History DethroningMoment / SouthPark

* Tropers/RainingMetal The Black Friday trilogy was a Dethroning Moment since it reeked of Critical Research Failure; Did Parker and Stone ever read the articles on the X-box One's negative publicity stunts? And the way they portrayed the two sides it seemed that the UsefulNotes/Playstation4 was the better faction, judging by Bill Gates' characterization. But Bill Gates won, making him a KarmaHoudini. Worse, there was absolutely ''no'' mention of the Wii U. Guess they're [[UngratefulBastard Ungrateful Bastards]] for "Go God Go".

* Tropers/{{Grotadmorv}}: "Season Finale" is a really miserable episode and not one I ever want to revisit. The main plot is just more Tegridy shit of Randy being an asshole, and everyone's happy when he's gone, then he comes back to keep making their lives awful. Same exact thing as the previous five episodes. The subplot is about the Whites adopting two Mexican children as ReplacementGoldfish for their dead son, constantly degrading them and refusing to listen to the kids (who just want to know where their parents are, and the latter of whom is a "toddler''). The episode ends with the older kid setting fire to a farm and getting shot, then running away. [[AbortedArc This never gets followed up on]], so it's very likely he could have died, while the younger kid remains with the Whites to continue being abused. The entire episode just puts me in a bad mood and nothing in it is funny. Completely pointless and easily one of the worst they've done.

* Tropers/{{NickelParkLavigne}}: I am likely apart of the minority within this fandom who finds [[SitcomArchNemesis Cartman vs. Kyle]] episodes boring in addition to having Kyle as her least favorite among the major characters. And the reason is animated into "[[Recap/SouthParkS12E1TonsilTrouble Tonsil Trouble]]". The episode starts with Cartman getting his tonsils checked. Unfortunately, Cartman gets affected with HIV due to the incompetence of the doctors. Cartman is understandably upset. There are jokes over HIV, but that isn't the reason this episode lands on this page. It lands on the page because after finding out that Cartman has HIV, Kyle starts laughing at him. Wow, I never knew you were such an asshole, Kyle. If you were in Cartman's shoes and he was laughing at you for the same reason, [[{{Hypocrite}} you'd get pissed too.]] So we have an episode of a redundant Cartman vs. Kyle plot, and Kyle at his worst, being a hypocritical asshole. Stan and Kyle episodes at least provide different flavors within their episodes whether they're SugarWiki/{{funny|Moments}}, [[TearJerker depressing,]] [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome adventurous]] or SugarWiki/{{heartwarming|Moments}}, sometimes more than one in the same episode. Until Kyle becomes more than a HeroAntagonist to Cartman, he will remain my least favorite major character on the show. The only thing I like about this episode is [[HoYay Butters kissing Cartman's cheek.]] Everything else is worthless.

** Tropers/{{HSRW101}}: I also have my own issues with "Timmy 2000" that I don't think most people ever really thought about, aside from the very bitter jabs at Phil Collins. I've always had an issue with how they downplayed Timmy's disability and also about the concern how people would laugh at him--especially in Stan's half-assed "I learned something today" speech that went on about "he made us laugh, and the people that are wrong are the ones that think people like Timmy should be 'protected' and kept out of the public's eye. The cool thing about Timmy being in a band was that he was in your face, and you had to deal with him, whether you laughed or cried, or felt nothing." ...Does Trey and Matt really not know how people are still just cruel to people with disabilities? Just because the episode doesn't show that doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Just look up the awful #Autismchallenge on [=TikTok=] years later, and not to mention how people diagnosed with autism have been shot down and killed by police. For me, this one just showed how not only how dated this episode is, but how ignorant it is. I'm glad that characters with disabilities in the show like Timmy and Jimmy are beloved characters, especially by those who are disabled themselves, but this episode's handling of that topic back then just really gets under my skin. In addition, I'm surprised no one has brought up the fact that they made Skylar (the same Skylar introduced in "Cat Orgy", who was presented as being a creepy aggressive asshole who was dating Shelly at the time--a 22-year-old man dating a 12-year-old girl--who even Cartman, of all people, bluntly said "[[EveryoneHasStandards Dude, that's not cool!]]") into a sympathetic character just to make Phil Collins look like the bigger asshole out of their own bitterness. Let me repeat that: they took a past character who was a creepy, legit pedophile dating someone 10 years younger than himself, and yet we're supposed to care for him? Did Trey and Matt's juvenile bitterness make them forget that we're supposed to hate Skylar for the right reasons?! I don't care if anyone don't care for Phil Collins' music, or if they do like that one song they only ever sing in the episode. There is no way anyone should ever make someone who is a legit pedophile sympathetic, which ironically this was called out two episodes later in "Cartman Joins NAMBLA"! I love your show, Trey and Matt, but seriously, fuck this episode!

