This episode kind of parodies the "Behind the Music" episodes about the rise and fall of rock stardom. The story is that Stan and Kyle are hooked on "Guitar Hero". But Stan's superior skills on the video game damage his friendship with Kyle.

The most things I like about this episode are Randy playing a real guitar and singing "Carry On My Wayward Son", and Cartman says "Real guitars are for old people!" Randy goes downstairs in his underwear and plays "Guitar Hero" with a plastic guitar controller that barely fits him, and he plays so bad at the game! LOL And the part when Stan is lured by the manager (after breaking 100,000 points) to Thad Jarvis, who plays the guitar controller with no sound made me LOL. (I like how Stan references Buckethead when he tells Thad, "Can you play Buckethead at Hard?") There was a part when the guy who sold the game to Stan gives him a game called "Heroin Hero", (that made me LOL) which claims to make him feel better alone by chasing the dragon, but too much playing of that game makes Stan not only sick, but it also makes him stink alone at "Guitar Hero" at the arcade. (loved the part of Thad's repeatedly saying "I quit!")

Stan is then lured by the guy who sells games to play "Rehab Hero", but he declines and plays a racing game. Stan then realizes that all the pressure of superstardom made him break up with Kyle, and he goes to Kyle at the bowling alley to apologize and play the game together. (I like the part when the name is spelled Kyle Barfloffski! LOL) And when they finally break a million points, the game shouts, "Congratulations! You! Are! F*gs!" I was all like, "Yaaaaaaay!" but then I was like, "Or... no. That stunk." (but thinking of that later made me LOL) Oh, and before that, Randy was in his underwear feeling sick and playing "Heroin Hero" until Stan turns the game off from the XBox! That was so funny!

I noticed the list of the songs, mostly from "Guitar Hero", that are used in this episode:

"Carry On My Wayward Son" by Kansas
"I Wanna Be Sedated" by The Ramones
"John the Fisherman" by Primus
"Surrender" by Cheap Trick
"Cherry Pie" by Warrant
"Pretty Vacant" by Sex Pistols
"Woman" by Wolfmother
"Every Rose Has Its Thorn" by Poison
"I Remember You" by Skid Row

(There was also a part when "You and Me Girl" from "Spontaneous Combustion" is played on the radio while Stan is playing a racing game.) There is one problem, though. How could Stan and Kyle break 100,000 points on "Carry On My Wayward Son", or 1,000,000 points on "Woman"?! Overall, though, this episode was okay, just not as funny as the "Imaginationland" trilogy (which I haven't seen but I will see someday), so I give it a 7 out of 10.

Okay, I know it's been a week since I saw the episode, so now I'm gonna come out and say it: "Fantastic Easter Special" rocks my world, and a kick-@$$ Easter special episode, to date! The main plot of the episode is as follows: Stan and his family are coloring eggs for Easter, and he asks his father Randy why coloring eggs has to do with Jesus dying for his sins. Of course, Randy refuses to tell his son anything, so Stan goes to the Mall Easter Bunny and asks him the meaning of this. When the Bunny is pressured and tells him to concentrate on something else, Stan has to get to the bottom of this, while the Mall Bunny calls the other bunnies and tells them about Stan's persistence.

