View Full Version : South Park season 17, 09/25/13
Levity
09-12-2013, 02:53 PM
Not sure how many of you feel you have "outgrown" this show. but in a couple weeks, the 17th season of one of my all time favorite shows will begin. whats going to be different than prior seasons, is that this season wasnt split into two sets of 7 episodes, spring and fall. instead, its going to be one 10 episode season beginning in the end of this month. the reason they decided to do it this way is because they said they wanted to write 10 episodes that they were sincerely proud of, instead of having "filler" episodes littered throughout the season like seasons prior.
So fans who feel the show has grown stale over the past years will hopefully be pleasantly surprised with this upcoming one.
HarryCallahan
09-12-2013, 11:09 PM
The show isn't as consistently funny as it was in the earlier seasons, but it's still one of the best show's on TV. There are plenty of recent episodes that stand up as some of the best ever (Ass-burgers) and I think the show now is better than in seasons 10-11.
Really excited for this, but I'm just going to wait for the entire season.
outbreak
09-12-2013, 11:18 PM
Still a great show thanks for the heads up.
Eric Cartman
09-12-2013, 11:27 PM
There are gonna be terrible episodes this season. It's an inevitable reality. Really hope that they hit more than miss.
gigantes
09-13-2013, 01:22 AM
holy hell... i didn't realise they had the full episodes online.
http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes
haven't seen this show in years... got damn. :facepalm
Lakers Legend#32
09-13-2013, 01:47 AM
They really need to make more than 6 new shows and then disappear into reruns for the next six months.
Levity
09-13-2013, 01:53 AM
holy hell... i didn't realise they had the full episodes online.
http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes
haven't seen this show in years... got damn. :facepalm
yeah southparkstudios is way legit. enjoy :cheers:
Been watching since the beginning. I'm looking forward to this. This was the longest hiatus they ever had.
DeuceWallaces
09-13-2013, 02:41 PM
Just lost interest about 8 years ago. Too many duds to sift through every season. Although I'd be down for another movie.
Hoodlum Science
09-13-2013, 07:54 PM
Not sure how many of you feel you have "outgrown" this show. but in a couple weeks, the 17th season of one of my all time favorite shows will begin. whats going to be different than prior seasons, is that this season wasnt split into two sets of 7 episodes, spring and fall. instead, its going to be one 10 episode season beginning in the end of this month. the reason they decided to do it this way is because they said they wanted to write 10 episodes that they were sincerely proud of, instead of having "filler" episodes littered throughout the season like seasons prior.
So fans who feel the show has grown stale over the past years will hopefully be pleasantly surprised with this upcoming one.
I can appreciate the quality > quantity ideology Matt and Trey are pitching here, but my gut tells me us fans are going to be left with 10 episodes of mostly average combined with one or two "classics" and again, combined with one or two duds. Are we in-store for 10 straight across the board "great" episodes ... I highly, HIGHLY doubt it. Not going to hold my breath.
As much as I love South Park, I never want to see it end, but at some point or another, all great things do. Maybe it's just time?
:confusedshrug:
Every single season, there's a handful of classics, and I'm good with that. Better than nothing, I suppose?
B-Low
09-13-2013, 08:08 PM
I've said it in other threads before, but even though I still enjoy the show, it just seems too douchey to me in the recent seasons. Almost hipsterish in its criticisms of everything mainstream. The show used to be based on funny things that happened to its characters, and funny things that happened around the city. But now every episode is pop culture, pop culture, pop culture, politics, politics, politics, pop culture.
It's just a lot easier for things to seem dated when EVERY episode is about some current event, trend or celebrity. There's general satire like they've always done, and then there's their recent level of satire that's always referencing something in the "here and now" that won't even be funny in 2-3 years. For example I can still watch GENERAL satire like Sexual Harrassment Panda, Cartman Joins NAMBLA, Red Man's Greed, There Goes the Neighborhood etc and theyr'e still as funny as ever because those are based on general topics like racism, frivolous lawsuits and other things that are always relevant. But episodes that are made about the PSP (old), the release of the Nintendo Wii (old), the 2008 election (old), the BP oil spill (old), the Jonas Bros (old), High School Musical (old), the Indiana Jones sequels (old) etc...it's just not as funny once that thing is forgotten/not relevant anymore. The first few seasons are timeless IMO, but the past few seasons are already dated/less funny
Rockets(T-mac)
09-14-2013, 03:00 PM
Like everyone has said, the show just seems to not have the same tone anymore. B-Low put it well in that they do sound "douchey" now, like every episode is about the new popular thing.