* LooneyLuver: For me, "[[Recap/SouthParkS5E6Cartmanland Cartmanland]]" was really Kyle's worst moment. Now, yes, I realize many shows NegativeContinuity for humor, but in a series with Satan, God, and Jesus all hanging around like nobodies business, it seemed pathetically stupid and [[{{Wangst}} whiny]] of Kyle to bitch that God can't exist because Cartman gets a million dollars. Then he gets a haemorrhoid and complains more, and his parents read him the story of Job to help renew his faith, but they forget (like a lot of people seem to do) that the story ends on a high note with Job being rewarded twice over for his faith. Oh, and in the last 30 seconds, Kyle's faith is renewed because Cartman gets screwed over. Yep, apparently you know God exists when bad things happen to people you don't like.

* Tropers/{{mkmlp}}: This may be one of the less noteworthy episodes to place here, but for me "[[Recap/SouthParkS10E2SmugAlert Smug Alert]]" was the episode that solidified just how truly despicable Randy and the other adults in South Park can be. Long story short, Kyle's dad Gerald gets all smug after getting a hybrid car. Gets on the bad side of the other residence of South Park. So he decides to move to San Francisco and uproot his whole family, rather than stop acting like a self absorbed douche. Not wanting to lose his best friend, Stan writes a song that convinces the rest of the adult's in town to get hybrid cars too. Who also start acting smug about it. And when their own smugness inadvertently causes a major disaster, literally every adult in South Park, especially his own father, blames Stan and his "gay ass song" and the hybrid cars, for the cataclysm that was fueled by their own smug attitudes. And they spend the entire rest of the episode blaming everything on Stan, while showing no sympathy towards his fears of losing Kyle. And when they are finally told off for this and informed that hybrid cars are still good and all they have to do is drive them without having a smug attitude about it, they "learn" that they are just not ready to use such technology without being smug jackasses about it. This is the moment where I just wanted to tell Randy and the rest of the adult population of South Park to fuck off.

* Tropers/Technature: "[[Recap/SouthParkS13E8DeadCelebrities Dead Celebrities]]". Excellent episode. Absolutely hilarious. But I feel that the ''Series/GhostHunters'' thing just fell flat. Yes, they get scared on a relatively daily basis on the show. That's fine. I had no problem with them exaggerating it to no end either. But they are almost never afraid of ghosts. Anyone who watches the show (or hell, just listens to it in the other room from time to time) know that it's almost always bugs that freak them out the most. It could of easily been absolutely hilarious if they cared a bit more about it.

** Tropers/LordTwibill: This troper 100% agrees. Everything about the episode is something I can safely say is, bar none, the ''worst'' episode of ''South Park'' I've ever seen. It shits out the same tired plot that grew stale in the [=2000s=] and somehow made it worse. I can't add much more that you haven't [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech laboriously detailed already]], so I'll just say that not only is it a ''really'' bad look on Trey and Matt's part to put out this kind of plot without doing their homework, it's going to be one of the worst-aging episodes in the entire series. This entire episode was a disgrace, and nearly made me swear off the entire series.

* Tropers/MisterToodleoo: Despite the boundary-pushing A-plot of "[[Recap/SouthParkS11E1WithApologiesToJesseJackson With Apologies to Jesse Jackson]]", the episode still has elements that feel like the writer (Trey Parker) is pledging his allegiance to the social dogma that makes other shows avoid such plots. The biggest example is the very end, where the argument between Stan and Token is solved by Stan admitting that he'll never understand how black people feel when they hear the N-word. I hate this narrative. I mean, if I look at someone's skin color to see if we can emotionally relate to each other or not, then I'm judging someone by skin color! Plain and simple! And it feels very conflicting to have this toxic narrative in the same episode as the aforementioned A-plot with Randy. I believe that said A-plot can be used to show how people think they're better than their ancestors but still have the same potential to hurt people. That plot would have so much potential to get people to recognize our shared humanity if it didn't hypocritically endorse the social dogma. Oh, and although my DMOS is the scene I already mentioned, coming in a close second is the ending of the A-plot. I mean, what do you expect to accomplish by banning an insult without trying to get people to challenge their prejudice?

