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Originally posted by Mike:
I didn't like last week's episode, it was probably the first time that I actually didn't laugh during the entire show. I hope this is a hint as to how the rest of the season will be, guess we can all find out in a couple days.



Wait, your hoping that it IS a hint of whats to come. Meaning you hope the rest of the episodes are as bad as you felt about the one you just saw?!

Lol, please clarify...

Typo, I meant "Isn't." Thank you for noting me of it. I hate having typos in my writing.

I thought the hippie episode didn't live up to its concept. It kinda lost steam when it got to the part with the drill. They kinda blew it by solving the situation with a Bruckheimer spoof.

It seemed like the hippies should have either all been killed brutally or all faced the incoherency of their ideals. They simply wandered off, free to continue preaching their half-baked theories of corporations and utopian jam band festivals. That left a bad taste in my mouth. I thought the hippie episode didn't live up to its concept. It kinda lost steam when it got to the part with the drill. They kinda blew it by solving the situation with a Bruckheimer spoof.

I retract this statement and now love this episode.

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I loved the most recent south park episode that I saw. It was about Wal Mart taking over the town. It really was very insightful and quite funny at the same time.

New episode tonight. It will apparently be topical, addressing Katrina and global warming. I predict supreme hilarity, just like the rest of this season.

Is anyone else getting tired of how nowadays every single episode of south park is like a complex social commentary? I remember back when the boys would just hang out and do random stuff, but now every week there is an episode about a new current event. I for one think the show is getting way too serious.

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They keep doing that sort of thing, and it keeps being funny. The Scientology episode was mad balls.

now south park is a lot more funnier than ever. good thing they come up with new ideas on how they can make each episode funnier, though there we're some on the new episodes that I didn't liked that much.

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now south park is a lot more funnier than ever. good thing they come up with new ideas on how they can make each episode funnier, though there we're some on the new episodes that I didn't liked that much.

yeah, i guess thats more like what i think, their new stuff's either really funny or swing-and-a-miss

That's actually exactly what I think. Newer South Park episodes tend to either be really good, or really meh.

South Park, to me, has gone through 3 1/2 phases.

Phase 1: Seasons 1 and 2. The show had a completely different aesthetic back then. They focused more on the 'hick mountain town' aspect more and really milked some of their repeated gags and hooks. (Chef singing, Kenny dying, etc). This resulted in a hideously stagnant second season with only a few good episdoes near the end.

Phase 2: Seasons 3-5. This is when they really became 'South Park'. All the characters became what they are today (Especially Cartman), the important secondary kids got introduced or better fleshed out (Butters, Timmy, Jimmy, Token, etc). But they still tried to do B plots, they still had the Kenny dying gag, and the episodes weren't nearly as focused on a single topic as they eventually became.

Phase 2 1/2: Season 6, when they cycled through 'fourth kids' and Kenny stayed dead the whole season, and Butters became pretty much a main character even after he was kicked out of the main group.

Phase 3: Seasons 7-current. They stopped doing B plots and focused on one idea or one issue the whole episode, and they've only killed Kenny four times since by my count. They've also decided that it's okay to focus an episode on only one or two of the kids if that's all the story demands, even if it's not Stan, Kyle, or Cartman. They've also gotten more serious and less subtle about their ideological criticisms (Scientology for instance).

They've also really grown into this kind of plot device -- I don't know how to describe it....everybody fully commits to the physics of some thing that's being parodied. Like, Cartman dresses up like a robot, and everybody goes along with it like they're not in on the joke.

At this point, South Park has become easily my favorite show. Not only is it hilarious, but it isnt randomly funny as Family Guy, rather shows a true plot, and true meanings and issues behind each episode.

It's been a weird season so far.

The Chef episode with the words edited together was very bizarre and funny. "I specializes in your asshole Kyle" was the best.

Part one of Cartoon Wars just wasn't very funny. Besides the Family Guy scenes, it was a bunch of their fake serious movie parody stuff. The whole Cartoon Wars story shouldn't have been two episodes.

The Terrance and Phillip fakeout at the beginning of part two was incredibly funny. They should actually do another whole Terrance and Phillip episode. The terrorist retaliation and the salmon helmet scenes were also hilarious. The middle twenty minutes of the episode was pretty meh.

Something went seriously wrong with A Million Little Fibers, and the TV.com ratings reflect it. While Towelie is always funny, the Minge and Gary stuff fell completely flat. I think it was an ok episode overall, but not nearly as funny as it should have been.

I liked the most recent episode, Manbearpig, because it had no message and wasn't topical, and it was just funny. They've had many great topical/message episodes, but I'm messaged out. I hope the rest of the season is more like this.

I think last season was South Park's best season. But this season has been awfully weak so far.

I didn't like the Chef episode. Partly because I didn't know at the time why Isaac Hayes quit the show and partly because I just...don't like pedophilia jokes. The 'smug' episode was good. The Oprah episode was flat out awful, and the most recent episode was good but not great.

