South Park: Classic or Dud?

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Also, I now think Butters is one of the greatest characters ever conceived for television.

Maybe, but his voice is one of my all-time favorites. I giggle even if he doesn't actually say anything funny. The sound of him morosely barking is etched into my brain.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 8 April 2004 19:12 (twenty years ago) link

Ha, the new episode was nice! But it was probably better if you have been following the show -- my favorite part was the new twist on "how can we torture Butters".

― ...in bed. (Chris Piuma), Thursday, 8 April 2004 19:17 (twenty years ago) link

also, somewhere, Trey & Matt said that Butters is the nickname for their animation producer. They love Butters.

― Kingfish Balzac (Kingfish), Thursday, 8 April 2004 19:25 (twenty years ago) link

Butters reminds me of myself.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 8 April 2004 19:47 (twenty years ago) link

"That's me!"

― Butters (Dan Perry), Thursday, 8 April 2004 19:47 (twenty years ago) link

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 8 April 2004 19:54 (twenty years ago) link

Butters is fantastic, but I hope that, after all they've done to him in the last few episodes, they leave him alone for a bit. More Tweak!

― ...in bed. (Chris Piuma), Friday, 9 April 2004 03:02 (twenty years ago) link

i think the show has actually gotten stronger as it has gone on... they do a great job of toying with all of the media-generated temporary hysterias of american life. that being said, i think the funniest moment of the show was during the jesus/santa cabaret scene in the "mr hankey's christmas classics" episode when santa starts singing "rio" by duran duran. classic.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Friday, 9 April 2004 18:40 (twenty years ago) link

please don't leave out eggyolkio.
Sorry. Never saw that one.

The Passion episode wasn't that good -- I was expecting more.
I give Trey and Matt credit for coming out and courageously saying what needed to be said about The Passion: "This isn't entertainment. It's a snuff film."
Never were truer words spoken.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Saturday, 10 April 2004 02:14 (twenty years ago) link

Sure. I mean, they were written in my local weekly months before they got around to saying it, but they do admittedly have a slightly larger audience.

― ...in bed. (Chris Piuma), Saturday, 10 April 2004 02:33 (twenty years ago) link

OMG YOU JUST GOT GOTHSERVED WTF

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 10 April 2004 12:55 (twenty years ago) link

That was my favorite thing! And the goth dancing was all too accurate.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Saturday, 10 April 2004 13:19 (twenty years ago) link

they should have included the 'clawing the cobwebs away' and 'reaching out of the grave' variants.

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 10 April 2004 13:46 (twenty years ago) link

The trick is to always look like you are dancing alone in your suffering, no matter how many people you are with.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 10 April 2004 13:49 (twenty years ago) link

"Dancing isn't something you do in public -- you do it alone at 3 am in your bedroom!"

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Saturday, 10 April 2004 13:53 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...

It's my day off, and I'm watching You Got Served during lunch purely because of the South Park episode.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 16:58 (twenty years ago) link

This sounds like a fine reason!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 17:01 (twenty years ago) link

Now its on.

― Spinktor, Wednesday, 19 May 2004 17:02 (twenty years ago) link

seven months pass...

blood orgy! blood orgy!

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 27 December 2004 01:08 (nineteen years ago) link

That was fantastic.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 27 December 2004 03:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Also, it's amazing how much funnier the You Got Served episode is on repeated viewings.

Also, BLOOD ORGY!

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 27 December 2004 03:37 (nineteen years ago) link

That Woodland Critters episode almost made my head explode. I think the show's as funny as it's ever been. And it's in the zone now where the Simpsons was after 4 or 5 years, where the writing is still sharp and the ideas are still pretty fresh, but it's been absorbed into the culture enough that nobody's really paying much attention to it anymore -- which allows them to kind of fly below the radar in plain sight, and get away with things they couldn't have in the first few seasons.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 27 December 2004 04:14 (nineteen years ago) link

It's my day off, and I'm watching You Got Served during lunch purely because of the South Park episode.

haha omg mr teeny just tivo'd this movie!

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 27 December 2004 04:52 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm going to say occasionally classic, but usually dud.

The Christian Rock episode was one of the funniest things I've ever seen ("I Might Be Born Again, But I Wasn't Born Again Yesterday")

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 27 December 2004 04:53 (nineteen years ago) link

blood orgy!

