[TV] South Park - Page 2

I just have to accept that my South Park, the South Park I love, is dead. Dead and buried, and taken over by people with a completely different sense of humour who value basically blandly stating current affairs issues with slightly caricatured protagonists over actual comedy ingenuity. I can only sigh. At least it's not as bad as what happened to Simpsons, which also had its golden period seasons 3-8, then went drastically downhill as it too became both topical, uninventive and ridiculously processed with no comedic soul. Though with Simpsons it happened because all the good writers left. With South Park it's just that Matt and Trey probably ran out of internal ideas and started searching around current affairs for inspiration; or perhaps they are shirking the writing responsibility to other people. Or it's just because they realised that crap comedy sells more than good comedy.

I mean christ, how can you compare the quality of that recent SP episode where they just have a bunch of famous internet ppl saying their catchphrases to a standard classic like Scott Tenorman Must Die, Chickenlover or Christian Rock Hard. And yes, all of those are Cartman-based episodes because guess what Cartman MAKES South Park, not Butters.

Again, sigh, because now there's going to be a bunch of reactionary comments about how much people like Butters/ topical element/ Season 9/ latest episodes. Suffice to say if you disagree with me then I accept your viewpoint and you can count yourself lucky because South Park is pandering to your tastes not mine. The days of the random, comfortably budget, inventive, creative, hilarious South Park are dead and buried for me . The fact that most people's comments leading up to a new episode feature things like 'I can't wait to see who they rip on this time!' just horrifies me. Because before, they took things like the Christian donation channel or Sally Struthers, or Jonathan Edwards who were vague to begin with, and made them huge and hilarious. Now they take people who are already huge and feed off everyone's familiarity with them, supplying B+ jokes and terrible show pacing to make a thoroughly unsatisfying experience for yours truly.

And man I basically avoided posting around the time Whale Whores came out, because of how terrible that episode was. It was just a complete embarrassment. It wasn't South Park. It just wasn't. It was 'here is 20 minutes of tired repeated jokes, loud voices and formulaic development. With the obvious graphic death of the sea captain.' And what's more, graphic deaths were much better in the earlier episodes. For example, the protest outside the television company's headquarters or when the citizens just start killing each other because of political differences. After about the first 3 minutes of WW I was like 'are you fucking serious?? Crazy Japanese jokes for 20 minutes?' and I almost had to watch it through my hands because of how much I was facepalming.