South Park: Classic or Dud?

Making fun of Richard Dawkins = funney
Making fun of Richard Dawkins by just showing WHAT HE ACTUALLY THINKS and holding it up for its own ridiculousness (cf the Mormon episode) = funnier
Making fun of Richard Dawkins by just showing WHAT HE ACTUALLY THINKS and holding it up for its own ridiculousness (cf the Mormon episode) in the style of Buck Rogers In the 25th Century = funniest
Making fun of Richard Dawkins by just showing WHAT HE ACTUALLY THINKS and holding it up for its own ridiculousness (cf the Mormon episode) in the style of Buck Rogers In the 25th Century BUT WITH SPACE OTTERS = even more funniestest

"Did not the Dawkins tell us that the most logical answer is the best? They cut down trees to eat off, when they have perfectly good bellies. THEY MUST DIE!"

"it's not enough to understand that there being a god is really unlikely, and understanding evolution properly leads to rational atheism... you have to be a dick about it to everyone too"

I did note today, while I was looking for the "I will feast on his entrails, I will eat them off my tummy" quote that someone had upped the entire episode to a board though.

woodland critter christmas + jared has aides = phenomenal, mind-pillaging madness. the way cartman ends JHA is actually one of the most breathtakingly shocking things they've ever done.

new funniest SP moment: when chef's TV turns into a killer robot in the russell crowe episode

cartman ands JHA- whats JHA?

JHA = Jared Has Aides. I thought it ended with Cartman staying in Butters' house pretending to be Butters, getting him in trouble then sitting outside to watch Butters get punished when his parents got home, but I don't get what's shocking about that. Compared to other SP episodes anyway.

Every time this thread gets revived when SP isn't on I get worried that it's finally been axed because of 5c13nt0l0g15t3 or something.

BREAKING NEWS:

MATT AND TREY FOUND OUT LOUIS LIKES THIS SHOW SO THEY QUIT.

that's so unfunny it practically zings itself!

Consider it a tribute to you, then.

this conversation is tending towards some sort of humourless absolute

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Elr5K2Vuo

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wow guys

http://emmys.com/awards/2007pt/nominations_crtv.php?action=search_db#1

wow, they actually won an Emmy for the warcraft ep

holy shit, a Little Britain ref.

Last night's ep was...odd.

synopsis?

i saw the Bono/poo-record ep the other week, it made me laff

Gonna have to start torrenting these as 11:00 p.m. is now way past my bedtime.

Shows based around the kids and their interaction with each other are almost always sweet. Shows based around topical subjects of the time, and subsequently as vehicles for Trey Parker to grind his political axes are a lot more hit and miss.

That Warcraft episode is tremendous.

<i>Shows based around the kids and their interaction with each other are almost always sweet. Shows based around topical subjects of the time, and subsequently as vehicles for Trey Parker to grind his political axes are a lot more hit and miss.</i>

EXACTLY RIGHT.

Yeah, that's pretty much dead on. I'd kinda given up on Spark because I thought it was just "PARKER AND STONE'S OPINIONS4U" nowadays, but I caught the pee-wee hockey episode on Paramount and am so now doomed to start watching it again and getting annoyed every other episode.

^^^Stanley's Cup is one of the very best episodes. I've repped for it before on ILX.

It's a better sports parody than Parker/Stone's BASEketball and DOdgeball combined, and it's over an hour shorter than either.

Is it better than the Little League ep because that one makes me hurt with laughter. But yeah, everybody OTM, fuck their fucking politics and fuck off "satire".

Jesus Christ, you have Cylons fighting Santa Claus, and they just need rip on Al Gore some more. What the fuck is up with these guys?

This last three-parter was one of the worst series of episodes I've seen. Ok, attacking our imagination is amusing for one episode, but three? I feel like they are fumbling this season. The Bono one was amusing for a one-liner gag, but beyond that was also pretty weak. It's disappointing to me because last season was one of the best they've ever done.

"family guy isn't funny, it's all random shit and pop culture references. here, watch our three-part episode about imagination land, it's loaded with references to old commercials, 80s toys and cartoons. and al gore's a superhero. take that, family guy!"

i mean, i laughed here and there.

Ah, I liked the imaginationland saga. just seeing all those characters and having the whole suck my balls subplot. The superman dude was funny and the Christmas critters returned. The first episode, the terrorists came in and everything felt like bullet-time the way they animated it and had the sound all quiet with a heartbeat. In general the plot was very original and I'm sure there was a metaphor somewhere about Americans' imaginations running wild. I'm sure if we broke this down, we could find the metaphor and I don't think they were just ripping Al Gore. Sarah Silverman did that on the next episode. I felt bad for god, what did he do so wrong to Sarah Silverman anyways (besides the bugles and flowers being creepy)?

Yeah, the whole trilogy was worth it for the Saving Private Ryan sequence.

butters getting screwed over and everything... I see similarities between him and me. He is a very imaginative boy, but society and family ruin his life when he probably has extraordinary talent. All that talent is wasted since the rest of the world is fucked up.

and the whole sending of a nuke to end the problems that arose out of nothing... there has got to be some metaphor to the Iraq war and the WTC. I don't know what.

these episodes just made me really irritated that I could recognize but not properly identify a minor 80s cartoon character (the little floating wizard guy in a red hat and cloak and a scarf obscuring his otherwise black face - goddammit what the hell was that thing from)