Rate/Review South Park "The F Word"

[Ryan]

Tonight the boys deal with noisy biker gangs. Will it be unanimously praised, or another split vote like "Whale Whores"?

Discuss!

[HappyPalooza]

It was alright, but it really would've worked better as a sketch or something as I notice most episodes these days probably would, and that's coming from someone who doesn't like 90% of sketch comedy.

But I liked the concept a lot, probably because I use the word fag for like, a weenie. And there was some funny stuff too.

It was kind of reminiscent of the nigger guy one, which was much better, at least I thought. Anyone notice this one started almost exactly the same way as the Whale one? Meaning in like the same formula.

[Jake]

Great episode, big rebound from last week. I like how they mentioned the enjoyment of using the word "faggot" as it really does have its charm.

[HappyPalooza]

Great episode, big rebound from last week. I like how they mentioned the enjoyment of using the word "faggot" as it really does have its charm.

For some reason it's like a good release to call someone a raging faggot, don't know why.

[Semaj]

Much better than last week's. Motorcycles are annoyingly loud, though I doubt people use them to purposely annoy others or call attention to themselves.

The subject could've been applied to any number of words, since the English language is changing every year.

5/5

[Cole]

guess i'm in the minority here, because i thought this episode really dragged. the two repeated jokes (faggots and brrbbrrbbrrbbrr) just didn't work for me.

2/5

[LuxFixxins]

Anyone whos lived in Daytona Beach, Fl during "Bike Week" and "Biketoberfest" can tell you this episode is 100% accurate and correct.


B

[Cole]

i've had to put up with the trail of tears ride every year. shit's miserable, but i still didn't think the biker material was strong enough to carry a whole episode. it could have benefited greatly from some sort of subplot.

[Cash Kerouac]

I thought it was pretty funny. The guy brrbrrbrring in the bathroom was a laugh riot. Webster as the dictionary guy was also fun.

[MunkeyBoxx]

Why has all the new South Park episodes followed the formula of "take a midly humorous joke and extend it throughout the whole episode" so much now? Its getting lame and really really stupid.

I watched this episode and of course I laughed. As my friend put it, this episode had LOL moments but no LMAO moments like classic SP. The latest episodes have lacked the substance of good plot, good characterization and LMAO moments.....it feels so rushed and lazy these days...

Anyone agree?

2.5/5

[TriforceBun]

Why has all the new South Park episodes followed the formula of "take a midly humorous joke and extend it throughout the whole episode" so much now? Its getting lame and really really stupid.

I watched this episode and of course I laughed. As my friend put it, this episode had LOL moments but no LMAO moments like classic SP. The latest episodes have lacked the substance of good plot, good characterization and LMAO moments.....it feels so rushed and lazy these days...

Anyone agree?

2.5/5

I agree in regards to certain episodes.

But I quite liked this one. I was worried they'd stretch out the biker-noisiness plot for the whole episode, but once the boys got in trouble with the mayor, I was interested in seeing where it'd go. I enjoyed the look into ever-changing vernacular and how words can be interpreted differently depending on the context and era of its use. Parker and Stone clearly have a fascination with the psychology behind cursing and this was a fun exploration of it.

Seeing as how South Park has a pretty strong cultural pull as well, I'm curious if they can actually go through with this attempt at a paradigm shift.

Again, though, we get a little too much filler (the BRBRBRBRRBBRRR joke was funny the first time, but got reused often, same with the repeated disturbances similar to last week's opening), and some slight repetition. But that aside, this was a fun episode that explored its topic well, had some great jokes (one of the biggest laughs of the season for me was when the bikers made their Harleys even more obnoxious, with the airhorn/siren/rooster/etc), and the vaudevillian "bike-curious" line.

Funny episode. Much better than last week's atrocity. B/B+

[Nerd Groupie]

I hate hate hate the f-a-g word, yet somehow this episode almost had me justifying it's use. Damn you, South Park! Ok episode I guess. Both jokes got REALLY old. Loud bikes are annoying definitely, and "bike curious" had me laughing. The kids being baffled about "their" use of the word was funny. But ugh, I got sick of that word by the end and really sick of the biker dudes. Definitely could have used something else.

[MunkeyBoxx]

I shouldn''t have said "all" the new SP episodes follow that formula...but a hell of a lot of the new ones do. This episode followed the same formula too, just brought in more laughs than usual.

In my humble opinion though...my sense of humor is pretty weird so I laughed my ass off to Whale Whores more.

[D4C]

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4/5

[Green_Peaness]

This should have been a 15 minute long episode. The last third was really weak. 2/5

[arii]

I figured this one was on-par with last week's and largely in the same style, but I actually did like last week's, so.

