Terry Bogard 1
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I thought that this was one of the worst episodes I have ever seen. Slow, boring, forced, just awful.
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I've always liked episodes involving Randy. Giving this one a 7.5/10.
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LOL, you too? I was 10 minutes in, pressed stop, deleted it from the DVR. Terrible episode. Terrible season. Series recording deleted... Never thought that would happen.
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I know, the bits got funnier as they went along. They really nailed the food show craze. Maybe it's because a lot of people who watch these food shows react in similar ways (I know I've almost growled at things on Man vs. Food) --and it was fun to hear them trying to prepare chef-driven cuisine in a cafeteria.
Good season.
The Tiger Woods video game,
200/201,
the medical marijuana episode,
the latter half of The Coon trilogy,
you have 0 friends,
Crippled Summer
I think it was definitely stronger in the first half, but I don't think it was a bad season by any stretch.
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I found it pretty dull, the entire end of this season seemed like they phoned it in. The 3-part coon episode was all leading up to a 7 minute gag where they made mintberry crunch the hero and not mysterion. Funny, yes, but 3 episodes?
The shakeweight/food network episode was awful. Yeah, we get it, the shakeweight is a penis, they're the first people to make that connection. People get too excited over cooking shows, and Randy is always a good character to play for something like that, but it just wasn't that funny, hell the writers didn't even care about it. Randy gets his handjob and falls asleep and the episode ends.
The first half of the season was pretty good, the end of it just didn't maintain the level of quality at all.
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I LOVED this episode. It was much more inline with the kinds of South Park episodes I enjoy. I don't really like it when they get so into their weird little stories, especially when it's a multi-episode run. This integrated multiple recent pop culture phenomenons, and even got in a jab at the Carnival Cruise incident.
Randy is my favorite character. If I were a student at South Park Elementary I would have encouraged Randy's cooking. The food looked good and it would probably have been the best school lunch food. The Gordon Ramsay impression was dead-accurate how it had certain words like beef wellington, which he says way too often. You can tell someone writing that watches too much Ramsay like I do. It's funny how dirty they made the Food Network phone line sound, even though it was just about cooking. The shake weight stuff was also brilliant.
Randy is my favorite character. If I were a student at South Park Elementary I would have encouraged Randy's cooking. The food looked good and it would probably have been the best school lunch food. The Gordon Ramsay impression was dead-accurate how it had certain words like beef wellington, which he says way too often. You can tell someone writing that watches too much Ramsay like I do. It's funny how dirty they made the Food Network phone line sound, even though it was just about cooking. The shake weight stuff was also brilliant.
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The problem with this half season (as I wasn't aware that this was a half season) is that they couldn't seem to ever move past the first joke. Nascar, Inception, the Coon... and especially this Food Network episode, just seemed stuck in joke one for 30 mins. OK, not entirely fair... I only made it 10 mins into this last episode before I was just so bored and fed up with this half season that I couldn't be bothered to finish it. As Bobak points out, this season also includes Tiger Woods, Marijuana, and other episodes which were really good, in my opinion. So... I have to say, "started good... finished pathetic," for this season.
As for the Shake Weight stuff... Even Saturday Night Live has spoofed that, almost a year ago. Like the BP spill in the Gulf, the joke felt horribly dated.
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Sometimes if you watch something in a bad mood you will have a whole different take on it. Personally, it is very rare that I'll ever stop watching something halfway through.
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I just don't get how thoughts like this cross through your mind when you're watching South Park.
What does this even mean?
I'll have to dig up that old post of yours over-analyzing Family Guy for comparison to see which one is weirder.
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The only thing that would have put me in a bad mood would have been to waste the full 24 mins watching that episode... Personally.
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I totally agree on a lot of that stuff, they did do a LOT of hitting on that same joke through an entire episode. I'm missing the story driven episodes they used to do more often than not.
The first half of the season and the Mysterion/Czutulu episodes were great. The shake weight joke, you knew exactly where that was going the second you saw it and for them, I expect better than that.
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Because he was making all this fancy food, and the students were complaining they wanted their hot dogs and pizza. I was disagreeing with the characters. Seems obvious enough.
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Well, I'm actually behind. I haven't even finished all the episodes. I was talking about the Coon episode. I think I made it to the part where Cartman was on Cthulu's stomach rubbing it or some shit. I was zoning for a good while, but that part made me get up to do anything else.
And it had nothing to do with me being in a bad mood, like Neo Alec suggested. My roommate and I were actually excited to watch them. I put 3 episodes that we were behind on my phone (to connect to the tv), and that Coon one put us to sleep.
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It's amusing, but not surprising, that the tummy rub joke in particular split the people who've seen My Neighbor Totoro ("OMG, brilliant!") and those who haven't ("WTF is happening here?"). A reviewer on a major website got a minor rebellion in his comments when he revealed that, as a paid pop culture reviewer, he hadn't seen Totoro.
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Yeah, they briefly advertised it immediately after the episode, I was meaning to check it out.
[EDIT: The video at that link was a good interview, I knew a lot about how they love musicals, but it was interesting to see them tie it all together]
Terry Bogard 1
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In complete agreement. Really phoned it in this year.
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I think some of you guys are trying to take South Park a little too seriously. The point of the show is to make fun of shit and just be ridiculous entertaining. Maybe some of you have outgrown it or something?
Try getting inebriated before watching the show and perhaps that will enhance the experience for you. I really enjoyed the second half of the season, the only show I didn't finish was the one from the first half where Jimmy went to a summer camp.
The marijuana, Inception, and the creme freiche episodes were top notch in my opinion. Sure we've all known the shake weight jokes for a long time, but they kept making fun of it and putting their own touch on it. C'mon, you didn't laugh when the cab fare falls out when she's finished?
Try getting inebriated before watching the show and perhaps that will enhance the experience for you. I really enjoyed the second half of the season, the only show I didn't finish was the one from the first half where Jimmy went to a summer camp.
The marijuana, Inception, and the creme freiche episodes were top notch in my opinion. Sure we've all known the shake weight jokes for a long time, but they kept making fun of it and putting their own touch on it. C'mon, you didn't laugh when the cab fare falls out when she's finished?
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i really didn't watch most of this season due to my general lack of TV-watching but i stuck around to the end of the Crème Fraiche episode just to keep hearing Randy say crème fraiche
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Not new episode related, but I love this tat
