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My feeling is that they showed up at the office a week ago and this was the result. Rather than them reflecting on how bad last season was and saying, let's show up a month early and hammer out some good jokes and storylines and have a good season. So 12 weeks, 10 episodes of hoping they are inspired that week. At least South Park is back. Too bad it is no longer the best show on TV. Rick & Morty is now.
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The answer is obvious: they didn't learn their lesson. Or only partly learned. They saw the disaster of last year and rather than taking the good ideas (a running storyline) and dropping the bad (trying to write an episode in 7 days with a coherent running plot) they have just gone back to what worked in the past. So what we got was a story that probably had another 10 minutes of material that Trey had to edit into 22 minutes and it ended up being a POS. So they learned noting and we are just back to where we have been for years. 1 week to make an episode that will be based on current events and sometimes will hit and sometimes won't. It's a pity because when they actually spend time writing things they can be quite good.
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Sep 14, 2017 17:16
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My favorite bits were Cartmans reactions to Heidi.
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Sep 14, 2017 18:41
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Pretty good explanation of S20: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8KUTZUqyzk
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Sep 16, 2017 18:17
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I thought Craig was going to start playing Jeremy and Tweak was going to pull out a gun. Would have been funny but very very dark.
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Sep 21, 2017 13:47
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Looking forward to Trump getting deposed and Garrison going back to teaching.
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Sep 21, 2017 14:35
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Milo and POTUS posted:These guys have always been really really good at musical numbers. I guess a degree in musical theater is useful.
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Sep 21, 2017 15:20
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StalkofWheat posted:It's still a travesty that Phill Collins' lame add Tarzan song beat blame Canada. No one in the academy actually saw South Park: BLU.
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Sep 21, 2017 15:51
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I hope this season devolves into Cartman killing himself every episode in more and more horrific ways.
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Sep 22, 2017 20:01
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I saw Cartman Finds Love the other night. That was only a few years ago but man have things changed. We really need some non-topical episodes. Just kids shenanigans.
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Sep 27, 2017 13:59
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Ein cooler Typ posted:are the ancestry companies a scam? They are in that you are paying them to further their research. What I mean is you are paying them to take your data and add it to their database as they continue to research genetics/genomes/whatever. If it was like $25, it wouldn't be a big deal but it costs far more than that. So yeah, it's a scam. Also, it gives you no information that you really need to know. What? I have a distant relative who native american? Wow! That's so cool. And I'm also mostly white? You don't say. Cartman will find out he is part jew. That's my prediction.
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Sep 27, 2017 14:05
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This 1 week episode poo poo has got to stop. It's much too hit and miss and it's mostly misses now. Another bad episode.
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Sep 28, 2017 06:42
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There were a few funny bits, but this was a largely forgettable episode. Bottom 25% tier. I don't think they have had a top 25% since S19 and maybe S18. In other words, what they are doing is not really working any more. Topical poo poo every week gets tiring. It really feels like they are going through the motions and putting a minimal amount of effort in. Their ideas and takes don't feel fresh. They don't have a groove going any more. Switching to 10 eps in the fall was a bad idea. I'm pretty sure the spring/fall 7 eps then 6 eps to 10 in the fall is what did it. Having South Park on TV is great. What we are getting is not, though. South Park has been bad for over a year now.
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Sep 28, 2017 13:54
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10 years ago, Randy would have shook off the DNA people and gotten himself hosed in the rear end. That's the difference.
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Sep 28, 2017 14:30
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I think I figured out what has been bothering me about this episode. They didn't really condemn Columbus. They inferred he was bad but it was pretty glossed over. Makes me wonder if they were lampooning Columbus because they thought people were making a big deal over nothing and didn't actually know what a POS he was. A Columbus expose episode, a la mormons/scientologists could have been funny. Randy as Columbus landing in the Caribbean and gradually killing off the indigenous people could be worked into something funny and educational. But what we got were a few jokes and no real point. And there are a lot of people who still don't know the truth about Columbus. Oh well.
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Sep 29, 2017 13:52
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Adam Ruins Everything should do an episode about spoilers.
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Oct 2, 2017 14:24
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No new episode this week. Wow! They worked for 3 weeks. Gotta take a week off after really stretching our creative muscles.
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Oct 4, 2017 01:23
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vermin posted:I know it's usually on people's worst episode lists but I love A Million Little Fibers. Cause every time Oprah's vagina talks, I lose my mind. The troll about episodes being made months ago was better. Try harder next time.
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Oct 5, 2017 01:35
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sweetmercifulcrap posted:The annoying thing is Matt and Trey don't take the extra week to refine the next episode or brainstorm or anything. They just... don't work, so they can churn out the next one entirely next week. It's confirmation bias. They make more poo poo doing the episodes this way than ever before. And there were more great episodes made in the past than after the switch to the one and done. Really, the main problem was going almost entirely topical.
