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'Freemium Isn't Free' is the sixth episode in the eighteenth season of the American animated television series South Park. The 253rd episode overall, it was written and directed by series co-creator and co-star Trey Parker. The episode premiered on Comedy Central in the United States on November 5, 2014. The episode lampoons the popularity of freemium mobile apps such as The Simpsons: Tapped Out^[1][2] and Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff.^[2][3] The episode links addiction to freemium games to other addictions, including alcoholism and gambling addiction, and their possible genetic predisposition.

The episode was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program at the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards.

Plot[edit]

Jimmy runs into Kyle at school and tells him about the newest game, a mobile app (which closely resembles the game Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff^[3]) based on Terrance and Phillip, and encourages Kyle to download it, since it is free. As Kyle plays, he discovers that the game offers freemium upgrades. In Canada, the Prince of Canada and the Minister of Mobile Gaming are amazed at the profits they are getting, when Terrance and Phillip enter, angry that their likenesses have been used to make a game without consulting them and how it is not free, since it charges premiums. The Prince and Minister disclose they have purposefully created a boring game based on the concept of mobile RPGs, and that everyone is doing it.

Randy and Sharon Marsh yell at Stan for spending $489 on the app. Randy worries that Stan may have inherited a gambling problem due to Grampa Marvin Marsh having compulsive gambling issues, as Sharon accuses Randy of having his own compulsive issues with alcohol. Terrance and Phillip begrudgingly accept that since everyone is making boring games and getting micropayments for them, then it must be acceptable. Stan is visited by Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny because Stan skipped school just to play. They realize that Jimmy told all of them about the game. Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny confront Jimmy and make him admit that he is being paid to push the game to others. Terrance and Phillip raise concerns about people spending too much money on micropayments, so the Prince and the Minister agree to fund a campaign to play the game in moderation, much like alcohol industry advertisements do. Randy takes Stan to see Marvin, who is addicted to a slot machine, and then confronts Stan and Marvin about their obsessive personalities, as Marvin retorts that Randy is obsessive about alcohol. Stan and Grampa agree to stop their addictive spending.

Jimmy confesses that he has been pushing the game like a drug dealer because he is addicted to another freemium game, and compares freemium games to drug addictions. Stan gets multiple text alerts about the game and cannot stop himself from playing again, now having charged over $26,000, while Randy's alcohol consumption increases. Stan goes to Kyle, Cartman, Kenny, and Jimmy for help. Jimmy encourages Stan to seek out a higher power for help, much like Alcoholics Anonymous and other similar twelve-step programs. Kyle makes a convoluted plan to tell people how Canada has been hiring pushers to get people addicted, but Cartman instead just tweets the information, and it starts trending. Terrance and Phillip again are angered, as the Minister reveals that he had always planned to exploit the addictive nature of people with the game. Stan prays for help, but is visited by Satan, who explains to him what addictions are.

As Terrance and Phillip continue to listen to the Minister explain his plan, the Minister reveals himself to be the Canadian devil, Beelzaboot (a portmanteau of beelzebub and the Canadian raising pronunciation of 'about'). Satan realizes that the game is from Canada, so he possesses Stan, then heads to Canada to battle Beelzaboot. Satan defeats Beelzaboot, and Stan is returned to South Park unharmed. The Prince vows to never produce any more freemium games. While Stan and Marvin play board games to counter their addictive natures, Randy offers to place bets on the outcome, much to Stan's chagrin.

Production[edit]

Trey Parker and Matt Stone called 'Freemium Isn't Free' their favorite episode of the season.^[4] On the DVD audio commentary for this episode, they discussed how the episode formed. Parker and Stone had been pitched by several different companies on the idea of creating a freemium mobile game based on the South Park franchise. They were unsure about actually creating the game because they thought the types of games freemium games usually result in were 'pretty offensive' in shamelessly asking for money so they decided to do a 'shit load of research'. During this time, they decided to go ahead and make an episode that revolves around freemium games. The research Parker and Stone did was originally only for fully understanding freemium games but because they had decided to make this episode, the research was very beneficial for the episode.^[2]

Reception[edit]

The episode generally received above average reviews from critics. The episode received a B− rating from The A.V. Club's Josh Modell, though he felt that it 'dragged a lot'.^[5]IGN's contributor Max Nicholson gave the episode a 7.5 out of 10, commenting that 'it took awhile for this episode to get off the ground, but once it did, it was pretty entertaining'.^[6] However, Chris Longo from Den of Geek only gave the episode 2 out of 5 stars, calling the episode, along with the previous week's episode 'The Magic Bush', 'the two weakest episodes of the season'.^[7]

