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

[Rick The Stick]

my only problem is when they bitch when you sing along to a song, i distinctly remember that song "dont like" by chief keef coming on at a party and i was singing like yelling it/moshing screaming the lyrics.. i wouldnt do that these days the climate is too charged

Don't listen to nigger music in the first place then

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

I forgot that South Park criticized Lucas for editing his old material. Not only the creators turned out to be massive hypocrites with the Tolkien debacle, they also did it for pure woke points rather than any artistic vision. If the guys had any morals they'd use the debacle to argue why pirating is justified as a way to preserve content, since who knows how many years afterwards the content will be altered to suit the nee politics

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

I forgot that South Park criticized Lucas for editing his old material. Not only the creators turned out to be massive hypocrites with the Tolkien debacle, they also did it for pure woke points rather than any artistic vision. If the guys had any morals they'd use the debacle to argue why pirating is justified as a way to preserve content, since who knows how many years afterwards the content will be altered to suit the nee politics

Man, Lucas just keeps looking better all the time.

 

[Cool Dog Returns]

Don't listen to nigger music in the first place then

Must be why they put nigger "music" on everything now

Cant listen to a half decent song without suddenly some mumbling ape going back to monkee in the middle

 

[Problematic User Forever]

How do you dumb fuckers not understand that I'm not saying the show is not woke now? I'm saying going back and changing the subtitles was an elaborate attempt at meta humor.

Pretty shitty attempt since they didn't actually alter anything else other than closed captions. I think you're coping tbqh

 

[Picnic_Boy]

It was both meta humor and wokeness. They aren't the type of people to completely erase episodes and go back and edit old stuff for offensive content(well besides 200 and 201 but that's a different story) but they are definitely the type of people who would find a way to be more woke by "learning from their "mistakes"" and change something in the present going forward while playing it off as a meta joke type thing.

Yeah, it's Parker and Stone trying to have their cake and eat it too. They do it a lot, and that would be fine if the show was just a fun little farce and not a vehicle for their gay little educational diatribes. They accepted Paramount Global's yoke with a joke and a shrug, and perhaps they've worn it so long they forget it's even there, but that doesn't make it less noticeable.

 

[Never Scored]

Pretty shitty attempt since they didn't actually alter anything else other than closed captions. I think you're coping tbqh

Why do it at all then?

 

[Jacques1194]

Honestly, no matter the reason for the token to tolkien name change, i got more annoyed at how south park social media kept repeating this joke for months and wouldnt stfu about it.

 

[RybenZ999]

Must be why they put nigger "music" on everything now

Cant listen to a half decent song without suddenly some mumbling ape going back to monkee in the middle

Tell me about it. I don't mind if it's some old school rap, but goddamn if I have to hear some Cardi B shit again...

Why do it at all then?

Tbh I don't think they changed Token to Tolkien to be woke. Dumb change but not necessarily woke. I think a better example of woke would be the fact they stopped having characters call each other "queer" or "fag". I still maintain that scene from St. Patrick's episode is an example. Sure, like you said earlier, one could argue that it's satire of how St. Patrick's day would get cancelled today. But I still think that scene where he gets chastised by another character for saying the word "poof" is an example of them going woke, considering St Patrick is portrayed as the insane guy and the rest of them as the sane bystanders in that scene.

 

[TVB]

Tell me about it. I don't mind if it's some old school rap, but goddamn if I have to hear some Cardi B shit again...

Stuff like Outkast, Three 6 Mafia, Wu Tang Clan, Xzibit, DMX, JaRule, Busta Rhymes, Warren G are good shit. I can't really get into most of new shit

 

[Jacques1194]

I think a better example of woke would be the fact they stopped having characters call each other "queer" or "fag".

Someone can correct me if i'm wrong, but i swear i herd the characters still call each other fags in this recent season.Unless maybe i'm remembering an episode before 2020 happened.

