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

[Wulfpack Legend]

And the list keeps growing

 

[40 Year Old Boomer]

Got a laugh at the vaccine charging scene where you had two aliens, ben affleck's parents with the buttfaces, jared fogle, and a crab person in the rush. Pretty sure I also saw the nurse with the conjoined twin on her face, also.

 

[emo fag]

New episode was... alright? I guess? Still not sure what to make of it. It was hard to stay engaged in the story, it just felt like they threw random jokes and references in and expected that to be enough. The problem is to me is that South Park used to be a pleasant mix of comedy, light-hearted takes and occasional plot progression (the boy's going into 4th grade for example). Now it just feels like two Xoomers venting their opinions through stick figures with shit-tier story telling and some decent jokes. I keep watching because I grew up with the show and it's become sort of a comfort for me, but it honestly feels like a chore trying to get some enjoyment from the recent seasons. It's weird because I actually really love the games as they have some of that old charm, so where the fuck does that go when they're cranking out new episodes? Whatever it is, I just wish they would end the show already or at least make it seem like they care anymore. Also sorry if this was a sperg, not too familiar with the more casual boards here.

 

[cactus]

I tend to like the newer seasons of South Park along with the old ones and this episode was a resounding "meh." Since Mr. Hat came back, does this mean Mr. Garrison is going to go back in the closet? Still glad he's back, I like what an asshole he is.

 

[José Mourinho]

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?

The only significance like I said before was during the close of the beginning of the episode, the resident waiting in line for the vaccine was ranting a bit on how Israel is doing better at vaccinations than South Park does.

That's about it.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

I find it funny that Matt & Trey insisted that Israel should hand out more vaccinations to the U.S. and to the streets of Colorado, yet when Saturday Night Live decided to come up with that joke, Israeli groups found it offensive for some reason.

 

[Face Of A Ghost]

Just watched it holy crap it was terrible what the hell.
Felt like one of these "scary movie" where they just cram as much current day references.
I wanted to stop the show at Q-ties or some sh*t.... terrible.

Edit: The idea of Garrisson returning like nothing happened is pretty funny,

 

[UnKillFill]

Yeah, that was shit. 45 minutes long, and I think I laughed maybe once. (It was when they jokingly implied that Matt and Trey are part of the Hollywood elite)

I think it's fair to call this and anything after now "Zombie South Park."

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Haven't watched it yet, but I don't get the Israel part since they don't manufacture any of the meds.

It's literally a Sargon "Trigger the nazis, own the nazis."

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.

I get the distinct impression that Matt and Trey aren't even at the wheel anymore. They were probably shanghaied by diversity hires and don't get a full say in their own show anymore.

 

[José Mourinho]

I think it's fair to call this and anything after now "Zombie South Park."

It already was Zombie South Park ever since "Splatty Tomato" imo (aka the introduction of the Whites), or probably earlier. Ever since that episode there's just no episode that even tried to go back to its good old glory days. Sure there are good ones like "Band in China", "Let them Eat Goo", "Pandemic Special", etc. but it's just not the same.

Season 22 was forgettable, Season 23 was a huge mixed bag, Season 24 which has two specials right now are not bad but not really too great.

On a side note, when people talked about Zombie Simpsons they usually refer to seasons after 9 which felt weird to me since 10 is considered to be better than 9 and people already warmed up to the infamous "Principal and the Pauper" episode.

 

[Cilleystring]

Got a laugh at the vaccine charging scene where you had two aliens, ben affleck's parents with the buttfaces, jared fogle, and a crab person in the rush. Pretty sure I also saw the nurse with the conjoined twin on her face, also.

Manbearpig, the alien taco, the jewsian aliens and some other classic characters were partying at the end as well

There were a couple funny moments like above and butters waving the american flag and the picture of them with the hollywood elite, but overall it felt like a really lazy and all over the place episode. With all the shit thats happened the last year they had a lot more they could rip on and make into a clever episode. It just felt soft and uninformed. Like someone earlier mentioned it felt like they just crammed in whatever mainstream messages in a "how do you do fellow CNN readers?" way. In fact CNN wrote an (extremely half-assed) article praising it for ripping on QAnon.

'South Park' is back with a vaccination special

"South Park" is back with an hourlong special that satirizes QAnon and addresses Covid-19 vaccines.

www.cnn.com

They could have got a lot more creative with ripping on QAnon like made it more epic and suspenseful and gone a lot harder on the overall ridiculous of everyone's blatant and hypocrisy and flip flopping throughout the pandemic/vaccination drama.

 

[UnKillFill]

It already was Zombie South Park ever since "Splatty Tomato" imo (aka the introduction of the Whites), or probably earlier. Ever since that episode there's just no episode that even tried to go back to its good old glory days. Sure there are good ones like "Band in China", "Let them Eat Goo", "Pandemic Special", etc. but it's just not the same.

