Is it as bad as people say it is or is it just people being oversensitive?

Is it as bad as people say it is or is it just people being oversensitive?

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Bad about what?

I felt it was pretty pointless.
There were many south park episodes that successfully blended tragedy with humor (see : Kenny Dies) but there isn't even a single joke in that one.

The episode, Stanley's Cup. A lot of people complained about it, especially the ending.

Why?
What happened?

It's just people being over sensitive.

What's the big deal?

South Park's whole shtick for the past two decades has been to shock and offend. People should expect that by now.

It was just ribbing typical uplifting sports films, I guess there was trouble stretching it out to a half hour.

I liked it.

>Its as if his cancer is... tied

I think it was fucked up. I didn't find it funny.

People don't like this episode?

I liked the episode. I think many people often get so hung up on how stuff ends that they forget all the funny stuff they enjoyed before. As if every enjoyable moment retroactively becomes terrible.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley's_Cup

It's more or less a parody of sports films and tropes. Underdog teams, cancer patients, freeze-frames, and the like.

If I'm not wrong one of the kids was on the hospital, and Stanley's team lost and the kid died

If I remember correctly, a kid with cancer dies. His last wish was for Stan to have his team win the Hockey Game. Stan failed and the kid dies knowing this.

I was gonna tell you to just watch it, but then I remembered that southparkstudios is dead.

Basically they had Stan coach a peewee hockey team and in the end they... what's the word... did the opposite of the sports movie trope of the team winning in the end. The kids played against the professional team The something Redwings and literally got their asses kicked and one of the team members died in the hospital of cancer (because they lost). The end.

People had a problem with it being such a downer episode? That's the whole fucking point. I guess the problem is uplifting sports movies about underdogs aren't as prevalent these days, so it feels out of place. If it were am early series episode, nobody would've batted an eye at it.

It's not dead. I'm on the site right now.

>Southparkstudios is dead

What's hilarious is how they show it as an inspiring game for the Redwings. All the celebrating with bloodied kids beneath them.

It might as well be dead though
Hulu is cancer

southpark.cc.com/full-episodes/s10e14-stanleys-cup

I thought it was hilarious because it was so dark and depressing and Stan does everything wrong

At the ending I was pretty much pic related.

>Dark and depressing
Was I the only one laughing at the kids pain? I mean, if it were real kids, sure, but it's cartoon kids, they're not real. It's okay to laugh at cartoon children getting brutalized and dying of cancer, right?

Its okay, I thought it was too.

I also kinda imagine a lot of people that get upset over it miss the other half of the joke.

Yeah, it's dark and sad that the little cancer kid dies.
But at the same time, the opposing team is basically going full "We are the Champions" sports film ending with people reconciling and business being taken care of.

The point was that both sides had their own sports movie going on that we just didn't know about, and Stan's team wasn't the only one that really wanted to win.

haters gonna hate. I loved this episode

This.

No, the ending was pretty amusing there. But overall it was just kind of boring. It was a one note joke sort of episode, and most of it just wasn't all that entertaining. I didn't offend me or disgust me or upset me or anything. It just wasn't very good, and what made it not very good was intended.

The best scene in this episode was after the actual hockey team won and they all celebrated as if it was their hardest game ever.

>southpark.cc.com/full-episodes/s10e14-stanleys-cup

Wow. That is some real bullshit there.

I never had a problem with it

People are too sensitive

It's like they're asking me to just torrent the show.

*record scratch*

As a die-hard hockey fan, I loved the episode and callbacks to my time peewee hockey.

Plus, watching peewee players vs NHL'ers was hilarious.

I'm not an american - how many hours to next episode?

Seriously.

There should be some sort of catharsis to these kind of jokes.

Stan got seriously fucked there, easily rivaling douche and turd.

Someone should have shoved that portable disc player into the commisioners ass! He started all of that bullshit!

Oversensitive. Everyone finds South Park funny until it makes fun of something they enjoy or believe.

Sometimes a joke works because of how heinous it is. Seeing the kids bloodied and crying, especially "I hate you coach" just makes the other team's generic sports ending funnier.

The kid dying at the end is supposed to be that final "holy fuck" moment. It isn't even, in itself, meant to be funny.

It's not a tragedy, it's a parody.

Is it weird that I enjoy watching this show but don't find it funny, like the only time I laughed was when Mackey was shitting his pants and when that realistic looking monster ate Kenny in school and Cartman started crying about how poor his mom was

It varies from person to person. I mean, I can see what the joke is, I just didn't find it funny. Others do.

Also pointing out the absurd coincidences in these movies where the people playing/coaching always have some totally unrelated drama that gets resolved just around the same time that they manage to win the big game. The movies often imply the two are related.

So of course, the inverse must be true, right? You lose the big game, so your attempt to reunite with your estranged family fails, the dumb kid fails his final test, and the kid with the terminal illness doesn't get better.