* Tropers/MisterToodleoo: Despite the boundary-pushing A-plot of "[[Recap/SouthParkS11E1WithApologiesToJesseJackson With Apologies to Jesse Jackson]]", the episode still has elements that feel like the writer (Trey Parker) is pledging his allegiance to the social dogma that makes other shows avoid such plots. The biggest example is the very end, where the argument between Stan and Token is solved by Stan admitting that he'll never understand how black people feel when they hear the N-word. I hate this narrative. I mean, if I look at someone's skin color to see if we can emotionally relate to each other or not, then I'm judging someone by skin color! Plain and simple! And it feels very conflicting to have this toxic narrative in the same episode as the aforementioned A-plot with Randy. I believe that said A-plot can be used to show how people think they're better than their ancestors but still have the same potential to hurt people. That plot would have so much potential to get people to recognize our shared humanity if it didn't hypocritically endorse the social dogma.

* SpaceHunterDrakeRedcrest: "[[Recap/SouthParkS11E8LePetitTourette Le Petit Tourette]]" (where Cartman fakes having Tourette's Syndrome) is an odd episode for me, in that I find the first half hysterical and the second half unfunny. The second half has one of the worst scenes I've ever seen in ''South Park''. At one point, Kyle invites a large number of pedophiles to the Dateline studio to divert attention away from Cartman's interview. There are several things wrong with this. First off, as someone who struggled with suicidal depression, I find most attempts at SuicideAsComedy to be poorly-done, to say the least. Seeing a large group of people shooting themselves in the head just makes me uncomfortable, even if all the people are [[AcceptableTargets pedophiles]]. The second issue I have is that it feels like a Critical Research Failure. All these potential child molesters file into the building, one after another. Whenever ''Series/ToCatchAPredator'' had a man arrive at a sting before the previous person had been arrested, the person arriving would become suspicious and leave, not go in blindly. And no, RuleOfFunny does not excuse this since I don't find it funny.

* Tropers/ArtsytheCreator: Although "Cupid Me" was a fairly good start for Season 26 and the moral was decently executed despite being somewhat rushed, I really don’t like how Cartman has been depicted in this episode since it fueled into the "Cartman is not that bad" fan theory that is becoming increasingly more confirmed in the show over the past few years, before this episode, Cartman has always been a vicious anti-semite who hated Kyle for being Jewish and even dressed up as Hitler a couple times in the show, a lot of people really viewed him as the Bart Simpson equivalent of South Park but ten times worse! Even after his antisemitism was heavily tuned down in later seasons, he still can be bigoted at times as seen in "Mexican Joker"(he regretted everything but my point still stands),in this episode, and we did see some of Cartman’s old habits with him using [[TheBusCameBack Cupid Me]] to be horribly antisemitic towards Kyle by helping him talk to Stan again, he even impersonates fucking Kayne West/Ye at one point but what killed the episode to me was the ending, it’s revealed that Cupid Me is actually a separate entity from Cartman and that the latter always had good intentions, Cartman himself even gets upset that Cupid Me’s antisemitism is going way too far and saves the day once again, what bugs me the most about the episode is the fact that Cartman is now a poor and misunderstood boy [[PanderingToTheBase to please the fans who think he’s just a flawed yet good person]], with the amount of OutOfCharacter moments in this show’s new era, I wouldn’t be surprised that the writers are now getting inspiration from slash fanfic writers, [[MisaimedMarketing especially considering how this episode was marketed.]]

* Tropers/ArtsytheCreator: Although "Cupid Me" was a fairly good start for Season 26 and the moral was decently executed despite being somewhat rushed, I really don’t like how Cartman has been depicted in this episode since it fueled into the "Cartman is not that bad" fan theory that is becoming increasingly more confirmed in the show over the past few years, before this episode, Cartman has always been a vicious anti-semite who hated Kyle for being Jewish and even dressed up as Hitler a couple times in the show, a lot of people really viewed him as the Bart Simpson equivalent of South Park but ten times worse! Even after his antisemitism was heavily tuned down in later seasons, he still can be bigoted at times as seen in "Mexican Joker"(he regretted everything but my point still stands),in this episode, and we did see some of Cartman’s old habits with him using [[TheBusCameBack Cupid Me]] to be horribly antisemitic towards Kyle by helping him talk to Stan again, he even impersonates fucking Kayne West/Ye at one point but what killed the episode to me was the ending, it’s revealed that Cupid Me is actually a separate entity from Cartman and that the latter always had good intentions, Cartman himself even gets upset that Cupid Me’s antisemitism is going way too far and saves the day once again, what bugs me the most about the episode is the fact that Cartman is now a poor and misunderstood boy [[PanderingToTheBase to please the fans who think he’s just a flawed yet good person]], with the amount of OutOfCharacter moments in this show’s new era, I wouldn’t be surprised that the writers are now getting inspiration from slash fanfic writers, [[MisaimedMarketing especially considering how this episode was marketed]]

