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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Useless Books I Have Gotten in the Mail, Part 18: The South Park Episode Guide

Posted by on Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 4:45 PM

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What's the book? The South Park Episode Guide: Volume 1: Seasons 1 - 5 by Sam Stall, with additional material by James Siciliano.

Why is it useless? I know that there are guides like this for The Simpsons, too, but come on now. I say this as a fan of the show: Who really needs an episode-by-episode guide to every episode of South Park? If you're looking for the particular show with, say, the history of the Mormons, you can just Google "South Park Mormon" and easily find the whole episode. Is this book intended for the occasion when you are in the wilderness and wondering about an obscure piece of South Park trivia? It's just useless, and it's not at all funny or even illuminating in the way that those Simpsons episode guides were.

Could anyone enjoy this book? I guess diehard South Park fans would be okay with it if they got it for Christmas or something, but this is really the kind of book that the internet should have killed five years ago.

 

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merry 1
Ha! I was just thinking about that Mormon episode....

But yeah, who needs a book? Save a tree, people!!
Posted by merry on February 10, 2010 at 4:56 PM
Will in Seattle 2
Now a LOST episode guide ... that would make sense.
Posted by Will in Seattle http://www.facebook.com/WillSeattle on February 10, 2010 at 5:32 PM
3
do people still buy books like this when there's an internet?
Posted by really now? on February 10, 2010 at 11:48 PM

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