They actually managed to do that well for a few seasons. The show was honestly the best when it was about that, the problem is Trey and Matt just became out of touch with the new thing and couldn't replicate the same magic they once had.
Right around the episode "You're getting Old" was when this happened
this episode genuinely felt like a series finale, like Matt and Trey went "the show ends here but Comedy Central is still giving us millions of dollars god please forgive us"
yeah, this and the follow-up Ass Burgers was basically trey and matt saying that they have really got tired of doing the show and the spark isn't there anymore, but we're going to carry on anyway
this is my headcanon ending of the show
>where the show became all about "make fun of current thing"
I wonder why they went down this route. It gives the episodes almost no rewatchability years later.
>Jump the shark.. >How about you go jump off a cliff you fricking hick >All the fricking negativity on this shit hole is nausiating
They don't even know what that phrase means. They think it means "the moment thing went bad" when it doesn't mean that at all.
"Jumping the Shark" refers to the point at which a popular show has to resort to stunts for attention, as in the Foz jumping a shark on Happy Days. Most shows never "jump the shark". They just have bad episodes until they get canceled.
>They don't even know what that phrase means. They think it means "the moment thing went bad" when it doesn't mean that at all.
>"Jumping the Shark" refers to the point at which a popular show has to resort to stunts for attention, as in the Foz jumping a shark on Happy Days. Most shows never "jump the shark". They just have bad episodes until they get canceled.
You're almost there. shows go bad and resort to jumping the shark. They dont just do it out of nowhere. The "shark" is the point of no return.
Season 17 I think was the first season to have more bad episodes than good and it was all downhill from there. Continuity and Tegridy Farms pushed it past the point of no return.
South Park was ALWAYS just a show that occasionally had a good episode. Some people act like they were just dropping kino episodes every week when they started out, but it wasn't. Only certain particular ones were really good, the rest was just slop
and so nothing has changed. It's still just a bunch of filler episodes of dick jokes and farts, with the occasional actually funny concept coming along every once in a while. There was NEVER some point in time where every South Park episode was great
We remember all your unhinged media-driven hysteria and we will never forget it.
Congrats on helping the establishment lose their last shred of credibility. At least you accomplished something positive.
I think people got mad because they were saying ANYTHING about Trump (good or bad) after going on record and promising that they wouldn't because it was such low-hanging fruit and not funny.
Human Centi-Pad followed by the Humorbot episode were where I started to check out. South Park went from must watch to wait and see if everyone liked an episode and check it out later.
When the pussied out on qanon storyline and just made the "haha 4th wall break we're funny, none of it matters" they had bad moments before, the whole tegridy farm was lame but the whites family and qanon is them basically admitting that they can't make offensive jokes anymore
Yeah maybe but at the time they still made the episode without any cuts and then comedy central came in and edited it. You can find for example the unedited speech kyle did that was leaked out. Really more on them for that particular instance.
Turning Cartman into a homeless wreck in that pandemic special was moronic. Converting him to israeliteism was genius and they couldn't even stick by it.
More like when they went 180 degrees against their previous 20 years of counter-cultural shitposting to clutch their pearls and get their panties in a twist about a chaotic underdog that threatened to overthrow the political establishment. 1999 Matt and Trey would have been 100% for Trump. >inb4 economic interests etc etc
No one but facebook boomers that think this is still America supported Trump after 2018 when it was clear he was a fraud in over his head.
More accurately they did a 180 on actually being funny. As much as it’s stereotyped as being crass early South Park actually balanced it’s crude shock humor with some wit here and there. Eventually that was just dropped and absurdity was cranked up to 11.
Stick of Truth was soul because alongside a fun and simple gameplay system it was able to use the entire South Park catalogue up to that point. Fractured only used the SP stuff since then, IE all the bad stuff.
It’s so weird that throngs of normies from my coworkers to my extended family suddenly love modern South Park and act like they always did, like it’s The Simpsons or something, because it’s popular now. They would’ve hated it back in the 2000s, in fact they did.
