New season kicks off tonight, here’s hoping they can shake off a weak Season 13 and come back with some fire.
I’ll probably skip it tonight but watch it tomorrow or over the weekend.
Anyone else in?
“Mr. Duchovny, quit jerking off!”
“We have a turd in the punchbowl. I repeat, we have a turd in the punchbowl!”
Maybe my favorite episode since last year’s season premiere. Kenny’s Carradine act and then being in the coffin still wearing the Batman costume had me in tears.
I hope you will all indulge a quick question, and not take it as an attack on SP
Does anyone else feel that SP jumped the shark* around season 9, or so**? Basically exactly when the Simpsons did the same thing***
*I maintain that this phrase will never be out dated when applied to a TV show. I grew up watching Happy Days on Nick At Night, so the memory of that infamous jump (which the 8 year old me thought was actually pretty cool) is still fresh in my mind
**If memory serves me correctly, around season 9 nearly every episode became centered about a passing moment in pop culture, and they were all half clever at best
***If memory serves me correctly, it was the season after the one where they Go to Japan that was the last decent one. And I recall that being season 9
Yeah, Kenny’s death, the chimps, the explanation men gave and the cautious looks they gave women to see if they were out of the woods. Were really good.
Good start.
Laughed hardest at Roethlisberger.
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| Originally Posted by Princess Kate View Post I hope you will all indulge a quick question, and not take it as an attack on SP Does anyone else feel that SP jumped the shark* around season 9, or so**? Basically exactly when the Simpsons did the same thing*** |
I’m not sure that it “jumped the shark”, but I do agree that the show has been in decline for a while now, actually probably starting in season 9. The show was on fire from about season 3-8, and then the quality started to slip. It’s certainly alot more hit and miss than it was in say, season 5.
That said, this episode was pretty funny. I hope they can keep it up through the whole season.
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| Originally Posted by Kevin Macken View Post I’m not sure that it “jumped the shark”, but I do agree that the show has been in decline for a while now, actually probably starting in season 9. The show was on fire from about season 3-8, and then the quality started to slip. It’s certainly alot more hit and miss than it was in say, season 5. That said, this episode was pretty funny. I hope they can keep it up through the whole season. |
I didn’t really care much for the early seasons. More scatological than funny, IMHO. It sure did hit it’s stride there for a while though. At times, I have to say it was truly brilliant. Butters remains one of the funniest characters I’ve seen in a cartoon.
But after a while I gave up on it. It’s not that it did not sometimes have a clever take on certain things, it just was no longer must see TV (IMHO) and the show seemed to abandon real stories in favor of formulaic satire week after week. I no longer watch much TV, and so I just havn’t made time for SP in a while.
Anyway, I don’t know what it’s like now so I can’t judge it. I just remember reading about how after season 10, Mr Parker and Mr Stone’s contracts were up, and they were ultimately lured back with gobs of cash. I sort of wonder though if they had anything left to say at that point
My question was to inquire if people who still followed the show felt the same way I ultimately felt about the direction of SP
Maybe South Park could do an episode explaining what “Jumped the Shark” actually means.
The chimps and the sex addiction class had me bursting with laughter. That poor rich chimp looked so very happy for a brief time.
Tiger Woods '11 could only be topped by a John Daly golf game.
Great episode, though I need to watch the whole thing (gonna head over to southparkstudios website after work) as I was getting ready to go out for St. Patty’s day drinking while the episode was on so I only caught bits and pieces.
Loved the turd in the punchbowl guy who laid everything out logically and then paid for doing so.
Also loved Tiger Woods’s wife’s overdone Swedish accent.
That and they made her so frumpy.
I enjoyed the episode (especially the preemption of Roethlisberger’s “sex addiction” PR defense), but it off a few beats, preventing it from being a classic. In other words, they had some great ideas working there, but didn’t have the right execution.
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| Originally Posted by Farsight View Post Maybe South Park could do an episode explaining what “Jumped the Shark” actually means. |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_shark
It’s not very complicated.
lettermans wobbly dancing head will haunt my dreams
great start
Roethlisberger and Kenny’s death cracked me up, but the rest was pretty tedious. It was one of those “we have 2 jokes, and we’re going to run them into the ground” episodes.
They should have done something with all the women coming out of the woodwork, in Tiger’s case. Lots of jokes to be had there.
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| Originally Posted by Kevin Macken http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_shark It’s not very complicated. |
I wasn’t suggesting it for myself… The word ‘actually’ was a key part of my sentence…
Worth it for the monkey’s public apology gag.
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| Originally Posted by Farsight View Post I wasn’t suggesting it for myself… The word ‘actually’ was a key part of my sentence… |
Ahh, whoops lol. I read your sentence too quickly.
Fucking hilarious episode.
“Shoot it in its blabbermouth!!”
Yeah, the shooting of the alien wizard had me at a crescendo of lulz.
The monkeys press conference, and the fact that they buried Kenny in the batman costume were the highlights for me.