South Park Season 19 discussion

[Ty Burna]

I'm on board with the finale being on the meh side of things. Another episode or two would have helped tremendously. Overall the season was fantastic however, though I'm curious if this storyline will continue into Season 20 at all.

 

[Poop Master Flex]

Yeah it was pretty meh in comparison with the rest of the season. This episode felt like one of those rare South Park cases (it may actually be the 1st) where they decided to make 3 episodes before they knew if they had 3 episodes of content to fill the time. The other 3 parters felt like they extended the story because they couldn't wrap it up in 1 or 2 episodes, this one was obviously decided as a 3 parter before they finished the 1st episode and they just seemed to run out of gas in the last episode. It wasn't bad or anything but it wasn't that good either.

 

[X]

I enjoyed it quite a bit and was more bummed to realize this was the finale than I have been in awhile with this show. But I think the whole arc kind of lost a little steam once the whole "ads" thing got revealed. Honestly it felt a bit dumb, like that's the big social message of this season, ads are bad?

Still, lots of stuff I enjoyed and thought this was one of the better seasons in a few years. PC Principal was great.

 

[Slyfox696]

I guess I'm in the minority thinking the episode was hilarious, nearly from start to finish.

"Officer Barbrady? Classi?" "Randy!?"

"How am I supposed to fuck an ad to death?"

Honestly it felt a bit dumb, like that's the big social message of this season, ads are bad?

Umm...it was South Park. What were you expecting?

 

[X]

I guess I'm in the minority thinking the episode was hilarious, nearly from start to finish.

"Officer Barbrady? Classi?" "Randy!?"

"How am I supposed to fuck an ad to death?"


Umm...it was South Park. What were you expecting?

...South Park is a highly intelligent show that usually uses satire and metaphors to make a political or social statement about something going on in the world currently, so, you know, something like that.

 

[Akhilleus]

I'm on board with the finale being on the meh side of things. Another episode or two would have helped tremendously. Overall the season was fantastic however, though I'm curious if this storyline will continue into Season 20 at all.

I hope it doesn't continue. It wasn't awful, but I didn't like the extreme continuity. I liked the continuity of last season, but this was too much.

The ending seemed like PC Principal was staying but I hope they do one of those things where they just forget about it or cheaply write them off with little explanation.

 

[Blade]

...South Park is a highly intelligent show that usually uses satire and metaphors to make a political or social statement about something going on in the world currently, so, you know, something like that.

And balances it all out with farts and talking poop. God, I fucking love South Park.

 

[Lee]

...South Park is a highly intelligent show that usually uses satire and metaphors to make a political or social statement about something going on in the world currently, so, you know, something like that.

Like PC overkill, refugees, the presidential race, gun control?

 

[JGlass]

I enjoyed it quite a bit and was more bummed to realize this was the finale than I have been in awhile with this show. But I think the whole arc kind of lost a little steam once the whole "ads" thing got revealed. Honestly it felt a bit dumb, like that's the big social message of this season, ads are bad?

I thought it was about the paranoia we live in the United States and how we attempt to make up for it with luxury. Prior to this season South Park was a tiny little town where everyone knew each other and everyone got along. But then this season they started to gentrify and people started to want things and believe in things they didn't understand, and they started to turn on each other and lines started getting drawn. That topped off in the final episode when people were so paranoid that they all bought guns to point at each other, the joke being that instead of the guns leading to paranoia induced violence, they wound up solving all of their problems by having people talk their feelings out.

 

[Akhilleus]

I mean South Park always focuses on things that are going on in current events. I guess it made sense to go the angle they did with the PC Principal thing because so many of those current events all tie into that.

But after this season I'm really exhausted with all the PC stuff, even when it's satire. So I really hope they go a different direction next season.

 

[Slyfox696]

...South Park is a highly intelligent show that usually uses satire and metaphors to make a political or social statement about something going on in the world currently, so, you know, something like that.

It's also a show where, after exposing the evil of Disney, Mickey Mouse turns into a fire breathing float destroying the world, Randy creates a musical to get blowjobs and Donald Trump gets raped to death.

I don't understand feeling disappointed if there wasn't an immensely profound message to end a season.

 

[George Steele's Barber]

Honestly it felt a bit dumb, like that's the big social message of this season, ads are bad?

Yes, good, your feelings should not be disregarded, finally someone who gets it.

And think of how after all you went through, putting up with that mediocre South Park episode, how much you deserve a vacation at the beautiful all inclusive Sandals Beach Jamaica.

 

[nightmare]

I think if Mackey would have played a bit more of a role then it would have made some sort of sense for him to say that. It was a "Huh?" moment for sure.

Episode was still great. Westminster, Cartman & his mom with the standoff and of course....Classi.

Here is to hoping that next season continues the upward trend the recent ones have. Been enjoyable as hell the last few after the series dipped for a while IMO.

 

[X]

I don't understand feeling disappointed if there wasn't an immensely profound message to end a season.

Doesn't have to be immense or profound, just something better than "Uhhh ads did it yep that's what's been pulling the strings this entire season long arc, aren't you glad you got invested for that reveal?". Strikes me like they wrote themselves into a corner and had no fucking clue how to finish the season so they just went with one of the first dumb ideas that popped into their head.

I still liked the season a lot and was disappointed when it ended, but the whole "ads" thing stopped being funny after about 30 seconds. And they stretched that into several episodes.

 

[Shadowmancer]

I felt the end was a bit of an eh. It just wasn't enough for a season ender really. It felt like a middle of the season cliffhanger really.

 

[Slyfox696]

Doesn't have to be immense or profound, just something better than "Uhhh ads did it yep that's what's been pulling the strings this entire season long arc, aren't you glad you got invested for that reveal?". Strikes me like they wrote themselves into a corner and had no fucking clue how to finish the season so they just went with one of the first dumb ideas that popped into their head.

Which describes a large percentage of their episodes, which was my point.

This is hardly anything new with South Park.

I still liked the season a lot and was disappointed when it ended, but the whole "ads" thing stopped being funny after about 30 seconds. And they stretched that into several episodes.

The PC storyline was definitely funnier than the ads.