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Whateva! I'm so bad I digitally put Jabba the Hut back in the original Star Wars movie! Whateva, I do what I want!
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Still manages to get me every single time I see the episode. It's so bizarre and so out of nowhere and so amazing that of everything horrible thing they list, that's the worst! 😂
 
I really loved these episodes....


"Cartman's Silly Hate Crime"

"Something You Can Do with Your Finger"

"4th Grade"

Trapper Keeper"

"The Wacky Molestation Adventure"

"It Hits the Fan"

"Cartmanland"

"Asspen"

"Simpsons Already Did It"

"Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society"

"Child Abduction Is Not Funny"

"A Ladder to Heaven"

"The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers"

"Toilet Paper"

"Lil' Crime Stoppers"

"South Park Is Gay!"

"Christian Rock Hard"

"Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes"

"Cartman's Incredible Gift"

"Best Friends Forever"

"Trapped in the Closet"

"Make Love, Not Warcraft"

"Mystery of the Urinal Deuce"

"Cartman Sucks"

"The Snuke"

"Fantastic Easter Special"

"The List"

"Guitar Queer-O"

"Britney's New Look"

"Over Logging"

"Elementary School Musical"

"The Coon"

"Margaritaville"

"Dances with Smurfs"

"You Have 0 Friends"

"Insheeption"

"1%"

"Insecurity"

"Titties and Dragons"



What an awesome show.

Happy 20th Season.
 
Too many favorite episodes to count, Scott Tenorman Must Die was an early favorite.

All Randy episodes are amazing. Special shout out to The Losing Edge.

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Kind of tapped out around season 11 but still one of my all time favourites.

Favorite episode is the Korn Hallowen special. Jesus every single line in that episode still makes me laugh.
 
This thread reminds me that I need to go back and watch the episodes I missed. Tuned out in the mid-2000s and missed a few seasons. But most episodes are good if not great.

The last 2 seasons have been fantastic with the episode to episode continuity.
 
Favorites would probably be Red Sleigh Down and Woodland Critter Chirstmas. I love the episodes that revel in escalating an already insane situation. Towelie would be up there as well.

Fun With Veal
Trapper Keeper
It Hits the Fan
Cartmanland
Child Abduction Is Not Funny
A Ladder to Heaven
The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers
Christian Rock Hard
Cartman's Incredible Gift
The Coon

God knows there are tons more I can't think of.
 
Matt and Trey staying at the helm of the show has really secured South Park as a continuously strong and fresh show. What a talented pair!

Love their multi parter epics: Imagination Land, Cartoon Wars, Console Wars. Episodes 200 and 201 might be my favourite.
 
I've said this in another thread in the past, but I'll say it here too: The nods to Colorado are amazing and very subtle. There are jokes that you'll only really get if you're from here or have lived here for a period of time.

Examples (from the Episode "The Losing Edge")
The team starts playing games all over the state and there are quite a few funny nods to places in Colorado.
Greely has a background full of cows. If you've ever been to Greely, CO, you'll know it smells like livestock all the time. It's regularly called a "cow town."
Pueblo has a dirty field, and is filled with Hispanic kids. The actual city of Pueblo is pretty poor and has a very high Hispanic population.
When they finally make it to the championship game, the stadium looks exactly like Coors Field, where the Rockies play, and the buildings outside are fashioned just like Lower Downtown Denver.

There are things like this in quite a few episodes. It's amazing.

Also, the episode "Going Native" sort of rings true for part of my family. While not "native" Hawaiian, my father was born and raised there before it was a state and I still have a lot of family out there. The number of entitled haoles (non-native folks) out there are crazy and this episode is accurate to a T.
 
With the election coming up, and now that SNL & TDS are floundering, I'm definitely thinking South Park will take on the mantle of "king of political satire".

Buckle up, buckaroos!
 
Secret Character said:
Also, the episode "Going Native" sort of rings true for part of my family. While not "native" Hawaiian, my father was born and raised there before it was a state and I still have a lot of family out there. The number of entitled haoles (non-native folks) out there are crazy and this episode is accurate to a T.
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That's a good one too. It feels like a 20 minute inside joke meant only for people who've been to Hawaii.

I also liked how the episode ended with an apology of sorts for treating Affleck like shit.
 
Seasons 1-3 are my absolute favorites. I love the rest of the series, but there was a certain randomness about the first 3 seasons that I found really fucking funny. The episode 'Spooky Fish' from season 2 always had me in stitches! 'Cartmans Mom is Dirty Slut' is also a favorite of mine.

Overall, South Park is probably my second favorite cartoon series ever (first being KoTH). I honestly don't think there's a single un-funny episode. Sure there are episodes that are better than others, but there isn't a single episode that fails to make me laugh 😊. I'm incredibly excited for season 20!