Also to answer the question sometime around 2010-2012 it just lost the charm and stopped getting laughs out of me.
Imaginationland is a rare example of actually jumping the shark instead of just turning into unwatchable shit which the show had already done a while before.
I think one of the most depressing things of the modern day is people forcing themselves to watch and enjoy awful trash because it’s on ‘their side’ of social politics. Both sides seem to do this.
world of warcraft episode. that's where the show became all about "make fun of current thing" instead of the adventures of 4 young kids.
They actually managed to do that well for a few seasons. The show was honestly the best when it was about that, the problem is Trey and Matt just became out of touch with the new thing and couldn't replicate the same magic they once had.
Right around the episode "You're getting Old" was when this happened
Ding ding ding
this episode genuinely felt like a series finale, like Matt and Trey went "the show ends here but Comedy Central is still giving us millions of dollars god please forgive us"
yeah, this and the follow-up Ass Burgers was basically trey and matt saying that they have really got tired of doing the show and the spark isn't there anymore, but we're going to carry on anyway
this is my headcanon ending of the show
How us world of warcraft not part of 4 young kids having adventures? You think kids are out there riding bikes and climbing trees? lol
But in some way it ways always making fun of current thing from the beginnining unless you mean the primary focus
>where the show became all about "make fun of current thing"
I wonder why they went down this route. It gives the episodes almost no rewatchability years later.
The show was always make fun of current thing you underaged secondary. You just dont recognize any of the current things from the early seasons
It's still the best episode of the entire show.
2016 election with Garrison as Trump.
it was bad loonnnng before that
the correct answer
Jump the shark..
How about you go jump off a cliff you fricking hick
All the fricking negativity on this shit hole is nausiating
>Jump the shark..
>How about you go jump off a cliff you fricking hick
>All the fricking negativity on this shit hole is nausiating
They don't even know what that phrase means. They think it means "the moment thing went bad" when it doesn't mean that at all.
"Jumping the Shark" refers to the point at which a popular show has to resort to stunts for attention, as in the Foz jumping a shark on Happy Days. Most shows never "jump the shark". They just have bad episodes until they get canceled.
>They don't even know what that phrase means. They think it means "the moment thing went bad" when it doesn't mean that at all.
>"Jumping the Shark" refers to the point at which a popular show has to resort to stunts for attention, as in the Foz jumping a shark on Happy Days. Most shows never "jump the shark". They just have bad episodes until they get canceled.
You're almost there. shows go bad and resort to jumping the shark. They dont just do it out of nowhere. The "shark" is the point of no return.
Then why are you still here?
Season 17 I think was the first season to have more bad episodes than good and it was all downhill from there. Continuity and Tegridy Farms pushed it past the point of no return.
South Park was ALWAYS just a show that occasionally had a good episode. Some people act like they were just dropping kino episodes every week when they started out, but it wasn't. Only certain particular ones were really good, the rest was just slop
and so nothing has changed. It's still just a bunch of filler episodes of dick jokes and farts, with the occasional actually funny concept coming along every once in a while. There was NEVER some point in time where every South Park episode was great
Humorless dickweed. Early seasons are way more killer than filler.
2016 election. They EXPOSED themselves as libtards. Vaxxoid scum special was just the FINAL NAIL to the COFFIN.
they're koch republicans
trumpgays are the worst.
Two more weeks, right?
Two more weeks until everyone dies because I didn't wear a mask? Still waiting.
Be a lot cooler if you all did.
You are now aware that you forgot to put on your tinfoil hat.
You're welcome.
We remember all your unhinged media-driven hysteria and we will never forget it.
Congrats on helping the establishment lose their last shred of credibility. At least you accomplished something positive.
>we
Meds, you schizo. Don't lose your head when you get a Democrat as the next president.
>no argument
>only ad-hom and deflection
You tried. Last (You) btw.
Like 10 years ago. Show was baddd when they brought in PC principal and Jenner
from first episode. that is why the show became popular in the first place
2016 election. You can argue if you want, I'm right.
Yep. Absolutely toothless.
Ocean's 11 parody? k.
