March 15, 2004

Shocked The online games and 'fun stuff' website Shockwave.com asked back in 1999 "South Park" creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker to make something for their site. No limits. So they made Princess an X-rated cartoon. Princess was a bit too extreme for Shockwave.com. Well, actually very much so. So it was never available online. Until now. Here is a short documentary about the process of making Princess. And here you can find the first two episodes of Princess. Very much NSFW.
posted by mare 20 years ago
  • holy mother of god. have a banana.
  • OMFG THAT IS FUNNY! I just love the theme song and watching the dog perk up its ears every few minutes. Oh man, honestly, that is hilarious!
  • hum. yes. well then.
  • OMG I NEED MORE EPISODES!
  • As soon as I heard that 'strange noise' I knew I was in trouble. Wow.
  • Interesting saga, but feh. Edginess for edginess's sake just doesn't make me laugh. The funny parts of South Park are the socially subversive ideas, not the crass ones. What does make me laugh is the thought of the shockwave.com content managers when they first saw it.
  • It's not the edginess that I liked, it's the fact that the main character is a dog who simply behaves like a real dog. It sits on the chair staring quizzically while its owners are fooling around. Then it runs around barking like a stupid dog trying to get somebody to pay attention to it. THIS COST $2,000,000.00 TO MAKE!
  • Telling Stone & Parker "no limits" is akin to inviting Homer to eat at a Buffet.
  • Mmh... I prefer the original 'fap' master, Hard. His Sexy Losers (NSFW) strips have crossed whatever sexual boundaries you can think of. And he can draw.
  • Wow, that's a flashback. I haven't seen Clay Hard's The Thin H Line in a looong time. Much catching up to do. And, what crazy finger said. The shih-tzu (ridiculous inbred bow-topped bug-dog that it is) is the funniest thing about Princess. Endless marketing build-up about Princess and her dog-pals, and then... human crassage. With an inbred bug-dog yapping at their ankles. That is funny.
  • I'm not seeing the problem with this. I wonder why shockwave.com didn't run with it? Very odd.
  • i agree with ulotrichous about south park; it was funny at first because little kids were being foul, but then it got old. the early episodes aren't that funny now. the newer ones, where they moved past the novelty of the thing and got into some serious issues? those are pretty damn funny. kind of akin to family guy; there were many times watching that show as well that i was sitting there wondering how the hell they got away with saying what they just did. that said, "princess" is funny. wonder what they would have done with it, given the chance... often you can't come back to it, either, even if they had the chance to do so. for example, "ren and stimpy" used to make me laugh until i almost peed, then it was cancelled, partly due to nickelodeon not wanting john kricfalusi to go as far with the show as he wanted to. when i heard it was coming back on spike TV (formerly TNN), with no restrictions on what the creator did with it, i was thrilled. but the episodes weren't that funny. (is it even still on? i never started watching regularly...) sometimes "no limits" makes it not so good. when you have to hint obliquely at something it seems to make for smarter comedy; more is left to the imagination i guess.
  • The funny part is that if theyjust aimed the 'camera' a little bit higher, this could have been straight out of South Park. Red rocket.
  • The funny part is that if theyjust aimed the 'camera' a little bit higher, this could have been straight out of South Park. And probably funnier.
  • john kricfalusi Yay! John K!
  • I was with its crassness - I mean, the scene is simply a part of many adult's reality at one point or another - until the very last momment. That was...stomach-turning, and not as funny as the apparent ending could have been.