South Park: Classic or Dud?

was that the 'heavy metal' tribute one?

yes

i remember liking it but don't remember too much about it. i always like episodes where it seems like they spent more money than usual (e.g. warcraft episode). they should just spend a lot of money on every episode.

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"Cat piss can get you high. Like, really, really high. Probably shouldn't have just told you that right now."

"You're Getting Old"/"Ass Burgers"
"Coon 2: Hindsight"/"Mysterion Rises"/"Coon vs Coon and Friends"
"Butters' Bottom Bitch"
"Major Boobage"
"Imaginationland I"/"Imaginationland II"/"Imaginationland III"

"imaginationland" and the "coon & friends" trilogy are both among my very favorites. i have a "coon and friends" poster in my basement which i'm probably going to frame after i move. "major boobage" rules also.

aside from these, if we're only going with stuff since mid-2007, I really liked "Fishsticks" "Pee" "Medicinal Fried Chicken" and "Creme Fraiche"

If you can get a hold of it, 200/201 are pretty amazing also, but it's also one of those where it helps if the viewer has seen lots of episodes.. It's a shame 201 may never be available outside of pirating.

only saw 200/201 once but I remember being really amazed at the amount of work that went into it, but yeah you kind of have to be a massive fan of the show already

why's 201 forbidden?

lots of censorship due to images of Muhammed

aaah southparkstudios doesn't have 200 either :(

i saw 200 when it aired and missed 201.... Only episode i never saw. Kind of wondering if its worth using how to use torrents

is it the super-god-friends episode with master control computer as moses? that's the only detail i remember, so it probably wasn't that good, but master control computer as moses is still a good bit.

nono thats not the same one... 200/201 is about how the gingers and tom cruise are both trying to capture mohammad because he's the only person south park can't make fun of. also mitch conner (cartman's hand) has a saigon flashback.

were there two mohammed episodes? i remember at least one episode where there's a black bar covering what's supposedly mohammed underneath.

i guess there were a few instances.. the original "super best friends" circa-2001, and then the 2-parter where they made fun of family guy around 2006, and then they brought it back (along with premises from 20+ other episodes) for 200/201

actually, there are several, there's 200/201, and there's the two-part "Cartoon Wars" episode that kind of centered around the idea, plus there's the old "Superfriends" episode where Muhammed actually is depicted without any censorship, but that of course was pre-9/11. IIRC 201 did make a reference to this. Also, IMO, the censored ending of 201 is probably more interesting than whatever it originally was.

oh yeah...what he said

201 has a crrrraaaaaaaazzzzzzzzy ending involving cartman.

medicinal fried chicken is the best.

You know what is the best episode? 'Cartman Sucks'. An easy target but perfectly done.

Watching the ep that re-ran tonight about school bullying, and I'm reminded of something FilmCritHulk wrote last summer, about the bullshit libertarian nihilistic habits that Trey & Matt sometime fall into when they attack anybody advocating a position, regardless of if that position is valid or correct or not.

http://filmcrithulk.wordpress.com/2011/06/15/hulk-vs-the-church-of-south-park/

the new football ep was p enjoyable imo

how the fuck can anyone read that

^^^

for a change :)

I wasn't overly bothered with the sarcastiball part of the plot, but Butters' developments in puberty and feeding everyone his spunk was completely lolsome. Best part was probably everybody just drinking it and then Randy just casually saying "it's jizz" like it was no biggie.

anytime Parker and Stone have a political "point" to make it sucks, this isn't news

yeah the butters storyline was awesome

they kind of lost the thread a little with the sarcasm addiction but I still enjoyed it a lot

as a Packer fan the "fuck it, it's a field goal" line made me laugh a lot

also what Whiney said

"I only know five chords....six."

The Honey Boo Boo ep is worth it just for the songs.

The show would be so much better if they dropped all (or at least most) of the characters and centered the show around Ron and Andy.

that was meant for the p&r thread right? i spent ages trying to get who ron&andy are in south park. unless you want a south park & rec crossover fanfic

Whereas on this show, Randy is the best character

rong

butters

lol @ "maybe it was us"

yeah, total truth bomb. it seemed like there was even maybe a little bit of genuine regret somewhere in there

i laughed really hard at the sarcastiball one

gr8080 really needs to watch this week's episode and provide commentary.

the best jokes were the shots of safeway

and paddleboarding around the buoys.

I liked Kenny's increasing grandiloquence as he wrote letters home by candlelight, and Stan remarking on it

that episode was bleh, but butters bitching out kyle and kenny's letters were so great.

it's a weird thing to say, especially off the heels of their recent broadway success, but does anyone else think stone and parker have stunted their potential by continuing south park for this long? i think they joked about buying out comedy central several years back, but maybe it could have happened?
it seems like they've stagnated since the south park movie came out.

in contrast i feel like seth mcfarlane has gotten far more career mileage and opportunities out of family guy then anyone could have dreamed possible.

South Park still surprisingly (if inconsistently) great; no potential squandered.

what i mean is they could have gone on to bigger/better things.
it seems like south park's holding them back.

there's been an unfortunate slight decline in quality since the book of mormon, but not so much that i'll stop watching.

also, the "6 days to south park" special was somewhat revealing. a few friends of mine got the impression that bill hader's job is to laugh at jokes that aren't very good, encouraging the writers to settle for something that could be improved, or repeat a joke 15 times that's really only funny the 1st or 2nd time.

there's been an unfortunate slight decline in quality since the book of mormon, but not so much that i'll stop watching.

I haven't seen any of the current season, but the previous two were definitely the patchiest yet.

and it's still better than like 95% of whatever else is on TV.

i dunno this guy's name, but i'm happy they brought him back.
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i haven't watched recent south park, but i'd venture it's not better than 75%, and of the top 25% it's not better than 85%, mostly because TV has gotten so good.

what i mean is it won't be any great loss to shutter up production and maybe give them an opportunity to do something really great. there's still bob burgers, etc...

Dude, if you haven't watched it recently, your argument doesn't really hold water. Particularly when there was a pair of episodes (last season?) that dealt pretty directly with their exhaustion but ultimate willingness to continue SP. And yes, I'd say it's easily still in the top 25% of shows on tv. One of the few I still actively look forward to.