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 27 December 2004 16:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Also, blood orgy!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 27 December 2004 22:20 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

I only just saw the Christmas special!

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 19 February 2005 16:54 (nineteen years ago) link

So, allow me to say: "Without the mountain lion around, the Lady Porcupiney can give birth to the Antichrist!"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 19 February 2005 16:55 (nineteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

The hippie episode wasn't too good.

― Chris Michaels, Thursday, 17 March 2005 03:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Did you see the latest one? It wasn't a very good episode at all, and it included actual not-animated blood-riddled sex-change operation footage.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 17 March 2005 03:59 (nineteen years ago) link

limited skills, unflaggingly assholish/contrarian POV, confusion of "offensive" w/funny = crappily made, occasionally amusing lowbrow cartoon. The movie was good. The show gets pretty tiresome.

Also fuck them for running a non-union shop.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 17 March 2005 17:42 (nineteen years ago) link

they are definitely assholes, and probably should be shot, but sometimes it's funny.

non-union shop?

― the hitmanizer, Thursday, 17 March 2005 17:46 (nineteen years ago) link

virtually every animation studio/film studio is a union shop, and with good reason.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 17 March 2005 17:51 (nineteen years ago) link

the last ones i saw were the one with Ben Affleck and the couple with the buttocks on their faces, followed by the one where Mr Garrison invents the gyroscope

ABSOLUTELY DISTURBINGLY BRILLIANT/BRILLIANTLY DISTURBING

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Thursday, 17 March 2005 17:53 (nineteen years ago) link

I thought the hippie episode was pretty ROFL-worthy, but that may be because I lived in a 'hippie' house in the Bay Area in college and it brought back a lot of pleasant memories.

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 17 March 2005 21:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Ugh, I don't know. The fact that they didn't explain it as some Cartman power-fantasy was kind of interesting, but most it seemed shallow.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 17 March 2005 22:29 (nineteen years ago) link

The movie SUCKED. Musicals suck, esp comedic ones.

― ()ops (()()ps), Thursday, 17 March 2005 22:36 (nineteen years ago) link

nah, musicals are awesome (when done well)

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 17 March 2005 22:41 (nineteen years ago) link

The hippie one sucked (except for Chef) but Mr. Garrison's surgery was mind-meltingly gruesome in a great way. Not particularly funny, but awesome. Also, the follow-up plastic surgery was hilarious.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 17 March 2005 22:44 (nineteen years ago) link

The surgery episode was just to set up the eventual return of Lemmywinks down the line though, surely?

"Awesome-O" may be one of the five best TV episodes ever.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 17 March 2005 22:46 (nineteen years ago) link

The hippie episode wasn't too good.

They love strawman attacks!

xpost

Dan, what did Chef do that was even funny?!!??!

― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Thursday, 17 March 2005 22:46 (nineteen years ago) link

CHOCOLATE SALTY BALLS

― Jimmy Mod Has Returned With Spices And Silks (ModJ), Thursday, 17 March 2005 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link

the new golden era of musicals

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 17 March 2005 23:09 (nineteen years ago) link

"You're...a lawphin?"

Didn't laugh much at the hippie one.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Philip Annoyman v1.0 (Ferg), Thursday, 17 March 2005 23:27 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't know why the hippie thing tickled me so much. Judging from the reaction here, I guess it was just me. The political sub-text was a bit obvious - listening to jam bands isn't going to change the world - but I don't watch South Park for political enlightenment. I just liked the juxtaposition of the "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"/"The Blob" type narrative arc with the image of a bunch of patchouli-smelling hippies listening to jam bands.

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 18 March 2005 00:34 (nineteen years ago) link

"You kids just haven't been to college yet"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 18 March 2005 00:45 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah hippies are stupid! Man, comedy genius right there.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 18 March 2005 00:49 (nineteen years ago) link

But that wasn't even really the point! OK, maybe it was. But it was still funny!

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 18 March 2005 00:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Mo, you do realise that because you can explain a joke it doesn't mean that the joke wasn't funny, right?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 18 March 2005 00:55 (nineteen years ago) link

My coworker adored the hippie episode for a basic reason: SLAYER

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 18 March 2005 00:56 (nineteen years ago) link

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