South Park: Classic or Dud?

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aaargh get christina aguillera off my back

― Queen G, Saturday, 20 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

HOW ABOUT THE BUTTERZ EPISODE THAT COMMENTED ON THE MOTEHR THAT DROWNED HER BABIES?!?! = CLASSIC GENIUS

― CHAKI, Saturday, 20 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Moses episode was great, especially for giving me the chance to affect a deep, resonant voice and say "I DESIRE... MACARONI PICTURES!" in public.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Saturday, 20 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

three months pass...

don't forget to bring a towel!

― Mark Molloy, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

South Park is just great. This most recent episode with the kidnapping hysteria and "I AM NOT A STEREOTYPE!" had me in tears. "YOU GOD-DAMN MONGOLIANS! KNOCK DOWN MY SHITTY WALL!"

(Using a horrible accent to get the word "shitty" on air multiple times; classic or dud?)

― Dan Perry, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

three months pass...

South Park is a show if you dont like it then don't fucking watch it. America is turning gay in front of my eyes. All of the kids being brought up are going to be homosexual with all the restrictions about what is right and wrong etc. etc. Makes me fucking sick...

― Johnny, Sunday, 17 November 2002 05:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Johnny,

Will you suck my cock?

love,
Uncle Sam

― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 17 November 2002 06:52 (twenty-three years ago)

B-b-b-b-but South Park is very pro-gay! Big Gay Al is, like, one of the most likeable characters ever!

Anyway: classic, if only for being the first tv show in the history of mankind to accurately portray what kids are really like (i.e. mean-hearted, sadistic bastards.) Also great: the deliberatley anti climatic endings ("yeah man, cartoons kick ass!" is my favourite)

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 17 November 2002 12:09 (twenty-three years ago)

i still quite like my original sin answer.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 17 November 2002 12:13 (twenty-three years ago)

get in line james

btw I've got aides

Oh shit, that doesn't really work when it's written now.

― Queen G (Queeng), Sunday, 17 November 2002 17:02 (twenty-three years ago)

I've got a love-hate thing with that show, but I have to admit that my eyes stung with tears I was laughing so hard at the "Super Wacky Action Bike" commercial from the Pokemon parody episode. And, like everyone else, I abused the "TIMMEH" catchphrase for a few weeks.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Sunday, 17 November 2002 23:11 (twenty-three years ago)

oh my, the Fellowship of the Ring episode last night was classic.

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 18 November 2002 13:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh bother, I forgot to tape that. Well, I'll catch it eventually!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 18 November 2002 14:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

I will never, ever understand why people love South Park.
Well, I don't mind that the average mindless viewer loves it,
but how can the same people who liked Ren & Stimpy and
Beavis & Butthead (deservedly so, they were great) jumped
on this tired bandwagon. South Park is about 6% funny, at
best, and that's mostly because of Cartman and Towelly
(I'm a sucker for drug humor).

On a related note, has anyone else been profoundly dissapointed
with the latest season of Home Movies? I mean, there's still
a few funny bits per episode, mostly featuring McGurk, but
that's a far cry from the nonstop, jaw-dropping hilarity of 75% of
all the previous episodes!

― squirl plise, Wednesday, 7 April 2004 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

last night they showed one of the very first southparks, the anal probe one, and i was reminded of how fucking hilarious it was in the beginning. and i much preferreed the old cut and paste animation to the new computer-generated type.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

i think it peaked around the time of the movie but is still better than any other animated comedy right now

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 17:02 (twenty-two years ago)

South Park is about 6% funny, at best

the ol' 'blind 'em with vague science' trick eh?

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)

It's still great. The Passion episode was insanely funny.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)

(xpost) Have you seen the Passion of the Christ episode? Or the sex-ed episode? Or the Lemmywinks episode? Or the coffee chain episode? Or the chicken pox episode?

Furthermore, Ren & Stimpy had ONE funny season (the first one).

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I spent part of the weekend gigglnig just by thinking of the epsiode where Cartman tries to go to school on Halloween as Hitler.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Cartman is completely irredeemable at this point. It's great!

