South Park: Classic or Dud?

Don't watch it regularly but I think I saw this one way back, and the appearance of Moses as "super-computer" is more specifically the MCP from Tron. (Which had David Warner's face.)

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

Will you suck my cock?

love,
Uncle Sam

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)

btw I've got aides

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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.

xpost my thoughts exactly

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?

Thanks for opening my eyes!

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).

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.

It's still pretty good though. 3 bags of popcorn and maybe it'll get better once Butters and the real Cartman show up.

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...

Yes, I do expect the next episode to be funnier.

There was a point where the show started getting heavily serialized and I was kind of curious to see how that would play out, but the character of "PC Principal" was so detached from reality it was hard to watch so much of him. Yes, even for South Park, it was too stupid.

I loved PC Principal

The second part was pretty funny. I watched it with a few others and we were all laughing a lot. Still think they wasted Cartman but Butters destiny was pretty lol.

Thought this was pretty cool, and like many non-Coloradans, I didn’t know if it was a real place or something they’d come up with for the show:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/06/us/casa-bonita-restaurant.html

That story is amazing