Though it was definitely better in a sense of relatability, for one thing. There was a lot more. While last week's was pretty much solely on Whale Wars, this one covered a much more approachable subject for most people. I hadn't heard of Whale Wars before last week... I've heard noisy bikers long before this episode. And they are much more irritating.

This is my preferred use of Butters. Short, sweet, and being, well, pretty faggy. Meanwhile the four boys are kept front and centre and I tend to have a higher appreciation of episodes that do that. I really enjoyed the scene with them before the... board, I guess, and the initial justifying of the use. It's usually pretty fun to see them exasperated in this manner.

I dunno. I guess it was just a pretty well put-together episode? And bike-curious almost completely slayed me.

[Ryan]

Another good one. To me, it felt like an episode from its heyday. Big Gay Al, the mayor, the entire town getting destroyed, a celebrity getting murdered (okay, that still happens nowadays)...all we needed was Kenny dying.

Oh, and Webster? So very stupid, yet so very hilarious...same goes with bike-curious.

4/5

BTW: I wonder how many bikers will be called fags tomorrow?

[Fox Executive]

Good episode, about as good as last week's. Even here in europe, we hate those fags and I really hope they'll change the dictionary, but I don't think they will.
A 4/5 from me.

[Jakebert]

Decent, but felt kind of scattered and confused. The "fag" stuff could have been funnier if it had been the main point of the episode, but so much time was spent on the bikers that I wasn't sure what the point was until Big Gay Al showed up. Which by the way, whoever does his voice almost completely forgot how a few times.

The Emmanuel Lewis joke made me laugh, even if it was a really, really easy laugh.

2/5.

[Tomacco]

Stronger than last week, with a more thought-provoking idea behind it, but really... SP is at the point of no return for me now - even though it wouldn't be HARD for them to bounce back, I just don't see it happening. The show's current style, the way they use their characters, and the way 1-2 jokes get dragged out for 21 minutes has become horribly predictable and boring. "Dead Celebrities" is the only episode from this second half of the season that I think I'd ever consider rewatching, because the only funny things in each episode now are no longer funny by the end of the episode the first time you watch them.

[Kiyosuki]

Certainly better than last weeks'.

It was alright.

[Magnum]

i was hoping someone in the episode woul say something about mr. slave being dressed like a fag

[D DEBBS]

M-E-H

[MunkeyBoxx]

Stronger than last week, with a more thought-provoking idea behind it, but really... SP is at the point of no return for me now - even though it wouldn't be HARD for them to bounce back, I just don't see it happening. The show's current style, the way they use their characters, and the way 1-2 jokes get dragged out for 21 minutes has become horribly predictable and boring. "Dead Celebrities" is the only episode from this second half of the season that I think I'd ever consider rewatching, because the only funny things in each episode now are no longer funny by the end of the episode the first time you watch them.

I agree....

Butters' Bottom Bitch was my favorite episode from this second half because it actually seems like an SP episode for me. The rest have been so not SP-ish...its hard to explain. But finally someone else agrees with me on how they drag out these jokes for a whole fucking episode and expect us to laugh all the way.

I predict SP in the future doing this shit a lot. Honestly, I loved Season 12 much more than this half of the season. The season started off pretty strong I thought too.....ehhh....

Predict SP taking a Simpsons-esque decline?

[Jayrayman]

First dud of season 13. Very repetitive and not that funny. 2/5

Also I agree with the above comment, first half of the season > second half

[pocketfox]

Anybody notice the parody of Jim Everett knoking down Jim Rome when the biker gets interviewed? That was a great, subtle reference.

[HappyPalooza]

Yeah, I caught that. It was great.

The original for those who didn't see-

[NoOneFamous]

An improvement from Whale Wars, for sure. Good message in justifying the use of "fag" since most kids who use it don't actually mean it that way. I also liked how they gave the entire history of the word.

Still, the was basically two jokes. By the third or fourth time they used brrrbrrrbrbrbrbrbrrr, I was already sick of it, and they drove that into the ground in this episode more than any joke in recent memory.

I also hate how they can't seem to get an episode started any other way than having something disrupt a peaceful time.

3/5

[Shaunbadia]

Not a great episode. Gotta say I liked "Whale whores" better.
Highlights of this episode for me were Kenny's annoyance while the boys were pleading their case, "Bike-curious", the biker interview, Big Gay Al with a shotgun and Cartman shitting on the bikes.

Also, I loved Randy's "Look out! It's a bunch of pissed off faggots!".

The "BrrBrrBrrBrr!" stuff was just plain stupid and annoying as was the actual sound used for the harley's (Although I guess that was the point).

I voted 2 on the poll, but it's actually more of a 2.5.

[Mira]

I thought the Whale Wars episode was much funnier than this one. Other than "Bike-Curious" I really didn't like any of the jokes.