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[grap3fruitman]

I definitely consider myself in the camp that prefers the earlier seasons.

Agreed. I liked the show when it was about kids being kids but taking things a step too far and occasionally there would be a knock at a celebrity. Now the shows is almost entirely about what Matt and Trey hate about pop culture.

 

[Sapiens]

To this day what separates South Park from shows like The Simpsons is the speed in which they pump out current event episodes.

Watching the Simpsons and seeing a damn Avatar joke a year or so after the movie was relevant, where as South Park will have it the week of release.

South Park had it like a month before.

What really seperates South Park from Simpsons is risk. Matt and Trey can afford to take risks on story telling ideas because the cost of producing an episode is nothing compared to an episode of the Simpsons. It takes them a week to make a South Park and six months to make a Simpsons.

Simpsons has to shoot for a certain level of comedy while not wasting all the millions on a potentially risky idea that may or may not sell to the audience. What you end up with on the Simpsons is an extremely competant show. Ron Howard-esque in it's workmanship. Not for me. Not funny.

With South Park - it's always magic because the funnies episode you'll ever see could be next weeks - or maybe it'll be the worst you've seen.

It's always entertaining though.

 

[Dynamite Ringo Matsuri]

No way! A Million Little Fibers is awesome. The dialog between Oprah's vagina and anus throughout the entire episode is ridiculous.

That episode is hilarious. I loved the accents they had. My favorite episodes have always been the batshit insane episodes that focus on some conspiracy or just venture into ridiculous territory. Stuff like Canceled, that Easter bunny one, Death Camp of Intolerance, The Entity, All About the Mormons, Woodland Creatures etc. I find funnier than anything else out there.

 

[Cromat]

The show started declining in the 11th season, and I think it really became noticeable in this season. Too much self-referencing and rehashing. It's still worth watching of course, and it's still better than the other adult cartoons.

 

[scoobs]

i think it did fall off around season 11-13ish. But this last season was gold!

 

[Stormwatch]

i think it did fall off around season 11-13ish. But this last season was gold!

Yeah, I agree with this. There was a lull during those seasons, but I really enjoyed season 14. Between the 200/201 controversy, the Coon saga, Creme Freiche, and more I laughed a lot this past season.

 

[BertramCooper]

The only time the show really pisses me off is when it fucks up its own continuity, tenuous though it may be.

I was very annoyed by the lame reveal that Cartman's father was Mr. Tenorman. Not only is it not that funny, but it also ruins the hysterical "Cartman's Mom is a Dirty Slut/Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Slut" episodes from Seasons 1 and 2.

And I also hated the Mysterion garbage, which I think takes a lot of fun out of Kenny's deaths in the early season.

Basically, I don't like the way Trey and Matt treat the early seasons. They always seem embarrassed by them, and now it's like they're going out of their way to mess with them.

 

[Angry Fork]

South Park gets better with every new season.

I felt like this was true until like season 11 or 12 I think, then it started to decline. I think the season with the imaginationland trilogy is like the peak, and then seasons after that they kind of had BS filler episodes that just kept taking meme's from the internet, or parodying movies and flipping them.

I still love the show and pretty much every episode makes me laugh, but sometimes there are episodes now that are pretty dumb and ridiculous even by South Park standards. I actually hate the earlier seasons like from season 1-4, they're so bad now imo and are filled with shitty jokes and the boys just cursing up a storm because you could tell back then that was controversial and that's what made people laugh and so on. I feel like they're sooo much better now in terms of writing and I enjoy the episodes more because of that.

 

[Corky]

So does anybody know what the episode will be about?

Want to be a trillion dollars it'll be about Charlie Sheen ? ._.

 

[The Technomancer]

I think 12 and 13 were the weakest since the first three seasons, but I loved season 14.
"You Have 0 Friends", "200 & 201", "Cripple Summer", and the entire Coon arc were some of my favorite episodes ever.

 

[GaimeGuy]

The only time the show really pisses me off is when it fucks up its own continuity, tenuous though it may be.

I was very annoyed by the lame reveal that Cartman's father was Mr. Tenorman. Not only is it not that funny, but it also ruins the hysterical "Cartman's Mom is a Dirty Slut/Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Slut" episodes from Seasons 1 and 2.

And I also hated the Mysterion garbage, which I think takes a lot of fun out of Kenny's deaths in the early season.

Basically, I don't like the way Trey and Matt treat the early seasons. They always seem embarrassed by them, and now it's like they're going out of their way to mess with them.

why? Because Kenny's ability to return from the dead is no longer magic, but a magical curse of a Cthulhu cult? And because Cartman's dad is Jack tenorman, who was a right tackle for the Denver Broncos in the south park universe?

That's not messing with the earlier seasons, but expanding upon them while maintaining the continuity and ridiculousness of it all, lol

 

[BertramCooper]

why? Because Kenny's ability to return from the dead is no longer magic, but a magical curse of a Cthulhu cult? And because Cartman's dad is Jack tenorman, who was a right tackle for the Denver Broncos in the south park universe?

That's not messing with the earlier seasons, but expanding upon them while maintaining the continuity and ridiculousness of it all, lol

But they don't add to them. They just make them less funny.

Liane Cartman being a hermaphrodite and Cartman's father is far more hilarious than Jack Tenorman being his father.

And Kenny's deaths being left unexplained is more entertaining than some stupid explanation for them.

 

[Jtrizzy]

I'm with the season 5/6 and forward crowd. The early episodes are too rudimentary.

 

[Souldriver]

A quick look at the seasons show me that my favorite ones are season 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. The more you go back in time from season 4 to 1, the less good the episodes get. From season 10 and onward, there are still great episodes, but not in such a density as in 5 to 9.


As I said before, last season had 5 episodes (200-201 and the coon trilogy) that I really didn't like. I just didn't care for the story (which is important if you end episodes with cliffhangers) and the humor was also pretty meh. I'm with the people who thought that the Mr Tenorman storyline and Kenny's death storyline were not funny or all that clever. But more than those 2 things, I remember being annoyed by the whole Cthulhu-Cartman-Totoro thing. It made me cringe. I also agree with the people who think that recent episodes won't age as well because the cultural and current events references are now way more pronounced. Insheeption was more of a remake of the movie instead of just "taking inspiration" from it.


But even though SP right now is not as good as it used to be, and there are some stinkers here and there, I still thoroughly enjoy watching the show. It's still a very entertaining series, and in no way do the newer seasons go off the deep end like other series do/have done in their later seasons (like, the Simpsons).

 

[DrForester]

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