Thoughts on Asspen, Aspen Extreme, Powder Magazine...

bc · 06-14-2006, 01:43 AM

So I just rented South Park Season Six on DVD and watched the Asspen episode (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asspen), which of course totally reminded me of Aspen Extreme, which I probably haven't seen since it came out in 1993. Shockingly the reference isn't mentioned at all in the wikipedia article but I'm too much of a wiki jong to know how to add it.

Anywho, that got me thinking about when I first subscribed to Powder, and I remember when and why I did. I had just seen a movie in which some guy wrote an article and sent it in to Powder and was stoked when it arrived with his article in it. Is that movie Aspen Extreme? I can't remember.

I bought Aspen Extreme on VHS a few months ago (couldn't find it on DVD), but I moved recently and haven't been able to find my VCR, so I have no means to watch it. Assuming I saw it when it came out (in 1993), I would have been 12, which would explain why my memory is a bit hazy.

But if that's really the movie with the Powder magazine bit it was a mighty fine influence--13 years later its still my most prized magazine, and I subscribe to 30+ periodicals. Although people gave me a bunch of shit here a while back for recycling 10 years worth without offering 'em up to the collective first. I didn't know better yet.

Oh, and I can't sleep due to the knee thing but the restoril, vicodin, and benadryl my MD presribed do make me feel kinda funny.

want to help clarify any of these?
-wiki modification process-
-source of powder mag reference-
-how to watch aspen extreme when you only have vhs but no vcr-
-why I didn't see Asspen before-
-why people keep *old* magazines-
-why restoril/trazodone/benadryl/vicodin don't make me sleepy-
-why "montage" in team america was pretty much copied out of "asspen"-

thanks

**mghwk** · 06-14-2006, 03:17 AM

Your restoril/trazodone/benadryl/vicodin are making me sleepy.

Has to be in the top 10 best episodes.

**bdog** · 06-14-2006, 08:09 AM

Yes, it was "Aspen Extreme" with the bit about "Powder". However, he (TJ Berk) was rejected, not published in the beginning of the film. He made the cover later on and as I recall his later article was published ... it may be a classic but it is still no where near as good as "Hot Dog .. the Movie". Both are good for summer stoke and good laughs and both are best with generous quantities of mind altering substances.

**Lloyd Braun** · 06-14-2006, 08:14 AM

Hot Dog the movie was #1 ski film.....IMHO!

TJ Burke is gay, Dexter is dead and skiing is the easy part!

BLOOD SWEAT STEEL · 06-14-2006, 08:36 AM

Hmmmm........ Aspen..

California? ....Very nice!

**cuseo** · 02-12-2008, 06:58 PM

...is awesome, even better if you know the area

South Park episode "Asspen" is brilliant, with the evil timeshare people and the cops are in on it, too. so good.

**ShawnB** · 02-12-2008, 07:42 PM

Originally Posted by bc

South Park Season Six Asspen episode...totally reminded me of Aspen Extreme, which I probably haven't seen since it came out in 1993. Shockingly the reference isn't mentioned at all in the wikipedia article but I'm too much of a wiki jong to know how to add it.

I know you're currently on drugs and all but crack isn't supposed to be one of them.

The references in that SP ep are to cheesy mid 80's "challenge" movies like "Karate Kid", "Beat Street", and specifically the John Cusack vehicle "Better off Dead" , more than anything else, dood. Plus a sprinkle of "Total Recall". Aspen Extreme? Good 90's flick but not what was being spoofed (at all).

I mean, mebbe AE had a montage...a Sports Training Montage... (can't remember), but if so that'd be about it.

Hot Dog. Now THAT was cinema.

Also, what's your price on the trazodone/benadryl/vicodin, shipped?

-S

**funkendrenchman** · 02-12-2008, 07:55 PM

Originally Posted by cuseo

...is awesome, even better if you know the area

South Park episode "Asspen" is brilliant, with the evil timeshare people and the cops are in on it, too. so good.

And "Asspen" is even more brilliant if you have been to a timeshare presentation.

Montage is in Team American because it was made by the same guys as South Park.