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

It’s not South Park’s job to be political soapbox. Mocking a weird trend in pop culture is more than enough. Yes the show doesn’t say “Blackrock is forcing companies like Disney and Netflix to make leftist garbage that appeals to no one.” It’s the fact that they said anything at all is fun.
South Park chooses to be a soapbox when it's either a popular opinion (Global Warming is real), or a "based" opinion so old every normie heard of it. If they just did episodes about the kids being kids with current clown world then it wouldn't be so bad, but they choose to make it political.
 
The divisiveness in this thread made me check the panderverse out of sheer morbid curiosity, and really the only thing I can say I liked for certain was the ending and that I hold it in the same level as the Chucky Cheese episode of the Simpsons. I appreciate what they are trying to do but holy shit I think I'm going to forget I even watched it a couple of days down the line outside of the watch bait.

Just being reminded about the transdolphin episode and other random speculation made me feel like this premise could have been a little better. Get ready to rate me puzzle pieces because this is Kiwi Farms rewrites the Panderverse.

Remember Sexual Healing? The Wizard Alien, the auto-erotic asphyxiation while on a Batman suit episode?
Take the three sexual addicts (Kyle, Kenny and Butters) and force them through a test that is supposed to out them as gender non-conforming and the episode is how each kid and their families deal with having a trans kid. PC Principal tries to normalize the affair by telling the students that these are "multi-versal exchange students" who are just like their old selves but except you shouldn't acknowledge who they were so the three are effectively gaslighted into being girls. They also are the three male characters that used female personas once in the series and funny enough all could be traced as reasons people with threads here give as to how they became trans.
The Broflovskis are "supportive" (Sheila is over the moon about having a daughter while Gerald is consumed by a perceived slight against his manhood), the Stotchs are repressive and the McCormicks don't realize shit because of Kenny's parka. Butters and Kenny play the duality of the terminally online Keffals enjoyer while Kyle desperately tries to resist being forced into tomgirlhood (callback to the everyone acts gay episode) while thinking this whole gender shitfest was Cartmans idea. Everyone acts polite about it but the conspiracy is that the multiverse is a ploy to make SP elementary more diverse.
Despite enjoying his lesbian status Kenny decides to aid Kyle and get things back to normal so he can shut up; they are joined by the already diverse students (Jimmy, Timmy and Tolkien) since they are "immune" to giving a shit about diversity quotas. PC Principal is dismissive at first of a bigger conspiracy to trans kids but he comes to believe some of it might be true because of Kyles sore mangina. The true antagonist is the albino exchange student Token White, who is everything Tolkien is but with BlackRock inclinations and drinks milk more than Hans Landa. White passively threathens the Troon Crew about not being anything other than representation for marginalized groups, he kills Kenny and in order to prevent him becoming a meme his trans status is taken away upon resurrection. Mysterion enters the picture now holding Straight Pride colours and determined to bring an end to the Panderverse with the help of the Troon Crew, now in needlesly complex Coon and Friends outfits.
Gerald decides to use his jew capital to alter the Panderverse to get his son back while slowly becoming consumed by the GloboHomo whereas PC Principal has a parallel and opposite journey. At the end both adults and the Troon Crew discover they cant fight back the Panderverse they can either choose to embrace it or disconnect from technology and culture. Status change because apparently the Simpsons did it an it worked and massive cliffhanger.

Hows that for pandering? Did I make enough references? Lemme know with your stickers.
 
I like that the episode made fun of both sides. It made fun of Disney and Hollywood for being uncreative activists who just add self-inserts into everything. They made fun of the Fandom Menace types who drone on and on about Woke shit instead of doing anything about it. They also made fun of the upcoming handiness crisis. I remember Null talking about this in a earlier MATI episode saying that we are going to see a shortage of people who are competent in jobs like tech and who can optimize shit well. I get the feeling Matt and Trey maybe lurkers here on the Farms.
If they were, they'd have funnier episodes. Episodes about Cartman's Gunt or Heidi Turner publishing a bunch of shitty Transformer books or Nathan and Jimmy in a professional boxing ring or your favorite lolcow of choice doing their weird degenerate thing are far more interesting than what they're making now.
 
I will say that I did like the Cartman Kathleen Kennedy quote of; "Make them a woman and lame and gay!" and "Make them more lame and more gay!"
That is basically white, millennial, liberal female writers in a nutshell. I hope that now that these types of female writers are being more ridiculed (not to mention that ESG and DEI is going the way of the dodo) that hopefully we will see less of these women in the writers room. Other than that the episode was pretty mid. Some good moments but not like past South Park.
 
South Park chooses to be a soapbox when it's either a popular opinion (Global Warming is real), or a "based" opinion so old every normie heard of it. If they just did episodes about the kids being kids with current clown world then it wouldn't be so bad, but they choose to make it political.
Pretty much, they made their fucking bed, now they get to sleep on it.
I think it's particularly noticeable because this is South Park, who used to do an entire animated show about something that happened literally last week, but now they're years behind like when Simpsons would try to do topical
This is how you really know they lost their edge, they now don't dare touch with a 10 foot pole stuff that they would have dropped an episode without batting an eye a week later like with 9/11.
 
Not much of a South Park fan, but used to like it. Panderverse is the first time I can remember hearing anything about South Park in so long. The 2 highlights of
"All the rich people are fucking around in space"
And towards the end when Cartman Kennedy gets real serious and says "If you're going to keep things from me, then you better put a chick in it and make it fucking gay as fuck' in such a serious voice. Nice.
 
