south park general discussion/upcoming episode thread

[Ryan]

I've been ziplining so many times that I can fully say that hits the nail on the head.

[leprechaun_dan]

Now I hope they don't screw this one up like they did with Jewpacabra. A story that had so much potential until the whole religion plot was brought into it.

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The topic doesn't interest me, but the end of the clip was awesome so...we'll see?

[leprechaun_dan]

Raspberry, just wondering, what's your favourite SP episode?

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I don't really have one, but it would definitely be from the early years. There was a time in my youth when I was a bigger South Park than Simpsons fan, although it was so long ago I often forget honestly. Now I rarely re-watch South Park, I probably haven't seen more than a handful of episodes from the first 5 - 8 years in over 5 years. If I had to say right now maybe....The Succubus? I know the running gag with Chef's Parents and The Loch Ness Monster never fails to make me laugh uncontrollably. It is a difficult question for me though, really.

[leprechaun_dan]

The "Tree Fiddy" gag is in my opinion one of the best gags in the history of South Park

Although The Succubus wouldn't come close to being my favourite, I'm afraid. For Me, The Wacky Molestation Adventure or Good Times with Weapons are hysterically well-written classics

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I looked through a list, ones I really love include:

Chickenlover
Ike's Wee Wee
Spookyfish
Cow Days
Gnomes
Tweek vs. Craig
Chinpokomon
The Red Badge of Gayness
Chef Goes Nanners
The Succubus

Man though, the first 3 Seasons were really good. I notice around mid way through Season 4 it started becoming something different, probably when they enter 4th grade. There were still plenty of fantastic episodes after, but my love for the show kinda very, very slowly began to shrink to the point where today I'm lucky to really enjoy more than a handful of episodes a season.

[leprechaun_dan]

South Park's Season 8 is a consistent season and my favourite, probably equivalent to Season 8 of The Simpsons for me, which is my favourite Simpsons season

All episodes in SP S8 are no doubt above 8 out of 10 without any errors. Same applies for S6. I think the first three seasons are great, but I feel as though I enjoy the pacing of the seasons that precede.

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Well let's look at South Park Seasons 6 and 8:

Bad Season 6 Episodes: Jared Has Aides, Bebe's Boobs...that's all, some pretty "okay' outings too like Asspen, Biggest Douche, Ladder to Heaven, but still more solid episodes than weak by far. In fact the Russel Crowe bashing is probably the hardest I ever laughed at the show, even over tree fiddy, but as I mentioned my memory regarding the show is rather weak.

Bad Season 8 Episodes: Up the Down Steroid, Goobacks, Wall-Mart, Pre-School, Stupid Spoiled Whores. "Okay" episodes include Quest for Ratings, Douche and Turd, You Got F'd in the A. So that means only 6 of 14 solid episodes. Weaker than Season 6 for me, certainly nowhere close to Simpsons Season 8.

Again though, only going by my memory...

[Rax]

Pre-School, is like, the show's best episode (top 3 at least). What don't you like about it?

Also, I think seasons 1 and 2 are pretty weak. The show didn't produce a really great episode until Chinpokomon.

[Shaunbadia]

Wow...once again the description has kinda left me in the dark not knowing what to expect....let's just hope they give us an episode that doesn't repeat a gag over and over.

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Pre-School, is like, the show's best episode (top 3 at least). What don't you like about it?

Also, I think seasons 1 and 2 are pretty weak. The show didn't produce a really great episode until Chinpokomon.

A kinda strange episode for me in that I didn't see it during the original run and didn't see it until years later for the first and only time. None of it really worked much for me except Cartman's photo fooling the Fifth Graders. All the stuff with the teacher and "bully" seemed unfunny, uninteresting, and just mean-spirited, which you could say about several South Park episodes I know, but still.

[leprechaun_dan]

Bad Season 8 Episodes: Up the Down Steroid, Goobacks, Wall-Mart, Pre-School, Stupid Spoiled Whores. "Okay" episodes include Quest for Ratings, Douche and Turd, You Got F'd in the A.