References[edit]

1. ^Tamburro, Paul (November 6, 2014). 'South Park Trashes 'Freemium' Games Like The Simpsons: Tapped Out'. CraveOnline. Archived from the original on July 22, 2015. Retrieved July 18, 2015.
2. ^ ^abcParker, Trey; Stone, Matt (September 24 – December 10, 2014). 'Freemium Isn't Free'. South Park: Season 18. South Park. Comedy Central.
3. ^ ^abKuchera, Ben (November 12, 2014). 'South Park's free-to-play jokes were based on a Family Guy game'. Polygon. Retrieved May 8, 2015.
4. ^Parker, Trey; Stone, Matt (September 24 – December 10, 2014). 'The Magic Bush'. South Park: Season 18. South Park. Comedy Central.
5. ^Modell, Josh (November 5, 2014). 'Review: South Park: 'Freemium Isn't Free''. The A.V. Club. Retrieved November 6, 2014.
6. ^Nicholson, Max (November 5, 2014). 'South Park: 'Freemium Isn't Free' Review'. IGN. Retrieved November 6, 2014.
7. ^Longo, Chris (November 6, 2014). 'South Park: Freemium Isn't Free Review'. Den of Geek. Retrieved November 7, 2014.

External links[edit]

• 'Freemium Isn't Free' on IMDb
• 'Freemium Isn't Free' at TV.com

'Crème Fraîche' is the 14th episode and season finale of the fourteenth season of American animated television series South Park, and the 209th episode of the series overall. It first aired on Comedy Central in the United States on November 17, 2010. In the episode, Stan's life is reduced to shambles both at home and in school due to Randy's new obsession with the Food Network, while Sharon explores a new interest of her own.

The episode was written and directed by series co-creator Trey Parker, and was rated TV-MA L in the United States. In its original American broadcast on November 17, 2010, 'Crème Fraîche' was watched by 2.87 million viewers, according to the Nielsen Media Research. It was the highest viewed scripted show of the day. It received a 1.9 rating/5% share among adult viewers between ages 18 and 49.

Plot[edit]

Randy has taken an erotic interest in cooking thanks to TV programs on the Food Network. Spending whole nights watching these shows inspires him to replicate the recipes and serve them to his family but leave the task of cleaning to them. Sharon becomes fed up with Randy's behavior, and assumes his fetish for cooking must be because she has become unattractive to him. Encouraged by Sheila Broflovski and TV commercials for the Shake Weight exercise equipment, she eventually buys one with a digital voice which constantly advises, flatters, and instructs her during exercises. In line with the general parody of this device seen in United States popular culture since its début, exercise with the Shake Weight blatantly resembles a handjob — complete with 'release' of a 'cooling fluid' on the exerciser's face when 'done'. Sharon's Shake Weight also dispenses 'cab fare' into her palm and goes to 'sleep mode' (resembling a flaccid penis) at workout's conclusion. At one point it coaxes Sharon into sticking her finger into a backside receptacle, ostensibly to take her pulse, as described on TV.

At South Park Elementary, Randy is discovered to have taken over as cafeteria chef (embracing his predecessor's mannerisms), having quit his job to do so. Ignoring the planned school lunch menus, Randy cooks a variety of extremely gourmet food dishes clearly both too complex for, and not to the liking of, the students. Randy then forces Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny to film him as if he were on his own cooking show. Cartman attempts to impersonate chef Gordon Ramsay to try and discourage Randy's passion for cooking, but the plan falls apart when various celebrity chefs such as Jamie Oliver and Bobby Flay arrive in the cafeteria to start a new competitive cooking show, entitled Hell's Kitchen Nightmares Iron Top Chef Cafeteria Throwdown Ultimate Cookoff Challenge.

Sharon is increasingly drawn to her Shake Weight and takes a vacation to a beach resort to exercise with it in private. A short time later however, the Shake Weight's incessant demands to workout, including in public, begin to annoy her. Later the cleaning lady in Sharon's hotel room is caught exercising with the Shake Weight, and it complains that Sharon no longer wants to work out with it. Sharon is angry and calls the Shake Weight company headquarters to return it.

