You can make a point to a flaw making them insuferable to the point you as a viewer actually cant stand them then your not enjoying it anymore. It just wasnt funny it was just a weird wtf filler episode.
Just annoying for me. I dont find it funny . The characters are supposed to be annoying but the wrote it to be like ACTUALLY annoying. Its more a chore to watch for me personally
And i love older south park i think first few seasons have a charm. Just cant stand this ep
I think people forget that the episode was intentionally irritating and it was a very thinly veiled shot at Jar Jar Binks. Still, it's annoying AF and I never go back to it. Kinda like the Prequels.
The ending is great! It's a nod to a short story valled The Lottery by Shirley Jackson. Had totally forgotten about reading it in HS and then this episode reminded me of it.
It’s so crazy I was randomly in Walmart thinking about this exact scene and i couldn’t stop laughing. People were looking at me funny but I didn’t care. Kyle BEGGED for the vanilla paste and dude just chose what he wanted anyway 😂
I think it’s a love or hate episode. I love it, but I love hockey and 90s sports movies. It seems to be maybe the most divisive episode in the show that I can think of.
Back when I was 12 I spent a week with my cousins in the summer of 2001. One evening I convinced my pastor uncle to watch the new South Park episode assuring him it wasn’t nearly as bad as the news made the show out to be. That episode was Scott Tenorman Must Die. He didn’t talk to me the rest of the week and I’ve actively skipped that episode ever since.
I’m sure the episode is great outside that lens but I just can’t separate it from that memory burned into my brain
I watched it with my fun aunt and she was losing her mind laughing at how ridiculous it was. The next episode I watched with her was the Paris Hilton episode years later and she lost her mind again!
My husband and I recently went canyoning in Colorado (I know not ziplining), and halfway through he just looked at me deadpan, and said ‘I’M SO FUCKING BORED!’
It was hilarious and I love this episode simply for the delivery of that line 😂
Long story short, the zip line episode is one of those rare South Park episodes where the satire completely overstays its welcome. The joke is that the boys are trapped in an unbelievably boring experience, but instead of making that boredom funny, the episode spends so much time recreating it that you start feeling trapped too. The live-action nature documentary segments, endless descriptions of mundane events, and repetitive pacing all feel intentionally tedious. You can appreciate what the writers were trying to do, but a joke about boredom still has to be entertaining. By the end, it feels less like you’re watching South Park make fun of a bad vacation and more like you’re actually stuck on that vacation with no way off the ride. Long story short, the episode succeeds so well at portraying a miserable experience that it ends up becoming one itself.
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But what the boys don't realize is that a massive storm is brewing. Last night, Eric Cartman had kung pao spaghetti from California Pizza Kitchen. Inside Eric's stomach, the kung pao has just met with the Del Taco he ate for breakfast. It has already started to tear down the layers of barbeque BK toppers that have been building up for months. And now, to compensate for all the annoying tourists, Eric is ingesting massive amounts of Mountain Dew. The caffeine and sugar turn the soupy fast-food liquid in his stomach into a toxic gas. When the gas is released, it carries with it tiny particles of Eric's fecal matter. Fecal matter which floats up and into Kyle's nasal passage.
By the end, it feels less like you’re watching South Park make fun of a bad vacation
More than likely what happened.
Trey is known to take the writing team on group outings. Bill Hader talked about going randomly one day to a fish farm and that is where the fish sticks joke came from. Towelie was also an outcome of the writing team going on a boat trip.
I bet they went on a zipline tour and it was an absolute slog to get through. The best zipline tours are the ones where the spots are connected to eachother or within minimum walking distance of eachother. However, a lot of them are an hour of driving to the first location. Spending 30 minutes to get everyone through the first zipline. Getting back in a van, driving 20 minutes and repeat.
Long story short: yes. I started with “long story short” because I thought it would be funny to spend three paragraphs explaining why an episode about a boring, drawn-out experience is a boring, drawn-out experience. If you felt trapped halfway through and started wondering when it would end, then the comment successfully captured the essence of the episode. Long story short, I regret nothing.
I noticed as i was growing up you could kinda see the show grow up. My assumption was we were seeing the world through trey n matts minds.
So ghat episode where everything sucks kinda hits home as you get older and for its itd the begining of the shows step into less...fun stuff and more politcal or topical coments
I don't know if I agree with the second half of your comment. The show has always been full of political and topical commentary; It was just a little more over the top or surreal in the early seasons.
Do you mean “You’re Getting Old”? I know it’s a favorite around here but I always skip that one, can’t stand the constant shitting sounds and depressive tone.
Ms Garrison's Fancy New Vagina is such a crazy episode lol. The real footage of surgery is gross, but I find Gerald's dolphin formation, and Kyle's negroplasty more disturbing for some reason. I think it's the dark bags under the eyes that unsettle me.
I rewatch an episode before bed most nights and I skipped that episode last night! I save the holiday ones for the holidays. Kind of makes them special to that time of the year.
The one with Indiana Jones. I’ve only seen it once because it makes me so uncomfortable. Also, the one with Mr. Adler where he keeps having the flashbacks, that one is so annoying.
Yeah I’ve only rewatched it a couple times. Sometimes I want to watch it for the Butters/Cartman storyline but I just can’t. If I’m watching the show to fall asleep I’ll make sure to play an episode far away from it because I don’t want to wake up and see Indiana Jones being sexually assaulted
I watched the entire series feom S1E1 through the last episode from the most recent season. I don't think theres a memorable episode from that time frame- and I've been a fan since the 3rd or 4th episode of the 1st season
Le petit Tourette is one of my favorite episodes and I watch it until the endless string of dudes shooting themselves. My brother committed suicide ny gun, though, so it fucks with me. I dont watch the Brittneys New Look either.
Jackovasaur (or however you spell it), ziplining and Mr. Hankey. But to be fair I don't skip them per se, but when I'm binge watching I'll go take care of some chores or errands while they are playing.
Overall though, probably since like season 18 or so, for me the show has gone from having bangers throughout the entire seasons, to just having like 2-3 good episodes. Maybe that's just me getting older though
Nope. I love it all, I am genuinely of the opinion South Park remained consistently good, like I'd say my lowest point is S21 but even then I can watch every episode and still enjoy them
The last 2 seasons, you can tell they were just pumping out episodes to get out of their contract. A few funny episodes sprinkled in but overall really weak compared to previous seasons
Personally that episode fascinates me. It's brutal & depressing but I could write an essay analyzing it atp. The best part is Kyle's speech at the end.
So on series that are episodic, and you can skip. I pick a level for the rating and only watch shows above that rating. 80% for XFiles rewatch recently.
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