it was time
― imago, Friday, 9 November 2018 22:41 (five years ago) link
now they just have to roll out a positive portrayal of a trans person
― imago, Friday, 9 November 2018 22:43 (five years ago) link
Dutch age change guy reminds me so much of Dutch colleague...who loved south park
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 10 November 2018 03:37 (five years ago) link
Bezos as Star Trek Talosian A++. Great episode
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 December 2018 10:22 (five years ago) link
holy SHIT at that "16 Tons" opening sequence
― resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, 6 December 2018 11:37 (five years ago) link
I'm assuming this will all be ruined over the next week or two but for now I'm going to enjoy Marxist rhetoric being deployed so nakedly (and, surprisingly, without snarky takebacks)
― resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, 6 December 2018 11:59 (five years ago) link
― maura, Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:21 (five years ago) link
The last few days have taught me that trying to convince people to watch a new episode of South Park in 2018 is basically impossible, even when I provide hard evidence that the politics are Good, Actually
― resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, 7 December 2018 15:01 (five years ago) link
they just have to walk back some of the transphobia and i'll be close to 100% on board
― imago, Friday, 7 December 2018 15:09 (five years ago) link
Ok the politics are good but is the show funny
― Mordy, Friday, 7 December 2018 15:11 (five years ago) link
this season has been excellent and funny
― imago, Friday, 7 December 2018 15:12 (five years ago) link
I mean, I laughed. I especially liked how mutant Bezos had the Mayor in his pocket, which was both funny and timely.
― resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, 7 December 2018 15:12 (five years ago) link
also the depiction of a wacky accident on the Amazon shop floor airing within 24 hours of that insane IRL bear mace incident was just too good.
― resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, 7 December 2018 15:13 (five years ago) link
yes!!!
― maura, Friday, 7 December 2018 15:21 (five years ago) link
I am dying to watch this episode. I fell asleep during the anxiety one.
― Yerac, Friday, 7 December 2018 15:22 (five years ago) link
for any curious/doubtful lurkers, the sequence maura and I mentioned:
https://youtu.be/eX4C0CctGSo
― resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, 7 December 2018 15:32 (five years ago) link
^^ that's great.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 7 December 2018 15:51 (five years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/uGulpztbVt— Chris Barrus (@quartzcity) December 7, 2018
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 7 December 2018 20:29 (five years ago) link
srsly, best tv series of 2018
― imago, Saturday, 8 December 2018 02:02 (five years ago) link
TIL Adam Curtis is a big fan
The Economist: Isn’t religion an organised panic about death?Mr Curtis: No. I’m not religious but I don’t share the liberal dislike of religion because I think its fundamental point is to reassure us in the face of our own death. That’s what religion does, it gives you a sense that you’re part of something that’s moving onwards. It reassures people. Death is frightening and for a generation who believe that they are alone and were liberated by that idea and had a really good time, to be alone in the face of death is very frightening. So I have a funny feeling that religion might come back. The Economist: I hope you don’t think I’m being reductive, but it sounds as if religion is a bit of a placebo when it comes to mortality.Mr Curtis: Well, you are being reductive because placebos are actually as powerful as real things. As we know, in the three-part episode of South Park called “Imaginationland”, Trey Parker very powerfully argues that imagination has been more powerful in shaping the world that we exist in now than anything else. And he’s right. And that’s what we’ve lost to be honest.
Mr Curtis: No. I’m not religious but I don’t share the liberal dislike of religion because I think its fundamental point is to reassure us in the face of our own death. That’s what religion does, it gives you a sense that you’re part of something that’s moving onwards. It reassures people. Death is frightening and for a generation who believe that they are alone and were liberated by that idea and had a really good time, to be alone in the face of death is very frightening. So I have a funny feeling that religion might come back.
The Economist: I hope you don’t think I’m being reductive, but it sounds as if religion is a bit of a placebo when it comes to mortality.
Mr Curtis: Well, you are being reductive because placebos are actually as powerful as real things. As we know, in the three-part episode of South Park called “Imaginationland”, Trey Parker very powerfully argues that imagination has been more powerful in shaping the world that we exist in now than anything else. And he’s right. And that’s what we’ve lost to be honest.
https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/12/06/the-antidote-to-civilisational-collapse?aggregates/the-economist-intvws-adam-curtis-n-b-full-transcript-long-read
― resident hack (Simon H.), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 15:04 (five years ago) link
lol what
As we know, in the three-part episode of South Park called “Imaginationland”
Further here: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/nov/14/adam-curtis-documentary-south-park-american-honey
― maffew12, Thursday, 20 December 2018 01:08 (five years ago) link
still got it
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/south-park-banned-chinese-internet-critical-episode-1245783
― maura, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 12:19 (four years ago) link
i will say with all the nba stuff happening this episode was pretty well timed
― maura, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 12:20 (four years ago) link
20 years of City Wok and thus is what they snap at haha
― imago, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 12:22 (four years ago) link
Tempting!
Nigel Farage@Nigel_FarageThe British people are done with mainstream media. So we decided to make our own — this series is called Stepping Up.
My first conversation is with Rod Liddle, who I first met deep in the bowels of the European Parliament back in the 1990s, when he was an editor at the BBC...
