South Park

I have to agree with redhed311. I don't completely hate the Hader era seasons, but I feel like Bill Hader (the head writer of Seasons 12-onward) views the characters as teenagers, tending to forget that they are actually fourth graders.

When Hader isn't involved, the show can still produce high-quality episodes (As shown as when he went on hiatus, the show saw some improvement). He might be a nice guy but I feel like he doesn't understand the show.

Why couldn't Bill Hader stay in Saturday Night Live? Why?

I think they make more sense as teenagers, really, given their levels of intelligence and agency and skill and vocabulary and...

PONY!

F**K YEAH PONIS!

I'm sorry, what were we talking 'bout?

Ponies. Duh.

You know, recently I'm starting to wonder what would happen if South Park aired reruns on [adult swim].

It would do as well as it is doing now.

I'm not the only one picturing South Park airing on [adult swim], am I?

I probably am... :P

edited 6th Jul '14 7:17:55 AM by TargetmasterJoe

I'm sorry, but isn't that kind of the point? The fact that society has changed so much that 9 and 10 year olds have to deal with things teenagers have to deal? Don't people always complain how kids are doing things like losing their virginity or having their first kiss earlier? Jeez, look at Honey Boo Boo, she's still a kid and I don't think she has anything resembling a childhood.

... also, in the Black Friday episode, they were totally acting like 10 year olds obsessed with getting the PS 4 or the Xbox One.

Anyway, that last scene of the season actually made me want to cry.

edited 15th Dec '13 7:14:43 PM by Stratofarius

They tilt back and forth between realistic children, faux-teens, and "Little Adults" as fictional children are often portrayed by writers. Some of the better episodes are indeed when they mix them all up, like "Marjorine" where they make the little girl pastime of fortune-telling into Serious Business, focus on internal girl-politics that would be better suited to middle schoolers, and execute their plans with the seriousness of adults.

Props to Matt and Trey for hitting right at the heart of anime and making me slightly embarassed about my love for it. It is that ridiculous. Card Captor Sakura notwithstanding... I don't know if I used that word correctly.

With regards to the episode 'The Hobbit' it was great seeing someone like Butters end up pissing off Wendy this time. It's always Cartman who ends up making her snap, and Butters is like the complete opposite.

edited 16th Dec '13 6:05:29 PM by BigDaddyP

Has anyone ever wondered how George R.R. Martin (the actual person) reacted when he saw his animated self be addicted to wieners and got his wiener chopped off?

edited 6th Jul '14 7:23:41 AM by TargetmasterJoe

I suppose he larfed quite a bit. Remember Oprah Winfrey's Mingey and Gary? "We're in Paris, Mingey. Beautiful, isn't it?"

No, is that from South Park too?

Yes. And Streisand was a Kaiju.

So, just from a quick glance at the Not-Quite-Game-Of-Thrones three parter, and it really felt like they didn't understand EITHER of the things they were making fun of.

I just wanted to correct one thing: Bill Hader isn't head writer of South Park - that is, and has always been Trey Parker. Hader used to be a contributor who would come in whenever he happened to be in LA. This season he was upgraded to full-time writer, but he's not the guy who runs the room and has final say over the scripts, which is what a head writer does. So laying the blame for a perceived decline on him, or even calling the last few years "the Hader seasons" is really inaccurate.

After what happened in "The Hobbit", does anyone think that Wendy will want to seek vendetta on Kim Kardashian?

Remember the censored episode?

http://www.uproxx.com/tv/2014/01/hear-ending-south-parks-infamous-muhammad-episode-first-time/

Two things:

1. How did they get that uncensored?

2. So...did they just parody the whole "I learned something today" formula by saying "violence solves everything" or some other parody moral?

The reason the episode was so heavily censored was because an extremist group began to threaten Comedy Central. So it's not so much a parody as it is them being incredibly on-the-nose.

The next season will have an episode that has the boys (Stan, Kyle, Kenny, Cartman, and maybe Butters) going to Hollywood for something and Wendy follows them to get revenge against Kim Kardashian. And Butters gets to see to his horror that Kim is a Hobbit.

P.S. Does the group consisting of Stan, Kyle, Cartman, Kenny, and sometimes Butters have some fan nickname like "the 5 musketeers" or "The Boys" or something?

it's a shame the uncensored speech was taken down so quickly before I could listen.I hope somebody got it and upload it somewhere else with the actual episode...

Oh dear God, no. Kim Kardashian's existence just needs to be ignored, maybe then she'll go away.

They're generally referred to as "the boys", though I'm old enough to remember when people on the internet called them "the scamps" when the show first started.