How? Especially in comparison to everything else they've already done.
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South Park | Season 22 |OT| The Boys Are Back in Town
- Thread starter Dangerblade
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lol #cancelsouthpark that's amazing.
Pretty much nailed it, no one cares about school shootings. It is bizarre.
Pretty much nailed it, no one cares about school shootings. It is bizarre.
Just a reminder that Matt Stone is from Littleton, Colorado and Trey Parker lived like, 30 miles away.
Don't like that they went with the period/menopause analogy, but I do feel like Sharon when these things happen. It's insane.
Lame. They never progressed from that great clip they posted. It was just the same joke over and over, with both Sharon and Cartman's stories. They could have done some great skewering with characters thinking up crazy solutions like with the Homeless episode. Instead it just kept reverting to "she must be on the rag" which is a comedic dead-end.
They did progress though the main plot/joke, Sharon started out outraged and was eventually worn down by the constant period jokes and ended up as desensitised as everyone else, that's more interesting and tragically funny than what you suggest
#cancelsouthpark isn't about them trying purposefully to get cancelled, it's making fun of situations like the Roseanne one. I really don't think there is anything they could do in the show that would result in Comedy Central canceling the show, aside from like a 30 minute orgy(then again they had the orgy pile in "Goobacks"), they've been pushing the envelope since 1997.
A very "in your face" start to the season, with a topic that's (unfortunately) all too relevant. Sometimes the joke don't need to be deep/clever to make a point, it feels like this was one of those situations. Shootings, of any kind, should not ever become the norm but unfortunately that's how it feels (even from the outside).
Basically. They will never get cancelled. They made Comedy Central for what it is today.
I saw nothing from that episode that indicates that they've regained their form. The only positive from it is that it seemed more like normal south park with no plot lines from the last few seasons and cartman seems back to normal, but we'll see if they keep anything in the upcoming episodes. The episode itself was pretty unfunny though.
Yeah, I'm fairly sure Deplatforming it is definitely going to be a major theme of the season which should garner a fairly interesting reaction from this message board in particular. If Matt and Trey's history is any indication they will be more in the middle or even pushing back against how much of a trend it has become.
Smart episode that is not funny.
But glad they did it. I was gasping"THEY ARE NOT GOING THERE!" when the first shooting started.
But glad they did it. I was gasping"THEY ARE NOT GOING THERE!" when the first shooting started.
Premiers are historically rough for a lot of South Park seasons, probably because their process doesn't allow much time to shake the rust off for that first episode. It doesn't take long for them to regain form. Even subpar seasons are usually good for a few solid episodes (excluding really crappy stuff like S20) so I wouldn't worry too much.
That was hysterical, holy shit at Mr. Mackey "i'll take care of this one", and "you shot the wrong one".
It was really intelligent too, especially designed for alt-right, gun loving, anti march-for-our-lives crowd that infests the USA.
Great season starter.
It was really intelligent too, especially designed for alt-right, gun loving, anti march-for-our-lives crowd that infests the USA.
Great season starter.
For me it always goes up an hour after airing on Hulu. Last night it aired 10PM PST and showed up at 11PM.
A lot of relevant themes in this one. Hall monitor Butters with a gun was great.
10, with probably a few breaks in between like previous seasons
Holy shit. This may not have been the biggest laugh out loud episode they've made, but that was some grade fucking A South Park. Their portrayal of the school shooting crisis is ridiculously s on point in a way that only they can do. The side story of Cartman just being a racist asshole was the cherry on top.
Just really thinking that's the way it is a lot these days for people gives me fucking chills....man.
Just really thinking that's the way it is a lot these days for people gives me fucking chills....man.
That was a great episode. If the theme of the season is #cancelsouthpark I wonder how hard they will end up going. Even if CC will never actually cancel them.
Last season had a Facebook episode which dumped on Zuckerburg for allowing people to use his platform to launch baseless attacks against others.
I'm not quite sure where they stand, but it's not with the Silicon Valley "all speech is equal" absolutists, and they've skewered that idea before too, in the long-ago NAMBLA episode where the NAMBLA leader delivers a faux-moral of the story that sounds like something the "well actually" crowd would buy into, to which Kyle replies "dude, you have sex with children."
The most horrible part is that it SHOULD be risky. And most likely would have been far more risky in an earlier time. That's in a way kind of the point to the episode.
I think you are right. It will definitely be interesting. They love to remain hard to pin down that is for sure.
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Pretty good episode. Nobody cares much about mass shootings. The period/menopause subplot was funny. The Cartman subplot was meh. It seemed to be referencing some obscure thing on Netflix nobody really watches. I'd give it a 7/10
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Christ this was a great episode.
So reckless. Hope they continue down this trajectory or the rest of the season.
So reckless. Hope they continue down this trajectory or the rest of the season.
You really don't get it do you? The whole point of South Park is that they hold a mirror up to a topical part of society, albeit through their own shitty white boy libertarian viewpoint lens, to magnify the absurd.
It wasn't a great episode because of played out period jokes. That was the whole point. It was deliberately bad. It was through the lens of normalizing the absurd instead of magnifying the absurdity. It was a great episode because it basically flipped the formula on its head.
