South Park: Classic or Dud?

YES and the payoff to that bit is amazing

No episode this week so I returned to the Grounded Vindaloop one that keeps making best-episode lists. I mean I'm still laughing now

this new season has been great.

has 'tegridy for sure

this episode was awesome

OMG the Halloween episode

there's a non-zero chance the best TV series of 2018 will end up being South Park S22

omg a manbearpig walkback!!!!! but of course one that satirises walkbacks lol

Waiiiiitaminute. Are you suggesting that P+S might actually be questioning the dumbest take they've stubbornly clung to for the past two decades? This I've gotta see.

it was time

now they just have to roll out a positive portrayal of a trans person

Dutch age change guy reminds me so much of Dutch colleague...who loved south park

Bezos as Star Trek Talosian A++. Great episode

holy SHIT at that "16 Tons" opening sequence

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)

holy SHIT at that "16 Tons" opening sequence

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

they just have to walk back some of the transphobia and i'll be close to 100% on board

Ok the politics are good but is the show funny

this season has been excellent and funny

I mean, I laughed. I especially liked how mutant Bezos had the Mayor in his pocket, which was both funny and timely.

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.

yes!!!

I am dying to watch this episode. I fell asleep during the anxiety one.

for any curious/doubtful lurkers, the sequence maura and I mentioned:

https://youtu.be/eX4C0CctGSo

^^ that's great.

pic.twitter.com/uGulpztbVt

— Chris Barrus (@quartzcity) December 7, 2018

srsly, best tv series of 2018

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.

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

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

still got it

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/south-park-banned-chinese-internet-critical-episode-1245783

i will say with all the nba stuff happening this episode was pretty well timed

20 years of City Wok and thus is what they snap at haha

Tempting!

Nigel Farage
@Nigel_Farage
The 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...

lol sorry wrong thread

farage and liddle to start their own libertarian animated sitcom

20 years of City Wok and thus is what they snap at haha

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

no, of course. they've really smartened their act recently

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).

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

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"

I just had to look up the name of last year's manbearpig revisit- "Time to Get Cereal" & "Nobody Got Cereal?"

enjoyed first 3 episodes of the new season

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

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

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!

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

Parker and Stone's new deepfake video made me lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WfZuNceFDM

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

900 million!
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/14-south-park-films-parker-stone-deal-1234993150/

"South Park" got really tiresome really fast.

― Michael, Friday, June 8, 2001 (twenty years ago)