As Stan is walking back, he sees other bunnies and is chased by them. He runs to his dad for help, only to find that Randy is wearing bunny ears and makeup (a reference to "Teen Wolf"!), but fortunately he tells the bunnies that his son did nothing wrong. Randy then tells Stan that he has joined a secret society that protects the secret of Easter, called "The Hare Club For Men" (a pun on "Hair Club For Men"! LOL), and that his father, Grandpa Marvin Marsh, has joined that society too. So Randy takes his son to the Hare Club For Men, where the men in bunny suits color eggs and bring in a little white bunny in a cage, whom they call Snowball (aww, that little rabbit is sooo adorable! ^_^). As the leader is about to explain the meaning of Easter, a clan of ninjas attack and capture Randy and the other Hare Club members, but not before Randy hands Snowball to Stan, who then escapes with the rabbit and runs to Kyle for help. With explanations and some help from the internet, Stan and Kyle go to a Professor Teabag who knows the secret of Easter. The professor reveals through the painting of the Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci (also a member of the Hare Club For Men) and laser technology that although St. Peter appeared to be human, the bread appears to be shaped like eggs and that Peter himself was a rabbit (a pun on "Peter Rabbit" by Beatrix Potter!), and that Snowball himself was a direct descendant of Peter. Teabag also explains that humans are so easily led astray and cannot speak for anyone in a religion, but rabbits are pure and could be popes because the pope's mitre is designed for rabbit ears. However, the Catholic Church designated men to be popes, the current one being Joseph Ratzinger, a.k.a. Benedict XVI; and that was why the Hare Club For Men had been decorating eggs to keep the secret alive, and also why they and Randy were captured by the Vatican, accompanied by ninjas of the American Catholic League, led by none other than Bill Donohue, who believes that the heir, Snowball, is a threat to the Catholic Church and will do anything to capture him and have him and the Hare Club for rabbit stew (another pun!). Can Stan and Kyle protect Snowball from harm while saving Randy and the other Hare Club members from being boiled alive?

First off, let me say that Cartman makes a brief appearance at the beginning of the episode, demanding what he wants for Easter from the Hare Club Member, and that if he doesn't get what he wants, Cartman's gonna f-ing kill him. LOL! And the funny part is that Teabag helps the boys escape with Snowball while he distracts the ninjas by using the microwave to create exploding "Peeeeeps!!!" (to quote one of the ninjas) Oh, and the puns that I mentioned above are so funny, along with the pun on "double-cross"! XD

Plus, the whole episode is a parody of "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown (an author who recently won the case against copyright infringement), with a twist of Easter and the American Catholic League's Bill Donohue, who protested the chocolate Jesus statue a few weeks ago, had Comedy Central temporarily ban the episode "Bloody Mary", protested the episodes of "Cartoon Wars" that end with Jesus, Dubya and other celebrities pooping on each other and the U.S. flag, and called Matt and Trey "whores" (just like he calls Stan and Kyle in this episode! :D).

Oh, and remember Jesus, the Savior who starred in "Jesus and Pals", led the Super Best Friends, and had some tough kick-butt fighting skills until his death while saving Santa Claus with the boys in "Red Sleigh Down"? Well, he had resurrected before, but I never thought that he would resurrect again until now. And sure enough, he did! In this episode! "He is risen!" ("Who are you to say that?!": his first familiar words since "Red Sleigh Down") And he explains to Benedict and Donohue the reason he put a rabbit in charge. However, Donohue is more of a pagan than a Catholic and orders Jesus killed (which "is not very Christian"), but Benedict has a soft heart for Catholicism and hates Donohue's ways. Donohue steals the position of Pope from Benedict and locks him up in one dungeon cell, and Jesus and Kyle ("those two Jews") in another cell, thinking he could kill them. Unbeknownst to Donohue, Jesus has the power of self-resurrection, which he puts to use again by having Kyle kill him in prison (at first, Kyle is reluctant and wants him to "do it [him]self", but Jesus knows that "suicide is blasphemy" and goes against his nature). Poor Kyle, having to do it, but promising that Cartman "can never know about this." So he stabs Jesus in the throat with a dagger with a "Happy Easter, Jesus", and I was like "Yes!", and when Jesus screams and walks around with a lot of blood spurting everywhere from his throat before dying, I was like, "Ouch! That's gotta hurt!" Now I am Catholic and I was a little offended by that scene, but I still love it and count it as memorable, and that scene is the reason why I put a picture of Kyle about to kill Jesus as my icon now, a reminder of why I saw this episode!