* Tropers/ArtsytheCreator: Although "Cupid Me" was a fairly good start for Season 26 and the moral was decently executed despite being somewhat rushed, I really don’t like how Cartman has been depicted in this episode since it fueled into the "Cartman is not that bad" fan theory that is becoming increasingly more confirmed in the show over the past few years, before this episode, Cartman has always been a vicious anti-semite who hated Kyle for being Jewish and even dressed up as Hitler a couple times in the show, a lot of people really viewed him as the Bart Simpson equivalent of South Park but ten times worse! Even after his antisemitism was heavily tuned down in later seasons, he still can be bigoted at times as seen in "Mexican Joker"(he regretted everything but my point still stands),in this episode, and we did see some of Cartman’s old habits with him using [[TheBusCameBack Cupid Me]] to be horribly antisemitic towards Kyle by helping him talk to Stan again, he even impersonates fucking Kayne West/Ye at one point but what killed the episode to me was the ending, it’s revealed that Cupid Me is actually a separate entity from Cartman and that the latter always had good intentions, Cartman himself even gets upset that Cupid Me’s antisemitism is going way too far and saves the day once again, what bugs me the most about the episode is the fact that Cartman is now a poor and misunderstood boy[[PanderingToTheBase to please the fans who think he’s just a flawed yet good person]], with the amount of OutOfCharacter moments in this show’s new era, I wouldn’t be surprised that the writers are now getting inspiration from slash fanfic writers, [[MisaimedMarketing especially considering how this episode was marketed]]

* Tropers/ArtsytheCreator: Although "Cupid Me" was a fairly good start for Season 26 and the moral was decently executed despite being somewhat rushed, I really don’t like how Cartman has been depicted in this episode since it fueled into the "Cartman is not that bad" fan theory that is becoming increasingly more confirmed in the show over the past few years, before this episode, Cartman has always been a vicious anti-semite who hated Kyle for being Jewish and even dressed up as Hitler a couple times in the show, a lot of people really viewed him as the Bart Simpson equivalent of South Park but ten times worse! Even after his antisemitism was heavily tuned down in later seasons, he still can be bigoted at times as seen in "Mexican Joker"(he regretted everything but my point still stands),in this episode, and we did see some of Cartman’s old habits with him using [[TheBusCameBack Cupid Me]] to be horribly antisemitic towards Kyle by helping him talk to Stan again, he even impersonates fucking Kayne West/Ye at one point but what killed the episode to me was the ending, it’s revealed that Cupid Me is actually a separate entity from Cartman and that the latter always had good intentions, Cartman himself even gets upset that Cupid Me’s antisemitism is going way too far and saves the day once again, what bugs me the most about the episode is the fact that Cartman is now a poor and misunderstood boy[[ to please the fans who think he’s just a flawed yet good person PanderingToTheBase]], with the amount of OutOfCharacter moments in this show’s new era, I wouldn’t be surprised that the writers are now getting inspiration from slash fanfic writers, [[MisaimedMarketing especially considering how this episode was marketed]]

* Tropers/ArtsytheCreator: Although "Cupid Me" was a fairly good start for Season 26 and the moral was decently executed despite being somewhat rushed, I really don’t like how Cartman has been depicted in this episode since it fueled into the "Cartman is not that bad" fan theory that is becoming increasingly more confirmed in the show over the past few years, before this episode, Cartman has always been a vicious anti-semite who hated Kyle for being Jewish and even dressed up as Hitler a couple times in the show, a lot of people really viewed him as the Bart Simpson equivalent of South Park but ten times worse! Even after his antisemitism was heavily tuned down in later seasons, he still can be bigoted at times as seen in "Mexican Joker"(he regretted everything but still my point stands),in this episode, and we did see some of Cartman’s old habits with him using [[TheBusCameBack Cupid Me]] to be horribly antisemitic towards Kyle by helping him talk to Stan again, he even impersonates fucking Kayne West/Ye at one point but what killed the episode to me was the ending, it’s revealed that Cupid Me is actually a separate entity from Cartman and that the latter always had good intentions, Cartman himself even gets upset that Cupid Me’s antisemitism is going way too far and saves the day once again, what bugs me the most about the episode is the fact that Cartman is now a poor and misunderstood boy[[ to please the fans who think he’s just a flawed yet good person PanderingToTheBase]], with the amount of OutOfCharacter moments in this show’s new era, I wouldn’t be surprised that the writers are now getting inspiration from slash fanfic writers, [[MisaimedMarketing especially considering how this episode was marketed]]