What made south park funny is that in the early seasons, they did talk about current issues, but they actually plot of that current episode could still be funny even if you didn't know exactly what they were talking about, that doesn't happen anymore.
And also it was a lot funnier when the boys didn't know what they were talking about of doing, like cartman not knowing what semen was and having to "suck it out of a tube" to give to the seamonkeys. :oldlol: Their ignorance to sex, drugs, etc was what made the show hilarious. Now they just sound like arrogant elitists that look down on everybody. Theres a difference between criticize/satire and being arrogant/douchey, the show leans more to the latter now.
B-Low
09-14-2013, 03:29 PM
Like everyone has said, the show just seems to not have the same tone anymore. B-Low put it well in that they do sound "douchey" now, like every episode is about the new popular thing.
What made south park funny is that in the early seasons, they did talk about current issues, but they actually plot of that current episode could still be funny even if you didn't know exactly what they were talking about, that doesn't happen anymore.
And also it was a lot funnier when the boys didn't know what they were talking about of doing, like cartman not knowing what semen was and having to "suck it out of a tube" to give to the seamonkeys. :oldlol: Their ignorance to sex, drugs, etc was what made the show hilarious. Now they just sound like arrogant elitists that look down on everybody. Theres a difference between criticize/satire and being arrogant/douchey, the show leans more to the latter now.
Right. I said that a little while back too. That it was funnier when the boys acted like kids when they were young and naive. The example I gave was the Cartman Joins NAMBLA episode. The whole humor of it was that the guys were obviously pedophiles, but the boys thought they were just meeting mature new friends. If it happened in the later seasons Stan woulda just said "dude they're obviously pedophiles" and the whole episode woulda just been them talking shit about the NAMBLA guys. Same with the when they were trying to find an erection for Kyle's dad, when they were trying to shoot the talking whale into space etc. They just seem like a bunch of hipster assholes now
Rockets(T-mac)
09-14-2013, 03:32 PM
Right. I said that a little while back too. That it was funnier when the boys acted like kids when they were young and naive. The example I gave was the Cartman Joins NAMBLA episode. The whole humor of it was that the guys were obviously pedophiles, but the boys thought they were just meeting mature new friends. If it happened in the later seasons Stan woulda just said "dude they're obviously pedophiles" and the whole episode woulda just been them talking shit about the NAMBLA guys. Same with the when they were trying to find an erection for Kyle's dad, when they were trying to shoot the talking whale into space etc. They just seem like a bunch of hipster assholes nowOr when stan was doing the red rocket with his dog. :oldlol: Yea I honestly wouldn't care if the show ended at this point.
Gotta watch some old eps now.
HarryCallahan
09-14-2013, 11:54 PM
I don't know why you guys are hating on the "hipster a$holes" (They're hicks from Col. so i'll call them cynical a$sholes). It was a necessary transition once Chef left.
The change of dynamics was the only way forward from a story-telling perspective, and it helped keep the show fresh. Again, i'll point to Assburgers as an episode that shows the cynicism of the character (and by extension the creators), providing for hilarious and intriguing tv.
christian1923
09-15-2013, 12:20 AM
They need to find a way to make fun of Hernandez and the Rutgers coach at the same time
Levity
10-08-2013, 03:55 PM
so far, its been more of the same as the last few seasons. the newest one, the minecraft episode, was a bit closer to their older, classic episodes. but the first two fell right into that "pretentious" category theyve been flirting around with the last handful of years.
so far, its been more of the same as the last few seasons. the newest one, the minecraft episode, was a bit closer to their older, classic episodes. but the first two fell right into that "pretentious" category theyve been flirting around with the last handful of years.
There has only been 2 new episodes. :confusedshrug:
B-Low
10-08-2013, 05:33 PM
Tomorrow's episode tackles George Zimmerman and the movie World War Z. In it Cartman (Zimmerman) will be trying to kill Token (of course) because he sees him as a threat to all mankind
People aren't gonna be happy about this one :oldlol:
TheMarkMadsen
10-08-2013, 05:53 PM
Tomorrow's episode tackles George Zimmerman and the movie World War Z. In it Cartman (Zimmerman) will be trying to kill Token (of course) because he sees him as a threat to all mankind
People aren't gonna be happy about this one :oldlol:
:facepalm @ the reaction this will cause most people to have.
These guys are crazy smart but the show feels so lazy. The formula now is pick a topic recently in the news, and build a show around it.