Oh, and near the end, just when Donohue is about to put Snowball in a rabbit stew (I was like, "Nooo!"), Jesus returns from the dead, again, outside, and shows Donohue his true colors by throwing a glaive from "Krull" and eliminating the pope-impostor from his position while posing and putting his sunglasses on like a "Blade Jesus". Now that's the kick-@$$ Jesus I remember! That should also teach the American Catholic League a lesson not to mess with "South Park"! (And check out Pope Snowball in the end, with a pope's mitre on! Uber-cuteness! :D)

Overall, I'd like to say, "Congratulations, Matt and Trey! You've created another fine example of how the show exists for this episode! A superb job, indeed!" With the whole "Da Vinci Code" settings, and the memorable scene reminiscent of the 2003 Battlestar Galactica (which offends me quite a bit), I'm giving it a 9 out of 10! Whew!

The story is simple: Father Maxi announces a Young Men's Catholic Retreat for the weekend, like a boat trip. However, all the parents think that Maxi is doing this in order to have sex with their children; even with their counselor to inform the children, the parents think that God invites the priests to sexually molest the children, so the parents become atheists. Meanwhile, after the counseling, Stan, Cartman and Tweek, and later Kyle, wonder why anyone would want to put anything up their butts. Cartman has a solution: if people eat food, they poop out of their butts, so he has to let the butts do the eating and the mouths do the pooping. So after Cartman succeeds (and wins the bet), all the atheists decide to let their mouths do the pooping.

Meanwhile, Father Maxi tries counseling the congregation to stop the child molestation, but from South Park to the Vatican, the congregation wants to continue being pedophile priests and having sex with children, since they say that the Holy Document of Vatican Law prohibits priests, bishops and cardinals from marrying women (which only deacons do). However, there is more to the Holy Document of Vatican Law than just the molestation laws, especially with the Gelgamek congregation and their Queen Spider around. Can Father Maxi find the Holy Document of Vatican Law and change it in order to save the world from losing faith in God to pedophilia?

"Red Hot Catholic Love" rocks for me! This is such a good episode that deals with, as well as makes fun of, the Roman Catholic sex abuse cases that happened a long time ago and continue to this day, even though the number of pedophile priests is very few. I just read that most Catholics tried to have the episode banned for making fun of Catholicism but lost. Of course, I'm a Catholic, but I don't seem to find the episode very offensive at all. Yes, some "pooping out of the mouth" scenes are a little offensive, but I still like it!

I love the part when Stan's father Randy dreams of the "Catholic Boat" scenes (a parody of the classic "Love Boat"), with pedophile priests, and Stan, Butters and Tweek as traumatized boys. The scene with Maxi counseling with the priests who want to continue being pedophiles is sure funny (sure, they molest children, but in the real world they also molest teenagers under the age of consent, though I wonder if priests can have babies if they have sex with young teenage girls). Oh, I also love the atheists' meeting discussing how to get rid of God from the Pledge of Allegience and money; the scene that parodies the Martha Stewart incident with Enron; the monk from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"; and especially Maxi as Pitfall Harry (I laughed out loud sooo much; hey, that scene also reminds me of playing "Pitfall!" from Atari when I was a kid). Oh, and Father Maxi discussing that anyone other than a deacon should marry women can be fornication, but I still laughed out loud.

I remembered at the end, when Father Maxi discusses the important message of what being a Catholic is all about: not only about Jesus, but about the Bible that helps to guide people in the right direction and keep their faith, and about not abusing it (and having Gelgameks and their Queen Spider control the molestation laws). That moral is so good, it should teach Jack Chick not to abuse the Bible and treat us Catholics and all other religions as evil and scare us into believing what he believes. (I even mentioned that moral to one deacon yesterday at church, and he is glad that I'm one smart Catholic!) Anyway, to quote Father Maxi, I'm a Catholic in today's real world, and I'm very proud to be one.

"Red Hot Catholic Love" has one very important lesson for you, no matter what religion you are. I like it so much because of all the clever plots that the creators thought up. I give it a 10 for the congregation scenes, and a 7.5 for everything else, especially the mouth-pooping scenes. Overall: a 9.5 out of 10! Whew!