Lol, you can't even see the pregnancy, and she still posing to pics like it's obvious. Frickin airhead celebrity..
You mean the absolutely amazing episode, that they finished in a SINGLE day?
When they started hurting my feelings when they said mean things about daddy trump. 2015
I know this post is bait but
>mean things
I think people got mad because they were saying ANYTHING about Trump (good or bad) after going on record and promising that they wouldn't because it was such low-hanging fruit and not funny.
Human Centi-Pad followed by the Humorbot episode were where I started to check out. South Park went from must watch to wait and see if everyone liked an episode and check it out later.
When the pussied out on qanon storyline and just made the "haha 4th wall break we're funny, none of it matters" they had bad moments before, the whole tegridy farm was lame but the whites family and qanon is them basically admitting that they can't make offensive jokes anymore
When they cucked on showing Mohammed
I thought that was comedy central that did that not them.
It was still the first time the show revealed it had topical boundaries. not really an excuse in the 21st century either.
Yeah maybe but at the time they still made the episode without any cuts and then comedy central came in and edited it. You can find for example the unedited speech kyle did that was leaked out. Really more on them for that particular instance.
a decade ago. i feel bad for anyone who still finds this shit funny
Chef dying is my cut off point
Season 10, probably. It lost its consistency.
when their politics did not align with mines! 🙁
somewhere between muhhamad family guy and youre getting older
pc principal
World War Zimmerman
You could feel Trey's black wife b***hing at him through the screen in that episode.
Turning Cartman into a homeless wreck in that pandemic special was moronic. Converting him to israeliteism was genius and they couldn't even stick by it.
>Turning Cartman into a homeless wreck in that pandemic special was moronic.
not to mention a rehash of a gag they already did way better 20 years ago
that stupid satantic christmas wonderland critters episode. or that episode where they killed of chef.
>you now remember that moment Henry Winkler jumped over a literal shark on Arrested Development S3.
When they made fun of my political views.
More like when they went 180 degrees against their previous 20 years of counter-cultural shitposting to clutch their pearls and get their panties in a twist about a chaotic underdog that threatened to overthrow the political establishment. 1999 Matt and Trey would have been 100% for Trump.
>inb4 economic interests etc etc
No one but facebook boomers that think this is still America supported Trump after 2018 when it was clear he was a fraud in over his head.
More accurately they did a 180 on actually being funny. As much as it’s stereotyped as being crass early South Park actually balanced it’s crude shock humor with some wit here and there. Eventually that was just dropped and absurdity was cranked up to 11.
Correct. Trey and Matt got old and respectable, and thus became lame.
It will return to the shark on March 26th of next year.
Stick of Truth was pure soul.
Fractured butthole was zombie simpsons tier. I cant imagine how bad this 3dslop will be.
Stick of Truth was soul because alongside a fun and simple gameplay system it was able to use the entire South Park catalogue up to that point. Fractured only used the SP stuff since then, IE all the bad stuff.
>Winter / Christmas themed game
>coming this Spring
The fact that it's 3D but doesn't lose the 2D feel is neat, but c'mon...
South Park started on Christmas specials so I’ll make an exception
It’s so weird that throngs of normies from my coworkers to my extended family suddenly love modern South Park and act like they always did, like it’s The Simpsons or something, because it’s popular now. They would’ve hated it back in the 2000s, in fact they did.
Also to answer the question sometime around 2010-2012 it just lost the charm and stopped getting laughs out of me.
Imaginationland is a rare example of actually jumping the shark instead of just turning into unwatchable shit which the show had already done a while before.
season 2 episode 7: city on the edge of forever, fonzy attempts to jump a shark on his motorcycle
I think one of the most depressing things of the modern day is people forcing themselves to watch and enjoy awful trash because it’s on ‘their side’ of social politics. Both sides seem to do this.
Season-long arcs.
You're getting old. It was a sign that even the creators new it was over. Yet they returned to the status quo by the end with nothing learned.
From the season that has the episode Major Boobage is where i noticed a marked drop in quality as well as my interest in the show