South Park + Its Political Sperging (?) Thread - Season 26 ongoing!

[namvata]

i stopped watching since S20 cause it it was middling as hell, and when I saw the trailers for the next season, i tapped out right there

watching the earlier seasons, namely season 3, and then watching the new ones the contrast in political messaging is night and day

The political messaging in the south park of the early days definitely leaned in a more paleolibertarian direction: making episodes about the importance of free association (gay al boy scouts episode), shitting on Janet Reno and the ATF in multiple episodes, the importance of free markets (Tweek dad coffee episode), frivolous lawsuits, censorship, the dangers of mass immigration, the hypocrisy of hate crime laws, the bogusness of laws against so called """piracy""", "tolerance" as a false idol, etc. Let alone the entire season about Mr. Garrison becoming a tranny, boy they were ahead of the curve they were with that one!

Nowadays it definitely seems like the writers are doing everything they can to "play it safe" and not piss off viacom. It's not the worst thing in the world, it's still not as bad as late night talk shows or something, but you can definitely tell the writers are jaded and writing the safest fucking jokes possible.

Idk how many more seasons they plan on going for before they call it quits. Maybe when the restaurant business takes off they can stop making them lmao

• Made fun of anti vaxxers. They did roast the people who act butthurt about the anti vaxxers but not as much in comparison. Got real stupid and I cringed at the "shelfishness" joke

As did I, I basically stopped watching it halfway through. thank god for torrenting, I didn't pay a dime. The pajamas episode was trying to be way to ambiguous about it too, probably because viacom can't have any filthy anti vaxxer chud messaging telling people that it doesn't matter.

• Actually encouraging people to vote out Trump at the end of the Pandemic special
• Only have doubled down on their TDS and have still never made one Biden joke
• The Jan 6 jokes

the beginning of the garrison-trump arc was kind of funny, but it got progressively more annoying as time went on. Same thing with the fucking randy episodes, stop using the dad as a self insert for your midlife crisis, it's fucking gay.

 

[AnimeAvatard]

watching the earlier seasons, namely season 3, and then watching the new ones the contrast in political messaging is night and day

The political messaging in the south park of the early days definitely leaned in a more paleolibertarian direction: making episodes about the importance of free association (gay al boy scouts episode), shitting on Janet Reno and the ATF in multiple episodes, the importance of free markets (Tweek dad coffee episode), frivolous lawsuits, censorship, the dangers of mass immigration, the hypocrisy of hate crime laws, "tolerance" as a false idol, etc. Let alone the entire season about Mr. Garrison becoming a tranny, boy they were ahead of the curve they were with that one!

Nowadays it definitely seems like the writers are doing everything they can to "play it safe" and not piss off viacom. It's not the worst thing in the world, it's still not as bad as late night talk shows or something, but you can definitely tell the writers are jaded and idk how many more seasons they plan on going for before they call it quits.

You pretty much said what I just said but in a more easily digestible, less autistic form.

Edit: Nevermind you made your post longer. Still good observation

 

[Super-Chevy454]

Same thing with the fucking randy episodes, stop using the dad as a self insert for your midlife crisis, it's fucking gay.

Now then you mention it, I wonder why using and reusing Randy and not Gerald Broflovski, Stephen Scotch or even Stuart McCormick for midlife crisis jokes?

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Hell even Uncle Jimbo

 

[Doctor of Autism]

Thank you I agree. Rick is the most milquetoast character to ever be created by South Park and seems like he only exists to push the narrative of "see gay people can be normal and wholesome"

To be fair I don't think he was created as a message but just to be a "Sane Boyfriend" type of character. But he is very bland, and that type of character was more interesting when South Park did it with Satan.

Now then you mention it, I wonder why using and reusing Randy and not Gerald Broflovski, Stephen Scotch or even Stuart McCormick for midlife crisis jokes?

It's probably because Randy is based on Trey's dad, but I do wish they used more of their supporting cast. It seems nowadays they just stick to the boys, Butters, Token, Randy, and Garrison.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

To be fair I don't think he was created as a message but just to be a "Sane Boyfriend" type of character. But he is very bland, and that type of character was more interesting when South Park did it with Satan.


It's probably because Randy is based on Trey's dad, but I do wish they used more of their supporting cast. It seems nowadays they just stick to the boys, Butters, Token, Randy, and Garrison.

Trey=that one kid at school who wouldn't SHUT UP about how fucking cool his dad is

 

[Oilspill Battery]

Changing Token's dad's voice

Didn't they change it from a well spoken lawyer to be more stereotypically ghetto black?

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Didn't they change it from a well spoken lawyer to be more stereotypically ghetto black?

he actin too yt

 

[AnimeAvatard]

Same thing with the fucking randy episodes, stop using the dad as a self insert for your midlife crisis, it's fucking gay.

You know what I've always wondered about?

How Trey and Matt are able to put the self inserts of their parents in weird sexual situations. Maybe they are just too stoned to even think that deeply about it and I know they aren't clones of their parents and maybe that makes it different enough for them to not care. But I've always found it interesting because if I had an edgy show I don't think I could ever put characters based on my parents in degenerate situations. Not sure if that makes me a pussy or not.

 

[Still Exceptional]

I honestly started getting uncomfortable with South Park the moment Matt and Trey did an episode validating all the gross perverts drawing gay porn of Tweek and Craig.
Seriously, that was just creepy as shit. If I'd been in charge I would have made a joke specifically to call such people fucking creepy.

