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How to fix the internet (according to South Park) watch!

gizmodo.com — In the fantastic South Park episode last night most of the nation was without internet. What does such an internet-connected society do when faced with such a technological dilemma? Face the giant Linksys router that controls all traffic in the country. And do This (see the video.)

Who dugg this? Made popular Apr 18, 2008

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  • krunk4ever, on 04/18/2008, -7/+319he didn't wait the recommended 30 seconds!!!
  • ep53, on 04/18/2008, -16/+299Wow, these comments suck.
  • youdlike2know, on 04/18/2008, -6/+280the internet is run on a linksys WRT54G!
  • inactive, on 04/18/2008, -19/+289I'm gonna go jack off to Japanese girls puking on each other.
  • PeTeRZz, on 04/18/2008, -10/+221i bet they got a whole mess a internet out in californee
  • bezz, on 04/18/2008, -12/+213Full south park episodes are now legally available from the South Park Studios website. link: http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/
  • Propane, on 04/18/2008, -4/+154How to not get caught wanking it (according to South Park)

    Blame it on a ghost.
  • directedition, on 04/18/2008, -0/+103I tell you, with the right firmware, you can do anything with that baby.
  • davewashere, on 04/18/2008, -2/+87I love how the animal sounds that can be heard while he's watching bestiality were from an elephant. Once you see something like that, you can't just go back to Playboy.
  • inactive, on 04/18/2008, -4/+87It's ectoplasm!
  • Niubai, on 04/18/2008, -8/+86Absolute great South Park episode. The "internet porn simulator" and the Close Encounters of the Third Kind spoof were amazing. I don't get why there are people saying that "South Park it's not like how it used to be anymore". They still deliver in great style.
  • inactive, on 04/18/2008, -3/+72Did you guys see the ghost?
    This is ectoplasm!
  • skeen07, on 04/18/2008, -13/+64That's gross, but I will defend to the death your right to view it.
  • TokenWhiteGuy, on 04/18/2008, -3/+53When has South Park been preachy? They screw with everyone.
  • Emused, on 04/18/2008, -7/+53Decade degradation in action, awesome fix, I gotta remember that one.
  • fuckingusername, on 04/18/2008, -4/+43hmm internet porn simulator
  • AUZeus, on 04/18/2008, -1/+38Please look up the word "instead" and then read his sentence again.
  • Karmavs, on 04/18/2008, -1/+38good for you, unfortunate for everyone else
  • GuyHersh, on 04/18/2008, -0/+34Heh, when my comcast guy came like 8 months ago, he was talking to me and asked what my major was, I said "Network Specialist", in which he replies "Good, you can hook up the cable modem yourself then"..
  • MiamiRox, on 04/18/2008, -0/+33I hope you have the decency to at least finish it up with Brazilian Fart Fetish
  • inactive, on 04/18/2008, -2/+33It's legit guys, only for USA though.
  • LeRenard, on 04/18/2008, -1/+28As it appears you are either not of American origins, or trying very hard to appear not to be, you might have difficulty with the fact that South Park is highly satirical of American pop culture and media. Early episodes of the show were generally low budget and low brow, but in the past 3 to 5 seasons the show has mostly become an allegory of the pitfalls of modern society as interpreted through the children in a (usually) politically liberal context. At this point, the boys continued childlike innocence is essentially a running joke in the series. If you aren't seeing the deeper levels of this show you either aren't looking deep enough or the context is lost on you for cultural reasons. One of the best features of South Park is it is one of very few examples of popular American culture that actually embraces true irony.
  • veriix, on 04/18/2008, -0/+27Not sure, I thought it was just supposed to work...try shaking it at your monitor.
  • shlinks, on 04/18/2008, -0/+26The ole' unplug-replug, a classic move. Right up there with blowing into the back end of your nintendo game.
  • owen87, on 04/18/2008, -0/+26i just love how the whole episode was based on the grapes of wrath, hell yeah. thats why south park is my favorite show on tv
  • po43292, on 04/18/2008, -1/+27Californee-way.
  • chanop, on 04/18/2008, -0/+25inaccurately pointing out inaccuracies, buried
  • bradsh, on 04/18/2008, -1/+23I LOVED the close encounters reference... sad to think that alot of kids probably didnt get it :(
    so awesome trying to communicate with a router via synthesizer
  • diggduggjoe, on 04/18/2008, -0/+22Your PC, your router, your phone, your cable box, your damn near everything! If, it has a processor and software running it, sooner or later you will need to reboot it.
  • LunaticFringe, on 04/18/2008, -0/+21Don't know why people are burying it. This is the official SP site. It's fully legal.
  • directrix13, on 04/18/2008, -5/+25Don't call me buddy, friend!
  • ZimFreak, on 04/18/2008, -0/+19I have that router, and I love it.
  • markbrown, on 04/18/2008, -2/+20 South Park builds healthy relationships. Hell, my dad took me to see Bigger, Longer, and Uncut when I was 10. Look at how well I turned out.

    Now shut your ***** face, uncle *****. You're a boner-biting bastard, uncle *****. You're an uncle *****, I must say. Well, you ***** your uncle yesterday. Uncle *****! That's U-N-C-L-E, ***** you, uncle *****!
  • DivisibleByZero, on 04/18/2008, -1/+19Of course I'm watching this on the day that I'm waiting for the Time Warner guy to come to my apartment and "install the internet". Seriously, why don't they just let you plug in your own modem?
  • inactive, on 04/18/2008, -0/+18Good News Buddy!
    We are happy to announce that our Canadian fans can now watch full episodes of South Park at The Comedy Network website.
  • danno74, on 04/18/2008, -0/+17MAN that was gross!!! I laughed my balls off.
  • jakobrowning, on 04/18/2008, -1/+18sounds like you should've rebooted as your first step. Funny how we tend to neglect the tier 1 solutions after we've been doing this stuff for a while.
  • LabThug, on 04/18/2008, -3/+20That's probably more due to the fact that someone else picks their return call.
  • wiredmessiah, on 04/18/2008, -3/+19We want some of that internet money!
  • Newspaper, on 04/18/2008, -0/+161 Boy, No Life is definitely the most disturbing.
  • sexybobo, on 04/18/2008, -2/+17I work at a company with 400+ pc not huge but a large company none the less when we lose internet one of the first things i do is go unplug and replug in our Cisco ASA. Fixes the problem 95% of the time.

    I do believe this is how the internet works just it is not one large router there are thousands of them that need to be power cycled.
  • corneliusJones, on 04/18/2008, -1/+16Dugg for using "Voltaire" in such a crude insult.
  • kidcodea, on 04/18/2008, -1/+16breakfast?
  • divrekku, on 04/18/2008, -5/+19Don't call my friend, guy!
  • CDoug03, on 04/18/2008, -3/+17According to South Park you should only use internet porn 2 times a day to pleasure yourself...
  • iziizi, on 04/18/2008, -2/+15where you expecting him to go in the bios?

    loser
  • polarbobbear, on 04/18/2008, -0/+12"Well at least thats like the internet..."
  • s0nicfreak, on 04/18/2008, -0/+11In most places, they do... but the self-activation software doesn't work correctly and you'd end up calling anyway... take it from a Time Warner tech support person :(
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