. I still maintain that scene from St. Patrick's episode is an example. Sure, like you said earlier, one could argue that it's satire of how St. Patrick's day would get cancelled today. But I still think that scene where he gets chastised by another character for saying the word "poof" is an example of them going woke, considering St Patrick is portrayed as the insane guy and the rest of them as the sane bystanders in that scene.

I'm still waiting to see if they'll either race swap a character or reveal an old character was trans the whole time.I brought this up before, but it still annoys me that todays online south park fandom is boring as fuck because literally every headcanon for a character is gay or trans.(looks at marjorine butters)There's nothing these new fans come up with that can make a character interesting.Its like said character has to be a part of LGBT in order for these autistic fans to be interested in said character.

 

[Problematic User Forever]

Why do it at all then?

To be woke?

 

[TVB]

Why do it at all then?

Because woke culture and collecting BlackRock money?

 

[RybenZ999]

Anyone else like to think of the first 4 seasons of South Park as a different canon/timeline. Like I know early installment weirdness is a thing, but most shows get over that by their second seasons, not after they made an entire friggin movie. Like the tone and internal logic of the show seems so different compared to the later seasons, it's like "There's no Disgrace like Home" from The Simpsons was stretched out into several seasons. So I just headcanon them as a different timeline of sorts. Besides, Trey already said that he'd like to erase them, so he pretty much confirmed my headcanon didn't he?

 

[Grin Machine]

Anyone else like to think of the first 4 seasons of South Park as a different canon/timeline.

Trey and Matt have actually cited the fifth season episode "Scott Tenorman Must Die" as a major turning point (from Wikipedia):

South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone point to this episode as a milestone in the series. The episode introduced significant changes in the characterization of Cartman, setting the standard for his psychopathic antics in the following seasons; and it also prompted the creators to only focus on one plot within an episode, whereas the show's earlier episodes involved several loosely related subplots that merged together in the episode's final act. "Scott Tenorman Must Die" was written by Parker, and directed by animation director Eric Stough.

FWIW I think seasons 1-13 are all very good, with the "peak" of the show probably being seasons 6-9.

 

[RybenZ999]

Trey and Matt have actually cited the fifth season episode "Scott Tenorman Must Die" as a major turning point (from Wikipedia):

FWIW I think seasons 1-13 are all very good, with the "peak" of the show probably being seasons 6-9.

Even seasons 5 and 6 are quite different from season 9. I'd say season 7 really marked a turning point for the show.

 

[Kalsarikännit]

South Park has always been “left-wing edgy”. Go watch the episode “Volcano” from the first season, or the episode that introduced Big Gay Al, and tell me it’s not true.

 

[RybenZ999]

South Park has always been “left-wing edgy”. Go watch the episode “Volcano” from the first season, or the episode that introduced Big Gay Al, and tell me it’s not true.

Big Gay Al yeah but don't remember anything "left-wing" about Volcano. I remember it being fairly apolitical.

 

[Kalsarikännit]

Big Gay Al yeah but don't remember anything "left-wing" about Volcano. I remember it being fairly apolitical.

It’s a “guns bad, hunters stupid” episode.

 

[MirrorNoir]

There are several "turning points" for South Park quite frankly:

1. Seasons 1-3, which Parker and Stone have disowned and disavowed without full scale unpersoning those seasons.

2. Quintuplets 2000, which was the official start of the "ripped from the headlines" direction of the series

3. Scott Tennorman Must Die, which officially saw Cartman go full psychopath.

4. The season five episode where Kenny officially dies and stays dead, which was supposed to be permanent but got overruled by Comedy Central.

5. The episode where they killed Chef, which is an irreversible dividing point in the franchise due to how radically things changed with Chef's death in terms of removing the one adult who seemed to care about the main four and allowed Randy to take his place

6. The PC Principal season; while the previous season had continuity, it was loose continuity whereas PC Principal's debut launched the serialized era for South Park.

7. The debut of Tegridy Farms and the never ending pot farm arc.