And frankly, the fandom is fucking loaded with people like that. I remember seeing a thread on Reddit that was full of people shipping characters in gay relationships. Even when those characters not only never showed signs of being gay, but the opposite. Like people constantly saying Stan and Kyle should get together despite both of them having shown interest in girls.
Why the fuck can nobody these days seem to realize that men can be friends without being fucking fags?

 

[Leftists=Pedophiles]

I honestly started getting uncomfortable with South Park the moment Matt and Trey did an episode validating all the gross perverts drawing gay porn of Tweek and Craig.
Seriously, that was just creepy as shit. If I'd been in charge I would have made a joke specifically to call such people fucking creepy.

I remember when that episode was coming out, there was so much speculation about how hard M&T were going to dunk on all the shipfags that taint every fucking fandom. Really sad that the audience they ended up wanting turned out to be the retards, faggots and children which cannot watch or enjoy the first 10 years of the show without blaspheming globohomo.

 

[Patrick Bait-man]

I wish this was real.

 

[AnimeAvatard]

I honestly started getting uncomfortable with South Park the moment Matt and Trey did an episode validating all the gross perverts drawing gay porn of Tweek and Craig.
Seriously, that was just creepy as shit. If I'd been in charge I would have made a joke specifically to call such people fucking creepy.

And frankly, the fandom is fucking loaded with people like that. I remember seeing a thread on Reddit that was full of people shipping characters in gay relationships. Even when those characters not only never showed signs of being gay, but the opposite. Like people constantly saying Stan and Kyle should get together despite both of them having shown interest in girls.
Why the fuck can nobody these days seem to realize that men can be friends without being fucking fags?

Throughout the show's history they have had jokes that puts the kids in sexual situations but they were often handled very well and always had a "Dont sexual kids you freaks" message to it. Stupid Spoiled Whore and the NAMBLA episode is one of my favorite episodes.

With the kids acting less like kids and more like midgets adults, the thought of them being kids seemed to stop occuring to them as much and I think that's part of why Craig x Tweek being weird didn't cross their minds that much. The Jonas Brothers episode was a weird middle ground where although they insulted how companies sexual young girls and try to get them interested in sex, making Kenny wanting to get a blow job and actually succeeding was a bit much even if it killed him (for me at least).

Idk as many things as they've done wrong lately, making them act more like kids again is something that I've noticed them doing more these last 2 seasons. Maybe it's because Trey's daughter Betty and Matt's kids are the age of the South Park kids now and it made them remember how kids are supposed to act.

I think it is part of why they made Post COVID too so they could put the kids in adult situations without it being weird.

 

[Mr. ShadowCreek]

If Matt and Trey have really swallowed the woke pill I wonder what is next.

An episode where the town bans assault weapons and Jimbo decides he won't give his guns up without a fight and kills innocent people for it.

The kids are being taught CRT and LBGT subjects in school and some parents rally against it. But they episode portrays them as domestic terrorist.

The town decides not to ban gas stoves or gas cars and Manbearpig returns to kill because of the towns selfishness for keeping those.

A beloved character turns out to be trans the whole time. At least none of the boys could be ftm's as they all had their dick sizes measured.

 

[Ensok]

If the latest episode was just entirely about poking fun at how autistic 40k is it might have been enjoyable.

 

[AnimeAvatard]

I wish this was real.

This was really impressive but deep fake's realism is getting pretty horrifying.

 

[RybenZ999]

That’s what I wondered as well. I mean, if my kid goes to visit a friend and the only adult in the house shows up drunk on my front porch, I’m not only going to go get my child but ban them from ever visiting that place again.

To be fair, South Park adults have never really been the most rational people, have they?

 

[Manimal House]

I honestly started getting uncomfortable with South Park the moment Matt and Trey did an episode validating all the gross perverts drawing gay porn of Tweek and Craig.
Seriously, that was just creepy as shit. If I'd been in charge I would have made a joke specifically to call such people fucking creepy.

And frankly, the fandom is fucking loaded with people like that. I remember seeing a thread on Reddit that was full of people shipping characters in gay relationships. Even when those characters not only never showed signs of being gay, but the opposite. Like people constantly saying Stan and Kyle should get together despite both of them having shown interest in girls.
Why the fuck can nobody these days seem to realize that men can be friends without being fucking fags?

I can't even search "South Park" on twitter without scrolling through a whole bunch of really REALLY gay artwork of....pretty much everyone in the damn show. There's so much of it, it completely drowns actual updates about the show. No wonder I had no idea that a new season was out until the third episode.

 

[Picnic_Boy]

The thing about South Park is that it feels like something from California, and has for years.

 

[RybenZ999]

At this point it seems that they will make another Mohammed episode before they do a Biden episode. Biden has that magic goo that renders him off limits for South Park now. They were also easy on Obama and never really mocked him either. Unless I am not remembering correctly but I don't recall a single joke or moment where Obama was really hit hard by the how.

They never really went that hard on any president before Trump. Not even Bush. Trump was the first president to truly mindbreak them. I'm no supporter of the guy but damn, literally every entertainment channel I know lost their minds over him.

I initially chalked up their refusal to make Biden jokes to not wanting to get involved in politics for a while at least. Which was fine I guess. But then the latest episode happened and all of that went out of the window.

Trey said that he wanted to erase the first three seasons from existence. I know those seasons weren't all that political but you remember how back then, if the show made an offensive joke, that's just it, it was offensive. Whereas in the later seasons, if the show made an offensive joke, they'd go out of their way to explain how said joke is actually satirical and not racist and blah blah blah. So I think that Trey hates those seasons because he's more woke now.