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Oct 5, 2017 15:27
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Inescapable Duck posted:As I said; ongoing storylines and continuity are one thing, highly topical episodes are another. But both at once, based on ongoing real life events they have no control over, were a recipe for disaster. Yep. And if they wanted an ongoing storyline, they needed to write that over months rather than week to week.
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Oct 5, 2017 15:36
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I hope Heidi is in the game. (of course she will be)
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Oct 12, 2017 22:05
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:It's almost like the Zuckerberg in South Park is entirely fictional and with a poorly impersonated voice? That was his voice. They used audio samples.
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Oct 14, 2017 05:57
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Aggregate score for the game is 80. So that's okay, I guess.
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Oct 16, 2017 14:21
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CuddlyZombie posted:Just looked at the list of non-hidden achievements for Fractured but Hole Isn't black mastermind already? I mean, isn't your skin color what denotes the difficulty? Lightest easiest, darkest hardest.
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Oct 17, 2017 03:56
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If you aren't playing as a short fat bald black gay trans woman then you just aren't doing it right.
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Oct 17, 2017 06:13
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Small White Dragon posted:Yes, Fractured But Whole is out today. Hope you guys enjoy it - I was slaved away for months on this one. Any stories to share?
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Oct 17, 2017 14:42
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Small White Dragon posted:Since there doesn't seem to be one (whaa?), I created a thread for the game: Can you tell or is it NDA stuff?
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Oct 17, 2017 20:01
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It was bad. The old folks home was an amusing idea that should have been a single scene in a good episode. It was just run into the ground. Marcus is a terrible character.
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Oct 19, 2017 14:09
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RatHat posted:I dropped off this show around season 13 and now I'm getting back into it. Any particularly good/bad episodes I should watch/avoid? Avoid everything from this season and last season. That's 20/21. Everything before it is pretty high quality with hits and misses. Except season 16. That's a bad season, too with only a couple worthwhile episodes. The first half of that season (the spring run) is total trash. The second part is back to normal, but that's only 7 episodes of which a couple are good. Must sees: 13: fish sticks, pinewood derby, fatbeard, butters bottom bitch, W.T.F., The F Word 14: tale of scrotie mcboogerballs, medicinal fried chicken, 200, 201, insheeption, coon trilogy, creme fraiche 15: humancentipad, T.M.I., you're getting old, assburgers, broadway bro down 16: sarcastaball 17: informative murder porn, world war zimmerman, ginger cow, the hobbit (and sorta the 3 part game of thrones black friday thing. it would be better as two episodes but the butters stuff is great) 18: go fund yourself, gluten free ebola, grounded vindaloop, cock magic 19: the whole thing because it is a somewhat linked. Not every episode is great but the running storyline works fairly well 20: none at all. just ignore it because everything that did work in 19 failed in 20. 21: none
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Oct 19, 2017 14:20
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RatHat posted:Wait yeah why aren't 200 and 201 available? MOOOOOOOHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAMEEEED!
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Oct 19, 2017 15:00
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Sir Lemming posted:I actually recorded 201 on a VHS when it aired, and gave a copy to my coworker since there was no rerun to watch. Which I assume is the last time that ever happened in history. They are on the blu-ray.
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Oct 19, 2017 15:12
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:The pooping mechanic seems to be an exercise in ambidextri-osity, mostly. It seems to be hard to fail. I have done 10 or so and haven't failed one.
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I could see Heidi dumping Cartman, which would make him happy. But then she dates one of the other boys, maybe Kenny, and is still around all the time anyway.
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Oct 28, 2017 16:56
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Wasn't the whole point of Heidi, in the first place, a reaction to Ghostbusters 2016 promotional BS?
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Oct 31, 2017 14:42
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It seems all the decisions they make have been for the worse: 14 eps > 10. Nope. 2 mini seasons > 1. Nope. Making eps in a week. Nope. Constantly doing current events. Nope. They need to get back to spending time writing episodes and having the kids be kids. The 1 week to air thing leads to all current events.
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Nov 1, 2017 02:22
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W.T.F. because it is so well written.
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Nov 2, 2017 00:19
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Scott Tenorman, of course. The New Terrence & Phillip Move Trailer Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society
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Nov 2, 2017 04:38
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Pip isn't that bad. But the source material is pretty good so it isn't much of a stretch.
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Nov 2, 2017 07:02
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OldTennisCourt posted:Asspen is legit one of the funniest episodes of any TV show ever. The concept is so perfectly done, it never ever stops and the kids reactions are perfect. No it isn't. In fact, it's a bottom tier SP episode. Sorry. Glad you like it, though.
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:This is a wrong opinion. The Stan sports / action movies parodies are solid middle pack episodes. Bottom of middle pack. It's not one of the bad episodes, but it's definitely not in the top 1/2 of eps they have done.  Fight me.
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