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[Admiral Woofington]

just watched the episode. I guess the message is that we need to accept that newer generations will have new forms of celebrities and that we can't expect them to like the things we do?

I mean that's fine, I also have some youtube personalities I like and treat as personal celebrities. I can see why people thought Mr. Hankie would return, it being a christmas episode, but he really had no reason to appear in the last 4 minutes of the episode.

As to Pewdiepie, I haven't really changed my opinion on him. I respect what he has built but I can't stand his youtube persona. Haven't ever seen or heard how he acts outside of this, so if the whole schtick is to entertain then all to him. If that's how he is irl then I'll keep having this opinion and continue to not care about his material.

Let's Players are definitely a thing, I myself watched Game Grumps almost religiously each day up until Jon Tron left. Now I don't really have any interest for those. I now moved on to Podcasts and realize that this is the young adult/older generations' let's players for the most part.

 

[Linius]

I feel violated. South Park set me up. I watched Pewdepie. Damn it brahs.

 

[kirblar]

The continuity plays into the "new generation of media" thing as well.

 

[levious]

They did rib him a little. All the main characters except Cartman were calling him stupid. The message to me was, "Okay we think your act is fucking retarded and we don't get it, but a bajillion followers just doesn't fall randomly on any idiot's dick, so you must be doing something right. *brofist*"

That plus at least he is creating and controlling his own image. Rather than have it manufactured and shoved down our throat by a marketing machine. I don't get the youtube stuff either but thought it was a great message.

 

[Demon Lizardman]

That plus at least he is creating and controlling his own image. Rather than have it manufactured and shoved down our throat by a marketing machine. I don't get the youtube stuff either but thought it was a great message.

true, how in the fuck did he get that many subscribers?

 

[Admiral Woofington]

true, how in the fuck did he get that many subscribers?

There's apparently some information on this, from what I recall hearing it was a combination of both him appealing to the younger generations with his persona, and youtube heavily promoting his content in the front page.

 

[TraBuch]

Anyone else notice that the handle of the #courtneydidit tweet was @D_Grohl77?

 

[perfectchaos007]

Anyone else notice that the handle of the #courtneydidit tweet was @D_Grohl77?

lol yeah I remember seeing that. I did a double take!

Spoiler

I also believe Courtney killed Kurt

 

[Bricky]

I loved the ending. I don't like Pewdiepie or anything, but especially after that Mr. Hankey build up it was probably the most offended they could've made their audience feel (something I would've thought impossible in this day and age). I get why they didn't just impersonate him now; it wouldn't have made anywhere near the same impact on the people expecting South Park to rip him apart. It was a glorious troll, and it fit in well with the 'we don't get it either, but this is the new generation of entertainment, deal with it grandpas' thing.

Overall, the last two episodes weren't as good as some other recent ones since I feel they were about making a point more than being extremely funny, but I still enjoyed them. What a great season this has been.

 

[ghostjoke]

The way things were shaping up I thought Cartman was going to end up creating an Evangelion type of ending (the original ending). I suppose he just wasn't as whiny as Shinji.

Bill Crosby parts were priceless, expected, buy priceless.

Any criticism I could put towards the ending I feel would defy the purpose of the ending. It works for the context of the whole thing perfectly.

 

[levious]

true, how in the fuck did he get that many subscribers?

I think there's far more toddlers and young children active on youtube than most people realize.

My young nephew watches youtubes about elevators. I don't get that either.

 

[A Human Becoming]

Was hoping for Mr Hankey or something from the past instead

That's who I thought it would be.

I don't think it was a great episode. Favorite thing was the twitter feed at the bottom: very meta.

 

[Rentahamster]

That plus at least he is creating and controlling his own image. Rather than have it manufactured and shoved down our throat by a marketing machine. I don't get the youtube stuff either but thought it was a great message.

Yes, very true. The conflicting themes of corporate mass marketing vs upstart independent entertainment were represented really well by the storyline elements involving the corporate leader trying to commandeer independent content, Cartmanbrah trying to commandeer their commandeering, and the young kids saying, "we like this shit, dealwithit.jpg".

It was a glorious troll, and it fit in well with the 'we don't get it either, but this is the new generation of entertainment, deal with it grandpas' thing.

Yep. It's very refreshing to see Matt and Trey are still self aware about their own product as well as media consumption and trending tastes in pop culture. A lot of these same kinds of themes were present in that other two parter episode where everything Stan saw looks and sounds like shit, and then Randy did his best to listen to contemporary pop music, even though it literally sounded like shit to him too.

 

[HawkeyeIC]

Cop jokes were amazing.

 

[N° 2048]

I tried to like the last two eps, I really did but they were the worst this season. Oh well, the other 8 were great.

 

[aeolustl]

Like most of the finale,

but imo, the last part is bad

 

[a secret-boss]

The two parter felt like a tv movie
Really enjoyed it

 

[neshcom]

Still prefer these two finale episodes over the forgettable Wacky Racers episode.

 

[Zingerale]

The police jokes were the best part

 

[Radec]

pretty "meh" ending

 

[Akibastman]

Great season but terrible last episode IMO

 

[SKINNER!]

Wasn't feeling the last two episodes. It wasn't god awful bad by all means but I just felt cluttered and flat. Season overall is gold though. Episode after episode it was good.

 

[Akainu]

My god I've only ever watched a few seconds of that pew person before and they were bad enough but it actually gets worse?

 

[Stitch]

Still prefer these two finale episodes over the forgettable Wacky Racers episode.

