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South Park Refuses to Die Despite Matt and Trey’s Efforts
By Megh Wright
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South Parkhasn’t even premiered its 23rd season yet, but Comedy Central has already locked it in for a 24th, 25th, and 26th. The network announced today that it’s handed out a triple-season, 30-episode renewal to Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s long-running animated comedy series, which comes less than two weeks before its return to the air on Wednesday, September 25.

“South Park is the greatest comedy in the history of television, unmatched in its satirical strength and cultural relevancy and it shows no signs of slowing down,” Comedy Central’s president, Kent Alterman, said on the news. “If humanity is still intact in 1,000 years, historians will see the most transcendent artists of our era as the Beatles, Muhammad Ali, and Matt and Trey. We’ll do as many seasons as they would like.”

“Apparently, our efforts to get our own show canceled have fallen short,” Parker and Stone said. “Luckily, we love Comedy Central and Kent and our staff so we are looking forward to new cancellation opportunities in the next few years.”
 
Mrfreddygoodbud said:
if they were bruhs, cacs wouldve bought em out and fucked the whole show up like they did boondocks...and the handling of the chapelle show

but they let south parks seinfelds adn the friends lived, formula untouched.... shit like that confirms cacs are obsessed with everything we do
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yuuuup
 
south park is still funny AF

they lost a lot of people with that member berries shit

but last two episodes about those rental scooters were the best in a long time
 
fonzerrillii said:
Tonights episode was Fiyah and timely as hell..

Mexican Joker...
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man South Park still got it.. they ain't trying to make you lol.... but they are on point. people that ain't getting it are probably a little slow on the uptake
 
gene cisco said:
It's refreshing in this day and age. Surprised the extremists ain't run them off.
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Why must you insist on hitting that one stupid note every single time you can?

The fucking show has been on a quarter century, obviously your fucking fictional cancel culture is not the all-powerful menace you make it out to be!!! Goddamn!
 
playahaitian said:
“South Park is the greatest comedy in the history of television, unmatched in its satirical strength and cultural relevancy and it shows no signs of slowing down,” Comedy Central’s president, Kent Alterman, said on the news.
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Duece said:
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They admit Cartman is based off of Archie Bunker.

The show is a wacky hybrid of All in the Family and The Simpsons. They definitely took it to the next level but overall I would not agree that it is greater than either of those shows that came before it and made it possible. (All in the Family, which had a short run compared to those two, was also a lot more consistent.)

This came up because of Homer introducing the Emmy awards (as The Simpsons prepare to move into their fifth decade):
 
“Apparently, our efforts to get our own show canceled have fallen short,” Parker and Stone said.

Who are the idiots buying this shit? South Park has been trying to get cancelled. Bill Burr won't be able to do another special after his last one. Dave Chappelle bravely took on "the only group you can't talk about," so he'll be forever silenced. All these motherfuckers are getting cancelled all the way to the bank and a new multi-million dollar contract.
 
Got around to watching the premiere. Pretty much agree with this review. It was worth watching but did not come near having me shitting my britches.

South Park bites off more than it can chew in an uneven premiere
John Hugar
AV Club

One of South Park’s most admirable qualities has long been its ambition. Not only does the show tackle current events at a rapid pace, and with remarkable candor, it’s also often at its best when it takes on multiple subjects, and draws connections between them that others would fail to notice. Consider season 21’s “Put It Down,” which mocked both Donald Trump’s chronic over-tweeting and Logic’s well-intended-but-preachy “1-800-273-8255” video. That said, there are times when the show gets a bit too ambitious for its own good, and just ends up being all over the place. This is the main problem with “Mexican Joker,” an often entertaining episode with quite a few enjoyable moments, but not enough structure to make a coherent point.

We begin at Tegridy Farms, where Randy’s business has grown considerably after being embraced as an essential replacement for Amazon last season. Randy becomes nervous, however, when he notices that sales have gone down. He quickly realizes the problem; his customers have left him in lieu of growing their own weed. Incensed, he leads Stan on a crusade to get homegrown weed banned, citing the risk it poses to children. This is a clear reference to the recently proposed ban on flavored vape juices, and as Randy joins forces with Big Weed to make the ban happen, the show makes the point that many others have made; regardless of the actual danger proposed, companies like Philip Morris only support the ban because it helps their bottom line. This sets up a plotline that could be followed throughout the season: Randy’s newfound lust for cash, has compromised the, ahem, integrity that inspired him to go into the business in the first place.