Season 22 was forgettable, Season 23 was a huge mixed bag, Season 24 which has two specials right now are not bad but not really too great.

On a side note, when people talked about Zombie Simpsons they usually refer to seasons after 9 which felt weird to me since 10 is considered to be better than 9 and people already warmed up to the infamous "Principal and the Pauper" episode.

You aren't entirely wrong. South Park has been overall bad for years now, but it's usually still managed to make me laugh at least once or twice an episode. (A few of them recently have even been alright.) This most recent episode, this "South ParQ vaccination special", wasn't funny at all in the slightest.

It had literally two main jokes-
Joke 1: Old people get vaccinations first for this, lets be honest in real life here, *nothing* virus. (It wasn't funny, and I don't even necessarily think that's even true, at very least that isn't true where I live, regardless it wasn't funny.)
and Joke 2,3,4 and 5, etc (this was literally one of the worst jokes that Matt and Trey have ever made, it was literally even more retarded than Timmy) "We just want a shot" as if it getting a vaccine was some (even shittier than the normal) America's Got Talent. But they also wanted a vaccine shot. That wasn't even funny the first time, but they kept reusing the 'joke' over and over again throughout the episode.

Fuck South Park, I guess it just isn't funny anymore.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

It had literally two main jokes-
Joke 1: Old people get vaccinations first for this, lets be honest in real life here, *nothing* virus. (It wasn't funny, and I don't even necessarily think that's even true, at very least that isn't true where I live, regardless it wasn't funny.)
and Joke 2,3,4 and 5, etc (this was literally one of the worst jokes that Matt and Trey have ever made, it was literally even more retarded than Timmy) "We just want a shot" as if it getting a vaccine was some (even shittier than the normal) America's Got Talent. But they also wanted a vaccine shot. That wasn't even funny the first time, but they kept reusing the 'joke' over and over again throughout the episode.

I think the real highlight here is that the jokes aren't based on reality, but rather a projected reality.

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

It already was Zombie South Park ever since "Splatty Tomato" imo (aka the introduction of the Whites), or probably earlier. Ever since that episode there's just no episode that even tried to go back to its good old glory days. Sure there are good ones like "Band in China", "Let them Eat Goo", "Pandemic Special", etc. but it's just not the same.

Season 22 was forgettable, Season 23 was a huge mixed bag, Season 24 which has two specials right now are not bad but not really too great.

On a side note, when people talked about Zombie Simpsons they usually refer to seasons after 9 which felt weird to me since 10 is considered to be better than 9 and people already warmed up to the infamous "Principal and the Pauper" episode.

I'd say season 20 was when it turned into Zombie Park. The one where they tried to build their entire season around Hillary fighting the internet trolls. Even if you ignore the 2016 election, it still wasn't that good of a story about internet trolling and Cartman's refrains about how Fembusters was smart and funny. Like, you'd think the pay off would be Cartman would eventually spill and say Fembusters sucked SUPER hard, but it turned out to be Memberberries brainwashing everyone into liking TFA. Then they tried to make the girl characters unironically more prominent.

I really hope Parker and Stone are phoning it in because if they really are true CNN believers, they fucking suck now.

 

[RumblyTumbly]

I didn't hate the special and it got some laughs out of me. Garrison going back to town as if nothing had happened was funny. I liked the adults being selfish assholes over getting the vaccines. The period prank was fun "the boys will be boys" style of stuff, and I have to admit, I did laugh at their teacher dying of COVID at the end. And the old people partying hard after getting the vaccine was fun silliness.

However, this one felt like it was all over the place both joke wise and story wise.

1) I'm all for poking fun at QAnon. They deserve it but I wasn't exactly sure what they were going for. By Garrison "making the deal" with the unseen powerful elite force at the end, doesn't that just make the QAnon people (who were maligned the entire episode) right in their conspiracies? Also, why would the parents of South Park that hate Mr. Garrison allow the obvious Q people to teach their kids? I get they are impulsive morons but, uh...yeah it seemed weird. Also, why would they allow unmasked strangers into their homes when they are so desperate to get the vaccine so they can have people over and have fun again? The episode was also weirdly kind of defending QAnon at points, throwing out there that "they have the right to believe their crazy shit" and the one news reporter that was trying to see their side and got called a cunt for it by the raging asshole reporter. So are they an evil cult, well meaning idiots, or are they right (as the ending with Garrison kind of showed)? Its just weird how that all came off. Also, wouldn't Cartman be fully on board with conspiracy nuts that hate Jews?

