MNN Rounds Up Top 5 Green South Park Episodes

Hey, we know environmentalism isn’t usually all that funny. In fact, too many of the stories featured on green blogs across the web are bleak and depressing. That’s why we love stuff like this: MNN’s list of the top 5 green South Park episodes.

Nobody lampoons environmentalism better than Trey Parker and Matt Stone, with episodes focusing on everything from the smugness of Prius owners to an Earth Day Brainwashing Festival. Gotta love it.

Here are #5 and #4 – you’ll have to head over to MNN for the rest.

5) “Rainforest Shmainforest” | Season 3

This hilarious episode features the boys of South Park traveling with an environmental choir called “Getting Gay With Kids” to Costa Rica. Miss Stevens (voiced by Jennifer Aniston) is the leader of the group and urges everyone to “take only photos and leave only footprints” and other green clichés. In the end, chaos ensues and the group ends up collectively hating the rain forest and its inhabitants.

Best line: “Wow, dude, bulldozers rule!”

4) “Terrance and Phillip: Behind the Blow” | Season 5

Earth Day is coming to South Park — the National Earth Day organization has chosen the town to be the location of its Earth Day Brainwashing Festival. In order to get more kids to tune in and love the Earth, the organizers tell the boys that they must bring television stars Terrance and Phillip to South Park to perform. The treehuggers get violent when things don’t go according to plan.

Best line: “Nothing matters more than saving the planet from Republicans.”

Link [MNN]

7 Awesomely Cool Green Costumes We Hope to See on Halloween

Halloween is less than two weeks away, and with it will come millions of people wandering the streets dressed in various incarnations of vampires, flappers, pirates and super heroes. If you’re going to be dressing up anyway, why not choose a green-themed costume that spreads awareness of environmental issues and is really scary at the same time? After all, there aren’t many things that are more frightening than penis shrinkage, blue men in red panties, mountains of plastic – oh yeah, and global warming. Here are seven awesomely creative, goofy, scary and funny green costume ideas. Bonus points if you make them yourself out of scrap materials!

7. Captain Planet

Captain Planet has been done many times, by many people, but there’s always room for your own special interpretation. Some wannabe green superheroes choose plastic masks and muscle-mimicking padding while others go for ladies’ pantyhose, face paint and red boxer briefs complete with access hole. The creepiness of Captain Planet brought to life is indeed Halloween appropriate, and there aren’t many things scarier than blue men in red panties, especially if you forgo the body stocking and just paint your body blue instead (eww, paint-covered happy trails!).

And, by the way – if you decide to dress as Captain Planet, do it right. A mullet is an essential part of the costume, and your body stocking or paint should be the same color as your face.

Images via Estrip.org, POPWRAP, Daily Costume

6. T. Boone Pickens

This billionaire oil magnate may have made his fortune from petroleum, but as one of the most outspoken figures warning against peak oil, he has lately been known more for his massive wind power projects. The reformed Republican is loudly warning the world that a shift to clean alternative energy is crucial, recently announcing a major energy policy proposal called the Pickens Plan that promotes natural gas, wind and solar power.

If you’re going to dress up as Pickens, you’ll need a business suit, a wrinkly old man mask (or a printout of Picken’s face, made into a mask), a stack of fake cash, a mini wind turbine and the willingness to butt your way into conversations to tell people about alternative energy.

5. Global Warming/The Hockey Stick Graph

This Halloween, spread the scary knowledge of impending doom by dressing as the hockey stick graph, or perhaps pairing that idea with global warming like Senator James ‘Global Warming is a Hoax’ Inhofe here. To mimic Sen. Inhofe’s costume, make yourself a melting globe hat out of stuffed felt and a chin strap. Cut little shapes out of felt for the continents and melting ice. Stick a dangerously hot thermometer in your mouth and wear a sandwich board displaying the hockey stick graph. If you prefer gory costumes, perhaps you’d like to take this idea in another direction by dressing as one of the effects of global warming: a dead polar bear or a diseased corpse popping up from the melting permafrost.

4. That Guy Who Saved All His Trash for a Year

You know, that guy. Get a giant clear trash bag, cut arm and leg holes and step inside. Fill it up with trash and tie up the top. You might want to also make yourself trash jewelry and a hat to top it all off. A year worth of trash is a lot – obviously, more than you’ll be able to carry – but try to pack on as much as you can. The costume will be more fun if you put weird, gross, embarrassing items inside like condoms, cat litter and unidentifiable bottled substances. You can totally make it look better than our photoshopped example, we promise.