Not much of a South Park fan, but used to like it. Panderverse is the first time I can remember hearing anything about South Park in so long. The 2 highlights of
"All the rich people are fucking around in space"
And towards the end when Cartman Kennedy gets real serious and says "If you're going to keep things from me, then you better put a chick in it and make it fucking gay as fuck' in such a serious voice. Nice.
There was also the "short white person gets replaced with sassy black woman and everyone acts like nothing changed" but they ruined it somehow.

Also people will r34 the fuck out of Female Kenny
 
This is how you really know they lost their edge, they now don't dare touch with a 10 foot pole stuff that they would have dropped an episode without batting an eye a week later like with 9/11.
Maybe I hadn't noticed before or kept up, but it was the pandemic special that really made me think they lost their edge.

It was clear that the overwhelming sentiment was that they weren't going to acknowledge any viewpoint that wasn't about acquiescence to COVID restrictions, even to make fun of people who were against them.

Which was kind of funny when all over reddit, you'd get these morons who thought they themselves were as creative as Matt and Trey by saying things like, "yo, Cartman is totally gonna be an anti-masker!!" Which misses the point of Eric Cartman, you know, the kid who claimed to be transgender just to get his own bathroom. At least that much was consistent. (Cartman leaning into COVID restrictions because he gets to use them to control people; Cartman isn't a conservative, he's an opportunist.)

Point being: these weren't the same guys who made Episode 201, which was about standing up to terrorism because everyone was giving into fear. What, you motherfuckers, was giving into COVID restrictions even about then?
 
Is it just me or do the characters (Esp Stan, Mackey and Liane) sound weird. The best way I could put it is that they sound like they have a cold.
No, it's not just you. The same thing is happening with the Simpsons. Everyone of the voice actors are aging and it shows in the characters' voices.
 
No, it's not just you. The same thing is happening with the Simpsons. Everyone of the voice actors are aging and it shows in the characters' voices.
People have been complaining about Kavner for a long time. It's getting bad. It's hard to tell with long running animation just how old people get over time without any visual reference. Mel Blanc is a classic example.
 
Maybe I hadn't noticed before or kept up, but it was the pandemic special that really made me think they lost their edge.

It was clear that the overwhelming sentiment was that they weren't going to acknowledge any viewpoint that wasn't about acquiescence to COVID restrictions, even to make fun of people who were against them.

Which was kind of funny when all over reddit, you'd get these morons who thought they themselves were as creative as Matt and Trey by saying things like, "yo, Cartman is totally gonna be an anti-masker!!" Which misses the point of Eric Cartman, you know, the kid who claimed to be transgender just to get his own bathroom. At least that much was consistent. (Cartman leaning into COVID restrictions because he gets to use them to control people; Cartman isn't a conservative, he's an opportunist.)

Point being: these weren't the same guys who made Episode 201, which was about standing up to terrorism because everyone was giving into fear. What, you motherfuckers, was giving into COVID restrictions even about then?
The fear was put into Parker and Stone after they put out 201. It was reported that the morning after 201 aired it's one time, that they were summoned to Comedy Central corporate HQ and Stone and Parker have implied not only were they torn a new asshole over 200/201, but were forced to sign NDAs that effectively silence them from talking about the fallout and making of 200/201 save for the vaguest of vageries and what was said at the meeting and the threats made against them if they did something like that again.

I wonder if they'd ever do one about how the US military lacks new recruits
Probably not since Simpsons and Family Guy already did it
 
You people have seriously low standards, mat and trey took 1 potshot at cathleen and you're treating it like the second coming of christ, despie the fact that cartman apologizes to her in the end and admits its his fault and not cathlees but whatever.

The episode was lazy. There was barely a cohesive throughline, and it feels like they shat it out in a week while just trying to cram cultural references.

The pandemic specials were the last time south park was any good, its just devolved into boring simpsons tier bullshit and the only reason people even remotely tolerate it is because it pretends to be unbiased.
 
I couldn't get into it because they didn't get things right. Kennedy is only in charge of ruining Lucasfilm properties like Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Willow. She only forces in straight white women into these shows as self-inserts.
The "gay POC" remakes are mostly coming from Disney proper. That would be Bob Iger's doing, at the behest of the DEI department.
 
I thought it was pretty ok and it got some laughs out of me. Something that modern entertainment generally fails to do for me these days. People that are picking it apart or looking for political this and that...take a deep breath. relax and go touch grass. Sheesh.
 
I couldn't get into it because they didn't get things right. Kennedy is only in charge of ruining Lucasfilm properties like Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Willow. She only forces in straight white women into these shows as self-inserts.
The "gay POC" remakes are mostly coming from Disney proper. That would be Bob Iger's doing, at the behest of the DEI department.
thnk the reason theyput her in specifically s for allt he complaining people do about her online she actually usedto be somewhat good int erms of relations with lucas which implies she wasnt always what she's become. The cartman kennedy from cartman's nightmare recap that was summoned from the negative energy was the one doing gay poc women insertion in from what i remember.

You people have seriously low standards, mat and trey took 1 potshot at cathleen and you're treating it like the second coming of christ, despie the fact that cartman apologizes to her in the end and admits its his fault and not cathlees but whatever.

The episode was lazy. There was barely a cohesive throughline, and it feels like they shat it out in a week while just trying to cram cultural references.

The pandemic specials were the last time south park was any good, its just devolved into boring simpsons tier bullshit and the only reason people even remotely tolerate it is because it pretends to be unbiased.
it feels like the main running plot of the episode was people being too lazy to do repairwork and the people fearmongering about ai getting angry while blue collar repairmen end up becoming upper class from it. Most of the multiverse stuff was just focused on both cartmans being funny horrible people. I think it was a fun episode overall but in no way should it have been a streaming service exclusive special.
 
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