We need more episodes like Scott Tenorman must die, Trapper Keeper 4000 (or whatever that episode was called) Fun Time with weapons, Butters very own episode, CartmanLand and so many others are classic episodes that have little to nothing to with any current events or political bullshit.
The episode ( I think the under pants gnome) Cartman gets the idea of having illegals do their homework. So the boys pay them money to write their essays.. And when the boys come back to get their papers the illegals (in this case Mexicans) had all written home to their friends. :roll:
It was just a little gag but its that kind of humor southpark is missin these days.
With that said, I still enjoy the new episodes, and there have been a few gems recently ( Cartman killing off his stuffed animals was a great episode) but the new ones lack the creativity of the old
B-Low
10-08-2013, 06:05 PM
:facepalm @ the reaction this will cause most people to have.
These guys are crazy smart but the show feels so lazy. The formula now is pick a topic recently in the news, and build a show around it.
We need more episodes like Scott Tenorman must die, Trapper Keeper 4000 (or whatever that episode was called) Fun Time with weapons, Butters very own episode, CartmanLand and so many others are classic episodes that have little to nothing to with any current events or political bullshit.
The episode ( I think the under pants gnome) Cartman gets the idea of having illegals do their homework. So the boys pay them money to write their essays.. And when the boys come back to get their papers the illegals (in this case Mexicans) had all written home to their friends. :roll:
It was just a little gag but its that kind of humor southpark is missin these days.
With that said, I still enjoy the new episodes, and there have been a few gems recently ( Cartman killing off his stuffed animals was a great episode) but the new ones lack the creativity of the old
Like I said i definitely do agree. The episode tomorrow will probably be funny, but for how long? How long down the line before people forget the whole Zimmerman thing (and especially World War Z) and it's not funny anymore? When I go back and watch reruns online, it's almost exclusively seasons 1-8 because everything after that seems dated as hell even though technically they're more current than the original ones, but it's because like you said the old episodes were built around the characters, not current events
Levity
10-08-2013, 07:32 PM
There has only been 2 new episodes. :confusedshrug:
o wow my bad. for whatever reason when typing that up that post, i thought the first one was 2 episodes. i really didnt pay too much attention to that one cause i lost interest in that one right from the beginning. totally slipped my mind
o wow my bad. for whatever reason when typing that up that post, i thought the first one was 2 episodes. i really didnt pay too much attention to that one cause i lost interest in that one right from the beginning. totally slipped my mind
It is all good. I wasn't a big fan of the 1st episode myself, but did like the 2nd. Looking forward to this one.
Also, there have been several years where the 1st episode was one of the worst of the season.
Like I said i definitely do agree. The episode tomorrow will probably be funny, but for how long? How long down the line before people forget the whole Zimmerman thing (and especially World War Z) and it's not funny anymore? When I go back and watch reruns online, it's almost exclusively seasons 1-8 because everything after that seems dated as hell even though technically they're more current than the original ones, but it's because like you said the old episodes were built around the characters, not current events
I agree that the completely original ideas are best, but I still enjoy jokes about current events even when the episodes become old. Same thing with other shows. I still crack up at old SNL skits about Reagan, both Bushes, and Clinton. If the jokes are funny and are about things memorable enough, they will last in my mind. More specifically to South Park, the episodes with Kenny in a coma (based on Terri Schiavo) and N*****-guy (based much on the Michael Richards rant) are absolutely hilarious episodes that still work even though it has been a while since those events.
I guess in the end, funny is funny and I don't care if it is based on current events or not as long as it is still creative and not lazy.
Just as I hoped: World War Zimmerman = Hilarious.
TheReturn
10-11-2013, 07:09 PM
Just as I hoped: World War Zimmerman = Hilarious.
Agreed. I hadn't watched any South Park in like two years and thought I'd gotten too old for it, but I was wrong. This episode was amazing.
paperstreet
10-12-2013, 07:30 PM
World war Zimmerman was a fantastic episode
Agreed. I hadn't watched any South Park in like two years and thought I'd gotten too old for it, but I was wrong. This episode was amazing.
"Cartman finds love" from last season is hilarious. Just watched it earlier today. If you don't mind more gimmicky episodes, "I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining," was also great from last season.
Mamba
10-24-2013, 07:26 PM
Goth vs Emo was probably one of the funnier episodes I've seen in a long time. There were moments where I was straight out laughing out loud.
In addition to the current event/hipster criticisms, I'll add that the show is just way too loud now. Cartman screams every line. Randy is always yelling. Especially Cartman though, he's become the worst character on the show.
