If you did not see the season premiere of Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s South Park, you just might have missed out on a life altering major event. Of course I am exaggerating but this is how out of proportion news sources have made this latest episode entitled “The China Problem”. One of the two story arcs is Cartman and Butters taking a Chinese restaurant hostage in hopes of stopping the Chinese invasion, the b-plot is the traumatic story of Stan and Kyle being unable to move on after seeing Indiana Jones be raped by Steven Spielberg and George Lucas.

This episode is ironic for me as I have actually said more than once in a drunken conversation that George Lucas has “raped my childhood”. I have also referred to him as “my Judas”. People may think I may go a bit too far, but I tend to find these so called “people” usually were deprived of these films as a child and therefore don’t feel as betrayed when these figures figuratively urinate on stories you hold more dear than any religion.

As for what Lucas’s and Speilberg’s reactions were?

To quote the LA times:

Show Tracker put a call in to Lucasfilm to try to get their thoughts (ha!), but in the meantime, do you side with “South Park,” or those behind the “Crystal Skull” on this one? Coming a few days after The Times’ Hero Complex wrote that “Indy 5″ is still a possibility, it might be time to make your voice known.

Now the LA times as far as I can tell have not followed up on this, however Nikki Finki has posted this update on her blog:

I understand that no Hollywood bigwig will bother to lodge a protest with Viacom over the South Park episode. “We don’t want to engage. We just want it to go away,” an insider just told me. The Wednesday night episode, which was the show’s fall season premiere, was seen by an average of 3.7 million viewers, up 21% from last fall’s debut and topping all of cable during its time period. It stands as the show’s most-watched fall premiere since 1999.

Frankly if you think that Stone and Parker crossed the line, then you didn’t see Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

And it appears I am not alone. Looking at the LA Times poll once more shows a genuine disappointment with Kingdom of the Crystal Skull:

Check out a clip after the jump.

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Tags: china problem, Crystal Skull, George Lucas, indy 5, matt stone and trey parker, season premiere, Steven Spielberg