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

Oats12345 said:
So what happen with this special
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Quasi-pro Q-stuff in so far as the ending was Garrison literally cutting a deal with the Hollywood elites to reset the status quo (complete with Garrison's secret service bodyguard becoming Mr Hat and Mr White being condemned to a "I have no mouth but must scream" fate being turned into giant sentient cock and balls Garrison mounted onto a sleigh) and a plane full of COVID vaccines from Israel for the town. And the Asian teacher dies of COVID to clear the way for Garrison going back to being a teacher and accepted by the town.

BUT there was one status quo breaking moment: the core gang of Cartman, Kyle, Stan, Kenny breaking up with it being done in a way where Kenny is treated like a child in divorce they are all staying together for the sake of and a scene where the gang discuss possible custody agreements for hanging out with Kenny.
 
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MirrorNoir said:
Quasi-pro Q-stuff in so far as the ending was Garrison literally cutting a deal with the Hollywood elites to reset the status quo (complete with Garrison's secret service bodyguard becoming Mr Hat and Mr White being condemned to a "I have no mouth but must scream" fate being turned into giant sentient cock and balls Garrison mounted onto a sleigh) and a plane full of COVID vaccines from Israel for the town. And the Asian teacher dies of COVID to clear the way for Garrison going back to being a teacher and accepted by the town.

BUT there was one status quo breaking moment: the core gang of Cartman, Kyle, Stan, Kenny breaking up with it being done in a way where Kenny is treated like a child in divorce they are all staying together for the sake of and a scene where the gang discuss possible custody agreements for hanging out with Kenny.
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I don't know what to make of the Q-anon parts.
 
MarvinTheParanoidAndroid said:
I don't know what to make of the Q-anon parts.
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Trey and Matt have to bash QAnon to stay on the good side of the Hollywood/DNC axis of evil, as QAnon is their new boogyman to help them keep and expand their police state ambitions and to blame or whenever shit goes bad.

On the other hand, they probably made a point to put onto TV a lot of the QAnon theories both for the childish shock value of drawing Hillary, Oprah, Obama, etc drinking kids blood and going as far as they could replicating the frazzledrip meme on TV in cartoon form. Sort of a "we're still shocking and boundary pushing damnit!" rebuke to everyone who's complained that South Park sold out and sold out HARD these last couple of seasons.

The complete lack of Randy save for the bit at the end, makes me wonder if the backlash against Randy/Tegridy Farms finally is getting to them as was how badly the backlash was over how they shat on Trump in the first special.

That said, the early reviews of the special seem to be pushing hard the "SP totally tore QAnon a new asshole" angle to save face. Will be curious though to see how AVClub's bullshit reviewers react to the episode, given how they've been putting people on the show who clearly fucking hate it when South Park doesn't push the SJW talking points verbatim and when they stray into wrong think.
 
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MirrorNoir said:
Trey and Matt have to bash QAnon to stay on the good side of the Hollywood/DNC axis of evil, as QAnon is their new boogyman to help them keep and expand their police state ambitions and to blame or whenever shit goes bad.

On the other hand, they probably made a point to put onto TV a lot of the QAnon theories both for the childish shock value of drawing Hillary, Oprah, Obama, etc drinking kids blood and going as far as they could replicating the frazzledrip meme on TV in cartoon form. Sort of a "we're still shocking and boundary pushing damnit!" rebuke to everyone who's complained that South Park sold out and sold out HARD these last couple of seasons.

The complete lack of Randy save for the bit at the end, makes me wonder if the backlash against Randy/Tegridy Farms finally is getting to them as was how badly the backlash was over how they shat on Trump in the first special.

That said, the early reviews of the special seem to be pushing hard the "SP totally tore QAnon a new asshole" angle to save face. Will be curious though to see how AVClub's bullshit reviewers react to the episode, given how they've been putting people on the show who clearly fucking hate it when South Park doesn't push the SJW talking points verbatim and when they stray into wrong think.
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A few years ago they were making fun of SJWs, now they're obeying them.
 
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Jimjamflimflam said:
Sorry double post but who called the white family and q-anon joke being used because they nailed it.
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That was me, the only thing I got wrong was thinking that they'd rip Garrison several new assholes.

I guess I'm thankful that they didn't bring Fauci & Biden in to blow them, that would've really sunk this one.
 
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I expected a complete disaster from this episode, but went back with a mixed bag though it's not really terrible but not really great either, and I'm slightly concerned on what's to come for what's next.

This episode really wanted to try and go back to the old days with a lot of focus on the kids especially that the episode ended on the plotline that the kids decided to break up as a gang, hinting for more plotlines for them. There's also tons of minor characters appearing, like the news reporters, the Aliens and even Jesus. Heck, even Jared Fogle makes an appearance for some bizarre reason. Contrary to the episode name there's very little focus on Randy's antics, which I'm a bit disappointed (as I said before, if the creators actually made efforts to the Randy weed plotlines like "Band in China" or "Let Them Eat Goo" episodes, they would be enjoyable and I don't mind more of it) but understandable if the creators have nothing else to work with the Randy weed plotline.

