South Park: Classic or Dud?

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hee hee hee

holy shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs03JDUXyuY

...the fuck?

the tiny mushroom people of newfoundland!

oh yeah, I meant the multiple personality disorder/chinese racism episode

nova scotia, I meant. Newfoundland? lol

The whole time I was watching tonight I was bouncing between "Wow this is the most scatological episode of South Park, that is really saying something" and "This is one of the better running metaphor episodes they've ever done" and then the ending kinda came out of nowhere. It was kinda great.

Yeah this was maybe the best episode of South Park I've seen in years.

I haven't been following this season but I did watch this - pretty amazing. I actually found the image of Stan looking up at that big, shitty sun kind of profound. (Also, laughed uncontrollably at the shitty trailers.) Have to wonder if this season's the last.

Now I feel like posting a "do you relate deeply to Stan from South Park" poll, because that episode is exactly like what I was recently posting about (old friends ditching my cynical ass) on the innocuous things thread. Poor Stan. What will happen to him now?!

episode got so unexpectedly heavy!

Have to wonder if this season's the last.

Apparently Comedy Central convinced Matt and Trey to sign for another two seasons, which really surprised me after the way CC mishandled "200"/"201". And this episode, especially the ending, felt like they're targeting some sort of downer "And then they grew up" ending.

I lol'd at the Custer's Revenge arcade machine in the one scene

goddammit I actually teared up towards the end

That has to be my favorite South Park, at first I was laughing so hard my side ached and then the ending completely took me off guard. I hope the rest of the season keeps this up.

Rated "ARG" for pirates — FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!

if this had had a little more content and a little less shit it would be one of my favorite episodes

one scary thing is that "jack and jill" is a real movie

Fee fi fo fum, I smell Kraft Dinner!

Seriously. Wow. Maybe the most fucked 20 minutes of television I've seen in years, maybe ever.

there's been like 20 south parks that were more fucked than that!

Did you just watch Scott Tennorman Must Die on syndication or something?

Really? You seriously think moving from "you think the whole world is shit" at the end of the last series moving into overly produced sound where the minor thing such as background fans are unnaturally loud and drown out reality (like clinical depressives hear) into enforced 'medication' concluding that drinking out life so you can pretend to be normal isn't unbelievably fucked and bleak?

The sequence when Randy & Sharon get back together for the sake of the kids, just after Stan has had his breakthrough, to then see him actually hear the radio as 'we' hear it and then have to take a further drink before joining his friends is absolutely heartbreaking.

well, yeah, it was pretty sad and bleak but i wouldn't call it "fucked"

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/mags/qf/c/Signature/10-1968/med_thats_life.jpg

If you'd identified with Stan as a child growing up with South Park, broadcasting that your best way to deal with the rest of your life is to spend it in an alcoholic stupor is pretty fucked, dude.

I did enjoy that the wonder/gateway drug was just Jameson's.

And Kyle once again refusing to be caught up in an epic battle.

I loved the Drunk Stan/Kyle discussion outside the burger stand.

I am conflicted by my enjoyment of this ep...but it *was* kinda great. Fucked up, but great.

"I love you"
"Fuck you"

Has someone put some of the songs together in a compilation? having Cartman's Make it Right in my head for the past week.

this season's actually been pretty good so far

Yeah, I related to that last episode pretty hardcore. My grandma sits around watching that jewelry channel all day. At least she hasn't bought any $6,000 bolo ties. That I'm aware of.

"Hi. Um...kill yourself?"

yeah last 2 eps have been pretty good

as usual, felt compelled to change channels as soon as racist asian schtick kicked in

Yeah, that is far and away the most lamentable aspect of the show and pretty much the only thing that keeps me from recommending it unreservedly. And it's doubly disappointing, since (as with most other things) they've been otherwise pretty smart and insightful about race. I don't know why they have it in for Asians.

yeah that was nagl

Episode felt like it was left up to the very last minute (endless audience-taxing shots of rotating jewelry), but some of the best South Park episodes are like that.

I've been saying "Okay sir, I'm just gonna check inside ya aaaasshole" all week, regardless of context.

I don't see how the Asian ladies this week are any different than the black ladies last week, this show's been pretty consistant in that. Maybe because they have (had?) a recurring Asian character in the City Wok guy? (which the creators apparently think is the funniest joke ever)

I mean I don't think it goes any further than "all the writers think Trey's Asian guy voice is funny", the characters that stick around are usually the ones with the best voices

Maybe because they have (had?) a recurring Asian character in the City Wok guy?

Turns out he's not actually Asian (spoilers).

I mean I don't think it goes any further than "all the writers think Trey's Asian guy voice is funny", the characters that stick around are usually the ones with the best voices

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^ this is true + there is a knowing 'this will piss off certain liberal sensibilities' + they are equal opportunity haters..

wow i'd do anything for a "Jackin' in San Diego" mp3
the show's still pretty hit & miss but all the musical bits are amazing, as they've always been

holy shit I just realized that was about the Kony video

here's the song, no video though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LKcsB8OMw8&feature=related

guess i can just convert this

(which the creators apparently think is the funniest joke ever)

they run every single one of their "jokes" into the ground. those two cocks who created it are unbearable. this show is just the fucking worst.

Used to be good when then animation and overall style was charmingly crude (it was the identity! why did they do away with it?), the characters didn't develop (one of them kept dying every episode! this played so well with the crude style), and the kids found truth through their fresh perspectives on life, not because they already had everything figured out like a bunch of insightful twenty somethings. If you wanted the kids to grow up then you should have let them. Might as well have them all in college if you want people to believe they'd have all these developed critiques on society. Also some of the bits within the satire comes off in the way Robot Chicken approaches parody, like a fifteen year old was riffing on a "you know what would be funny if x happened?" scenario that quickly misses it's own point as it geeks out over the details to a ridiculous extent.

South Park is similar to Robot Chicken in that it is animated and it on television.

it is on television.

the show's still crude as hell, just not in the animation
really, what do you expect after 16 seasons