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With series 20 about to kick off, let's talk about our favourite South Park episodes, characters, gags, etc.

I'm still giving the nod to Casa Bonita, the ending is just too good.

I was down on the series for a while - the Tiger Woods episode was so one-note for me, and utterly unfunny, so I turned off for a while. But season 19 was wonderful in my opinion, and it got me back into the show.

I may not always agree with what it says but I'm damn glad it's around to say it.
 
I don't follow the show religiously but it's one of the only shows that has gotten better the longer it's existed. The first three-ish seasons are almost unwatchable for me because it's mostly aimless potty humor and juvenile jokes. Then the show shifted more toward lampooning celebrities and current events, and has now gone even further into what is often pretty biting social commentary. It's amazing to me that season 1 of South Park and season 19 of South Park are made by the same people.
 
I actually picked up Season 7 just the other day just so I could rewatch lil' crime stoppers, that episode cracks me up.
"God damnit! Those junior detectives and their heroicly reckless ways!"
 
I rewatched seasons 5-19 during June and then watched 1-4. once I finished 4 i restarted on 5-19 again.

It is just too good.

I don't want to say it is the greatest show ever, but it certainly number 1.
 
I am a die hard fan. I bought Hulu with no ads solely for South Park. I leave it as background when I'm surfing the web, and when I eat lunch/dinner at home I do so while watching an episode.

I gotta say my favorite episode will always be Good Times with Weapons or make love not warcraft. Greatest arc though is the game of Thrones/console wars. I feel the show is at its peak from season 3 onwards.

Having said that though yes the show hit a rough patch of bad episodes, but luckily they found a new direction with the continuity of the last two seasons where it feels refreshed now.


It's super interesting to see how characters evolved throughout the show, while also seeing those that stayed the same or completely disappeared.

Randy goes from a serious dad, to a somewhat goofy serious dad, all the way up until a complete fucking clown.

Officer Barbrady all but disappears in the more modern seasons when they introduce the police department. And it isn't really touched upon until the latest season how he used to be the only cop in town.

Mephesto and Mrs. Crabtree went the way of forgotten Simpsons characters and were either killed off or simply disappeared. Following Matt and treys philosophy that when they don't find a character funny anymore they don't use it anymore.

Kenny magically gets a little sister in the later arcs. We get an explanation for his many deaths that is actually directly linked to an earlier episode where they show the mom having a baby. But it also contradicts the episode he goes to heaven or the movie where he goes to hell. I'm glad they don't bother too much with continuity about details like these.

With the stick of truth we got our first glance of what south park might be generally structure like which was a dream come true.

Here's to the show having many more seasons.
 
Started watching it in 1999 and I've yet to miss an episode. It's crazy realizing that this show has been part of my life for a very VERY long time. From the end of elementary school, all the way through high school, through college until this very second.

No other show can come close to how great South Park is. All other comedy shows are shit. All other shows in general are shit. Hell, everything is shit!

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SP started to be great at season 5 and has been my favourite show ever since. I wasn't particularly fond of the principal PC arc, though. Hope they come up with a better season-wide plot element in the upcoming season.

I'll second "Good Times With Weapons" as my favourite episode. I still know the "Let's Fighting Love" song by heart despite not having seen the ep in years.
 
Sometimes they miss, but I think the overwhelming majority are damned funny. I remember not being allowed to watch it in high school (around 1998). Came home from my night job one night to find my dad watching it and laughing his ass off. Got the "OK" from then on, and we watched it together every week.

Morat said:
Some of the very best. I would also hold up Margaritaville for essentially explaining the 2008 financial crash in a 20 minute episode.
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That episode was excellent. I recently showed that one to a friend who had never seen the show, right after we watched the movie "The Big Short" together. He was all in after that.
 
Such an amazing show.

I've been rewatching seasons 4-9 recently and they're just awesome. So many good episodes. They occasionally miss but I don't think any show has highs as high as south park and as consistently. Just amazing.
 
The presidential election handled like a heist movie was absolutely brilliant.

The handling of the Dallas Cowboys issue was a simple perspective flip not unlike others they've often used, but was still fantastic.

The latest season having moments like Sharon calling Randy out for getting into a mindset where he's just waiting for something to be offended by and him responding that she's a gender bigot because she uses words like "he" or "she" was simple in its elegance, and brings to mind quite a few reaction one sees online, even if the actual season finale didn't play into that sort of topic much, which was probably for the best, as the rest of the season spoke for itself.


What I worry most nowadays is Cartman giving assholes ideas, as he's often used to highlight and inflate already existing asshole attitudes.
 
shorty_symd said:
Started watching it in 1999 and I've yet to miss an episode. It's crazy realizing that this show has been part of my life for a very VERY long time. From the end of elementary school, all the way through high school, through college until this very second.

No other show can come close to how great South Park is. All other comedy shows are shit. All other shows in general are shit. Hell, everything is shit!

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The word out of my mouth, bravo, good sir!
Started SP with 14 Years and the series matured with me,
so it always stayed up-to-date!
To another 19 years(after that, Global-Warming-Apocalypse)

Best Characters: Cartman, Butters, Randy
Best Episodes: Your getting old, Make love, not warcraft
 
I'm so glad they brought back
chef
at the end of stick of truth, it was actually kind emotional for them them to do that
 
Absolutely love this show. While I enjoy modern SP more, some early episodes are pure gold.

(again) Relevant to these days, Chinpoko Mon cracks me up, I really hope they will tackle Pokemon Go as a sequel to that episode this season.
 
