South Park: Classic or Dud?

Don't get me wrong, there are eps that I really love and as was said upthread Butters is just one of the greatest TV characters of all time but the quality control has been all over the place from way back.

"Canadian Christmas *IT'S THE BEST!* We drink and dance and show our breasts.

Noodle, 20,350 of those results said "south park is shit your pants hilarious".

ha ha - i have to side with Space Place on this one. SP > FG
and while i love Butters i think the character that gets the least amount of credit for making SP awesome is Randy.

hey look i love randy as much as the next guy but he's moe to butters' homer

i have no idea what i meant by that btw i'm pissed out of my head

Randy gets kinda over-used nowadays, don't think he can top that Softball episode.

i don't think i've seen that one?

Baseball, sorry. The Little League one.

You know who else is quietly awesome? Craig!

cregg

also: Clyde!

for any big fans: there was a 2-part interview with Matt Stone on Bill Simmon's "B.S. Report" podcast a few weeks back that was fairly interesting.

the first 2 episodes of this season have been pretty awful imo - weird that they (unless i am misremembering) spent the whole players ball directly quoting "American Pimp". I mean, unless a lot more people saw that documentary than I think, whats the point?

I was a little "O RLY?" at the police chief in this week's episode

I also think it helps to remember that South Park is primarily written to make Trey and Matt laugh, so any enjoyment on the part of the viewer is kind of incidental to the process. It doesn't matter how many people have seen "American Pimp" because obv Trey and/or Matt did and thought sticking Butters in the middle of it was funny.

The ACORN gag did make me chuckle but most of the lols I had came from uncritical "YAY BUTTERS" reactions.

AMAZING ep!!!!

Do you know what I am saying?

i knew after the car scene with the cop that they were obviously gonna keep escalating that joke and I couldn't think of what they would do next but yeah it got better

Have we seen Officer Barbrady in recent years, or did they stop using him once they figured out it would be more fun to do cop genre stuff by having a full-on SP Police Dept?

and the full ep is already online: http://www.southparkstudios.com/guide/1309/

Barbrady was always a weak link IMO.

yeah i agree not funny.

this cop is always hilarious

speaking of barbrady, I still <3 the chicken fucker episode from season 1 (2?) - but in retrospect it's surprising that they're not big ayn rand fans themselves

The more Butters the better. The show a couple of seasons ago where Cartman sucks his dick while he's asleep to prove Butters is gay is maybe my favourite of the recent years. Best recent Randy is maybe the balsa wood/alien invasion ep? Or the Great Depression/internet porn one?

randy also classic in the bono poo ep

randy goat is the alcoholic/virgin mother episode

jeez i just typed randy goat, wtf

Best Randy bit is him getting into a stringent dad-fighting regime in The Losing Edge, getting up at 6am, cracking an egg yolk into a pint glass and then pouring it into a frying pan and opening a beer. Also his crap jump for joy as the Joe Esposito song kicks in at the end.

http://www.pocomoketattler.com/Pics/nagger.jpg

yeah nobody wants to touch that one imo, surefire thredkilla

Yeah, I know what you are saying.

the first 2 episodes of this season have been pretty awful imo

I couldn't disagree with you more..

There's hardly any "limit pushing" in Family Guy. Their perception of what makes a joke is essentially the same as Robot Chicken, which is "pop culture reference = joke." South Park is full of actual crafted jokes. That's the main difference.

Also I had no idea the last episode contained movie references, and I thought it was lolz x 1000!

i think they pull lot from pimps up, hos down in this ep, esp the "you know what i'm sayin'" stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q8zcdjvshQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKRsYMH4pPI

slightly NSFW due to actual language inserted between all the "you know what i'm sayin'" sayin'.

I just watched the Jonas Brothers episode – it is amazing how shocking it is seeing Mickey swear. I was way surprised Disney hasn't taken this to the supreme court.

"South Park is full of actual crafted jokes."

I'll grant you South Park is more concerned with plotting and having a "point," but the jokes themselves have never strayed far from "character reacts in some ludicrous and/or filthy way to pop cultural event/icon" or re-enacting some bits of pop culture as homage. Have they upped their jokesmanship recently?

Man this week's was a totally dumb, pointless episode.

I hadn't watched a new south park episode in a long time, but I liked it. any non-libertarian sp episode is generally pretty funny, but I stopped watching because there have been fewer and fewer of those.

oh south park, you and your lazy racism

hey sp dudes, devoting 2 of your 3 new episodes to skewering other cable shows is LAZY

seriously - i'd never even heard of Whale Wars before last night

stopped watching the latest episode after 5 minutes. their "topical" episodes are the worst and I don't really enjoy their asian racism schtick or their "liberals are asshats" schtick

seriously where is their balloon boy episode, that one just writes itself (Randy builds balloon, Butters sneaks into it, balloon flies away hilarity ensues)

I used to watch it with Amber back in the day. She was 8 months, and loved the kids antics, and didn't understand the sweary bits. And mum was on nightshift...

Anyways, the kids got older and I saw one ep that was damn brilliant (it involved bath-houses and cute kids that had their own TV shows, etc), and realised "we" couln't watch this anymore.

I kinda sensed it would be downhill after that one anyway.

not that i didn't agree with the target, but c'mon, Beck is so EZ. actually for SP this is kind of late to the game considering the other Beck parodies going around lately

avatar joke was pretty good, i gotta admit, though

Right around when I saw "Butters Bottom Bitch" I started getting the feeling that this current run of episodes was written and produced over the summer, instead of the "one episode produced per week" thing, which is why current events (ie balloon boy) haven't been lampooned, and why wider topics are being discussed instead.

discussed?

lampooned