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Comments like this just exemplify that there's no way to satisfy every fan. For me season 4 through 6 marked a massive drop off in quality where the show just meandered haphazardly through its established lore, using crudeness and gross out humor as a stand-in for actual writing. The Mulan sauce years, where it was embarrassing to even talk about having used to like the show. Not to discount the many talented people who worked their asses off to get those episodes to us, but having followed Harmon from Channel 101 through Community and Harmontown, it was obvious something was off. And it turned out something was. After Roiland was fired many came forward to talk about what an awful work environment he fostered, where he was constantly drunk and refused to write or even speak the lines as written, and wouldn't even show up most days. Then there's the abusive behavior... In any case seasons 7 and 8 have maybe not been perfect but are absolutely a return to form and a massive improvement. It is funny to me there are fans of the show who aren't actually fans of that form and prefer seasons 4-6. I will say the two episodes you called out from those seasons are standouts, I kind of hate both of them, but I see where you're coming from. And likewise the two newer episodes you called out were kind of dumb, I can agree with that. But overall the two most recent seasons, I feel, have been a massive improvement over szechuan sauce and dragons and incest babies.