At 11/2/09 09:08 PM, simon wrote:
At 10/30/09 11:25 AM, Ejit wrote:
It was a good satirical episode in some aspects, I think it's a shame they tainted it with the childish humour of Cartman singing Lady Gaga.
gee wizz, since when was south park not childish humour?
I was about to say, I'm kind of sad that all the episodes are just the guys pushing their agenda. Im thinking about it, and the episode with queefs started out funny but then it turned into some "men versus women and farts versus queefs" shit and they used the farting and queefing joke so much that by the end of it I felt literally sick.Then there was the one where Obama wins the presidency and I swear to god there wasn't a single joke in that episode.
Im just recalling when South Park was known to be some super offensive show that didnt give a fuck who it offended, it had a movie that won an award for most amount of swear words used, and they had episodes about these kids just doing random shit, seeing the world from a kids point of view, like a sort of profane Calvin and Hobbes, and more often than not, the jokes would be funny. Now it's all pretentious, it made that episode about how it was better than every other "comedy cartoon" because it isnt "low brow" and it will never go back to being what it was (a comedy cartoon about stupid shit like aliens raping people or magical christmas turds) because of that, and most of the episodes, at least once, use the line "I learned something today". Its never about some random crazy situation, it's always shit thats happening now, and its like watching the news with some cartoons speaking.
A good recent episode would be the High School Musical one, there was no political agenda, its just the kids run into a problem, theres a lot of satirical jokes and stupid shit like the gay guy who slaps everyone, and it ends with the punchline being that they finally break down and join the fad, but by then, everyone has passed over it. There was no "I learned something today" and no real agenda, it just ends with that joke and then one of them says something like "Well fuck"