Also, does anyone else hope that Trump gets the Mel Gibson/Sadam Hussain treatment where the animators use a portrait off Trumps head rather than a drawn face? He has so many ridiculous facial expressions they could use!
 
I think I'll throw out some more favourites.

Red Hot Catholic Love: "and I base that on absolutely nothing"

Cartman's Incredible Gift: Almost entirely for everything Yates related
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The Losing Edge: The first absurd Randy Marsh episode I remember seeing

And whenever I'm prompted to vote for something I don't have any interest in you better believe that my first thought is often "let's get out and vote, let's make our voices heard, we've been given the right to choose between a douche and a turd...."

Also best ending:
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Cartman, Randy and Butters are some amazing characters. Maybe the show has declined a bit over the years, but it's still funny more often than not. And then there's moments like this that are simply brilliant.
 
Real talk: Krazy Kripples is the show's best episode.

Ourobolus said:
God I loved the Wacky Races episode. Everyone scrambling to get cereal had me in stitches.
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Anything involving Nathan has me in stitches.

South Park's dumb humor is the best; I love how in nearly every season there's one episode like Jakovasaurs, More Crap and Eat, Pray, Queef where they just repeat one joke for a half-hour just to piss off the audience and that makes me laugh even harder.
 
It's one of my favorite animated series of all time.

There's so many great moments in this show, it's difficult to list them all.
 
what can i say, south park is my favorite show by a long shot and i've seen every episode many many times over the years. i grew up with south park. i remember where i was when i saw my first episode (volcano) when i was ten. my parents wouldn't let me watch it, so i ended up missing most of the first and second season. but since the 3rd, i've been there every step of the way.

i can't list a top 100, let alone a top 10 favorite episodes. all i know is that every single episode from season 4-9 is A++. not that the other seasons don't have superb episodes, but for me there isn't a single episode in seasons 4-9 that is below a 9.5 out of 10. those prime years are the best seasons of television i've ever seen, and will probably ever see.

with that out of the way, i'm ready to join the discussion.
 
Lys Skygge said:
Also, does anyone else hope that Trump gets the Mel Gibson/Sadam Hussain treatment where the animators use a portrait off Trumps head rather than a drawn face? He has so many ridiculous facial expressions they could use!
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Donald Trump is dead though it might only be Canadian Trump,
there's only Mr.Garrison now.


Buckle up buck-a-roos!
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Absolutely everything from the start of season 5 with It hits the fan to the end of season 8 with the Woodland Critters Christmas is absolute fucking gold. That's the high point of the series to me, personally. It kinda took a nosedive right after that with the Garrison garbage and while it's capable of being funny at times, it's not anymore near what it was at its best.

Awesom-o
Asspen
Krazy Kripples
Simpsons already did it
Death Camp of Tolerance
Butters' very own episode
And of course Scott Tenorman must die.

But my all-time favorite episode is still

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They nearly lost me when they went on a weird libertarian kick around the time of Team America, but otherwise, it's one of my favorite shows ever.

I've been watching since it debuted, so it's weird to realize how much the world has changed while they've been on.
 
Been watching South Park since season 2 or so when I was just a kid. It has formed so much of my taste in humor and added so many subtle things to my everyday speech/vocabulary. I can't even express the full influence it has had on my life and friendships over the years. Can't believe it will be 20 years of SP soon.

Anyways, most of my favorite episodes are from seasons 6-8 probably, with 4-12 being my absolute favorite seasons in general.

One of my all time favorites is the very underrated "Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes". It's just a normal episode from season 8 that nobody talks about very much but I feel like it is a perfect South Park episode.

My other favorites include Grey Dawn, My Future Self n' Me, Lil' Crime Stoppers(another perfect episode), Red Man's Greed, Christian Rock Hard, Awesome-O, Goobacks, Go God Go, Super Fun Time, Quest For Ratings, The Losing Edge, Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow, Fantastic Easter Special, Good Times With Weapons, and of course Make Love, Not Warcraft. But it's pretty impossible to make a favorites list just because there are so many amazing episodes in those mid-seasons, there's really not a single one I don't love from them.

Anyways, SP is still pretty great and a joy to watch and I can't wait to see what they do this season. Here's to 20 more years of South Park!
 
I'm honest to god shocked at the notion that people would call Series 19 as not only a good series, but one of the best yet. I thought that it spoke greatly about how increasingly out of touch Parker and Stone are getting at properly addressing the most current generation's topics in a nuanced manner ("I'm sorry the world isn't one big liberal arts campus" was about as much as they could say on the topic about safe spaces). Not that it wasn't funny in some spots, but thematically, they seem to be regressing.
 
