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 (two 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 (two 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
Yes, I do expect the next episode to be funnier.
― everything, Monday, 29 November 2021 20:19 (two years ago) link
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.
― Nhex, Monday, 29 November 2021 20:56 (two years ago) link
I loved PC Principal
― licorice in the front, pizza in the rear (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 29 November 2021 21:41 (two years ago) link
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.
― everything, Wednesday, 22 December 2021 02:08 (two years ago) link
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
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 6 June 2023 21:56 (ten months ago) link
That story is amazing
― young sussy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 01:22 (ten months ago) link