2) The boys splitting up felt like something that should have been either saved for a future episode next season or made the focus here instead of the vaccine stuff. As is, it felt like it came out of nowhere. OK sure, Kyle and Cartman hate each other already but why are Stan and Kyle mad at each other? And why is Kenny like the child they need to determine custody of in the divorce? And why are they determining ownership of Kenny instead of having a plan to get the vaccine to the teachers? I think splitting the boys up could have some interesting possibilities if they all form their own groups or something. I can see Kyle making no friends and struggling with that and Stan finding any excuse to sleepover at kid's houses so he doesn't have to go back to the farm for one goddamn night. So yeah, there are possibilities, but it came off as out of nowhere and random here.

3) The payoffs weren't very good. There wasn't much of a payoff to the old people partying or the boys split. And they missed an amazing opportunity for a final joke as everyone in SP is partying again and thinking that they can go back to normal, and then someone pipes up and says "Actually, we still need to get the booster shots. That was just shot one". and then realize that the Israelis didn't leave the 2nd shot for the vaccine.

This special was unfocused and tried to go in too many directions. The Pandemic Special from a few months ago did a much better job of telling a completely story loaded with jokes, social commentary, and building to an emotional gut punch ending.

 

[Fuck Y'all]

I didn't hate the special and it got some laughs out of me. Garrison going back to town as if nothing had happened was funny. I liked the adults being selfish assholes over getting the vaccines. The period prank was fun "the boys will be boys" style of stuff, and I have to admit, I did laugh at their teacher dying of COVID at the end. And the old people partying hard after getting the vaccine was fun silliness.

However, this one felt like it was all over the place both joke wise and story wise.

1) I'm all for poking fun at QAnon. They deserve it but I wasn't exactly sure what they were going for. By Garrison "making the deal" with the unseen powerful elite force at the end, doesn't that just make the QAnon people (who were maligned the entire episode) right in their conspiracies? Also, why would the parents of South Park that hate Mr. Garrison allow the obvious Q people to teach their kids? I get they are impulsive morons but, uh...yeah it seemed weird. Also, why would they allow unmasked strangers into their homes when they are so desperate to get the vaccine so they can have people over and have fun again? The episode was also weirdly kind of defending QAnon at points, throwing out there that "they have the right to believe their crazy shit" and the one news reporter that was trying to see their side and got called a cunt for it by the raging asshole reporter. So are they an evil cult, well meaning idiots, or are they right (as the ending with Garrison kind of showed)? Its just weird how that all came off. Also, wouldn't Cartman be fully on board with conspiracy nuts that hate Jews?

2) The boys splitting up felt like something that should have been either saved for a future episode next season or made the focus here instead of the vaccine stuff. As is, it felt like it came out of nowhere. OK sure, Kyle and Cartman hate each other already but why are Stan and Kyle mad at each other? And why is Kenny like the child they need to determine custody of in the divorce? And why are they determining ownership of Kenny instead of having a plan to get the vaccine to the teachers? I think splitting the boys up could have some interesting possibilities if they all form their own groups or something. I can see Kyle making no friends and struggling with that and Stan finding any excuse to sleepover at kid's houses so he doesn't have to go back to the farm for one goddamn night. So yeah, there are possibilities, but it came off as out of nowhere and random here.

3) The payoffs weren't very good. There wasn't much of a payoff to the old people partying or the boys split. And they missed an amazing opportunity for a final joke as everyone in SP is partying again and thinking that they can go back to normal, and then someone pipes up and says "Actually, we still need to get the booster shots. That was just shot one". and then realize that the Israelis didn't leave the 2nd shot for the vaccine.

This special was unfocused and tried to go in too many directions. The Pandemic Special from a few months ago did a much better job of telling a completely story loaded with jokes, social commentary, and building to an emotional gut punch ending.

IMO they just don't want to make this anymore

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

3) The payoffs weren't very good. There wasn't much of a payoff to the old people partying or the boys split. And they missed an amazing opportunity for a final joke as everyone in SP is partying again and thinking that they can go back to normal, and then someone pipes up and says "Actually, we still need to get the booster shots. That was just shot one". and then realize that the Israelis didn't leave the 2nd shot for the vaccine.

The one thing I don't get is why the kids weren't shown getting the vaccines like the adults were. Did they just not give a shit?

IMO they just don't want to make this anymore

That would explain a few things, like how no one acknowledges the new president now, or why every attempt to be satirical or edgy comes off as tryhard now.

 

[XYZpdq]

lol people were actually paying attention to Suck Park instead of f5ing on Eva spoilers?
loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
same as it ever was

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

That would explain a few things, like how no one acknowledges the new president now, or why every attempt to be satirical or edgy comes off as tryhard now.

That's because they're not satirizing the establishment, they just are the establishment.

Who wants to place bets on no Joe Biden jokes this season?

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

Who wants to place bets on no Joe Biden jokes this season?

Depends, how many more of these are they making?