TV: South Park Season 21

[John Price]

South Park Season 21 set to start on September 23, 2017

http://southpark.cc.com/blog/2017/07/06/south-park-returns-for-season-21

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[Deen]

Hope they ditch the season long format and go back to individual episodes.

 

[Dipsy Doodle]

I've been more excited about TV this year than I've been for a long time.

Twin Peaks return
Curb return
Game of Thrones getting real
South Park
Last Week Tonight
Ash vs. Evil Dead

That's some quality programming.

 

[Tkachuk4MVP]

Hope they ditch the season long format and go back to individual episodes.

Heard an interview with Trey Parker on the Nerdist podcast and he hinted that this would be the case.

 

[CokenoPepsi]

South Park jumped the shark along time ago but it is still able to put out some gold here and there.

However I am glad it seems they are getting rid of the continuing storyline angle because it has become clear Matt n Trey are not that great at telling one, some ideas are good but they almost always fall on their face.

 

[Steazy Doo]

I liked the Lorde running gag. PC principal was good too. The whole troll thing last season wasn't that good though

 

[The Imp]

Hit Trump. Hard. Repeatedly.

Then I'll be happy.

 

[canuckster19]

I liked the Lorde running gag. PC principal was good too. The whole troll thing last season wasn't that good though

Probably cause they didn't know what the hell to do after Trump won, they probably wrote a bunch of good stuff for a Hillary win. Like what happened to the Memberberries? That whole thing just fell off a cliff after Trump won.

 

[Big Poppa Puck]

Hit Trump. Hard. Repeatedly.

Then I'll be happy.

I think they've said they're going to avoid that for the most part after having what was basically an entire season (2 seasons really) on him/the election. (Could be wrong though) They also said they didn't expect Trump to win and it threw everything off last season.

I'm sure we'll get a throw away joke or 3 but I doubt there will be any Trump-centric episodes.

 

[USC Trojans]

Last season almost made me give up on the show.
I hope they ditch the season arc and go back to the single episodes

 

[Stylizer1]

I am tired of hearing about Trump on any show and hope the use other topics. It is never good comedy, just cheap laughs when people talk Trump..

 

[McGuires Corndog]

Last season almost made me give up on the show.
I hope they ditch the season arc and go back to the single episodes

Same.

Last season was the worst season in a long time, if not ever. It's kind of a **** off because it seemed like the show had been finding its groove again the 2-3 seasons before.

I'm a huge fan and I'll ultimately still watch, but I'm definitely hoping for a return to the previous less-continuality version.

 

[Devourers]

Same.

Last season was the worst season in a long time, if not ever. It's kind of a **** off because it seemed like the show had been finding its groove again the 2-3 seasons before.

I'm a huge fan and I'll ultimately still watch, but I'm definitely hoping for a return to the previous less-continuality version.

I know I'm in the minority but I actually preferred last season over the previous one. Characters like PC Principle are okay in small doses like other one-off types you see now and again but having an entire season dedicated to his antics put me off. I actually much preferred Gerald the Troll > PC Principle storylines.

 

[M.C.G. 31]

The creators hinted that it's tiring keeping the season long thing going and they'll be fun, individual episodes again, from what I read (iirc). I hope it's the case because that's the South Park I fell in love with a very, very long time ago.

 

[BondraTime]

I still bust out laughing when the Troll that finds out whoGerald is, is telling him about his mom being a midget and his dad a giant. I literally cried when I saw Gerald's reaction, it was the exact same as mine.

 

[Diddy]

I am tired of hearing about Trump on any show and hope the use other topics. It is never good comedy, just cheap laughs when people talk Trump..

Agreed. We get it, he's orange, has bad hair, and uses twitter. Idk what anyone finds funny about it anymore.
I'll be glad once the season long arc is gone. I have up on it last year.

 

[Lost Horizons]

I am tired of hearing about Trump on any show and hope the use other topics. It is never good comedy, just cheap laughs when people talk Trump..

Trey Parker on giving voice to 'Despicable Me 3' villain, mulling the end of 'South Park' and ignoring Trump

“South Park” turns 20 this year. Has it gotten harder over those years to do satirical comedy, especially now that everyone on the Internet can make their own jokes off the latest news within seconds?

Yeah, and it’s also just gotten boring. We weren’t ever really that show. We would do an entire season and there would be one moment that played off something that had just happened and people would go, “ ‘South Park’ is the show that does that.” And that’s just not true. We’re not.

We did start to become that, though, especially the last season. We fell into the same trap that “Saturday Night Live” fell into, where it was like, “Dude, we’re just becoming CNN now. We’re becoming: ‘Tune in to see what we’re going to say about Trump.’ ” Matt and I hated it but we got stuck in it somehow.

This season I want to get back to Cartman dressing up like a robot and [screwing] with Butters, because to me that’s the bread and butter of “South Park”: kids being kids and being ridiculous and outrageous but not “did you see what Trump did last night?” Because I don’t give a ... anymore.

We probably could put up billboards — “Look what we’re going to do to Trump next week!” — and get crazy ratings. But I just don’t care.


Do you think Trump is funny?

He’s not intentionally funny but he is intentionally using comedic art to propel himself. The things that we do — being outrageous and taking things to the extreme to get a reaction out of people — he’s using those tools. At his rallies he gets people laughing and whooping.

I don’t think he’s good at it. But it obviously sells — it made him president.

After so many years of doing “South Park,” do you and Matt have an end point in your heads for the show?

Every year in the middle of the season, we say, “OK, this is it.” And we really thought that two seasons ago when we were doing all the PC Principal stuff. We were like, “This is it — we’re going to get run out of town with our middle finger up.” Because we felt the culture changing, and I think it still is on that track.

The witch hunt is coming. Our day is coming. One of these days, out of nowhere, we’ll do something and they’ll go, “How dare you!” — and we’ll be done.

But what people don’t realize is, we’ve thought this for 20 years. We’ve been ready for it. Our bags are packed in the car and we’re ready to go back to Colorado. And it’s cool, man.

 

[Spring in Fialta]

The creators hinted that it's tiring keeping the season long thing going and they'll be fun, individual episodes again, from what I read (iirc). I hope it's the case because that's the South Park I fell in love with a very, very long time ago.

Same. The most inane épisodes are the best with Casa Bonita being the all-time greatest.

 

[Peanut]

Same. The most inane épisodes are the best with Casa Bonita being the all-time greatest.

Asspen was always my fav

 

[CokenoPepsi]

Stan Marsh? Stan DARSH is more like it.

 

[aleshemsky83]

Hope they ditch the season long format and go back to individual episodes.

They did (see: Last episode of season 20s title), and its better that way. Season 20 was probably the worst season of south park by a country mile.

South Park has always had season long gags or loose story threads but last year they pushed it a bit too far.

 

[Big Poppa Puck]

Stan Marsh? Stan DARSH is more like it.

If you french fry when you should pizza you're gonna have a bad time.

 

[CycloneLaunch]

I'm glad they're doing an Awesom-o sequel, one of my favourite episodes.

 

[Supermassive]

They completely botched the "Mr. Garrison as Trump" opportunities. It had such incredible potential to be taken in weird new directions, and they reduced him to a bystander. Glad they're ditching it and going back to basics.

 

[RandV]

Not sure if they want to go there, but if they want to do something recent without getting into Trump they could always get Cartman dressing up as Hitler again.