he's sort of known as a name but not really what he looks, and especially sounds like
Literally the only thing I know about Charlie Kirk is that he's one of those Evangelical butt goys who thinks it's everyone's sacred duty to send their sons to die for Isreal.
They did an episode where Stan fails to win a youth hockey game and one of the kids dies of cancer. It became one of the most complained about episodes of the show. Sometime later they would do an apology episode where Cartman mocks cancer with jokes, Principal Victoria reveals she has cancer, and then encourages Wendy to beat up Cartman. To beat up 'cancer'. So now they have done a cancer episode with a happy ending to appeal to reddit.
Cartman is clearly the punching bag of the show now. He was beating up midgets in fights and using his nightstick as a cop. And grounding up two people into food to feed to their crybaby son. Now he's crying to Wendy on the playground or ending up homeless in the future so that reddit can clap.
Cartman is something of a tragic figure in a weird way. Don't get me wrong, he's not a good person by any stretch, but when you think about it, he never had a chance. His friends were assholes towards him in the older seasons (a good example would be S2: Cow Days). The town doesn't care about him and has given up. His mom was a disgusting whore for most of his childhood, she was supposed to be his educator and guide but instead she first enabled him and groomed him into being a terrible person with bad self control and attachment issues, and then basically dropped him and gave up on him, pretending it was all his fault and she had no role in it, and blames him for everything. Butters goes along with whatever he says and while he's usually there there to emotionally comfort him, even ultimately doesn't like him either.
At least Homestuck gave us Toby Fox
This was a running theme early on in the show. That the kids had terrible parents. It was part of the show that allowed for the kids to get into trouble so often. Randy being an alcoholic and drinking and driving with the kids or fighting other dads during little league baseball. Kenny's parents being drug addicts then later them being into a Lovecraft death cult. Butters having his parents try to murder him or throw him into mental institutions.
Part of the reason why South Park has continued to be relevant despite its age is its attention to current events. One can argue that's the primary reason for its continued relevance.
I disagree with you on it maintainng relevancy and relatability. It's fanbase is mostly tumblr chicks and redditors these days. The same people giving that Trump episode a high rating probably didn't even know it was still on air. Sure, guess you can laugh at paper cutout high pitched Trump in a vaccum, that was a little funny admittedly. But the show itself, and its characters don't do anything for me anymore.
On the plus side, I look forward to Casa Bonita hopefully getting raided by ICE in the next couple of days to create a massive black eye onto Trey and Matt ahead of their latest attempt at blood libel.Nah, we know exactly who they're going to go swinging at (especially with ICE being the next target for [Coping & Seething]):
Homan and/or Miller, then RFK and MAHA the next episode.
Oh my God please let this happen. PLEASE LET THIS HAPPEN.
I mean isn't calling each other a fat or a jew a part of a healthy, normal male friendship, especially at that age?
It's like you and your brothers calling each other faggots. It's just a thing you do.
They'd have already pulled it from Paramount+, Hulu, and Comedy Central On Demand if that was the case. Last week's episode is going to re-air another dozen times before the newest episode. HBO loses all South Park episodes this week and they all go to Paramount+ so we'll get to see if any additional episodes are removed or censored beyond the muslim ones.
True. That's just what I would do if I owned the show, not because it's what I believe, but because it would be the most provocative way to end the show. If I had to go by the earliest episodes and the culture of the 1990s, I would say they were really shock jocks more than contrarians or at least that was the appeal of the show.
They were doing this for a while with Liane since Season 10's episodes "Tsst" and "Go God Go" in 2006. I'd say that season in particular was the turn around for the character standing up to Cartman and her entire personality being revamped. In 2015's Season 19's final episode, she and Eric point a gun at each other, with her telling him to go to bed and he does.
King of the Hill was cancelled by Fox in 2009, it had nothing to do with Mike Judge, especially since he was pretty much distant from the production side of things with the show by Season 6. What you're referring to is Beavis and Butthead in the late 90's when it was on MTV. However, Mike Judge has brought B&B back twice in 2011 and 2022, both of which were his decisions to do so. Same goes for KOTH which he's at the helm of with the reboot.
B&B ran like 7 seasons and Judge was fully checked out by season four and only reupping for the last couple in order to both get the B&B movie greenlit AND released during the life of the show.