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I laugh so hard at this show that I embarrass myself. (I live alone.)

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 17:25 (twenty-two years ago)

ren and stimpy season one >>>>>>> all south park ever.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 8 April 2004 00:10 (twenty-two years ago)

South Park's still good. There's still no ther show on TV that can show a gerbil embarking on a mystical quest inside a gay leather slut's ass.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 8 April 2004 00:13 (twenty-two years ago)

ugh..."ther" = "other".

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 8 April 2004 00:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I watched it when it first came out, then tired of it and didn't watch it for about 4 or 5 years. Been watching it semi-regularly recently and it's pretty good. In fact, the last few weeks I've been getting more chuckles out of South Park than Chappelle, which follows it.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 8 April 2004 00:16 (twenty-two years ago)

ren and stimpy season one >>>>>>> all south park ever.

I'm sorry, but this is flat-out wrong. The ONLY Ren & Stimpy episode that can compare to South PArk is "Space Madness".

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 8 April 2004 01:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Did the two guys do any live-action movies after Baseketball?

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 8 April 2004 01:41 (twenty-two years ago)

No, cause how could you ever top that?

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 8 April 2004 01:47 (twenty-two years ago)

though wasn't one of them in some quasi-porno?

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 8 April 2004 01:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Orgazmo was finished before Baseketball was, but released later.

― Kingfish Balzac (Kingfish), Thursday, 8 April 2004 02:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Please tell me you had to look that up.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 8 April 2004 02:35 (twenty-two years ago)

south park joke

― alan r. banana (alanbanana), Thursday, 8 April 2004 02:45 (twenty-two years ago)

nope, i saw both flicks in the theater.

altho, Orgazmo DID require us to sneak booze in, just in case.

― Kingfish Balzac (Kingfish), Thursday, 8 April 2004 02:48 (twenty-two years ago)

The only thing I remember from Baseketball is one saying "How to speak San Franciscan"-pulling down his pants-"vagina!"

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 8 April 2004 02:51 (twenty-two years ago)

>South Park's still good. There's still no ther show on TV that
>can show a gerbil embarking on a mystical quest inside a gay
>leather slut's ass.

See, there's that attitude. South Park is good because they're
shocking, they're dangerous, they're pushing the limit.
PLEASE. That's not enough.

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Thursday, 8 April 2004 03:00 (twenty-two years ago)

But that isn't funny because it's shocking or dangerous (it's not) - it's funny because it's a gerbil embarking on a mystical quest inside a gay leather slut's ass.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 8 April 2004 03:01 (twenty-two years ago)

That post didn't mention anything about being dangerous or shocking. Maybe the postee finds that South Park is the only show who's sense of humor is as bizarre as their own.

xpost my thoughts exactly

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 8 April 2004 03:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Effing dud, Milo. You're describing a setup - no setup is
inherently funny. The humor is all in what you do with the material.

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Thursday, 8 April 2004 03:03 (twenty-two years ago)

no you're just making with the crazy talk. In comedy 90% of the time the setup is the only thing funny. (the onion to thread)

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 8 April 2004 03:05 (twenty-two years ago)

also, the lemmiwinks ep was funny as fuck, thanks to Trey & matt doing their version of those shite 70's folky pop songs from the Rankin Bass Hobbit...

― Kingfish Balzac (Kingfish), Thursday, 8 April 2004 03:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Oops, the Onion's ouevre IS the headlines, really.
Just like bumper stickers, there's no setup or punchline
in that short form.

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Thursday, 8 April 2004 03:18 (twenty-two years ago)

whatever. setups can be inherently funny. i'm willing to bet the vast majority of comedy begins with a funny setup, and is then fleshed out in order to fill up the appropriate amount of time/pages.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 8 April 2004 03:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Squir-Po (if I may call you that), you are so "Humor-ist".

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 8 April 2004 03:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, there are a lot of ways to do great comedy, I couldn't
deny that. But for me, South Park falls direly short in every
aspect.

So I decided to flip on the new episode, thinking that maybe
I'd been unfairly dismissive...

...nope, this IS shit.