Back in South Park, Cartman sees an El Salvadorian family taken away and separated from each other by ICE agents and comes to the most Cartman conclusion possible: “Well, this is nice.” Observing how easy it is to place a call to ICE, he makes an anonymous threat against Kyle’s family, and the Broflovskis are separated as well. With Kyle as the only white kid in an ICE detention camp, the guards quickly realize something is off, and when they find out he’s Jewish, they release him, rationalizing that keeping a Jewish child in one of these facilities could look... racist. Here, South Park answers the “Is it okay to call them concentration camps?” question that flummoxed the likes of Chris Hayes this summer in a typically irreverent fashion. The show manages to address the horror of the situation without being excessively heavy-handed, an impressive feat considering how full of clapter Trump-era comedy has been.

As much as a lot of this works, problems arise when the ICE plot is taken further. In an attempt to get the ICE guards to realize the harm their cruelty could do, Kyle notes that all superhero film villains have tragic origin stories, and suggests that one of these children could one day vow revenge and become the titular Mexican Joker. In typical South Park fashion, the guards miss Kyle’s point entirely, doing everything from putting on puppet shows to performing dangerous shock therapies on children to prevent this from happening. This is where things get a bit tricky; the guards are rather casual about the vileness of their actions. What they’re doing is obviously wrong, but they don’t seem to act with much malice, with their ultimate goal just being to cover their asses. It’s difficult to say if we’re supposed to view them as virulent racists who firmly believe what they’re doing is the right thing, to the point where they’ve become numb to it, or if they truly believe they’re just Doing Their Job and haven’t considered the morality of the situation beyond that. Assuming the detention center will be making a return in future episodes, I’d like to see the guards’ motivations fleshed out a bit more.

The plots become connected when Randy’s paranoia over homegrown weed costing him his fortune makes him go insane, and he starts acting like, you guessed it, The Joker. Referencing The Dark Knight, Randy blows up every marijuana garden in town, re-establishing himself as the town’s only source. When the FBI gets wind of this, they naturally cast the blame on Kyle’s Mexican Joker archetype. Meanwhile, Kyle attempts to free all the children by converting them to Judaism, granting them the same immunity he has. It almost works, but in a confusing scene where the guards think they’re in a superhero film-style flashback, Kyle angrily tells them that the Mexican Joker doesn’t exist, so they assume they’re in the wrong flashback, and just leave the kids there. I get that this scene is trying to parody the flawed logic of these films, but it left us with an awkward, unsatisfying ending.

“Mexican Joker” has some good gags, and gets in some solid shots at the horror of Trump’s immigration policies, as well as the naked opportunism of Big Tobacco supporting the flavored vape ban. That being said, the episode ultimately tries to do too much at once, and feels awkward and disjointed. In previous serialized seasons, the show eased its way into each thread, often introducing them one episode at a time before resolving them all during the final stretch. Here, they already have enough going on to satisfy an entire season’s worth of storylines. Based on Trey and Matt’s history, we can be confident that they will ultimately provide satisfying answers to all the questions they’ve created. But in the case of this individual episode, it felt a bit rushed and unfinished. The best hope for “Mexican Joker” is that when all is said and done, it will look better in the context of a fully realized story.

Stray observations
  • “I hate watchin’ babies drown! Seems like a waste of baby.”
  • The theme song and opening are replaced with a new one centered around Tegridy Farms. I’m curious to see if they’ll use this all season.
  • I’m glad to see we’ll get a second season of Tegridy Farms. With Randy’s dark turn here, I wonder if it’ll be a bit like the two-season-long Cartman-Heidi relationship, where a bright new development for a character is brought down by their worst tendencies.
 
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The Simpsons in their prime was the funniest shit on earth to me.

South Park has been funnier for a longer period of time though.
 
I have to give them credit on this one... The second episode was the most significant episode of South Park in a long time. I'm surprised it didn't get any discussion here.

The AV Club only gave it a B the day after but this will go down as an arguable top ten episode with the real world impact. It was prescient with the Daryl Morey controversy happening after it, a definite A+ episode.