Harmen said:
Absolutely love this show. While I enjoy modern SP more, some early episodes are pure gold.

(again) Relevant to these days, Chinpoko Mon cracks me up, I really hope they will tackle Pokemon Go as a sequel to that episode this season.
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Trey already said he won't be writing anything Pokemon related. Reason being that they already did it nearly twenty years ago and wouldn't be able to top it.
 
I'm actually new to the show and started watching it back in 2014 and fell in love with it. The last season is my favorite one so far. Though I really liked the layered commentary of the Game Of Thrones/ console wars episode too.
 
So I started binge-watching the show a few years ago from the start and loved it from the start. A few seasons in it really hit its stride and was super great. Then progressively the ratio of bad to good episodes grew higher and higher, and around Season 15 there were so many bad episodes in comparison to good ones that I stopped watching.

Also, I became really tired of the increasingly transparent political agenda of the show runners. For a while there, the show turned into Straw Man Arguments - The Show, when trying to cover political issues. I'm glad to hear ITT that the show picked up a bit in later years. I have to ask though, has the show addressed at all issues like police violence, structural racism and the rise of fascism that have arisen in the real world in the last few years? Or are they still laser-focused on the oh-so-important issues of political correctness and self-important liberals?
 
So many great episodes, but given the impact it had on a certain character I'll go with "Scott Tenorman must die" as best episode yet.

Absolutely love South Park and their next game is my most anticipated one right now.
 
Butt Out is one of my favorite episodes.

Rob Reiner's previous goo.
with a hidey lidey lidey and a hidey lidey day, we work and we make cigarettes all hidey lidey day.
It has sprinkles...

Awesome-O
Cartman in the bathroom eating toothpaste.

Christian Rock Hard

They are really good song creators. So many good songs from this show, especially the movie.
 
The Good Times with Weapons is my favourite episode.
The song during the Legendary Battle of Tokugawa is great:

Subarashii chin chin mono
Kintama no kami aru
Sore no oto sarubobo?
Iie! Ninja ga imasu
 
hydrophilic attack said:
Also, I became really tired of the increasingly transparent political agenda of the show runners. For a while there, the show turned into Straw Man Arguments - The Show, when trying to cover political issues. I'm glad to hear ITT that the show picked up a bit in later years. I have to ask though, has the show addressed at all issues like police violence, structural racism and the rise of fascism that have arisen in the real world in the last few years? Or are they still laser-focused on the oh-so-important issues of political correctness and self-important liberals?
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I feel like they have dealt with those things before they were in the news as much to be fair. The Micheal Jackson episode for example makes a massive joke of how racist the police are. They did a Trump episode and a lots of PC stuff last season but it was actually a lot more complex than it got credit for, the symbol of PC actually became the hero and it was more self reflective on how a show like south park fits in an age where PC is accepted as a good and necessary thing.
 
South Park is incredible. Most mindbending thing to me is that 20 years on, even though it's changed a lot, it's still damn entertaining. There was a season or two where things seemed to be sliding in a simpsons-like fashion, but the last season was incredible.

Probably my favourite was the battle between Jimmy and PC Principal, like when PCP rages through the school threatening to break the legs of the editor of the school paper, and demands to know who it is.

Cut to Stan, who says something like "Uh, he is", pointing away from the screen, and then the brilliant moment where it cuts to Jimmy, cuts back to a speechless PC Principal...and then Stan deadpan delivers “You gonna break his legs PC Principal?" which has to be up there with the best lines ever dropped on the show.
 
Bitch Pudding said:
So many great episodes, but given the impact it had on a certain character I'll go with "Scott Tenorman must die" as best episode yet.

Absolutely love South Park and their next game is my most anticipated one right now.
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This and Nambla might be my favourite two.

They are definitely my two most watch.

Although Cock Magic in season 18 is sneaky into my most watched top 10. Randy is just priceless.
 
Real Hero said:
I feel like they have dealt with those things before they were in the news as much to be fair. The Micheal Jackson episode for example makes a massive joke of how racist the police are. They did a Trump episode and a lots of PC stuff last season but it was actually a lot more complex than it got credit for, the symbol of PC actually became the hero and it was more self reflective on how a show like south park fits in an age where PC is accepted as a good and necessary thing.
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Well, I interpreted the Michael Jackson episode as being super sarcastic, and them taking the absolute piss out of the notion of systematic racism in the police. But I guess I should watch the more recent episodes about political correctness to form my own opinion of them. Maybe they have actually evolved to reflect these days where no intellectually honest person can claim "both sides" with any kind of credibility.
 
Never listened to Kanye West and i dont know if he's cool or not but the Fishsticks episode is amazingly funny.
 
Shanks D Zoro said:
This and Nambla might be my favourite two.

They are definitely my two most watch.

Although Cock Magic in season 18 is sneaky into my most watched top 10. Randy is just priceless.
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It's such a good episode. The baseball episode is fantastic as well.

All episodes with towelie are up there for me. I even have a towelie towlel because I love him so much. Last couple of times I have bought compressed air or been asked to buy it the first thing that comes to mind is that stupid towel.
 
hydrophilic attack said:
Well, I interpreted the Michael Jackson episode as being super sarcastic, and them taking the absolute piss out of the notion of systematic racism in the police. But I guess I should watch the more recent episodes about political correctness to form my own opinion of them. Maybe they have actually evolved to reflect these days where no intellectually honest person can claim "both sides" with any kind of credibility.
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It still obviously takes the piss out of safe spaces and the stuff you would expect but I do think there's more to what they are saying beyond 'fuck PC'
 
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