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South Park - Season 17 - Begins September 25th @ 10PM ET
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Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Not everything is a reference. If you watch the show with that kind of mindset, you're overthinking it. Just appreciate how completely stupid some of the material they write is, and laugh at it. Enjoy those "WTF moments".
Grinchy
Banned
I wasn't saying I was looking for references because only references are funny, I was saying that I assumed it was so unfunny because I wasn't aware of the references. Since there weren't references I was unaware of, it must have just been horrible on its own.
For me it was the worst episode of the new season
Gucci Messiah
Banned
ncsuDuncan
Member
No wayyyyy!
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
Actually, that was the other thing that gave me a chuckle from the episode.
No wayyyyy....
Old Gimlet Eyes
Member
Worst episode in a long time. Really didnt even get a chuckle other than the black emo guy. Cant wait for the new ike episode though, that looks great.
DrForester
Kills Photobucket
It didn't match with other random episodes they've done recently, my favorite being "Royal Pudding", but I found this episode to be quite enjoyable.
Net_Wrecker
Member
Random black guy was amazing. At first I thought it was some weird play on Cochise from The Warriors considering the Emo vs. Goth gang stuff, but I have no idea. T'was just funny.
Gintoki313
Banned
Just saw the goth episode, and it was really funny.
Edgar Allen Poe, oops sorry I mean. Nightpain, was hilarous.
XD
Edgar Allen Poe, oops sorry I mean. Nightpain, was hilarous.
XD
Does anyone else think that the show has changed dramatically?
In the older episodes the kids are curious children who don't know much about the world. In the more recent seasons they make the kids way smarter than the adults and instead of being uninformed children they are just instantly smarter and more skeptical about things than anyone else. Cartman went from a stupid fat kid to some sort of evil genius.
I feel episodes like Fingerbang (where the boys actually think they can become a millionaire boy band) would not happen anymore since the kids would be too skeptical of the idea.
Also, whatever happened to the Southpark Mayor, Big Gay Al, Kenny's Parents, etc. In fact, Kenny hasn't been a big part of the show for a very long time.
In the older episodes the kids are curious children who don't know much about the world. In the more recent seasons they make the kids way smarter than the adults and instead of being uninformed children they are just instantly smarter and more skeptical about things than anyone else. Cartman went from a stupid fat kid to some sort of evil genius.
I feel episodes like Fingerbang (where the boys actually think they can become a millionaire boy band) would not happen anymore since the kids would be too skeptical of the idea.
Also, whatever happened to the Southpark Mayor, Big Gay Al, Kenny's Parents, etc. In fact, Kenny hasn't been a big part of the show for a very long time.
vas_a_morir
Banned
Eric Cartman is the smartest child character in television history. His social intelligence is just unreal. He speaks 4 languages, starts and manages successful businesses, manipulates people, successfully petitions Congress to change US law...
Professor Chaos
Member
It pains me to say it, but this was the first South Park episode that I flat out disliked. I don't think the goth kids have enough characterization to carry a whole episode by themselves.
With the way South Park is going, I can't see that there is a lot for Kenny to do anymore. I just hope we get some more Coon/Mysterion episodes to let him shine a bit.
Episode #5 Taming Strange
"When Ike hits puberty, he and Kyle start to grow apart. To save their relationship, Kyle takes Ike to see a live performance of Yo Gabba Gabba."
http://www.southparkstudios.com/guide/episodes/s17e05-taming-strange
"When Ike hits puberty, he and Kyle start to grow apart. To save their relationship, Kyle takes Ike to see a live performance of Yo Gabba Gabba."
http://www.southparkstudios.com/guide/episodes/s17e05-taming-strange
This episode will confuses me.
So wait
In 2006, (miss teacher bangs a boy) Ike was in kindergarten. So let's say he was 5. It's now 2013, so he would now be 12. Yeah. That checks out.
BUT NO ONE ELSE HAS AGED
lol. The main gang should be like, in their early twenties by now.
Haha, who knows. I just thought the title was a Breaking Bad reference. If the preview clip gets posted I'll add it.
King Allant
Member
oh god, when are they going to do my Kenny episode :l
It just seems really inconsistent, at least make the boys in high school now or something.
Homer would be a AARP member and collecting social security if characters aged.
Yeah, but Faith +1 totally could come out today.
Not really the same though. This is the equivalent of Maggie aging into puberty, whilst everyone else stays exactly the same age. That hasn't happened in The Simpsons.
Gucci Messiah
Banned
I didn't even make that connection until now. I doubt Matt and Trey were referencing The Warriors here but that would be sweet if they were.
This is the thing, in the earlier seasons of the show he was just a dumb spoiled kid and later on he is an evil genius that is capable of doing crazy things without even trying that hard. I think the whole show's concept of kids finding things out about the world is gone. The character changes are just insane.
ambientmystic
Member
On a somewhat related note, they changed his speech patterns and mannerisms sometime between Season 3 and 4, I think. The pitch of his voice is very different.
(Watch Cartman in Season 1 - 3 episodes and compare it with the later seasons, it's very jarring, and also coincided with his sudden rise in I.Q. and E.Q.)
Napoleonthechimp
Member
I pretty much agree with all of this.
I was expecting the whole black guy in a twilight t-shirt to go somewhere but it never did.
dapperbandit
Banned
Really odd episode
It was funny in places, but I thought South Park was supposed to topical?
I haven't heard people talk about emos and goths since 2009.
It was funny in places, but I thought South Park was supposed to topical?
I haven't heard people talk about emos and goths since 2009.
Frankie Williamson
Member
Probably because doing the voice the old way was rough on Trey Parker's throat. Watching that 6 Days to Air doc, looks like a good amount of Eric Cartman's voice is post production.
Gucci Messiah
Banned
They do original storylines, just not as often as in the past
Grinchy
Banned
I don't really mind when they aren't topical, but this storyline and episode just sucked.
Gucci Messiah
Banned
I thought the goth episode was fun until we discovered that the plants weren't really emo plants
The whole reality show twist at the end was kind of lame
Yeah, I agree. Bad ending but an otherwise fun episode. No waaaaaaaaaaaaaay
Coffee Dog
Banned
Is it really that hard to believe that ike is going through puberty at 5?
He is canadian.
it didn't reference anything, it was just funny seeing an older black guy chilling with Twilight fans calling 'em niggas and shit.
they've done it before, like the random black guy who was part of the North American Marlon Brando Look-Alikes
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
That clip is already funnier than the whole goth episode.
Wait, Ike finally talks now? lol.
Gucci Messiah
Banned
He's been talking
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
Sorry, I meant with an adult voice.
perfectchaos007
Member
I have a feeling they are going to grossly misuse the word "strange" in the episode. Having sex with a mistress while in wedlock is getting some strange, but Ike isn't married so he can't get possibly get some strange.
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