'South Park' in HD on Comedy Central - Page 15

Even if this first half season is 4-3 in terms of good or better:duds or worse, that's on par with the first half of last season:
Good or better: Sexual Healing, Scrotie McBoogerballs, Medicinal Fried Chicken, You have 0 Friends:

Duds or Worse: 200, 201 (The Mohammed Eps), and Crippled Summer, where the only laughs where when the Shark rapes that handicapped kid. Those three eps aired back to back to back making for me, 3 consecutive sub par SP weeks.

On the bright side, the second half of last season was pretty in good IMHO, with no duds: Poor and Stupid, Jersey Thing, Insheeption, "Coon 2" 3 Parter, and Creme Fraiche.

Point is, in comparing first half of last season to first half of this season, IMHO things appear to be on par without a reduction in quality.

I thought it was the best episode of the season with most of the official south park forums agreeing as well.


City Wok guy for the win!

lol

Which official SP forums?

Here is the link to the discussion thread on the South Park Studios forum for this ep, which would be the official SP forum.
http://forums.southparkstudios.com/f...hp?f=3&t=47823

The reaction is mixed, with those who like it raving about the Japanese/Chinese stuff, not about the multiple personality stuff, a sentiment echoed here as well (and by me too).

I don't like what they did with the City Wok guy. Now every time I watch his funny diatribes I'll think about this lame plotline. The rest of the episode was enjoyable.

Matt and Trey always said the final season would always be 1 season too late and they would end theseries after a truely horrible season. Not saying this is it but it does make me wonder.

Eh, Poor and Stupid was probably the worst episode in the history of the show. The Coon 3-parter was way overwrought. They could've held that to 30-minutes and made a fantastic episode. I thought Crippled Summer was one of the better episodes from last season.

I agree that 200 and 201 were no good, though that may be Comedy Central's fault rather than Matt and Trey.

They are signed for another 3 years so keep dreaming.

That is incorrect. South Park is contracted through 15 seasons--i.e., the end of 2011. There has been no word of a new contract for more seasons (yet). One theory is that Matt and Trey are playing hardball with Viacom because of the way it handled the 200/201 Mohammed fiasco.

There's only one more episode left this spring, then seven episodes left for the second half. Those won't run until October though, so I wouldn't expect any word on an extension until September/October. Presumably CC will want to advertise heavily if these are indeed the final seven episodes.

Poor and Stupid, is not a classic, but it's by no means the worst EVER.

Worst ever, hands down, is a Season 4 episode Pip. Watch it and tell me that there is a worse ep than this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pip_%28South_Park%29

Link to watch ep on SP Studios official site: http://www.southparkstudios.com/full...des/s04e05-pip

It was so horrible that after the premiere night in 2000, it wouldn't air as a repeat at all on Comedy Central in the US until 2006 and hardly ever airs since then. I never even see it in syndication. It's so awful I've heard that even Matt and Trey have essentially disowned it (sorry, I don't have a link). [To be fair, if that's even necessary, I heard this ep airs more often in Canada and the UK]

Watch Poor and Stupid and then watch Pip and see if you still think Poor and Stupid is in Pip territory. For me Poor and Stupid isn't a bad episode at all, BUT I can understand people not liking it, but it's funnier than Funnybot or any other of this season's stinkers, and certainly well above "Pip" territory.

Also, I like "A Million Little Fibers" (the Towelie ep with Oprah), but Matt and Trey have said they think it's a weak ep as well, since it's based on that fiction passed off as non-fiction "scandal" which if you don't remember that scandal, the ep in reviewings isn't that great...

I have a hard time believing there is a corporate entity that would air those episodes as intended.

Haha, I vaguely remember Malcolm McDowell narrating an episode of South Park. That explains why I hadn't seen it recently.

Funny I enjoyed Pip. Perhaps it was because i had just got done reading Great Expectations. I have noticed that usually episodes that do not feature the 4 main boys are considered the weaker episodes.

I don't know if I agree. There are some fantastic episodes featuring Butters and Randy.

How can we know? Half the second episode was bleeped out.

100% agree that there are great Butters and Randy episodes, but it is true that many of the so called "weak" eps are ones that don't feature the main characters: "Million Little Fibers," "Terrance and Philip in Not Without My Anus," etc...

Was tonights episode Matt and Trey's way of saying they are tired of South Park?

Well, after that, it seems like they're fine with this being the last season. Seven episodes to the end. Here's hoping CC doesn't make them blow three of those episodes on another over-extended trilogy.

Wow. I enjoyed that quite a bit. Randy's subplot was pretty weak until theend.

LOL

But seriously, WTF was that? I mean I liked it for the most part, but it didn't have resolution, and ended on a serious note?

A serious note? South Park? What is this, SP's equivalent of the boring horrible locked in a bank episode of Family Guy?

Is there a link that their contract is done after this season? On the official SP forums, they say that Matt and Trey have a contract through 2013.

Link re: 2013:
http://www.tvrage.com/South_Park/news/?read_news=6913

What I'm reading is that the SP forum insiders say that Matt and Trey intended to sign a contract through 2013, but even that was just rumor. I see nothing via Google that says they ever actually re-upped through 2013. Wikipedia says they are signed through only the current season, 2011.

The last I heard was what I posted before. Everything changed for Matt and Trey when Comedy Central ruined 200 and 201.

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/20...%20park&st=cse


I realize the interviewer asked the question, but it wasn't corrected by Trey and Matt when the statement was made.

Also

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...-parker-171189

Interesting in that the first article was written before 200 and 201 were butchered, and the second article incorrectly states that the 15th season is part of the new pact. It was part of the (apparently) previous pact.

Perhaps this episode was them regretting having signed on for two additional seasons? Not sure. It's very strange that the fact that they've apparently signed on through 2013 is barely known, even among fans of the show.

A major contract like that should've gotten more coverage than just an off-comment in articles on Matt and Trey.

Wow, talk about taking a turn for the weird.

Although, they were very careful not to actually say anything one way or the other about what actually happens. All you see for sure is that the Marsh's sell their house and move elsewhere, but there was no confirmation that they moved elsewhere separately... Could be a red herring.

they can just reset it all like the simpsons do.

This might be the last season.

The Creators want out its seems.

Seemed like a big "eff you" episode to all involved - including the viewer.

Now that I've slept on it, this could just be a set up for something really funny in the second half-season. After all, there's just too many weird things happening like Kyle and Cartman are like best friends now? (And where's Kenny? His absence in that Kyle/Cartman scene was conspicuous) and the old men trying to save the "britches" (breeches).

Just because we don't know where they are going with it doesn't mean it won't be funny. This is the first cliffhanger that I can remember between a half season or full season since "Cartman's Mom A Dirty Slut," and after months of predictions, nobody saw it coming who Cartman's "dad" was.

Hell, this september/october they could hype up the conclusion to this "We're Getting Old" crap and lead off the season with a Terrance and Phillip episode. South Park has never shyed away from giving the middle finger to fans for laughs.

Another thought is that Trey and Matt could be noticing a lot of people complaining about the quality of recent episodes, and wanted to turn that into a storyline. If it works, which we won't until September/October, it could be really funny. Guess we'll just have to wait and see.

Unless I'm reading too much into it (which is entirely possible), the show references this when they talk about the "tween years", and reference that things change in 2013.

If the show isn't ending, I wonder if the rest of the boys will eventually turn 10 as well.

i thought it was great, but... a flower being a turd is going a bit far...