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[TheContact]

I love South Park and I really can't wait for this.

Here's a 30 second trailer:



and and an article about it:

South Park To Premiere A Pandemic Special Event Episode

Comedy Central announced an hour-long South Park "pandemic special."

www.denofgeek.com

 

[-Arcadia-]

Okay, sometimes I’m put off by how it’s just a parody of last week, or recent times, but this is absolutely perfect.

 

[haxan7]

Something tells me it’s gonna be good

 

[YCoCg]

Ooooh this is going to piss off a lot of people here. And a lot of people on REEE. I can't wait, feels like an entire different era since South Park was last on.

 

[#Phonepunk#]

I can’t wait! Feel like so many times this summer I wished South Park was coveting the insane shit going on in the news.

Now, I almost feel like they are desperately needed. Culture is so damn serious right now. I want them to push some much needed buttons.

 

[brap]

Can't even remember the last time I watched SP. Got tired of all the current events shit.

 

[-Arcadia-]

Can't even remember the last time I watched SP. Got tired of all the current events shit.

A few actual creative, fictional stories would be nice occasionally. Mix it up a little bit. Everything is just ‘Last week in America’.

 

[MetalAlien]

A few actual creative, fictional stories would be nice occasionally. Mix it up a little bit. Everything is just ‘Last week in America’.

and I can't get enough

 

[Aggressive Carrot]

I haven't watched South Park for the last 4 or 5 seasons. Still not sure if it's worth going back to.

Edit: Just realized they're on season 24. It's been more like 7 missed seasons.

 

[Ememee]

It’ll be interesting to see their views to say the least.

 

[GaijinZero]

2 weeks seems so far away, but I'm glad to have a little normalcy return. Can't wait!

 

[FreedomOfSpeech]

This gonna be good!

I found last season pretty tight.

 

[daveonezero]

Good.

 

[ManaByte]

People are going to demand this episode be banned for wrongthink.

 

[JordanN]

Okay, sometimes I’m put off by how it’s just a parody of last week, or recent times, but this is absolutely perfect.

South Park has always been that way.

Like the first episode right after 9/11 was everyone being scared of terrorists.

 

[brap]

It's always been that way.

Like the first episode right after 9/11 was everyone being scared of terrorists.

No it hasn't. They've always had a bunch of episodes about random shit. Now it's like 99% current events.

 

[bronk]

No it hasn't. They've always had a bunch of episodes about random shit. Now it's like 99% current events.

True. Like Scott Tennerman and stuff like that. I like a mix of both.

 

[belmarduk]

Is South Park still good? I haven't seen it in years... and Simpsons and Family Guy have definitely declined in quality.

 

[Falcs]

Pleeeeeease have BLM/Antifa stuff in it

 

[Ememee]

Is South Park still good? I haven't seen it in years... and Simpsons and Family Guy have definitely declined in quality.

You definitely felt the decline the last few years. And as several have mentioned the focus on recent events doesn’t hold up as well as their older stand alone episodes. But I’d say the decline isn’t as bad as FG/Simpsons.

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

Can't even remember the last time I watched SP. Got tired of all the current events shit.

The quality has gone to shit, would not recommend it. The last good episode was when Butters was a mexican. Which was like what, 9 seasons ago?

 

[GymWolf]

Can't wait to see randy's fuckery during the pandemic.

 

[Stilton Disco]

I haven't watched South Park for the last 4 or 5 seasons. Still not sure if it's worth going back to.

Edit: Just realized they're on season 24. It's been more like 7 missed seasons.

I stopped watching after the episode where Cartman fed a boy his own parents in an elaborate chilli contest prank.

I considered it so perfectly horrific, yet hilarious, that either it would never be able to top that moment, or in doing so it would have to go too far and not be able to also land the humour.

 

[Darko]

I stopped watching after the episode where Cartman fed a boy his own parents in an elaborate chilli contest prank.

I considered it so perfectly horrific, yet hilarious, that either it would never be able to top that moment, or in doing so it would have to go too far and not be able to also land the humour.

That is the best episode of South Park imo but they have had plenty of gems since then.

 

[bitbydeath]

Can't even remember the last time I watched SP. Got tired of all the current events shit.

 

[Stitch]

Randy needs to move away from that stupid Tegridy Farm

 

[OneBigPuss]

2020 is a parody of itself so it will be hard for South Park to top it off

 

[Fbh]

About time!, Can't wait.

If there's one recent year where I don't mind the whole season using the "last week in America" style of episodes, it's this one.