Nerdkiller said:
I'm honest to god shocked at the notion that people would call Series 19 as not only a good series, but one of the best yet. I thought that it spoke greatly about how increasingly out of touch Parker and Stone are getting at properly addressing the most current generation's topics in a nuanced manner ("I'm sorry the world isn't one big liberal arts campus" was about as much as they could say on the topic about safe spaces). Not that it wasn't funny in some spots, but thematically, they seem to be regressing.
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I disagree.

I'm not alone in feeling they hit the nail on the fucking head with S19 in multiple aspects.
 
drspeedy said:
With the election coming up, and now that SNL & TDS are floundering, I'm definitely thinking South Park will take on the mantle of "king of political satire".

Buckle up, buckaroos!
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Ehhh. The show is way too partisan for that.

Nerdkiller said:
I'm honest to god shocked at the notion that people would call Series 19 as not only a good series, but one of the best yet. I thought that it spoke greatly about how increasingly out of touch Parker and Stone are getting at properly addressing the most current generation's topics in a nuanced manner ("I'm sorry the world isn't one big liberal arts campus" was about as much as they could say on the topic about safe spaces). Not that it wasn't funny in some spots, but thematically, they seem to be regressing.
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Honestly I've only really ever liked a few episodes there in a middle season and can't even recall what the episodes even were. Last season was just more of the same base-level satire from them that completely missed the mark. And gave fuel to alt-righters who ironically are the people who are the most "triggered" (by other people existing) and cultivate the most echo-chambery of "safe spaces".
Not to mention the show's very anti-trans stances which only continued in this past season. It's really not a show I can say is nuanced at all in it's commentary. Especially as of late since they've just gone hard on shallow-alt-right mockery.

That said, this is an Appreciation thread so my criticisms aren't really worth exploring too much.
 
Never got round to watching the last season after PC Principal gave the Reddit crowd a bunch of new memes to throw at TRIGGERED SJWs and safe spaces.
 
I've been following the series from the start, but I did stop watching it after Season 15 only to return prior to the Stick of Truth's release.
 
Real Hero said:
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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So, the problem I would be having is if it still focuses a lot more on that kind of stuff, than on legitimate problems due to stuff like systematic racism. One is a lot more problematic than the other.
 
Rich! said:
I disagree.

I'm not alone in feeling they hit the nail on the fucking head with S19 in multiple aspects.
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While right in a lot of respects, it resulted in a weird hypocrisy. In a way, it became a haven of "being above it all"; it's own "safe space", for as much as it lambasted them. I love the yaoi episode and a bunch of takes on '10s culture, but lord, did it try too hard. Like, even PC Principal ended up one-note as the last few episodes floundered. The real-life ad stuff never really reached the heights it could have, and the storylines (sans the Bruce Jenner car joke) never really coalesced.

Not to say I don't want the future seasons to be semi-serialized; that's a great way to try to elevate the show. It just didn't land nearly as well as it could have.

Like...having one strong episode on shaming and then inserting a bunch of "lol, microagression" jokes for half a season afterwards (despite having nothing else to say about PC culture) actually says very little. That this season (and more specifically, PC Principal as a satirical character) was championed so much says a lot about how some people wanted a reference point against political correctness rather than actual meaty discussion about it.
 
More recent episode I absolutely love that many seemed to dislike was "Royal Pudding" with the Canadian Wedding



It was just amazingly absurd.

"As is tradition ". The box of faith. Tooth decay. Mackey....

I can watch it any time and just keep laughing.



All time favorite might be Broadway Bro Down.
 
Seasons 5 to 8 are in my eyes flawless.
Almost stopped watching after the (imo) weak seasons.12 to 15, but the three last seasons were great.

Favorite episode would be either the 100th, marguaritaville, make love not warcraft or 200/201. Best ending of an episode goes to Scot Teillorman must die though.
 
The Lemmiwinks episode is still the funniest episode of any show I've ever seen in my life. How they came up with that story just blows my mind.
 
I love South Park but I wish some episodes can go back to being more orginal story lines. By that I mean not having episodes each week being a parody of current news event making the rounds.
 
Generally one of the most consistent programs out there, and last season was fantastic with the introduction of PC Principal.

My favorite character aging alongside the program since inception has been Randy though. For whatever reason they just seem to gel perfectly.
 
favorite episode? there are too many, i think i'll go with the black friday trilogy and the guitar hero one
i laugh every time i watch the kid playing his plastic guitar and a guy from the background says "i love that song"
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It's amazing how this show becomes better with the years. I find myself re watching episodes from seasons 8 onwards more frecuently. The Mogadishu Pirates' episode is excellent too.

Randy is one of the best characters of the show.

Rich! said:
Newest season was the best yet.

Absolutely love PC Principal.
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The newest seasons are great, specially since 2014 when they started to add continuity to the episodes.
 
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