I watched the show frequently, and frankly, and I don't say this to be mean or anything, but truth told, I never had any respect for her... as a geek.
The questions they asked her were always easy ones that any amatuer -might- know, and any fan WOULD know.
Reason being, there were things that would get asked of the music geek, or movie geek, or TV geek, or any number of the guest geeks, like the Comic Book Geek or the Star Trek Geek, in these VAST fields of "study" as it were, that would actually challenge them... things that close to nobody would ever know... sometimes that even they didn't know..
Her entire topic was basically .001% of what the TV geek alone was expected to know... ya'know?
To be a "South park" geek, you hardly have to know anything at all. I mean, if you know nothing about South Park, that's one thing, but we're talking about a immensely popular, modern, show here. Her questions were 90% of the time, no-brainers. Any person whose a fan of the show, and has watched every episode, could go toe to toe with her on pretty much every question she ever got asked. I know my 10 year old sister did.
She would sometimes comment on her Southpark memorabilia collection, which I will admit, sounded bigger than those of most people I know... but owning the most crap doesn't make you the foremost expert in the field.
I don't know how she lucked out and got the job, but I would imagine there are thousands of people who could have done it just as good, if not better, than her.
And her Cartman impression sucked.
PS. I felt the same way about The Simpsons geek.
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