South Park takes some hard shots at China as Randy grows his weed business
John Hugar
AV Club
Thursday, October 3rd, 2:00am

Over the course of its 23 seasons on the air, South Park has gained a reputation for its take-no-prisoners policy when it comes to satire. No topic is off limits, no matter how rough the consequences might be. The most memorable example of this came in 2006, and again in 2010, when South Park came close to depicting the prophet Muhammad on two occasions, only to be overruled by Comedy Central censors each time. Tonight, Trey and Matt were similarly subversive, going after another topic that is rarely mentioned in polite society: the heavy role that Chinese censorship plays in the entertainment industry, particularly the release of feature films. It’s no secret that blockbuster movies like the Avengers films have to be cleared by the Chinese government before reaching that market, and as such, there’s certain places no mainstream film can ever go. “Band In China” tackles this issue with admirable candor, resulting in an episode that ranks right up there with last year’s two-part Amazon takedown as some of the show’s most blunt, honest satire.

As in last week’s episode, Randy is looking to expand Tegridy Farms, and figures a good way to do so would be to enter the Chinese market, because hey, there’s just so many people there. Unfortunately, he fails to do any research on the country’s marijuana policies, and is quickly apprehended at the airport with a giant suitcase of weed, and sent to a Chinese prison. His obliviousness at the entire situation ranks among the episode’s funniest moments, as he is still doing his affected southern twang, and presenting himself as a Simple Country Weed Farmer while being taken away in handcuffs. It’s a bit reminiscent of King Of The Hill’s “Lupe’s Revenge,” where Peggy thinks she’s receiving a medal for returning a child home safely, when actually, she’s being arrested for kidnapping her.

While this is going on, Stan has formed a band with Jimmy, Butters, and Kenny called Crimson Dawn. There have been episodes focusing on the boys starting bands before (which the show eventually alludes to), but it’s such a winning formula that Trey and Matt can’t be blamed too much for going back to the well. This time, Stan’s anger and frustration at his father moving the family away from South Park, as well his total lack of regard for his feelings, inspires him to start a death metal band. The first scene of them performing works quite well, because at this point, no reference had been made to what music the band actually plays, so the sudden aggressive metal riffage out of nowhere is played to great comedic effect. The band wins over the same record producer who made the PC Babies stars, and since there’s no money to be made from records these days (“What are you kids, from the 90s?”), he goes straight into making a biopic. This is where the two plotlines meet, as the movie Stan attempts to write is censored by the Chinese government at all turns, to the point where he basically can’t write anything. After the randomness of “Mexican Joker,” it was refreshing to see an episode waste no time in tying its storylines together.

Imprisoned in China, Randy continues to make the case for the greatness of both weed and Tegridy, but to no avail. Here, we find out that because Randy angered the Chinese government, all the Marvel superheroes who were also trying to do business in China have been apprehended as well. Since all of these characters are now owned by Disney, this gives South Park a chance to bring back one of their most memorable characters ever, the angry, violent Mickey Mouse, who famously beat up the Jonas Brothers in “The Ring.” He’s just as aggressive this time, smacking Thor around, and calling Winnie The Pooh (who yes, actually has been banned in China) a “fat diabetic bear.” Bringing this character back brought needed levity to an episode that is often quite tense. That they actually have him play a significant role in the episode’s resolution is even more rewarding.

With few options left, Randy and Mickey team up to get what they want from the Chinese. How? By killing their arch enemies, you guessed it, Winnie The Pooh and Piglet. They set a trap of honey for the pair, and when Pooh is finally content, Randy garrotes him. With Winnie and Piglet neutralized, Randy gets what he wants, and marijuana is now not only legal in China, but supplied entirely by Tegridy Farms.

Unlike his father, Stan refuses to give into the demands of the Chinese government, and his biopic is shelved. That said, he is initially tempted to sell out in one of the episode’s funniest scenes. Reasoning that his movie will only be released in China if his band is lame and vanilla, he briefly brings back the immortal Fingerbang for a reunion, before pulling the plug at the last second. Perhaps I’m being a bit of a sucker for fan service, but the callback to a 19-year old episode in a perfectly apropos fashion worked incredibly well for me. With Randy giving into Chinese pressure, while Stan holds firm, the conflict between father and son has grown, and could prove to be the primary storyline of this season. When Stan says he’s going to write another death metal song about how much he’s come to resent his father, we know that we’re just beginning to scratch the surface here.

After a funny-but-uneven premiere, “Band In China” is a much more sure-footed episode, and one that shows Trey and Matt remain unafraid to go after a big target. It’ll be interesting to see if this episode will become as controversial as the “Cartoon Wars” saga, or if it’ll slip through the cracks. At any rate, this was a strong episode that should have anyone put off by “Mexican Joker” feeling a lot better about season 23's potential.