3. Willie Nelson

If you’re going to dress up as everybody’s favorite green country music legend, there’s one accessory you must include. Just make sure it’s not the real thing if you go out in public, or you could be in for a long night in the pokey. Just fill a little baggie with ‘oregano’ and smoke hand-rolled cigarettes (or keep one in your hand, if you’re not a smoker!). Don’t forget the braids, cowboy hat and/or American flag bandanna, beard, ratty jeans and an acoustic guitar.

2. ManBearPig

As Al Gore warned us, ManBearPig is a real threat. This terrifying creature, “half man, half bear and half pig”, roams the earth and attacks humans. You can go all out and dress as the actual ManBearPig, as seen in Imaginationland, or you could be Al Gore AS ManBearPig. If you choose the second option, be prepared to speak in a lisp and yell ‘Excelsior!’ and tell people you’re “super-cereal”. Faux fur, a pig nose and a pair of pig ears will do the trick.

1. Phthalates

So, we recently heard that phthalates might be responsible for reducing the size of men’s penises. That’s scary enough in itself, and phthalates – compounds used to make plastic softer – lurk in every corner. They’re found in baby bottles, plastic cups, lotion, cosmetics, toys, raincoats, shower curtains and furniture. Dress up as sinister phthalates incarnate by dressing in a white outfit printed with the toxic compound’s chemical structure and adorned with tiny crocheted penises with frown faces. Get a pattern for the crocheted penises at Etsy shop mellenlatta (just turn that smile upside down). A white mask adds to the eerie quality. You’ll definitely have to explain this one to people, but crocheted penises are a sure-fire way to get everyone’s attention.

EarthFirst Blog Week in Review April 7-11

It’s okay to stare. We love the attention. And we KNOW you noticed our sexy new look. Now wipe up that drool pool on your desk and read us for our articles. We have some great stuff for you this week like a hockeyplaying bear, a video visit to that huge mass of plastic trash out in the pacific we’ve been talking so much about, and defrosting disease-ridden dead people! So, if for any odd reason you’ve been able to take your eyes off us at any time during the past few days, take a peek at our stuff again just for fun.

• Confessions of A Greenwasher: Like an AA Meeting, but with More Guilt
• Gather ‘Round the Festivus Pole, George Costanza’s Getting on the Green Team!
• Bored Japanese Guy + Recycled Chopsticks = Awesome Green Canoe
• Disease Infected Corpses Popping Up Through the Tundra, Courtesy of Global Warming
• Seattle Moves to Tear Down the Squirrelman’s Beautiful Waterfront Treehouse
• Common Sense Breaks Out: Car Buyers Dump Their SUVs for the Smallest Cars
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• Calculate your Carbon Footprint the Easy Way
• Watch Al Gore’s Awesomely Updated Slideshow from TED: The Urgency of Manbearpig
• Because You Can Train Bears to Do Just About Anything: The Hockey Edition
• Brilliant! Drought-Stricken Florida Gives Nestle Unlimited Water for $230
• It’s Mind Blowing Time: VBS.TV Visits the Garbage Filled Pacific Ocean Gyre
• Home Refrigeration 2.0- The Oceania Refrigerator Brings The Sexy Green Noise
• Axis of Corporate Evil: Taco Bell, Wal-Mart, and the NRA Hired Black Ops Private Security Team to Spy on Green Activists

Gut Buster of the Week: Lindsey Graham Says John McCain Has Done More Than Al Gore for the Environment

 

Michael said it best over at Ecorazzi when he said “Let loose the dogs of absurdity!” upon hearing that Lindsey Graham said that John McCain has done more for the environment than Al Gore. Here’s the exact quote:

“Climate change is the road less traveled but he’s traveled it even more than Al Gore,” Graham said. “Al Gore has talked about it and deserves great recognition but he was around here a long time and never introduced a bill.”

John McCain was given a zero by the League of Conservation Voters, is stupidly pro-war, and is known to be an all around douche nozzle. Al Gore, on the other hand, is our god. He is put above and before all in our pantheon of world savers. As Ecorazzi points out that ThinkProgress points out, Gore was wielding his power in Congress back in the 70s before McCain even ran for office, holding hearings on climate change. He successfully fought off Manbearpig, is raising almost a third of a billion dollars for a global warming ad campaign, and is generally the most recognized ‘”green” person on the planet. I forgive Tipper for her assault on porn and free speech back in the day, but other than that Gore is The Man. The good The Man, not the bad The Man keeping us all down. You know?

Bottom line: John McCain is no friend of the environment, Lindsey Graham is a lying and corrupt blowhard, and the GOP is going to lose by 20 points in November. It’s Obama time baby!

Link [Think Progress] via [Ecorazzi]

Photo: Flickr user Yogi