Danny and Tucker are running as exercise, with Sam as leader, when Skulker shows up. Danny easily defeats Skulker with his ghost powers, and Sam traps Skulker in the Fenton Thermos. There, in the Ghost Zone, he makes a new exoskeleton suit and tries it for target practice, hoping that he gets rid of Danny this time. Meanwhile, in the Casper High Gym, Mrs. Tetslaff criticizes the students for losing shape, so she has Sam be fitness buddies with Tucker, and Danny be fitness buddies with his bully, Dash Baxter, to help prepare for the Presidential Fitness Test. At the back of FentonWorks, Sam and Tucker separate from Dash and Danny so that Dash can be alone with him. As they do so, Skulker appears again to attack the boys. Danny has Dash run away from Skulker so that he can turn into a ghost while they're away. However, Danny's shouts at Dash echo in the ears of Danny's father Jack, who had introduced the Fenton Crammer to Jazz and Maddie at home and is now in the ops center eating pizza. Thinking his son's in danger, Jack uses the Fenton Crammer to shrink not just Danny and Skulker, but Dash as well. Hope they carry their crosses, a la "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids", because this is where the adventure begins in comparison to the Stations of the Cross as follows:

1. Jesus is Condemned to Death= Danny, Dash and Skulker have realized they're shrunk outside the home (Dash: "I don't do puny!"), and the two boys are getting attacked.
2. Jesus Carries the Cross= Danny and Dash escape Skulker by flying through a hole in the fence while Danny still has powers remaining.
3. Jesus Falls for the First Time= In the backyard, Danny loses flight and super-strength as a beginning of ghost power loss, while Skulker loses his as well, but that doesn't stop him from attacking the two boys with his new exosuit powers, leaving them to escape through the mouse hole after Danny loses intangibility.
4. Jesus Meets His Blessed Mother= Danny uses his ecto beams to light the dark mouse hole when he and Dash are surrounded by a giant mouse and Skulker; it seems there is no time for escape as the ecto beams short out, leaving them in the dark.
5. Simon Helps Jesus Carry the Cross= Danny somehow overshadows the mouse, because when Skulker's flare is lit up, the overshadowed mouse helps Dash by hitting Skulker before Danny's overshadowing power is gone, leaving him and Dash to escape out of the mouse hole.
6. Veronica Wipes the Face of Jesus= Once outside the mouse hole, Danny sees Dash crying, then helps him out of a jam by working together and shaking hands.
7. Jesus Falls a Second Time= Danny and Dash make their way through Danny's family (dust bunnies and Jack bad at golf) and up the stairs, with Skulker chasing the boys and Danny starting to lose ghost form (Dash: "What happened to your feet?" Danny: "They're... high-speed powered ghost shoes?"; Dash: "What's with your pants?" Danny: "It's... casual Friday?" Dash: "Today's Tuesday"; Dash: "How many more costume changes are you gonna go through?! What is this, Vegas?!").
8. Jesus Meets the Women of Jerusalem= Danny and Dash go to Danny's room and they climb up the wire while Danny distracts Skulker outside with a bag of chips (Skulker: "Lime and vinegar? Who eats those?").
9. Jesus Falls a Third Time= After the boys make it to the top, Dash starts to fall, and Danny pulls him up.
10. Jesus is Stripped of His Garments= With Danny's ghost form continuing to get stripped, the boys open the ops center window, and a mouse saves them when they are attacked by Skulker, leaving them free to get in, for their goal is near.
11. Jesus is Nailed to the Cross= The boys climb up a pizza cheese to the Fenton Crammer, with Skulker STILL chasing them after he gets rid of the mouse.
12. Jesus Dies on the Cross= Once at the top, Danny's ghost form is almost gone, so he runs inside the Fenton Crammer to avoid being seen by Dash.
13. Jesus is Taken Down From the Cross= When Dash wonders where Danny is and comes near him, Danny uses the last of his powers to get Dash to switch the ray to "Un-cram" before his form is completely gone.
14. Jesus is Laid in the Tomb= With Danny being human again, Skulker starts searching for him while Dash readies the weapon to uncram Danny.
And finally, the Resurrection= Danny becomes normal sized again, reviving his ghost powers and form and throwing Skulker into the freezer. Later, once the boys become normal sized again, Danny and Tucker make the Presidential Fitness Test, and Mrs. Tetslaff hands Dash and Sam the medals for "whipping the wimps into shape".