B-Low
10-26-2013, 12:54 PM
In addition to the current event/hipster criticisms, I'll add that the show is just way too loud now. Cartman screams every line. Randy is always yelling. Especially Cartman though, he's become the worst character on the show.
I agree. Honestly that's the same problem Simpsons has now. Everything is just too in your face almost like "HEY LISTEN TO THIS JOKE!!".
This season has been awful. World war zimmerman is easily the worst episode ever, and this last one was better but still really hasnt had any laugh out loud funny moments.
Really? That was my favorite episode of the season still. I laughed out loud plenty during that episode (especially the part where Zimmerman shoots Cartman and the moment they find out he is white: "GUILTY!"). The Goth vs Emo episode was OK but didn't have a good ending to me.
My ranking of the season:
1. World War Zimmerman
2. Informative Murder Porn (The Minecraft one)
3. Goth Kids 3
4. Let Go, Let Gov
Dresta
10-30-2013, 10:56 PM
Really? That was my favorite episode of the season still. I laughed out loud plenty during that episode (especially the part where Zimmerman shoots Cartman and the moment they find out he is white: "GUILTY!"). The Goth vs Emo episode was OK but didn't have a good ending to me.
My ranking of the season:
1. World War Zimmerman
2. Informative Murder Porn (The Minecraft one)
3. Goth Kids 3
4. Let Go, Let Gov
Just about the most obvious joke in the whole series.
1st episode of the series was the best one for me. Such a good rip, though surely most wouldn't like it because they're social media morons.
gigantes
11-02-2013, 05:57 PM
http://img.izismile.com/img/img6/20131102/640/you_win_this_round_640_07.jpg
Just about the most obvious joke in the whole series.
1st episode of the series was the best one for me. Such a good rip, though surely most wouldn't like it because they're social media morons.
Obvious or not, I thought it was executed excellently.
Levity
09-24-2015, 02:07 PM
Episode 2 of the newest season last night.
damn.....
this is shaping up to be a very "off the court lounge" friendly season.
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last season was terrific. they took a fresh approach with continuity, which theyve never done before. This season is more of the same, and its working for them.
KNOW1EDGE
09-24-2015, 02:10 PM
Episode 2 of the newest season last night.
damn.....
this is shaping up to be a very "off the court lounge" friendly season.
Lol
I thought episode 1 was better than 2 of this season but both were enjoyable.
I don't get the Carman criticism, he makes the show. Him and Randy Marsh are the most entertaining characters.
The trans episode last year was pure genius
My God finally. Can't wait to watch both episodes today :):):)
Derka
09-24-2015, 03:05 PM
They're 2/2 so far with this season's episodes. I've found some great yucks throught. Episode 1's "Cartman as Brady/Belichick/Goodell" dream sequence was hilarious. Anything where Garrison takes the lead on something like he did in Episode 2...yeah, worth watching.
ImmortalNemesis
09-24-2015, 03:10 PM
Oh mama, I forgot about this. Watched South Park for the first time in a long time last season, and I loved it.
Now I got two new episodes to watch. Praise be.
Jailblazers7
09-24-2015, 03:26 PM
My jaw actually dropped when I saw how they made Caitlin Jenner look. :oldlol:
Levity
09-24-2015, 03:30 PM
it's also worth checking out on Hulu. comes out the following day, uncensored. and with the amount of F bombs they dropped in the first two episodes, it makes a world of difference
My jaw actually dropped when I saw how they made Caitlin Jenner look. :oldlol:
haha, i "holy shit"ed out loud. came as a surprise to me, since they really didnt make fun of her "directly" in the first episode.
StephHamann
09-24-2015, 03:32 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mapmzHmTLdU#t=0m23s
:roll:
EricGordon23
09-24-2015, 05:30 PM
THis season has been great. I started watching it again last season. My favourite episode last season was called **** magic. "Hey little girl whats that behind your ear" cracked up big time
Derka
09-24-2015, 07:00 PM
THis season has been great. I started watching it again last season. My favourite episode last season was called **** magic. "Hey little girl whats that behind your ear" cracked up big time
I watched C*ck Magic a good 10-12 days in a row after it aired. I hadn't laughed that hard in a long time.
Levity
09-24-2015, 07:13 PM
I watched C*ck Magic a good 10-12 days in a row after it aired. I hadn't laughed that hard in a long time.
the little drum beat in the background of Randy's performances was soooo good.
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