Reviews of South Park

One Funny Show.

Posted : 1 year, 5 months ago on 10 July 2008 10:49 (A review of South Park)

There is not really much to say about South Park because everyone already knows everything about it. It has become a classic to everyone that watches it. And frankly I think it is a great show. The geniuses: Trey Parker and Matt Stone put together a very funny television show. My favorite is probably Cartman, Stan, or Kyle. I highly enjoy every character though. The things that happen in this show, are hysterical, and fun to watch over and over again. What a great show.

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Like a fine wine.

Posted : 1 year, 8 months ago on 25 April 2008 05:02 (A review of South Park)

Southpark was bad; it was crude, it relied on fart jokes and poos to make its humour; at this point everybody left it and tarred it for life.

After season 3 however, it did a u-turn. Matt and Tray themselves have admitted they felt the need to make a more relevant, intelligent and satirical humour.

Now in its 11th series, South Park is one of the funniest, and often most intelligent programmes on television. The average show only takes a week to make so it stays much more relevant and can deliver up to date satire at the drop of a hat.

Everything has evolved so much about the series now; that it is hardly recognisable as the same show in its early seasons. If you wrote SP off back in the day, you have to give it a chance again....you might be pleasantly surprised.


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Brilliant, clever humor.

Posted : 1 year, 9 months ago on 27 March 2008 08:12 (A review of South Park)

When South Park was first released it was just being dubbed as a "naughty cartoon" that had swear words and little point to it. This is not at all the case and sadly too many people are false in thinking it is.
I remember watching it as a young teen and thinking it was great with all the violence and swearing etc, and i spose i never really got it, because it IS for adults. Now im older i watch it and find a whole new level to it. The past 4 seasons have been absolutely brilliant, each episode having some kind of political underlay or some form of social/topical issue with a moral story/outcome at the end. It also deals with controversial issues in a hilarious fashion and gives a well thought out view on the argument at hand.
Now days people who seem to rate this show 1 star etc are just the very people who are believing the adverts you see on tv. They probably have never seen it, or have only watched very early episodes when the messages were less clear. South park is one of only a very few intelligent American tv shows i have seen, and i think it is great that it reinforces its intelligence by being delivered in such a way that ignorant people just do not get it. Your average Joe will watch an episode and think it is stupid, because they cant engage themselves. This is a truely great animation series, and i am very glad i began to watch it again! The proof of my words is in the fact it has lasted 12 seasons! 12 years of television is a very long time, and few shows ever get that far, is that not reason enough to reconsider your opinion?

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glibertarian agitprop with fart jokes

Posted : 2 years, 1 month ago on 19 November 2007 09:09 (A review of South Park)

The South Park formula:

1. Take a controversial political and/or social issue...
2. Exaggerate to absurdity both the liberal and conservative points of view on said issue...
3. ???
4. Profit!

It's cynical false equivocation masquerading as insightful commentary.

The overarching political philosophy of the show is that the world would be a better place if everyone would just mind their own damned business. As such, anyone who cares about their community and actually tries to do something about it is mocked and ridiculed as an idiotic busybody, at best.

That's not to say the show isn't entertaining- it is. The writing can be really quite clever at times, but the pox-on-both-their-houses politics are simpleminded and, ironically, smug.

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God did, when he killed my wife!

Posted : 2 years, 1 month ago on 15 November 2007 06:14 (A review of South Park)

I've always had a rocky relationship with South Park. When I was a young lad when it first aired, I liked it for all the wrong reasons. Poo & Fart Jokes were too easy back then for any early teen to pass up. I then went through a(/my) period of hating this show because it was such a stereotype of the people I knew and hated.

However, earlier this year I managed to watch episodes beyond the first 3 seasons and realised there was an actual message with each show. Politics and current issues wovern into the fabric of this satirical and cult classic masterpiece.

It still has a reliance on, as I dubbed it, 'w*nker humour' but the show has greater depths and there is usually a lot to learn from the morals of the stories. Most of the time, I read up on the events and issues brought forward in the show to expand my own understanding to make sure i'm not lead astray with the crazy happenings in Park County.

The intertextuality cannot be beaten. Every parody and reference is amazingly portrayed in a spectacular way that leaves you remembering the parody rather than the real media text. World of Warcraft, 300, Indiana Jones, Al Gore, Lord of the Rings, High School Musical and by far Imaginationland.

The timing of the episodes are unbeatable aswell. The recent "About Last Night..." was completed the day it aired which borders on miraculous on Stone and Parker's part. Although I don't like any of their other projects. South Park has been on too long to be soiled by anything else they have made.

Eric Cartmen is one of the greatest characters of television history. He owns every hateable trait humanly possible but seeing them all hosted by one individual makes an anomally that can only be described as legendary. Butters was also a great addition to the cast. His innocence and easily manipulated persona makes him pefect for the situations the boys get tangled up in.

Randy Marsh has also come along way in terms of character development. First being one of the 'parents' but flourishing into a comedy genius with his overreacting and outrageous stunts.

Fantastic!

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A service to the world

Posted : 2 years, 9 months ago on 8 March 2007 08:02 (A review of South Park)

The world would be a better place if the schools ? exibe ?(don´t know the word) south park as a obrigatory class.

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