Cartoon Wars wasn't nearly funny enough to warrant a two parter and was a bit too self-agrandizing(sp?). I kind of understand why they did it though. They were pissed about the alcoholism episode being pulled just because a catholic group complained.

But, last season was incredible. 'Whaleziak', the baseball episode, and Heaven vs Hell are all candidates for top ten episodes, I think.

I don't regularly watch South Park, but I saw the Chef and smug episodes and found both hilarious. I knew the Isaac Hayes backstory and found the stabs at him to be genius, even if pedophilia jokes are pretty off-color.

The episode with Oprah's minge was, well, confusing. I don't know the Towelie character, so I was out of the loop on that one, but the Frey rip was clever. I just didn't get the point of the minge thing. I did find the fact that they had accents to be funny. Maybe I just missed something in the recent past.

heres my opinion, so dont get mad:

Chef episode - kinda funny. pasting the isaac hayes clips together was really clunky, it went a bit too far about 2/3 or 3/4 of the way through

Smug Episode - i didnt like this one, just wasnt that funny

Cartoon Wars 1 - Pretty good. family guy parodies were the best part, had a good ending that led into the next episode

Cartoon Wars 2 - It was ok, T&P fake out was awesome, i was kinda disappointed when they said the executives were manatees, the part CC censored was pretty cool, but the retalliation was a little bit random

A million little fibers - When i found out towelie was gonna be in it i was really pumped, but aside from the chang sauce part, it was pretty much a waste of him, the whole oprah/minge/gary part was retarded.

ManBearPig - Another one i disliked. a couple semi-funny parts such as "kind of like a manbear but more piggish," but other than that really mediocre. The part that got on my nerves almost immediately was when al gore would say "serial" about every other sentence.


You know what, I really miss the old episodes, the ones that didnt have to always be about some dumb issue or event, where the kids would just hang out and be themselves instead of being megaphones for Matt and Trey to voice their opinions about stuff. If you dont agree with me, thats fine, but ive been to tv.com and i know there are people that do.

I think the best episodes are either the ones that are good parodies of things, and the ones that just show the kids being kids. The 'issue' episodes are only funny once in a while.

I don't want a return just to the fart jokes, hick references, and random Kenny deaths of the very beginning. Very early South Park was a little bit too hackneyed. But a revival of the spirit of seasons three to five would be good. With episodes like Chimpokomon and Starvin Marvin in Space.

I thought today's episode was really good, though.

Last night's episode was very good. The TSST thing was funny every time. Cartman hopping for KFC was awesome.

Did you notice that at the bottom of the sheet with Cartman's murder plan were the words "FRAME TOKEN"?

sorry for getting off-topic, you can ignore this if you want, but i wanted to post some of my favorite old episodes (seasons 1-8):

-The one where cartman tries to find his dad
-Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls
-Spookyfish
-Underpants Gnomes
-Jakovasaurs
-Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery
-Chinpokomon
-Cartman joins NAMBLA
-Chef Goes Nanners
-The original Towelie episodes
-The Entity (the one w/ Kyle's cousin)
-Asspen
-Jennifer Lopez episode
-Faith + 1
-It's Christmas in Canada
-Jeffersons
-Goobacks

Here's my favorites off the top of my head, all seasons included:

1. Not Without My Anus
2: Jared Has Aides
3: It's Christmas in Canada
4: Scott Tenorman Must Die
5: Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset

Pip
Kenny Dies
Freak Strike
Asspen
Ladder to Heaven
Future Self n Me
I'm a Little Bit Country
Fat Butt and Pancake Head
Casa Bonita
Good Times With Weapons
Pre School
Awesome-O
Woodland Critter Christmas
The Death of Eric Cartman
Trapped in the Closet

Hmm..here's my unordered list, just based on the episode guide at Southparkstudios.com.

Season 1:
Mr Hankey the Christmas Poo
Cartman's Mom Is A Dirty Slut

Season 2:
Cartman's Mom is Still A Dirty Slut
Not Without My Anus
Spookyfish
Gnomes

Season 3:
Rainforest Schmainforest
Jewbilee
Chinpokomon
Starvin Marvin in Space

Season 4:
Trapper Keeper
The Wacky Molestation Adventure

Season 5:
Super Best Friends
Towelie
Here Comes The Neighborhood
Butters' Very Own Episode

Season 6:
Asspen
Free Hat
A Ladder To Heaven

Season 7:
Lil Crime Stoppers
Red Man's Greed
Christian Rock Hard
Casa Bonita
Raisins

Season 8:
Good Times With Weapons
You Got F*cked in the Ass (You got served)
Quest For Ratings
Woodland Critter Christmas

Season 9:
Die Hippie, Die
Best Friends Forever
The Losing Edge
Free Willzyx

i admit it is a terrible show, but its even more terrible that i love and lagh at it.