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South Park's Season Premier Sets Off Everyone's Amazon Echo (maxim.com)
SonicSpike writes: It's hard to believe that Trey Parker and Matt Stone didn't know exactly what they were doing with Wednesday night's season premiere of South Park. This episode marked the beginning of the show's 21st season and as usual, South Park took on current issues like tiki torch-wielding white supremacists and... home digital assistants. The latter meant lots of gags in which Cartman and other characters addressed Amazon Echo's Alexa and Google Home as well. And that ended up being a problem for viewers who own those devices. (Editor's note: example 1, 2) South Park writers absolutely knew their lines would do this and probably had a hilarious time coming up with funny commands for the home assistants.
The same in the kitchen if I'm cooking and my hands are covered in flour or grease again ... it's useful to ask things like "how many teaspoons make a tablespoon" without having to take out my phone.
See this is the real application for these devices. Mechanics, cooks, ...
Yup. Cooks who don't know how many teaspoons are in a tablespoon. It's three BTW - something I've known since I was 5.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .