no, no.

[@JackOfNone97]

This was the first episode of South Park I ever saw! I was at the local pool with my best friends and one of their brother’s watching it on a portable dvd player by the snack bar and I guess didn’t mind a couple of 12 year olds hanging out and watching with him. Wild times

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

You're so right

[@user-jy5nh6xo8t]

I was a young kid the first time I saw this episode, the star in the eye freaked me out so much and I remember kid me feeling SO bad for butters lol walking around with a star in his eye then the whole dog thing lmao

[@devojeffries8101]

I can’t help but to cry laughing every time it shifts from their imagination to butters with the star in his eye. Reminds me perfectly of being a kid

[@PlanetEarthTeam]

Great video! I so agree

[@chasemorrison4411]

Dude this fella always delivers on a South Park episode!

[@plumdowner1941]

South Park is my favourite anime.

[@RT_Calaban]

I can’t watch this episode because even though butters gets tormented often in this episode I just always start crying seeing him in so much pain