re: 15 Things You Probably Didn't Know About South Park

Breesus, if they would have kept the same formulas from older seasons , it would just be The Simpsons v2, a show that nobody watches now.

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Number 16: This season has sucked. Stop with the 6 days to air thing, go back to random well thought out episodes. Go back to broad social commentary hidden in hilarious plots. Go back to Jimmy stuttering. Go back to learning something at the end of the episodes. And for god's sake kill Kenny.

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Dude, if they had kept doing this for as long as South Park has been around you'd be bitching about them needing to get new material.

Don't get me wrong, I've felt the same way about some of their episodes where they clearly find an issue that is popular and churn out an episode with cheap laughs, but to churn out the same jokes would be even worse.

Imagine when South Park goes off the air and 10 years later you decide to re-watch it and imagine how many times you'll go "ohhh yeahhhh, I remember when ____________ was popular"

I knew about the alien thing. I used to look out for it. I haven't in a few years.

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Was that not the episode that stans parents got divorced? That was like the only sad south park episode. Maybe I'm wrong. 

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They were getting a divorce. And the season and episode ended on a brutal note. It was purely fantastic.

The big difference to me between the Simpsons and South Park is that the show is still relevant, while the Simpsons became stale after 7 or 8 seasons. I don't know 1 person who watches that show since then. South Park still has an impact on culture today and I know a lot of people who still enjoy it. Their fans are a little more polarized today, compared to 10 years ago, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

I don't disagree with you in that I'd like them to try a different model than the 6-day, but I would like to see them move onto something else rather than go back to the old schtick.

I can understand people laughing this season. But i don't understand why people keep defending this season as something great. It's just been slightly better than average show. Nothing hilarious or memorable. Just kind of humorous commentary.


The episodes are too specific and driven by current events. That's my problem. If you don't care about the event they are focusing on the show falls flat. And there's nothing to redeem it because they don't have a plot or character driver story lines anymore. It's a bummer.

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If you enjoyed that more than Handy Car, or thought it was going in a better direction at that point than this point, well that is just interesting.

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Maybe it's because I live in New Orleans. In the south. And I've been too busy to read petty nationwide bullshite this year. Which is what this season is based on.


Episode 1:
No one gives a shite about kick-starter. Not anyone I interact with anyway. And the redskins jokes just didn't land for me. I did think the Goodell bot scene was funny. All the owners on the screens and his clips from press conferences being being used made me laugh my arse off. Other than that it was just a meh episode for me.

Episode 2: gluten free ebola
Ug.

Episode 3:
We don't have a gender/sexual orientation crisis here. I literally never hear about all the transgender stuff or whatever cisgender is unless I happen to read an article from California, Washington, or somewhere in the northeast. An entire episode dedicate to it isn't necessarily wrong, but I didn't think it was hilarious. I don't think I laughed during this episode other than the scene when Randy explained how he makes lorde's music in the garage. That was kind of funny. But they have already done this plot once when Kyle turned into a black guy to play basketball and his dad turned into a dolphin. Does anyone think this episode was better than that?

Episode 4:
Again, uber just started here and no one really uses it. Also, I have no problem with taking cabs. They had such a good opportunity when they brought the camp tardi caca kids back in, but then the episode just fell flat to me. Matthew Maconahey made me chuckle a little though.

the chocolate salty balls factoid

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The alien thing isn't true

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I didn't think it was, but I remember one season where I believe they did one in every episode. We used to post pics of it in the episode discussion threads on here. They definitely insert aliens randomly into episodes, but that time IIRC, it happened for an entire season. Stuff like this:

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Maybe it's because I live in New Orleans. In the south. And I've been too busy to read petty nationwide bullshite this year. Which is what this season is based on.

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Uh so do I cheif, and this is 2014, it doesn't take some extreme investigative ability to know about Uber and kick starter. You are on this site more than me you know about this shite too.

I'm not trying to convince you to like it, but that was pretty weak. I can understand why you don't love it, but I mean they have already peaked, just enjoy it for what it is.

Nobody goes to a rolling stones show to see them play one of their new singles. They go because they appreciate their greatness as a whole, and they still can rock.

These guys have one of, if not the most successful musicals worldwide; they do the show still for the fans.