Loved the Mysterion trilogy. Anyway only episodes like the celebrities getting revenge or those with more then one part are the only ones I find good or amusing like Imaginationland or episodes that aren't about attacking/making fun of people or just gross for the sake of being gross.
Which is why I also enjoyed the Warcraft one. It makes you miss the first three or so seasons of South Park while things were kind of crazy you didn't have characters being complete morons for the sake of just plan gross and stupid plots.
Watched the episode, in stiches over it. Definitely the best of this season. I haven't even seen that movie and the Lemmiwinks stuff is still hilarious. Cartman and the teachers' antics steal the show however, especially the ending. It's nice they make an episode which isn't completely up it's own ass with satire and focuses on some of the older simplistic scenarios of the show.
I have to credit South Park in that it manages to take what are rather sensitive and serious issues in real life (eg. babies addicted to crack, bullying provoked suicide) but manage to avoid being too disrespectful due to the primary focus still being on the zaniness of the cast. Somewhat in contrast to newer Family Guy episodes which are just trying to be barebones and blatantly distasteful and offensive (eg. the school shooting 'gag').
Yeah, what the hell is wrong with the family guy writers? The latest meg centric episode is an all time low. Just the ending and horrible written restoration of Status Quo. It's so damn disrespectful, poorly planned, and in bad tastes it treats the viewers like morons and shows how little they've come to care for the characters.
South Park though is becoming a little too serious at times in episodes where they try to mix toilet humor or rotten comedy as I call it and targets certain people or things and just insults and makes fun of it instead of doing a humorous parody.
While South Park does get pretentious at times, it still doesn't seem to thrive itself on being vulgar in the same way Family Guy does, where a lot of times a humourless scene of rape, violence or other profanity IS the joke (at least in early episodes the whimsy and antics of the characters gave something of an actual gag).
While the show is admitedly becoming hit and miss now, there are only a few odd times I think South Park takes things too far and comes off too crude and witless about it. It at least has something to express outside 'look how distasteful we're being to some event or minority group'. There are some exceptions, the Steve Irwin jokes in 'Stanley's Cup I admit seemed cheap and a rather petty rebuttal to mourner's complaining about their previous gag, but it's rare.
edited 23rd Oct '11 10:55:38 AM by Psi001
Stanley's Cup garners badly with a few fans due to being a very dark episode. It's hardly the worst the show has done, in fact most of the concepts are recycled from previous episodes. However it seems a lot cruder and lacks the wit in execution the show usually has, just blatant 'hah Steve Irwin got killed by stingrays and that poor kid is dying from cancer, TAKE THAT!' and little else, which leads it to come off as very mean spirited. I admit the opposite team being the ones to get the Disney style happy ending was kind of clever however.
That's what I mean regarding Family Guy, original episodes made occasional dark gags but the humor still came from the zany antics of the characters. Nowadays they use realistic rape and violence and other vulgarities AS THE WHOLE GAG. It's almost Dead Baby Comedy without the Comedy part.
edited 24th Oct '11 7:11:43 AM by Psi001
Sooooooo, about that My Little Pony episode that's been rumored....
It's been confirmed false, but the rumor keeps spreading at the speed of light, which could ultimately make this a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Woahhhhhh, there's a rumor about South Park parodying MLP?
I might regain a smidgen of respect for SP if that happens and it's done well. But I have a feeling that they would call bronies pussies for dare enjoying a girly show.
your constant harassment of the female gender makes me sick

This episode touched my childhood in a very special way.
It also provided a very good contrast to the general moroseness of earlier episodes. We had a very cleancut bad guy, and he died. End of that plot.
The dig at Stan's hypocrisy was also well done, getting in the point without breaking the show's flow at all.
Furthermore, I think Guantanamo must be destroyed.