Not sure of the peak, but I remember the exact moment I stopped watching.
Used to have a tradition of a bowl of ice cream and the new South Park episode; there was an episode with James Cameron about lowering or raising the bar or some shit.
I turned it off before it finished and never watched it again.
From what I've heard it's had some moments, but is generally shit.
When they started parodying the 2016 election. It wasn't a parody, just Mr. Garrison acting like a caricatures. It's kind of like when Family guy is making fun of something they're not adding their own twist but just having a Family Guy character do a shot-for-shot remake.
>When they started parodying the 2016 election
Yeah, this was embarrassing. I'd stopped watching regularly for even years before that, but they should have been smart enough to realize that parodying Trump is inherently not funny. I'm sure most of the audience ate up the slop, though. I watched a couple of the newest seasons recently though and they weren't terrible.
It peaked around season 10-11-12.
For me a major drop was season 19. After that i started to lose interest and I hate the whole Randy as a weed farmer thing that has been going on for years. I still watch it sometimes, but after season 18 most of the episodes I have only seen once
I remember watching that behind the scenes movie on netflix and they were bragging about how they do an entire episode from scratch in a one week. We can tell and it explains the quality. It's like when I was a TA and I could tell the students who wrote it the night before on Adderall
For the 2008 election special they said they had to do it last minute because they didn't know who would win. But the 2016 they were certain Hillary would win. How did they not know Obama was clearly going to win but didn't think 2016 would at least be close.
reached post prime with season 12 and the
S12 E10 · Pandemic
and this is the one this guinea pigs and not corona. This is when South park first started with the multiplot episodes moving away from being episodic. Now in season 2X the plot with garrison as the president, Randy and his weed farm etc last whole seasons if not multiple.
The show peaked in Seasons 10 and 11. The unofficial end to the series is the episode in S14 (?) where Stan gets a year older and gets depresses, and there's a Matrix plotline and Cartman selling shit burgers. After that its all varying degrees of shit
It peaked way earlier than people are saying here, but definitely before 2010. It still remained watchable after the peak until around PC principal. I still haven't fully given up on it, but it feels like watching the Simpsons in the mid 2000's.
The season(s) where they pissed off two religions, pissed off their parent studio's top drawing star, and it resulted in the death of Isaac Hayes. They were literally on top of the world and on a roll with a fight desperate to keep them quiet and because it was antagonizing people, they were in their element. And they were in the right because they were in a way defending their birthright of freedom of speech in that its either all funny or none of it was. If showing the ridiculousness of Scientology and mocking it was only going to result in a bunch of lawsuits and boo-boo faces, mocking one of the core tenets of Islam was going to result in Comedy Central possibly getting bombed. It was a literal turning point in culture where we were still reeling from being attacked by fundamentalists of that very religion and going to war against them to now not trying ot uipset them in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo controversy in Europe happening at the time. They had finally ran into something that they couldn't lampoon how they desired to, where the envelope was no longer allowed to be pushed. That must have humbled them in a way nothing else ever did in the realiziation that tye were no longer just two guys from Colorado and that their show had larger reach and audience than they were realizing. After Chef died, the show was simply different not just in terms of tone, but also for taking aay and not replacing the kids' only adult that they were able to trust and confide in. No one filled that void.
If you didn't watch SP in the early 00s
in between listening to blink-182 getting handjobs from your gf and skating, then you haven't experienced peak SP.
I'm sorry. SP was a cultural phenomenon back then. You had to be there.
Never
S10 or S11
Not sure of the peak, but I remember the exact moment I stopped watching.
Used to have a tradition of a bowl of ice cream and the new South Park episode; there was an episode with James Cameron about lowering or raising the bar or some shit.
I turned it off before it finished and never watched it again.
From what I've heard it's had some moments, but is generally shit.
Is that the "member berries" episode? Because that was also the breaking point for me.
I don't think so.
I just looked it up, it's literally called "Raising the Bar" Season 16, episode 9.
I still watch South park sometimes, but once I got a job and a gf it stopped being as important, probably around the black friday trilogy.
Does she let you frick her ass?
The james cameron one was one of the first ones where I had no idea what they were trying to say
it's talking about how the bar (standard) of entertainment has been lowered so much.. are you moronic?
I got that but it wasn’t funny and it was incoherent
>I got it
>it was incoherent
?
famous mutt education?