The plot is very simplistic (it's literally what the description says with nothing else) and makes less sense (Parents dislike Mr. Garrison to return as teacher so they hired private tutors who openly are QAnon followers? Also I'm pretty sure even when you get vaccinated you still have to do this mask and social distance stuff) and some of the jokes just run into the ground for far too long (like how the residents want their shots, or how people are trying to get into Walgreens, and thank God there's none of the same stupid Whites jokes). The ending is pretty dumb, it started with a resident disliking to get in line for the vaccines and saying about how good it was if it was Israel who vaccinated everyone and then Mr Garrison at the end literally gets a deal with Israel to vaccinate everybody in South Park. The creators really mock QAnon's beliefs real hard (apparently actual QBoomers thought the episode was redpilling them) but with no jokes apart from "haha they dumb" with nothing else (which is dumb, but parroting their insane beliefs doesn't make it funny either), but even then Garrison believes it for some dumb reason. Yeah, believe the guy who stole the students from you. Garrison at the end even mocked the creators for being "child-murdering pedophiles".

It just feels like the beginning of the end. Mr White literally turns into a giant dick from the creators offscreen, hinting we would never see the Whites again. Mr Garrison is back at teaching (the new teacher died of COVID suddenly which felt off) and Mr Hat is back. It seems the show really wanted to get back at things were, but I'm concerned it's just gonna be nostalgia bait or more baits to the same old like what happened after the premiere of Season 21.

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I guess I'm thankful that they didn't bring Fauci & Biden in to blow them
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Biden did appear in this episode but from a picture in the QAnon map being portrayed as some evil demon.
 
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MirrorNoir said:
Quasi-pro Q-stuff in so far as the ending was Garrison literally cutting a deal with the Hollywood elites to reset the status quo (complete with Garrison's secret service bodyguard becoming Mr Hat and Mr White being condemned to a "I have no mouth but must scream" fate being turned into giant sentient cock and balls Garrison mounted onto a sleigh) and a plane full of COVID vaccines from Israel for the town. And the Asian teacher dies of COVID to clear the way for Garrison going back to being a teacher and accepted by the town.
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Haven't watched it yet, but I don't get the Israel part since they don't manufacture any of the meds. It would have been actually funny if they had brought the vaccines from Russia or a some third world country, or alternatively, had some kind of joke about glorifying big pharma after they killed FAR FAR more than Covid in the painkiller drug epidemic.
 
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So IDK how you guys reacted to this shit but it's kind of a mixed bag for me, the humor just wasn't funny which is weird considering how good I thought the pandemic special turned out. I had a feeling Matt and Trey just couldn't find anything interesting to say about Q boomers because it was just way too late into that shits cycle (like Q is 4 years old now right?) to come up with anything new to say. To be fair they were late with PC Principal but I think this leads to another problem with the special, I don't really get the core of it.
Is it about the Vaccinations being an exclusive club, the Q anoners brainwashing children, Garrison being hated for being a dick in office, the want for some return of normalcy? Say what you want about the pandemic special but it had something core with Stan trying to navigate such a destructive world and the stakes getting raised everytime.
Weirdly enough the one thing to hit for me during the episode was the boy's relationship getting eroded as the episode progressed, like it wasn't funny either but it hit close to home due to shit that happened recently it was a little too close for comfort. Also the reason they broke up made no real sense to me, so Cartman has a scheme, Stan wants the best for the boys, Kyle acts selfless but then gets guilted by his family into stealing some vaccines right? I feel like the boys have had much bigger disagreements over what to do before that this just feels like absolutely nothing in comparison
I think that made me the most fair on the episode with the group I watched it with (my dad who watched the show since the beginning gave it like a 3/10 lol). I think there is some interesting metanarative shit you can do with making the world try to go back to normal but the boys just rejecting it as feeling wrong and artificial but I don't think they will go that route personally.
 
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Matt and Trey could have had some real fun with this, but chose not too.

The oldies getting the vaccinations? Why not imply that they're dying a week later from old age? Why Israel? You could easily have had them coming from Britain with various European stereotypes screaming about how South Park is stealing THEIR vaccines, you could even tie it in to previous series and have the vaccine be created from the Member Berries. Why The Whites at all? At least they're probably gone now as they were probably the unfunniest thing to ever happen to South Park.

With the lads breaking up, I think Matt and Trey are just signalling that they're signing out.
 
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I find it hard to believe that a lardass like Jimbo could handle Corona better than that teacher.

I mean, I get it. They wanted the status quo back (and I won't complain since Garrison's funny), but really?
 
The only thing that really gave me the feels was the Walgreens nightclub bouncer situation. God that brings back my 20s. Thank God for old man bars.
 
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Haven't watched it yet, but I don't get the Israel part since they don't manufacture any of the meds. It would have been actually funny if they had brought the vaccines from Russia or a some third world country, or alternatively, had some kind of joke about glorifying big pharma after they killed FAR FAR more than Covid in the painkiller drug epidemic.
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Oh you sweet summer child.

Anyone in this thread want to explain to Butters the significance of/reasons for the planes carrying the vaccines that Garrison cut a deal with the elites to get, being Israeli planes in relations to Garrison's plotline?
 
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