* Tropers/ArtsytheCreator: Although "Cupid Me" was a fairly good start for Season 26 and the moral was decently executed despite being somewhat rushed, I really don’t like how Cartman has been depicted in this episode since it fueled into the "Cartman is not that bad" fan theory that is becoming increasingly more confirmed in the show over the past few years, before this episode, Cartman has always been a vicious anti-semite who hated Kyle for being Jewish and even dressed up as Hitler a couple times in the show, a lot of people really viewed him as the Bart Simpson equivalent of South Park but ten times worse! Even after his antisemitism was heavily tuned down in later seasons, he still can be bigoted at times as seen in "Mexican Joker"(he regretted everything but still my point stands),in this episode, and we did see some of Cartman’s old habits with him using [[TheBusCameBack Cupid Me]] to be horribly antisemitic towards Kyle by helping him talk to Stan again, he even impersonates fucking Kayne West/Ye at one point but what killed the episode to me was the ending, it’s revealed that Cupid Me is actually a separate entity from Cartman and that the latter always had good intentions, Cartman himself even gets upset that Cupid Me’s antisemitism is going way too far and saves the day once again, what bugs me the most about the episode is the fact that Cartman is now a poor and misunderstood boy[[ to please the fans who think he’s just a flawed yet good person PanderingToTheBase]], with the amount of OutOfCharacterMoments in this show’s new era, I wouldn’t be surprised that the writers are now getting inspiration from slash fanfic writers, [[MisaimedMarketing especially considering how this episode was marketed]]

* Tropers/{{tsstevens}}: For me, it's watching some episodes after a interview with Parker and Stone where they suggest they "don't sit around and ask 'Okay, who can we piss off?'" Watching some of the episodes, bullshit they don't. Now that's not to say there are not good episodes, but it's clear the show sets out to offend and/or gross out sometimes. It would be nice for the creators to come out and admit it rather than pretend it's not the case.
* Tropers/cricri3007 : The first [[spoiler:abortion mini-game]] in ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheStickOfTruth''. While I know that the show can be extremely violent at times, up until that point, the game seemed LighterAndSofter to me. And then you get a mini-game that, if you fail it, shows you the [[SarcasmMode beautiful]] sight of [[spoiler:Randy Marsh's]] exploded balls. I had to pause the game to go puke before continuing after finishing that mini-game. And it's the first time ever I wish I had the censored version of a video game.

** Tropers/ArtsytheCreator: Although "Cupid Me" was a fairly good start for Season 26 and the moral was decently executed despite being somewhat rushed, I really don’t like how Cartman has been depicted in this episode since it fueled into the "Cartman is not that bad" fan theory that is becoming increasingly more confirmed in the show over the past few years, before this episode, Cartman has always been a vicious anti-semite who hated Kyle for being Jewish and even dressed up as Hitler a couple times in the show, a lot of people really viewed him as the Bart Simpson equivalent of South Park but ten times worse! Even after his antisemitism was heavily tuned down in later seasons, he still can be bigoted at times as seen in "Mexican Joker"(he regretted everything but still my point stands),in this episode, and we did see some of Cartman’s old habits with him using [[TheBusCameBack Cupid Me]] to be horribly antisemitic towards Kyle by helping him talk to Stan again, he even impersonates fucking Kayne West/Ye at one point but what killed the episode to me was the ending, it’s revealed that Cupid Me is actually a separate entity from Cartman and that the latter always had good intentions, Cartman himself even gets upset that Cupid Me’s antisemitism is going way too far and saves the day once again, what bugs me the most about the episode is the fact that Cartman is now a poor and misunderstood boy[[ to please the fans who think he’s just a flawed yet good person PanderingToTheBase]], with the amount of OutOfCharacterMoments in this show’s new era, I wouldn’t be surprised that the writers are now getting inspiration from slash fanfic writers, [[MisaimedMarketing especially considering how this episode was marketed]]

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* Tropers/{{tsstevens}}: For me, it's watching some episodes after a interview with Parker and Stone where they suggest they "don't sit around and ask 'Okay, who can we piss off?'" Watching some of the episodes, bullshit they don't. Now that's not to say there are not good episodes, but it's clear the show sets out to offend and/or gross out sometimes. It would be nice for the creators to come out and admit it rather than pretend it's not the case.
* Tropers/cricri3007 : The first [[spoiler:abortion mini-game]] in ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheStickOfTruth''. While I know that the show can be extremely violent at times, up until that point, the game seemed LighterAndSofter to me. And then you get a mini-game that, if you fail it, shows you the [[SarcasmMode beautiful]] sight of [[spoiler:Randy Marsh's]] exploded balls. I had to pause the game to go puke before continuing after finishing that mini-game. And it's the first time ever I wish I had the censored version of a video game.
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