Back at the cafeteria, where students have waited 12 hours for a meal after the kitchen was taken over by the chefs, Randy eventually leaves for home when he cannot find his key ingredient, crème fraîche. Sharon coincidentally returns home determined to resolve whatever is wrong with their marriage thanks to Randy's obsession with cooking. When Randy mentions he has not slept for several days and that he was 'in work mode', Sharon offers a solution, using her experience handling the Shake Weight to give Randy a 'nice old fashioned'.^[1] Afterwards, Randy becomes tired and falls asleep in bed, having lost all interest in cooking, and promises to get his job back the next day. Later that night, Sharon thanks the Shake Weight, having figured out its true purpose as a marriage saver. Saying that its work is done, the Shake Weight bids farewell and shuts itself off.^[2]

Cultural references[edit]

The episode lampoons the recent rise in popularity of cooking shows on the Food Network. The first cooking show Randy watches (and pleasures himself to) is Guy's Big Bite, starring Guy Fieri. Cartman impersonates Gordon Ramsay, which prompts other TV chefs to appear as well – Jamie Oliver, Mario Batali, Bobby Flay, Masaharu Morimoto, Alton Brown, Giada De Laurentiis, and Paula Deen. The virally popular 'Shake Weight' commercial is largely referenced. Jamie Oliver's outcry is a reference to both the Channel 4 series broadcast 'Jamie's School Dinners' and the American Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution. The theme song to Randy's cooking show is a parody of the 'Trololo' song performed by Eduard Khil.^[3] The scene where Sharon 'elopes' with the Shake Weight sitting on beach chairs bears a striking resemblance to a series of Corona commercials (to the point where two bottles of Corona can be seen onscreen in the background). Terrance and Phillip return in a parody of insurance commercials, referencing Progressive and GEICO.^[4]

Reception[edit]

In its original American broadcast on November 17, 2010, 'Crème Fraîche' was watched by 2.487 million viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research, making it the most watched cable television show of the night. The episode received a 1.6 rating/3 share, meaning it was seen by 1.6 percent of the population, and 3% of people watching television at the time of the broadcast. Among male viewers between ages 18 and 34, the episode received a 2.7 rating/9 share. Among adult viewers between ages 18 and 49, 'Crème Fraîche' received a 1.4 rating/4 share, falling two tenths in the ratings, however it was one of the only cable television shows that night to receive a rating higher than 1.0 among adults between 18 and 49 years of age (the other shows being Psych, Meet the Browns and The Ultimate Fighter).^[5]

IGN rated this episode 8.0 (Impressive), saying 'This episode didn't waste any time with the jokes, as it opens with a dig at Carnival Cruise Lines and how smelling like poop would actually be an improvement for their ship. That joke is quickly followed by Randy Marsh ignoring his wife's requests to avoid the 'no-no' channel, and we soon find that Randy has a case of Sitophilia (a food fetish) that is only satisfied by the sweet, sweet food love on Food Network.'^[4]

Home release[edit]

'Crème Fraîche', along with the 13 other episodes from South Park's 14th season, was released on a three-disc DVD set and two-disc Blu-ray set in the United States on April 26, 2011.^[6]

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References[edit]

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1. ^Parker, Trey (April 2011). South Park: The Complete Fourteenth Season: 'Crème Fraîche'(Audio commentary) format= requires url= (help) (DVD). Paramount Home Entertainment.
2. ^'Crème Fraîche Press Release'. South Park Studios. 14 November 2010. Retrieved 19 November 2010.
3. ^Blog, retrieved 2018-04-03
4. ^ ^abIsler, Ramsey (18 November 2010). 'South Park: 'Crème Fraiche' Review'. IGN. Retrieved 19 November 2010.
5. ^Seidman, Robert (November 18, 2010). 'Wednesday Cable Ratings: 'Terriers' 100% Higher; 'Psych' Steady; 'South Park' Down, But Still Tops Night & More'. TV by the Numbers. Archived from the original on November 20, 2010. Retrieved November 19, 2010.
6. ^'South Park - 'The Complete 14th Season' Formally Announced; Seems it Really IS Complete!'. TVShowsOnDVD.com. 2011-07-02. Archived from the original on 2012-04-22. Retrieved 2011-02-12.

External links[edit]

• 'Crème Fraiche' Episode guide at South Park Studios
• 'Crème Fraiche' Full episode at South Park Studios
• 'Crème Fraiche' on IMDb
• 'Crème Fraiche' at TV.com