South Park

Howdy fellers!

Just to stir up some discussion, what is your favorite episode of South Park? Perhaps even your favorite season?

My personal favorite episode is Season 8's AWESOME-O. Butters is my favorite little guy, and the premise is just too funny. With Apologies to Jesse Jackson is a close second, I think. Season 11 in general has some bangers.

Sorry

FML only 4 more hours till I can watch it!

In other words, Sermon on the ’Mount is a grand dare. If Trump could get $16m by suing Paramount over an editorially acceptable edit on a news programme, then it stands to reason that he will try to go after a cartoon that depicts him trying to insert his microscopic penis into Satan. And if he does sue, will Paramount risk destroying its already damaged reputation by capitulating yet again?

There’s plenty of nuance to this battle, not least the fact that the programme’s creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, have just signed a $1.5bn contract with Paramount+, ensuring that it will exclusively stream South Park for the next five years, but the battle lines have been drawn. Paramount finds itself caught in yet another bind. If push comes to shove, who will it side with: a president who might block its $8bn merger out of spite, or its most aggressively provocative show? The way things are shaping up, this could be a hell of a season.

I really should have seen this coming.

So as a member of south park groups on multiple platforms over the years, I've always agreed that South Park spaces are not for people who can't take a joke. Any joke made in south park is basically fair game, within reason. Obviously South Park is not a valid justification for targeted harassment etc.

So.... onto the topic of removed faggots and when it's funny vs assholery:

Funny: When you call a lying, cheating, megalomaniac, pedophile, who's responsible for the death and suffering of millions, a removed faggot.

NOT FUNNY: When you use it to disparage pretty much anyone else other than Garrison and maybe Ted Cruz. But you're kind of being disrespectful to muskrats at that point.

I hope that clears things up!

edit: Interesting that it auto filters removed but not faggot. Whatever.

200 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8JzaG_zskc5HLDY6BHhOUWioS7s4cusu

201 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8JzaG_zskc4qqbv1zbyfZXH77A5EWlNn

These episodes were censored (pulled from most streaming services) because of pushback against depicting a certain faith's leader by said faith's members. While this was not the first time South Park had done so, it was the first time members of said certain faith took notice.

The episodes wove together several fan favorite jokes and episodes into one coherent 2-part storyline -Super Best Friends, the Ginger army, Carman's hand persona, Mecha-Streisand... to name a few.

If you've never seen them they should be on the top of your watch list! If you have copies of them, digital or otherwise, I would strongly suggest holding on to them! (at the very least *wink *wink)

So I was rewatching the episodes listed in this video of Randy clips from season 1 -5 while researching my "Evolution of Randy" topic.

Matt and Trey say they hate Season 1-4... But they contain a lot of the world building and character development that we all love. Perhaps they feel they could do better, or wish they'd written the south park world differently?

The early seasons were more about life in south park, versus life in america. The lot of character defining events and backstories take place here. The boys, their parents, and their relationships are all defined in these early seasons. Jokes and tropes leaned towards relatable every day things instead of current events.

A lot is said about the newer seasons but, I'd like to hear peoples thoughts on the older seasons. Characters and backstories that tend to be forgotten. Or tidbits that people might have missed.

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I'm anticipating my next post will focus on Randy & Sharon's relationship background. We saw in the recent, "Not Suitable For Children" that the two of them clearly have an inseparable bond; broken only by alternate timelines (Post Covid: Covid Returns).

I have some more research to do on that. Any comments related to them in the first seasons will certainly be food for thought.

I'll keep adding. Please comment anything I should add or if a link becomes dead.

• The Princess of Canada. What a glorious day for our country, and indeed, the world.

• Box of Faith.

• Scott the Giant Dick.

• Follow the only road.

• We're setting you adrift! Not my guy buddy/friend/pal

• Canadian Alphabet

• There's no Canada like French Canada

• I don't speak Canadian

• Great Wall of Canada

• Canadian Puberty

• Aboot Canadians

Just came here to say this

Unfortunately there’s already a lot of South Park communities. Hopefully this won’t divide people too much

I just heard the original Kansas version of Carry On My Wayward Son on the radio... I had completely forgotten that the verse was accompanied by piano and not guitar.

As if playing and singing it wasn't enough... Randy either has the music theory to transpose it, the ability to learn it by ear, or the passion to find and learn it for himself.

That has really gotten me thinking about Randy's evolution as a character... and honestly why I made this community. More posts to follow.