― Captain ACAB (Neil S), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 12:24 (four years ago) link
lol sorry wrong thread
― Captain ACAB (Neil S), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 12:25 (four years ago) link
farage and liddle to start their own libertarian animated sitcom
― imago, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 12:26 (four years ago) link
Breaking: Effective immediately, Blizzard has removed Hong Kong Hearthstone player blitzchung from Hearthstone Grand Masters, rescinded all his prize money, and have suspended him from pro play for one year for his recent interview. Statement below https://t.co/ByI8vrZk1a pic.twitter.com/3h6jKYezMQ— Rod Breslau (@Slasher) October 8, 2019
― maura, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 12:30 (four years ago) link
no, of course. they've really smartened their act recently
― imago, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 12:38 (four years ago) link
Execellent way to raise awareness and support for Hong Kong protestors. I was trying to watch the new episodes last night but got sleepy after the first episode of the new season (it was kind of meh).
― Yerac, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 12:40 (four years ago) link
if you're under 45 and a climate change denier there's a 100% chance you waddle around the office repeating "man-bear-pig" and thinking you're a yung George Carlin
anyway, good to hear they've changed their tune some i guess
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 15:10 (four years ago) link
I actually give 'em a lot of credit for reversing course on that. Not that their original position wasn't completely idiotic but it takes a lot for smug libertarian types to actually come out and say, "yeah, we were wrong about this one"
― frogbs, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 15:14 (four years ago) link
I just had to look up the name of last year's manbearpig revisit- "Time to Get Cereal" & "Nobody Got Cereal?"
― Yerac, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 15:21 (four years ago) link
enjoyed first 3 episodes of the new season
― imago, Wednesday, 27 November 2019 01:33 (four years ago) link
first 6 episodes completely wonderful. 7th is where we find out whether they've moderated their stance on trans rights though so i'm a bit nervous
― imago, Wednesday, 27 November 2019 23:57 (four years ago) link
the answer turned out to be 'we just wanted to self-knowingly bait the liberals' but i think they're maybe closer to a positive portrayal of an actual trans character, give it another 5 years ffs
nonetheless, the show is generally as good now as it's ever been, both morally and as a satire
― imago, Thursday, 28 November 2019 14:01 (four years ago) link
Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2019 season is nominated in the 2019 ILX TV poll:
ILX's Best Television of 2019 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends January 31
If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (4 minimum, 25 maximum, organized by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail by end of day today. It'll take five minutes; get to it!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 31 January 2020 14:30 (four years ago) link
Pandemic special is out now - nice behind-the-scenes video showing them shipping workstations to the artists' homes, animators crawling under their houses to install ethernet extensions etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox1x-OzxRII
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Saturday, 3 October 2020 22:24 (three years ago) link
Parker and Stone's new deepfake video made me lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WfZuNceFDM
― closed beta (NotEnough), Wednesday, 4 November 2020 16:58 (three years ago) link
kinda endearing that their style of humor has not changed at all over the years, watching that I feel like I'm stuck in 2004
― frogbs, Wednesday, 4 November 2020 17:03 (three years ago) link
900 million!https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/14-south-park-films-parker-stone-deal-1234993150/
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 6 August 2021 03:00 (three years ago) link
"South Park" got really tiresome really fast.
― Michael, Friday, June 8, 2001 (twenty years ago)
― it is to laugh, like so, ha! (Aimless), Friday, 6 August 2021 04:25 (three years ago) link
apparently the next thing shows the characters as if they actually aged normally over the last 25 years?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzEoBrr9gRA
looks fun and lol @ Cartman's chosen profession but everything else seems like Babylon Bee-style humor
― frogbs, Monday, 29 November 2021 18:39 (two years ago) link
The premise is that COVID is "nearly beaten" so things will get back to normal "soon". Trouble is, it's 40 years later.
It's a fairly gun romp at times which closes out the Randy stories of the past couple of seasons and has none-too-subtle digs at anti-vaxxers, cryptocurrency and woke comedians along with some interesting characterisation of what the cast are like at that age.
To be honest, I'd be happy if it was the end of the show. It's a perfectly good full stop, in much the same way that You Got Old was.
― Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Monday, 29 November 2021 18:48 (two years ago) link
o nice, will watch this
― imago, Monday, 29 November 2021 19:03 (two years ago) link
i haven't watched south park in decades but i'll give this a shot
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Monday, 29 November 2021 19:06 (two years ago) link
This show is not ending - it's been extended to its 30th season, with 14 additional movies to be made in between.
https://screenrant.com/south-park-season-30-renewed-new-movies-updates/
― octobeard, Monday, 29 November 2021 19:41 (two years ago) link
It's okay. They got given a massive sum of money to make a dozen or so hour-long specials. The result is that it feels a bit like they don't need money, ratings or notoriety so they are just doing whatever they want, even if it's not really very funny. The format was already evolving over the past few series but it's now feels very different from classic South Park. Reminds me a bit of when Red Dwarf did a series with longer, unfunny episodes and half the cast missing or changed.
It's plot-heavy and there are not many gags and some of them are old, or just fall flat. Removing the kids seems like it would put the show in every shark-jump top ten list forever. Cartman is totally neutered and Butters isn't present so they've lost the best characters. The parents and teachers etc are barely there so they've removed that important dynamic. Kinda expect everything to go back to normal but maybe not.
― everything, Monday, 29 November 2021 20:03 (two years ago) link
It's still pretty good though. 3 bags of popcorn and maybe it'll get better once Butters and the real Cartman show up.
― everything, Monday, 29 November 2021 20:11 (two years ago) link
Didn't mean to imply it was ending, just that it would have made a satisfactory coda.
Butters isn't present
Well, he is, but...
― Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Monday, 29 November 2021 20:17 (two years ago) link