 

[Explosive Zombie]

Best show on television

 

[#Phonepunk#]

I haven't watched South Park for the last 4 or 5 seasons. Still not sure if it's worth going back to.

Edit: Just realized they're on season 24. It's been more like 7 missed seasons.

Aw so you don’t know about PC Principal or MemberBerries? It’s some good stuff.

I member!

 

[#Phonepunk#]

Strong woman was maybe the funniest SP I had seen in a long time.

 

[Explosive Zombie]

I do think there's been some stumbles the last few seasons, the 2016 election season might be the worst season they've ever had (with some real highs still!) but I think they've been recovering from that pretty well.

 

[Aggressive Carrot]

Aw so you don’t know about PC Principal or MemberBerries? It’s some good stuff.

I member!

I missed out on all of that. I remember seeing PC Principal in the commercials but that's it.

 

[TheContact]

I do think there's been some stumbles the last few seasons, the 2016 election season might be the worst season they've ever had (with some real highs still!) but I think they've been recovering from that pretty well.

South Park puts themselves in a unique position to be able to create an episode in a week, so the topical humor it has is immediately relatable to current events. This was evident in the Obama wins episode, because when Obama won, literally the next day the episode was about Obama winning. This was a combination of predicting he was going to win, combined with the episode being created in under a week. Matt and Trey thoroughly expected Trump to lose, so when they wrote Garrison in as this racist psychopath, they thought it would just end there and that story would fade out, but when Trump won, they had to completely re-write the entire season and, while they did an OK job, it was easily one of their worst seasons. They recovered well though, and that one season was a blemish on an otherwise stellar series.

 

[Explosive Zombie]

South Park puts themselves in a unique position to be able to create an episode in a week, so the topical humor it has is immediately relatable to current events. This was evident in the Obama wins episode, because when Obama won, literally the next day the episode was about Obama winning. This was a combination of predicting he was going to win, combined with the episode being created in under a week. Matt and Trey thoroughly expected Trump to lose, so when they wrote Garrison in as this racist psychopath, they thought it would just end there and that story would fade out, but when Trump won, they had to completely re-write the entire season and, while they did an OK job, it was easily one of their worst seasons. They recovered well though, and that one season was a blemish on an otherwise stellar series.

Yeah, exactly, whole sub-plots get completely dropped as a result, too.

 

[#Phonepunk#]

yeah i thought 2016 was trash but they have gotten better and better since then. plus the jokes that did work like Member Berries & PC Principal are just too potent, glad they have kept them on.

I missed out on all of that. I remember seeing PC Principal in the commercials but that's it.

Member Berries is so good.

 

[John Mullins]

Didn't find it funny.

Scuzzlebutt is my favourite episode.

 

[BlackOlivesMatter]

Nothing beats Starvin Marvin

 

[McHuj]

Nothing will ever beat the Scott Tenorman Must Die episode.

But looking forward to this.

 

[T8SC]

Nothing will ever beat Make Love Not Warcraft.

But I'll give this a watch.

 

[Darko]

Nothing beats Starvin Marvin

Nothing will ever beat the Scott Tenorman Must Die episode.

But looking forward to this.

Nothing will ever beat Make Love Not Warcraft.

But I'll give this a watch.

I agree

 

[frostyxc]

Nothing will ever beat Make Love Not Warcraft.

But I'll give this a watch.

I'm going to spoiler this so no one is taken aback and refunds their lunch.

Spoiler

 

[J-Roderton]

South Park is timeless.

 

[Explosive Zombie]

Nothing beats Night of the Living Homeless.

But I'll give this a watch.

 

[hariseldon]

Been watching season 1 recently. When you see the sheer quality of those episodes it becomes clear that South Park has become a mere shadow of what it once was.

 

[Explosive Zombie]

Been watching season 1 recently. When you see the sheer quality of those episodes it becomes clear that South Park has become a mere shadow of what it once was.

No... it got so much better than Season 1... peaked somewhere around 10 but is still better than it was in the start.

 

[Halo is Back]

My body is fucking ready for this......

 

[hariseldon]

No... it got so much better than Season 1... peaked somewhere around 10 but is still better than it was in the start.

Nothing will ever beat Mr Hankey The Christmas Poo and An Elephant Makes Love To A Pig. Death was awesome too. Mr Hankey is the best of those - genuinely laughed my arse off.

 

[MrTroubleMaker]

nice !

 

[Woffls]

Pooh bear drops a pot of genetically modified honey on a plane to Colorado?