Official South Park thread

FrankieG

Newch91 wrote:

FrankieG wrote:

This show hass gotten really good. TMI was so well done. I was crying cause I was laughing so hard last night.

Between this and Modern Family last night, I couldn't stop crying from laughing. Randy had me laughing so much, especially the first line he said last night:

"Wait! Did they measure from the base or from the balls?"

That and the formulas were hilarious. The solution to lowering the average was so awesome.
:thumbup:

Newch91

FrankieG wrote:

Newch91 wrote:

FrankieG wrote:

This show hass gotten really good. TMI was so well done. I was crying cause I was laughing so hard last night.

Between this and Modern Family last night, I couldn't stop crying from laughing. Randy had me laughing so much, especially the first line he said last night:

"Wait! Did they measure from the base or from the balls?"

That and the formulas were hilarious. The solution to lowering the average was so awesome.
:thumbup:

The fact that Cartman was still small made it even funnier. I think this was the best of the season so far.

mca47

Newch91 wrote:

Horos wrote:

Newch91 wrote:

Randy Marsh is by far the funniest character on the show.

:thumbup: :thumbup: AGREED!!!

:thumbup: I think I first realized how funny he was was in the baseball episode, where he kept getting drunk and fighting everyone in the stands.

Yeah, that episode was CLASSIC!

mca47

I also like the scene with Butters and the protractor!

SatansFuton

Horos wrote:

Newch91 wrote:

Randy Marsh is by far the funniest character on the show.

:thumbup: :thumbup: AGREED!!!

Sh-Sharon

Newch91

Butters singing "Boom Boom Pow" in the Japanese restaurant.

Horos

Maybe I'm just being cynical but last nights episode was shit.

Newch91

Grandpa Horos wrote:

Maybe I'm just being cynical but last nights episode was shit.

Is it just me with last night's episode that the end of South Park is near? I know this was the mid-season finale.

AllNiteThing

That episode was hilarious!

'This movie is rated ARG for Pirates. F*ck you.'

Newch91

AllNiteThing wrote:

That episode was hilarious!

'This movie is rated ARG for Pirates. F*ck you.'

Definitely was. I couldn't stop laughing at the part when the parents were talking to the kids about their music and that they wouldn't allow them to listen to it and then you see Randy sitting with the kids.

Ledbetterman10

Newch91 wrote:

Grandpa Horos wrote:

Maybe I'm just being cynical but last nights episode was shit.

Is it just me with last night's episode that the end of South Park is near? I know this was the mid-season finale.

I think this might be the last season. They have two years left on their contract but have notihng left to give to this show creatively. I don't think Comedy Central will be too harsh on Matt and Trey with renegotiating because Comedy Central probably wouldn't even exist today if not for Matt and Trey. Like Brett Favre's career or Keith Richards life.....all good things must come to an end. Good news though. If this next half-season is really the last...they might actually TRY to make it good!

Horos

Newch91 wrote:

Grandpa Horos wrote:

Maybe I'm just being cynical but last nights episode was shit.

Is it just me with last night's episode that the end of South Park is near? I know this was the mid-season finale.

Does kind of look that way. My son says he read that Matt and Trey are tired of doing it. I'm hoping if that is true they find someone who can actually carry the torch for them and continue.

Newch91

Sharon's speech at the end made me realize the end is probably near, talking about how it's the same thing every week. I don't remember the exact quote.

Newch91

Randy Marsh wrote:

Newch91 wrote:

Grandpa Horos wrote:

Maybe I'm just being cynical but last nights episode was shit.

Is it just me with last night's episode that the end of South Park is near? I know this was the mid-season finale.

Does kind of look that way. My son says he read that Matt and Trey are tired of doing it. I'm hoping if that is true they find someone who can actually carry the torch for them and continue.

I love your avatar.

Ledbetterman10

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SatansFuton

I was a little confused by it. Well, just the end. I can't tell if they were trying to send a message of the fact that they're tired of doing the show or what. And I don't know if the ending was just a parody of overly-dramatic season finale shows, or if they were actually trying to say something.

I read that Matt and Trey are under contract to do South Park until 2013, so I wouldn't think this would be the end, unless they plan on getting out of their contract. As it stands, the show is supposed to be back in October. I bet that they come back in October and the Marsh family still lives in South Park, and it was like none of that ever happened. The fact that the end of the episode was such a bummer makes me think that it was just parody, because I can't imagine Matt and Trey actually getting that dramatic with the show. If it was parody, it wasn't a very funny parody. I think it's just another joke they're playing on the fans.

