South Park: Classic or Dud?

watching election episode now so awesome

The gineau pig/Cloverleaf thing was great! "I'm so STARTLED!"

Ha.

BAY-BAYY

Butters freaking out = always funny

^^^^ I laughed my ass off last week when he freaked out. i love butters!!!! this show is still hilarious and genius imo

Butters is easily my favorite character on the show.

perhaps I should stop posting to this thread since all I seem to have to say about SP anymore is how great Butters is

Does anyone else find this show kind of soulless and cruel? Maybe it was just the episode I watched, but there was like a 10-minute sequence where kenny threw a ninja star into a kid's eye and then to avoid getting caught they decide to disguise him as a dog to take him to the veteranarian, then they wind up stuffing him in an oven, etc. I mean I know it's all exaggerated and absurd, but I found something sadistic in the way the show just lingered on all of this so much, not to mention that it just wasn't funny. Maybe it's just that getting older thing.

"a kid"?? butters isn't just "a kid"

south park is terrible

i love this show

Sometimes I'm just not in the mood for whatever crusade Matt and Trey are on.

i love this show

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But most of the time, ^^^

i'm torn. the libertarian stuff does not appeal to me, but the show is still capable of being really fucking funny.

the part tonight about trying to return the "margaritaville" to sur la table was funny, but they had to beat the joke/metaphor into the ground.

Does anyone else find this show kind of soulless and cruel?

Cruel? Sure. Misguided? Sometimes. Soulless? Never.

on the one hand, corporations are corrupt, immoral and exploitative

on the other, people who drive priuses seem really smug

THE TRUTH, IT LIES SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDDLE

prius drivers / politicized hollywood celebrities might be hella smug about their political beliefs, but they're uh...about exactly as smug as the guys making the show.

Maybe it was just the episode I watched, but there was like a 10-minute sequence where kenny threw a ninja star into a kid's eye and then to avoid getting caught they decide to disguise him as a dog to take him to the veteranarian, then they wind up stuffing him in an oven, etc.

kind of agree with this, it was a weirdly wrong-feeling part in an otherwise good episode.

south park episodes vary in quality, to be sure, but as long as they occasionally pop up with a gem like the Britney episode, and other times divert us with the peruvian pan flute 2-parter, I'll watch it.

I think anyone who writes an episode of their show where they poo out of their mouths knows that they are smug bastards who only talk shit.

SP called itself out as being "preachy" in the cartoon wars episode, but I think stopped short of admitting that they might actually be wrong about stuff

the "oh ho this is actually topical!" reveal in the Butters/weapons episode was fairly right-on though

It was an easy joke, but I still laughed everytime Butters starting tossing around 'motherfucker'

i don't even need to see that to find it hilarious

butters is one of the all time greatest characters y/n

of any show i mean

y

obv

'you know what i am saying' also cheap but hilar

Why do C4 broadcast unfunny Simpsons eps over this?

South Park probably not a winner with Ofcom at 6 in the evening.

Yeah they used to broadcast it at night, but its a strange decision not to broadcast this at all. Really dislike any of the other cartoons on offer (Family Guy or what have you)

Family Guy is much more consistently fun, or less intermittently annoying, than South Park.

Really the answer to any query about Channel 4 scheduling is "because Channel 4 is fucking terrible".

cheap but hilarious is otm. applies to practically every thing Butters says

not really.. clever... but a lot more fun than last week's obviously-trying-too-hard "i see dead celebrities" crap

Butters is seriously amazing and I don't think South Park would have survived for as along as it has without him.

"Family Guy is much more consistently fun, or less intermittently annoying, than South Park"

This is crazy talk...South Park rarely misses the mark. Maybe its a British/American difference of humour/humor...but I think South Park has, if anything, become better over the years. Last seasons election/Ocean's 11 parody? The High School Musical parody? Twilight? All genius. They push the vulgarity limit, but always with tongue firmly in cheek. Family Guy, while "fun", will always be a sub-par South Park/Simpsons rip-off, that tries to push the limit to annoying ends...

Nothing to do with US/UK differences, I think a lot of people agree that 90 percent of the satirical or parody eps of South Park are like being shouted at by a couple of Ron Paulites for 20 minutes except less lol

Not that critical reviews are necessarily a good signifier, but I have never seen a review of South Park that called it less than brilliant.

Results 1 - 10 of about 20,400 for "south park is shit". (0.18 seconds)

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!