Stray Observations
  • “Oh yeah, I did kill Winnie The Pooh.”
  • “You’re gonna have to lower your ideals of freedom if you want to suck on the warm teat of China.”
  • This episode seems to take place at the same time as “Mexican Joker.” Towards the end, Cartman and Kyle get off the train having escaped the detention camp. I’m still not quite sure how they got out. Didn’t the guard leave before letting them out when he thought he was in the wrong flashback?
  • The Tegridy Farms-themed opening from last week is back, so I’m guessing they’ll be using it throughout the season.
 




Get ready for 14 South Park movies and five more seasons
Comedy Central has renewed Trey Parker and Matt Stone's animated series through season 30





South Park co-creators Matt Stone and Trey ParkerPhoto: Chris Hopkins (Getty Images)
MTV Entertainment Studios has unveiled an expansive, $900 million deal with South Park co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, which includes extending the adult animated series on Comedy Central through its 30th season. Not to mention, Paramount+ will receive a whopping 14 South Park movies, with the first two out this fall. Boy, do these animators have their work cut out for them.


“Matt and Trey are world-class creatives who brilliantly use their outrageous humor to skewer the absurdities of our culture and we are excited to expand and deepen our long relationship with them to help fuel Paramount+ and Comedy Central,” Chris McCarthy, president-CEO of MTV Entertainment and chief content officer of adult animation for Paramount+ said in a press release. “Franchising marquee content like South Park and developing new IP with tremendous talent like Matt and Trey, is at the heart of our strategy to continue growing Paramount+.”

Running on Comedy Central since 1997 and soon entering its 25th season, the network has renewed the series through 30 seasons, which is just, a lot. (But still: Simpsons did it.) This means Cartman, Stan, and Kyle will be around until at least 2027, with a few more chances to kill off Kenny again.

“Comedy Central has been our home for 25 years and we’re really happy that they’ve made a commitment to us for the next 75 years,” said Parker and Stone, adding that the channel’s current owners, ViacomCBS, were “immediately supportive” of the unorthodox way South Park has been produced during the COVID-19 pandemic. “We can’t wait to get back to doing traditional South Park episodes but now we can also try out new formats. It’s great to have partners who will always take a chance with us.”
 
darth frosty said:




Get ready for 14 South Park movies and five more seasons
Comedy Central has renewed Trey Parker and Matt Stone's animated series through season 30





South Park co-creators Matt Stone and Trey ParkerPhoto: Chris Hopkins (Getty Images)
MTV Entertainment Studios has unveiled an expansive, $900 million deal with South Park co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, which includes extending the adult animated series on Comedy Central through its 30th season. Not to mention, Paramount+ will receive a whopping 14 South Park movies, with the first two out this fall. Boy, do these animators have their work cut out for them.


“Matt and Trey are world-class creatives who brilliantly use their outrageous humor to skewer the absurdities of our culture and we are excited to expand and deepen our long relationship with them to help fuel Paramount+ and Comedy Central,” Chris McCarthy, president-CEO of MTV Entertainment and chief content officer of adult animation for Paramount+ said in a press release. “Franchising marquee content like South Park and developing new IP with tremendous talent like Matt and Trey, is at the heart of our strategy to continue growing Paramount+.”

Running on Comedy Central since 1997 and soon entering its 25th season, the network has renewed the series through 30 seasons, which is just, a lot. (But still: Simpsons did it.) This means Cartman, Stan, and Kyle will be around until at least 2027, with a few more chances to kill off Kenny again.

“Comedy Central has been our home for 25 years and we’re really happy that they’ve made a commitment to us for the next 75 years,” said Parker and Stone, adding that the channel’s current owners, ViacomCBS, were “immediately supportive” of the unorthodox way South Park has been produced during the COVID-19 pandemic. “We can’t wait to get back to doing traditional South Park episodes but now we can also try out new formats. It’s great to have partners who will always take a chance with us.”
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Mo money mo money mo money
 
South park season 27 Got pushed back.

In a statement after South Park’s new return was announced, Parker and Stone slammed the move.

“This merger is a sh*tshow and it’s f*cking with up South Park,” they wrote on X. “We are at the studio working on new episodes and we hope the fans get to see them somehow.”


The show’s $500 million exclusive streaming licensing deal with HBO Max expired a week ago but has not been replaced by a new exclusive one — or multiple non-exclusive ones.

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‘South Park’ Season 27 Premiere Date Pushed By Comedy Central Amid Streaming Deal Uncertainty; Series Creators React

The Season 27 premiere of South Park, originally slated for July 9, has been moved to July 23 amid tension over the show's lucrative streaming deal.
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