Any of early seasons, with low-bait humour and shit-comedy. Newer seasons became SNL sketches comedy, and it was no-go for me
It jumped the shark around Imaginationland.
mystery of the urinal deuce. Just enough political gobbledyasiatic to it but still firmly ridiculous with its plot and characters
after that it was all too much in on a political message of [current event]
When they started parodying the 2016 election. It wasn't a parody, just Mr. Garrison acting like a caricatures. It's kind of like when Family guy is making fun of something they're not adding their own twist but just having a Family Guy character do a shot-for-shot remake.
>When they started parodying the 2016 election
Yeah, this was embarrassing. I'd stopped watching regularly for even years before that, but they should have been smart enough to realize that parodying Trump is inherently not funny. I'm sure most of the audience ate up the slop, though. I watched a couple of the newest seasons recently though and they weren't terrible.
2004
It peaked around season 10-11-12.
For me a major drop was season 19. After that i started to lose interest and I hate the whole Randy as a weed farmer thing that has been going on for years. I still watch it sometimes, but after season 18 most of the episodes I have only seen once
>Randy as a weed farmer
Why is this even a thing?
Idk, it would have been fun for an episode but it's a thing since season 22 :')
Wasnt that a whole season ? Or two? Even three?
I remember watching that behind the scenes movie on netflix and they were bragging about how they do an entire episode from scratch in a one week. We can tell and it explains the quality. It's like when I was a TA and I could tell the students who wrote it the night before on Adderall
The medicinal fried chicken episode
For the 2008 election special they said they had to do it last minute because they didn't know who would win. But the 2016 they were certain Hillary would win. How did they not know Obama was clearly going to win but didn't think 2016 would at least be close.
Before the Let go and Let Gov episode where the israelite Matt Stone lies to you that israelites didn't do 9/11.
reached post prime with season 12 and the
S12 E10 · Pandemic
and this is the one this guinea pigs and not corona. This is when South park first started with the multiplot episodes moving away from being episodic. Now in season 2X the plot with garrison as the president, Randy and his weed farm etc last whole seasons if not multiple.
The show peaked in Seasons 10 and 11. The unofficial end to the series is the episode in S14 (?) where Stan gets a year older and gets depresses, and there's a Matrix plotline and Cartman selling shit burgers. After that its all varying degrees of shit
It peaked way earlier than people are saying here, but definitely before 2010. It still remained watchable after the peak until around PC principal. I still haven't fully given up on it, but it feels like watching the Simpsons in the mid 2000's.
How do you talk to a friend who still thinks South Park, The Simpsons, and Family Guy are all still great.
"Hey man, how much do you want for an ounce?"
it was consistently great until season 18
The season(s) where they pissed off two religions, pissed off their parent studio's top drawing star, and it resulted in the death of Isaac Hayes. They were literally on top of the world and on a roll with a fight desperate to keep them quiet and because it was antagonizing people, they were in their element. And they were in the right because they were in a way defending their birthright of freedom of speech in that its either all funny or none of it was. If showing the ridiculousness of Scientology and mocking it was only going to result in a bunch of lawsuits and boo-boo faces, mocking one of the core tenets of Islam was going to result in Comedy Central possibly getting bombed. It was a literal turning point in culture where we were still reeling from being attacked by fundamentalists of that very religion and going to war against them to now not trying ot uipset them in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo controversy in Europe happening at the time. They had finally ran into something that they couldn't lampoon how they desired to, where the envelope was no longer allowed to be pushed. That must have humbled them in a way nothing else ever did in the realiziation that tye were no longer just two guys from Colorado and that their show had larger reach and audience than they were realizing. After Chef died, the show was simply different not just in terms of tone, but also for taking aay and not replacing the kids' only adult that they were able to trust and confide in. No one filled that void.
lol, I know who you are irl and you probably know why I do
No, and I don't care.
If you didn't care you wouldn't have replied.
Your reply to my comment is so asinine and stupid, it warranted a reply to tell you to frick off for not contributing to the topic.
Here come the tears.
Then prove it, b***h.
Who am I?
My name begins with a J.
Jew.
That's what I fricking thought, pussy.
Yeah, it's Matt Stone b***hing thinking no one can recognise him.
All down hill from here
s1-s4
If you didn't watch SP in the early 00s
in between listening to blink-182 getting handjobs from your gf and skating, then you haven't experienced peak SP.
I'm sorry. SP was a cultural phenomenon back then. You had to be there.