Bu... but.... but these episodes are amazing. Much better than anything in Season 1-3, except maybe for Rainforest and Badge of Gayness



And call me crazy but I prefer South Park over Simpsons nowadays. Sure, Simpsons has produced a top notch classic era which can't be beat and only just slightly beats South Park with their classic era (Seasons 5-11). But considering the Simpsons episodes these days are between average to a pool of goat vomit, South Park still produces top quality episodes which absolutely pummel the recent episodes of The Simpsons to the ground.

Except Jewpacabra.

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Bu... but.... but these episodes are amazing. Much better than anything in Season 1-3, except maybe for Rainforest and Badge of Gayness



And call me crazy but I prefer South Park over Simpsons nowadays. Sure, Simpsons has produced a top notch classic era which can't be beat and only just slightly beats South Park with their classic era (Seasons 5-11). But considering the Simpsons episodes these days are between average to a pool of goat vomit, South Park still produces top quality episodes which absolutely pummel the recent episodes of The Simpsons to the ground.

Except Jewpacabra.

I disagree about the current state of both shows, though acknowledge I'm in the vast minority on that one...but the bolded is plain ridiculous.

[Flimpson Tide]

The last line of the preview clip for this week made me laugh hard. I've been ziplining in Costa Rica and it was decent, but I did expect it to be more intense. It helps if you go upside-down. And yeah, the workers are all overly peppy like that.

[TriforceBun]

This thread has reminded me of three of my all-time favorite South Park bits--the "beeeewwwwbs!" picture in Pre-School, Russel Crowe fightin' 'round the world, and the immortal Loch Ness/tree fiddy bit. Incidentally, the "Jackin' It" song/sequence from the most recent episode is the first time in awhile that I've laughed really hard at an extended South Park scene.

[akuronin]

i watched butterballs on southparkstudios (the official website), and it sucked.
the ending was a super ''deus ex machina'', and the bully concept failed.

they rhaped the victims instead of the bully's...

[leprechaun_dan]

I disagree about the current state of both shows, though acknowledge I'm in the vast minority on that one...but the bolded is plain ridiculous.

I enjoy more offensive humour than soft PG-rated humour, but The Simpsons' classic era writing was perfect that it beats South Park as a show.

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Oh I know, it was you saying "slightly" that I disagreed with.

[leprechaun_dan]

Well, possibly not "slightly beats". More like "to some extent"

Wait... that's pretty much the same thing. Whoops

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Needs to be "crushes" to satisfy me.

[leprechaun_dan]

Nah that's a bit too much. However, I'd use "crushes" in the sentence: "The Simpsons absolutely crushes Family Guy" instead

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Now that should be "obliterates" at the very minimum.

[leprechaun_dan]

Much better. But considering The Cleveland Show is worse, could there be such a word to describe The Simpsons beating them? I think obliterate is as intense as you can get

[Oh, that's raspberry!]

Hmm...erase from existence?
totally nullifies?

[leprechaun_dan]

Haha yeah. Man, I can't stand how my cousins enjoy such awful humour and I can't believe it's still on the air. Referring to Cleveland Show of course

A better spin-off would've been the Quagmire Show. At least he isn't boring and actually has a personality

[Shaunbadia]

Haha yeah. Man, I can't stand how my cousins enjoy such awful humour and I can't believe it's still on the air. Referring to Cleveland Show of course

A better spin-off would've been the Quagmire Show. At least he isn't boring and actually has a personality

To quote Seth MacFarlane: "A lot of people us why not Quagmire? First of all Quagmire is a rapist...you don't really wanna watch a sit-com about a rapist."

He has a point...I doubt FOX would be able to tolerate the sort of plots such a show would produce. Quagmire works in small bursts when needed for a gag or occasionally in an episode focused on him, but 22 minutes that mainly consists of Quagmire drugging women, sniffing shoes and smuggling Asians into the country would be overkill...I mean if this is what the theme song would sound like then what the Hell would the rest of the show be like?

[leprechaun_dan]

I think Seth shouldn't have made a spin-off at all anyway. Two shows is enough - there's really no need to remove the brilliant show that is King of the Hill to make way for the awful Cleveland Show.

[Shaunbadia]

I dunno, Cleveland's actually been pretty damn good this season....but anyway, before we get to off topic, back to SP....so....Ziplining, huh?

[leprechaun_dan]

In New Zealand, we call it the "flying fox"

Like how Americans call it "coolers" whereas we call them "chilly bins" lol