this is already a great episode. good rebound after last week's nonsense.

The show last night was terrible; Randy gets on my nerves with his stupidity. I didn't get what the KFC closings was about.

I agree. I highly enjoyd Farty McBubbles or whatever it was. Nice to see them move away from the tired political/pop culture formula. They have such great characters. All they need to do is put them in funny situations. There's no need for their obsession with theme the last several years.

yeah, and last night's episode was also very funny. not as good as the previous week's, which is an all-time great in my book, but still very funny and not hair-pullingly obvious. i'm still trying to make sense of the message last night, but i was laughing consistently throughout.

all i could think about during the kfc episode was "wouldn't that really hurt those guys?"

The last episode started off well but kind of trailed off a bit. I find that to be the case with most episodes of South Park these days. A funny premise that doesn't really go anywhere.

I must say I pissed myself when Randy was singing Buffalo Soldier while walkin down the street with his balls in a wheelbarrow

I thought the KFC episode was pretty great. Highlights for me were Cartman's random digs at the pope ("Does a bear crap in the woods and does the Pope crap on the dreams of 200 deaf boys?"); and the background music while I'll the guys hippity-hopped around on their nutsacks.

so I thought the last two episodes were pretty excellent. Great way to take a walk down memory lane for the 200th episode. Barbara streisand, and her duet with Neil Diamond, was hilarious (and for some reason, I couldn't get enough of her saw-arm). Plus the return of Scott Tenorman.

The episode also revamped one of my favorite images from the series: dead whale and dead tom cruise on the moon. Even though part of the premise of the series is that the kids are more sophisticated than the adults, I always like when they tap into the kids' naivete.

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where do i find this episode!!!!!

not on southpark.com (or is it southparkstudios.com?). Comedy Central has banned Matt and Trey from streaming it on their website (I don't know if that goes for both parts, or just last night's episode). I assume Comedy Central will continue to run the edited version in re-runs this week. It typically get's replayed 3 or 4 times before next week's episode (usually between 9 and 11).

found it.

http://www.south-park-episode.com/featured...isode-1406-201/

this season started off with 2 stinkers and had me kind of worried. glad to see they have really picked it up since then.

Last night's show: potential series finale? sign of new direction? just a comment on their current creative situation and their viewers' insatiable demands?

dunno. more like 'pixar-level excellence' for me. don't know how serious it was meant to be, but i'll be damned if it didn't get to me in a pretty serious way. been thinking about that episode pretty much non-stop since it was over.

same. pretty deep shit. ha, shit!

If they are done, they're going out on top. Pretty insane how long their run of really great material has continued. Out-longevitied the Simpsons imo.

Yeah it was pretty intense, even if you don't try and read any subtext into it. My wife was actually crying her eyes out, although that was due in large part to some relationship shit she's been going through (not she and I, but others in her family).

And I think this season has been all around pretty stellar (maybe with the exception of the royal wedding). Loved the human centipad (it's an ipad and it craps in kyle's mouth!), and the crack baby athletic association was probablymy favorite. Loved cartman as an old timey slave owner (student ath-o-lete).

i had this exact same thought yesterday. it's difficult to imagine the simpsons team being able to come up with an episode as smart and sad and self-aware an as this one. and while i'll always prefer early simpsons to any era of south park, this episode of south park might be one of the best single shows i've ever seen.

but i doubt that the show is over. parker and stone are still on contract, and i'm doubt that comedy central will let them out early, no matter how tired they are of repeating themselves. if we're lucky, this thoughtfulness will continue through the rest of the show's run, but that's probably not very likely, landslide or not.

Why would they ever quit when this show shits money and is dirt cheap and easy to write and produce?

I thought this was answered by the episode. Sick of repeating themselves, starting to think that every episode is just a bunch of shit, and just not into it anymore? Hopefully not though... as long as they can continue operating at this high level, I hope they keep going.
If I were as rich as these dudes, I wouldn't really give a shit about making more money.

True but they have a staff of writers and computer guys that give a shit about having a job.

And no, I didn't see it as I think the show has largely been a waste of time since about 2003.

Meh, I just saw this as an insult to the show's fanbase. But then again, the show has been doing the same facepalm gag for too long, I'm not sure why anyone would care at this point.

If you want meaning, uneasiness and brilliant writing in an animated series in the TV-MA catergory, then just watch the last season of Moral Orel. The show remains massively underrated, probably because of its more "realistic" approach of a life of a kid who thinks like, well, a kid. Yeah, children don't smoke crack, or are as devoted to God as Moral, but that's the joke. He's naive but learns from his mistakes, while the South Park kids were written as cynical know-it-alls leaving the adults as the punchline.

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Meh, I just saw this as an insult to the show's fanbase. But then again, the show has been doing the same facepalm gag for too long, I'm not sure why anyone would care at this point.

If you want meaning, uneasiness and brilliant writing in an animated series in the TV-MA catergory, then just watch the last season of Moral Orel. The show remains massively underrated, probably because of its more "realistic" approach of a life of a kid who thinks like, well, a kid. Yeah, children don't smoke crack, or are as devoted to God as Moral, but that's the joke. He's naive but learns from his mistakes, while the South Park kids were written as cynical know-it-alls leaving the adults as the punchline.
Having the adults come off as idiots is what makes South Park good. It may be as readily apparent, but South Park is moralistic as well; Parker & Stone are often critical of all sides of the political & ideological compass, but by show's end, they find a stance that's somewhere in-between the conflicting viewpoints.

Fair and balanced. They just gave Bush's presidency a complete free pass while ceaselessly targeting outspoken leftist celebrities, global warming, get out the vote campaigns in 04, etc. and practically coming to the defense of the Catholic Church at the height of the priest pedophilia outrage. But hey, they take one shot at the social conservatives for every 5 shots at left leaning ideas, so that's totally in-between.


I wish they would just drop the FOX News act that they're trying to be fair and just own up to their biases. I guess they have in certain interviews, but you have to do the research to find it.

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In other news, Parker & Stone Just cleaned up at the Tony Awards for The Book of Mormon.

Who would have ever thought this would occur? (Conservatives? Hmmm...)

They also thanked South Park fans everytime they won one last night. Made me wonder if there was something more to the lip service.

I always look to conservatives for the inside scoop on Broadway

What would their winning Tony's have to do with their political leanings?

These guys love musical numbers. The South Park movie had tons of musical numbers and Team America had its share too.

I'm not a big theater guy, but it's kinda cool that I got to see BOM with the original cast and all, the year it won for best musical. It'll be touring, for anyone who's interested. Definitely worth it.

And, lest we forget, the underrated "Cannibal: The Musical".
Not that they won Tonys...the fact they associate with Broadway at all.

After the brilliant feature film musical I would expect a stage musical to be the next logical step no?

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"...By the seat of our pants..." pretty much describes the series as a whole.

Yep, it's going to take complete irrelevance, indifference, and bad ratings for them ever to stop. They hit a sweet spot for apolitical right of center of young adults that love gross out humor, and making fun of liberal causes yet punt the social conservative causes.