Just keep telling yourself that. You're not being desensitized at all, faggot.

No you weren't, and yes it's perfectly fine and normal, because it's not real and the subverted expectations made it funny.

A lot of Sup Forums is just incredibly autistic when it comes to treating comics and cartoons and their characters as though they're real, like you should feel empathy with with fictional characters who can feel no pain, or treating lolicon as though it was actual child abuse.

Would you say this episode was mean spirited?

It turns out in the end, the big match was an uplifting story for the rival team. Remember when the hockey player is reconciling with his estranged father?

Stanley's Cup is the best episode of South Park.

Not really; We're not laughing at the kid, we're laughing at the absurdity of the situation and parody of sports film cliches.

i laughed at the unexpected plot twist

Detroit

I honestly thought it was really funny.

This was always my favorite episode. It was just so brutal. And pointless. Like live.

Life*

The only time violence against children is funny is when the target is either Cartman or Kenny.

Lol white knight.

>The only time violence against children is funny is when the target is either Cartman or Kenny

How many episodes does Cartman actually get his comeuppance in? I know there's some in the earlier seasons but it seems like all the new episodes have him getting away scott-free

Last year's season premiere had PCP beating Cartman to a pulp. The scene went on for like 5 minutes. The livethread was nuts.

i liked it

no real message but its funny parody about sports films

How long until the new season?

West coast user here, for me its a little over 4 hours from now.

OP was just a regular guy with everything going for him until one day

>record scratch

...he had to form an opinion for himself.

>cue upbeat music

Now this once lurking user is gonna go out of his way to search among his peers for acknowledgement and discussion as he unsuccessfully tries to form an unbiased opinion.

Coming this summer:

It Doesn't Matter If It's Bad As Long As You Get a Laugh Out of It
>Rated PG 13

Got a link to the livethread?

The latter. People on Sup Forums are notorious for being sensitive faggots, you should know that by now.

>ROB SCHNEIDER IS

Any descent to this opinion is an admission of this, no? PC season sucked ass and stanley's cup sucked ass. There is no joke.

This is Sup Forumsmblr after all.

a bad ending can ruin an otherwise good episode, it's like if you were enjoying a nice stew and then someone took a dump in it before you could finish it(and to make matters worse this episode wasn't even all that good before the ending)

honestly yes, people overuse that term, but it definitely fit with that episode

before 1% this was my least favorite, nothing about it was funny and the ending was fail

Boondocks did the plot better with their basketball episode, you know I'm right

>PC season sucked ass

It's not as good as it was, I miss when the comedy came from irreverent things over current events. Stuff like Robert Smith secretly being mothra, or the Loch-Ness Monster.

And not only that, but Cartman was too afraid of the power of PC to ruin lives to plot revenge.

There's no joke in the entire season. It's just SP characters mugging about internet shit with no punchline, and then the conclusion was "ads." Awful

Them constantly roasting Tom Brady in the season premire was hilarious. And the gags with Stan trying to shop at Whole Foods and endlessly being hit up for charity was hysterical.

And Leslie was kinda heartbreaking.

>There's no joke in the entire season.

Strawman arguments won't lead you anywhere, user.


Seriously, the internet would be so much better if people tried to be fair about shit instead of going hyperbole about and call it a day

You mean Randy

It used to be one of my favorite episodes but then I recently rewatched it last year and now I hate it. Huh.

The phrase is "straw man" and that's not a straw man argument.

>And Leslie was kinda heartbreaking.
The fact that her character wasn't even used and that ads weren't even mentioned until 2 (maybe) episodes before the finale makes the whole conclusion feel rushed. They clearly banked the entire season on Jerry Seinfeld-ing tumblr shit like safe spaces and lambasting PC ideals instead writing an actual plot. It's like if Orgazmo was just about a mormon doing porn and the characters reacting like "Huh, a mormon...doing porn...hmmm" for an entire season.

D'oh. Yeah, Stan.

>hating on Leslie

How could you?

It was a slow build through the entire season.

Matt and Trey go out of their way to stomp on sjw/bleeding heart libs so I'd say if it goes too far, that's the whole point.

>It was a slow build through the entire season.
It was a slow build to nothing then in the last episodes they did the whole blade runner with ads plot.

It was based off of Ex Machina (with ads) if anything.

It was funny

>We're deader than Steve Irwin in a tank of stingrays
>No... nooo... *flatlines*
>Estranged father and son are reunited out of nowhere at the end
>STAN MARSH WAS AN AVERAGE BOY...
I fucking love this episode.

You sounded like you were going to make a good point then ended with a shit analogy which are often tiresome and stupid (ironically proving your point about how the end can ruin something)

That Safe Space episode layed it on really fucking thick. It was ok but it left a weird taste in my mouth.

And people enjoy this?

Reality was one of the funniest bits I've seen on South Park.

>asking this in a South Park thread

People complained about this episode? It was hilarious. It's so over the top how the fuck can people be offended.