"Never date a man with only one credit card. He probably doesn't spend much,
or even worse, it's a debit card. Four credit cards is kinda fishy...so what's
the perfect number of credit cards? Two! That's Right!"

"Boxing is a man's sport...when you're boxing, you're man at your most man.
So just reach inside for that most man part."

This kind of pap passes for comedy in some circles? And why have
we seen the teacher's wife crash & burn ten times and counting?

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Thursday, 8 April 2004 03:51 (twenty-two years ago)

wow Squirrel you're right. it's not funny at all. and to think how wrong i've been in my laughter and enjoyment of this show for so many years.

Thanks for opening my eyes!

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 8 April 2004 04:03 (twenty-two years ago)

The first few seasons of SP were mostly shock humor and not that good. Somewhere around the movie they stopped fucking around and decided to turn the show into a strongly moralistic show, where the message is "people need to stop being such fuckwits and act a little more human" and it became golden. Seasons 5 & 6 are the best so far. The new season has been a bit weak so far but still worth watching. Best episodes include "Scott Tenerman Must Die", the Butters episode, the LoTR parody (goddamn that's a good one), "Red Sleigh Down", and, in a completely different vein, "Kenny Dies." [/geek]

The only thing I ever enjoyed about Ren & Stimpy was the line "It's better than bad, it's good!" The artwork was hideous (whereas SP is total eye candy).

― ...in bed. (Chris Piuma), Thursday, 8 April 2004 09:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I loved the one with Cartman's Dawson's Creek lunchbox - the 2001 parody!

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 8 April 2004 09:35 (twenty-two years ago)

"I..can't let you do that..Kyle"

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 8 April 2004 09:35 (twenty-two years ago)

the lord of the rings parody one is fucking amazing. i think the series before the current one is pure gold

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 8 April 2004 09:39 (twenty-two years ago)

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Good interview with Isaac Hayes' son, who says it was the Church of Scientology that pulled the plug on Hayes being part of the cast, while he was incapacitated.

So, initially, the episode came out in November, and there was no reaction. There wasn’t any upswell about that episode at all. It really wasn’t a big deal at the time. That January, in 2006, my dad had a stroke, and during the course of his recovery, I think that March, they re-aired the episode. When it re-aired, that’s when Scientology got upset.

At that time, my father was recovering from a stroke — literally learning how to talk, learning how to function. I visited my father. He was really struggling sometimes to even speak and say words. At the time, the people that were around him were largely Scientologists — his publicists and management. Those decisions about his involvement in the show, his leaving the show, were made by those people and not him. He would have never quit that show. He loved that show, and he was making a lot of money doing that show. So, I take issue with the way those decisions were made on his behalf because it put him in a position to actually have to go on the road and tour before he was ready to tour.

https://www.cracked.com/article_47426_my-dad-would-have-never-quit-that-show-isaac-hayes-iii-on-what-south-park-meant-to-his-father.html

― paper plans (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 22 July 2025 14:19 (ten months ago)

lmao 2 days after Paramount gives them a massive deal

https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3luonhnkhvk2f

― frogbs, Thursday, 24 July 2025 04:56 (ten months ago)

Yeah, I'll say this much: these dudes have flexible/questionable politics at times, but I like the idea of them explicitly picking a scorched-earth fight with that asshole.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 24 July 2025 13:55 (ten months ago)

As my brother put it, "I think they're opportunistic little weird Colorado libertarians, but if they're causing problems for Paramount and Trump, I'm here for the content."

And I think their knee-jerk anti-authoritarianism will just tend to push against/make fun of whoever's in power.

― paper plans (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 24 July 2025 14:13 (ten months ago)

If there's one topic they're pretty consistent about politically over the last three (!!) decades, it's freedom of speech and satire. Given the current admin's pushes via media to indirectly censor political speech, this all out scorched earth ep is quite on brand.

― octobeard, Friday, 25 July 2025 20:44 (ten months ago)

one month passes...

wonder what they're gonna do with the Cartman arc now

― frogbs, Wednesday, 10 September 2025 19:43 (nine months ago)

you bastards!

― gestures broadly at...everything (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 10 September 2025 19:45 (nine months ago)

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