If that was the end, it would be a bad end for the show. South Park deserves to go out with a bang, not an overly dramatic montage set to Fleetwood Mac's "Landslide".

tcaporale

It's not the end of the season, there's till seven more episodes to go in the fall. I saw it as a commentary at the negativity that the South Park writers have received in terms of a "decline" in quality these last few seasons. Instead of laughing and focusing on what is good about the show, people will nitpick at every possible chance. This mirrors Stan seeing everything as "shit" and only focusing on the downside of everything. I actually think that episode was quite excellent and the ending was actually rather emotional for a show that usually parodies that kind of thing.

This entire season has felt a lot darker to me. The kids are getting older and starting to realize how the world actually is. As ridiculous and funny as it was, the whole "Slash not being real" thing could sort of symbolize this. Stan in particular has been odd this season, considering his almost uncaring reaction to Kyle becoming involved in the "crack baby" scam and the fact that he knew that Slash wasn't real the whole time. Couple that with this past episode and I think Stan essentially stands for the fans of the show, who saw the show grow up from its less sophisticated roots to more of a social commentary and are now speaking out against it. I'm very interested to see what they do with Stan in the next seven episodes. I don't know if this is the final season but they kind of laid the groundwork for that to be possible. I know I'm probably over-analyzing but Matt and Trey are a lot more clever writers than people give them credit for.

Newch91

tcaporale wrote:

It's not the end of the season, there's till seven more episodes to go in the fall. I saw it as a commentary at the negativity that the South Park writers have received in terms of a "decline" in quality these last few seasons. Instead of laughing and focusing on what is good about the show, people will nitpick at every possible chance. This mirrors Stan seeing everything as "shit" and only focusing on the downside of everything. I actually think that episode was quite excellent and the ending was actually rather emotional for a show that usually parodies that kind of thing.

This entire season has felt a lot darker to me. The kids are getting older and starting to realize how the world actually is. As ridiculous and funny as it was, the whole "Slash not being real" thing could sort of symbolize this. Stan in particular has been odd this season, considering his almost uncaring reaction to Kyle becoming involved in the "crack baby" scam and the fact that he knew that Slash wasn't real the whole time. Couple that with this past episode and I think Stan essentially stands for the fans of the show, who saw the show grow up from its less sophisticated roots to more of a social commentary and are now speaking out against it. I'm very interested to see what they do with Stan in the next seven episodes. I don't know if this is the final season but they kind of laid the groundwork for that to be possible. I know I'm probably over-analyzing but Matt and Trey are a lot more clever writers than people give them credit for.

That was a really good insight to it. I feel like I have to go back and watch this half of the season again to get what you're saying.

Ledbetterman10

tcaporale wrote:

I know I'm probably over-analyzing but Matt and Trey are a lot more clever writers than people give them credit for.

I don't think anyone disputes that they're clever writers. I think the complaint from most fans is that they've become very lazy with South Park over the past few years. It could be due in large part to the creation of The Book Of Mormon sapping a lot of their time, energy, and creative juices. When they're inspired, South Park can still be good. The 200th episode was an example of this. Even the Coon Trilogy, while silly at times, was at least a focused effort. But some episodes, even ones with good premises, seem written in some sort of "haste" as if to say "Here's this week's South Park, whatever." In fact, the Adam Sandler/Jim Carrey movie trailers in the latest episode could be representative of what South Park has become. I remember Trey once saying how he felt a season of South Park was "like an album and each episode was a song". I think he'd agree at this point that many of his latest "albums" have been packed with filler-junk.

I think that South Park will end this year after the 2nd run of this season. But I think the remaining episodes will be brilliant. They've planted the seeds of a season "arc" with the Marsh divorce/Cartman and Kyle friendship and I'm very interested to see where it goes. And even if they do end South Park, it's not like they can't just bring it back someday if they feel inspired or simply want to comment on something. It's just a cartoon.

tcaporale

Yeah, I think part of the problem is that they're just not as inspired to make the show as they once were. They pretty much blatantly said it during the Randy/Sharon breakup dialogue near the end. Really, it's hard to blame them, they've been doing it for a while and it's gotta take a lot out of them.

Still, I think the episode last night was by far the best of the season. Well, the first half of the season. The movie previews were very funny - "Rated ARG for Pirates, fuck you!"