Oh, and as for Sam and Tucker, she gets him to exercise and endure torture by bird pecks, all the while trying to get the PDA, which turns out to be fake. And as for Danny's parents, Jack is proud of his son, and Maddie pours him a glass of root beer, with one of the ice cubes being Skulker, as Jack prepares to drink it, in reference to "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids". LOL

Speaking of the movie, great job, Mr. Hartman, in making references to it, for nothing would be complete without them, as well as the funny jokes, running gags, and Dash's reference to "Tom and Jerry". Overall, "Micro-Management" is good; not great but good nonetheless, so I give it a 9 out of 10 for this long review that I'm writing. Whew!

In "Identity Crisis", Danny's dreams of a ghost-free weekend are dashed when Technus is free from the game of Doomed that Danny was deleting after his hard drive was full, and starts upgrading his powers from the Fenton RV that he fumbles around with and steals. Danny tries splitting himself in two, using the Ghost Catcher, and ends up being two Dannys: a Danny who is a classy, and cheesy, superhero, and a Danny with a mullet who uses all white slang and has bad manners and looks all Bill and Ted, dude. However, both Dannys have separate powers which they can't use against Technus alone, and this becomes worse when Technus takes the free-will control of the Fentons' humble home. Can the Dannys (both dude and superdude) do their duties to dash the daring Technus together and become one again?

Both Dannys are cool, especially with Super Danny acting all classy (complete with amusing alliterations), and Fun Danny acting all "Whatever!" and "Gnarly!" I like the way that Super Danny overshadows Fun Danny, thinking he is one again (with the funny quote of, "Curse this infernal, messy room! This looks like a job for... the vacuum cleaner!" LOL), and the part when Super Danny tells about working together, saying, "It's your... duty!" while Fun Danny laughs and points at him, saying, "He said doodie!" (That reminds me, Butch, were you a big fan of Beavis and Butthead when you brought up that blurb? Hey! Another alliteration!) I also like the running gags of Technus' using a paintbrush to paint the glasses, mustaches and beards of Paulina and Jack, and Tucker's "I call the Fun Danny!" and I like the Dannys' funny way of shouting the battle cry of "Going ghost!" I also like the split-screen images of the Dannys in letterbox, especially with Fun Danny scoring a strike in bowling at the same time that Super Danny saves a kid from the truck that Technus throws before it strikes, and continuing from night till morning.

And as for Technus, well, he's upgraded to 2.0 ("Now with pop-up blocker!" Oh, and one of the things he's using, a satellite, he speaks of, saying, "I don't know what this one does."), and when he controls the Fenton house, he pulls off a Dr. Octopus, or Doc Ock, on it (reminds me of Spiderman 2). Oh, and he never reveals his plan (Danny: "Boxers or briefs?" Technus: "None of your business!") until near the end (Technus: "Never heard that, right?"; and Technus: "Technus shall escape to fight another-" [gets caught by Danny] Danny: "Shouting out your plans again?! That is SO 1.0!"). And when he uses the ghost shield on the Dannys while they're inside, Fun Danny says, "Uh, dude, that only works if we're, like, outside the ghost shield."

And the funniest part of all is this: when Danny tries body splitting in front of Technus, but ends up being a mess, which is totally gross (two mouths for eyes, a hand-with-a-mouth for a tongue, faces on each finger and thumb, hands for eyes, a leg and a foot with a hand on top of it, etc. LOLOL) Oh, and when the Fun Danny presses buttons inside the possessed Fenton RV (which turns on all the lights and a Jack Fenton banner, draining the battery power) and pushes Technus into the river with Super Danny's help, Fun Danny goes, "If Dad asks, 'Who stole my RV?' I'm SO not covering it for you."

Anyway, what a long review I'm writing. Overall, the episode is okay, so I'm giving it a 7.5 out of 10.