Yeah, I never liked Wacky Races and Nathan and Mimsy aren't really funny either 😕

Still better than Towelie. Let's hope he'll never show up again.

 

[Harmen]

Hehe, I liked that they trolled us with having the actual Pewdiepie in.

Did not like the previous ep, but thought this was a nice way of wrapping it up. Those American cops and Cosby, lol.

Nothing beats the trilogy we got last time though (alltough that was not the final thing of the season).

 

[MrHoot]

That Cobain part almost killed me, or the christmas singing arse (yes, i have the brain of a 12 years old)

And yeah, I didn't like the pewdiepie ending but like others pointed out, I really think that was the point. Even Matt and Trey continuously make fun of him during the last 2 eps but I think it's just the way of "Yep, well we're grampas, we'll have to deal with it"

 

[PHOENIXZERO]

Yeah that Cobain scene I was like "Oh SHIT!" Through the whole thing.

 

[Rentahamster]

We've come full circle. It all makes sense now.

South Park > Internets > South Park

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=wLP_E7xFE2U#t=308

 

[SpacePirate Ridley]

I understand what they tried to do with the ending, I really do. Doesn't mean that the ending wasn't still shit.
The episode was not bad, but the ending... I can say they trolled me, so mission accomplished.
The rest of the season was fraking great though, some of the best south park episodes.

 

[hateradio]

I actually saw the last episode before the one before it.

I was a little confused, but yeah, I don't know what the point was.

I also watched the Oculus episode. I apparently missed it somehow.

 

[Finalow]

very disappointing. pewdiepie being really there and basically finishing the season was just disgusting. seriously the worst ending of the whole series from what I can remember, it's sad because this season has been great.

the cops and Randy were fun, at least.

 

[Real Hero]

very disappointing. pewdiepie being really there and basically finishing the season was just disgusting. seriously the worst ending of the whole series that I can remember, it's sad because this season has been great.

aka the ending worked as intended

 

[Finalow]

aka the ending worked as intended

as in, sucking? I don't think so. I know that he made that CoD crap video in response to the episode before this one, still, that sucked, a lot.

 

[davepoobond]

finally watched it.

it was great. it was pretty loaded, definitely something to watch again to fully understand.

 

[Finalow]

oh, I liked how a lot of stuff from the other episodes came together in this one. the sense of continuity is one thing that I really enjoyed in this season.

then again, the finale could have been much more than an half-baked pdp and 'his generation' troll.

 

[AlexMeloche]

Didn't really enjoyed the finale. Waaaaay too many "Look, we're doing continuity now!" things at once. It was messy.

And I liked the continuity stuff before. :/

 

[PHOENIXZERO]

I'm pretty sure so much shit going on in the two episodes was intentional. Actually I know it was since they addressed it in the second half of the two parter. I think it was their uhh take on the "A.D.D. Generation".

 

[Xpike]

aka the ending worked as intended

just because a ending is supposed to suck
doesn't make it good

 

[neshcom]

just because a ending is supposed to suck
doesn't make it good

Grandpa.

 

[Freeza Under The Shower]

just watched it and holy shit did they go all-out on that one.

I was hoping to see transtrendence though.
edit: with the IT support and all, I was expecting a 5-dimensial construct of sorts, hint hint.

edit 2: "hologram of Robin Williams". that was too goddamn soon. Yes, I realize the joke, but seriously.

 

[Splatt]

I honestly can't believe there are people who actively watch pewdiepie

I just can't

 

[Pai Pai Master]

I honestly can't believe there are people who actively watch pewdiepie

I just can't

grampa

 

[Splatt]

grampa

 

[Hamlet]

Last two episodes didn't really do much for me. But overall this has been one of the better/stronger seasons of modern South Park for me.
Loved the use of continuity throughout this season.

 

[Rentahamster]

I'm sad that the season is over because the current news of self-censorship undertaken by theaters in regards to The Interview is chock full of parody potential.

 

[perfectchaos007]

I'm sad that the season is over because the current news of self-censorship undertaken by theaters in regards to The Interview is chock full of parody potential.

meh. Pewdiepie will watch The Interview and I'll just listen to his commentary.

 

[CassSept]

A friend watched 'With Apologies to Jesse Jackson' next to me today and I forgot just how brilliantly paced the beginning of the episode, one of the funnier scenes of the entire run.

 

[Toad.T]

I'm sad that the season is over because the current news of self-censorship undertaken by theaters in regards to The Interview is chock full of parody potential.

Ehh... It probably would bring out a lot of "Pot calling the kettle black" type acquisitions, considering they themselves censored an episode featuring Mohammad after they received death threats.

 

[DarkKyo]

Ehh... It probably would bring out a lot of "Pot calling the kettle black" type acquisitions, considering they themselves censored an episode featuring Mohammad after they received death threats.

Uhh, no they didn't. Comedy Central did that. They were going to air it without all the censoring if the network allowed it.. That was the whole point of those episodes. That if you succumb to fear and pull the episode then anything can be yanked off the table due to any threat. It sets a terrible standard of appeasing terroristic individuals.

 

[Toad.T]

Uhh, no they didn't. Comedy Central did that. They were going to air it without all the censoring if the network allowed it.. That was the whole point of those episodes. That if you succumb to fear and pull the episode then anything can be yanked off the table due to any threat. It sets a terrible standard of appeasing terroristic individuals.

I thought it was on T/P's end, sorry.