South Park

When did Zombie South Park start?

People here still seem to care about new South Park episodes whereas nobody even watches new Simpsons episodes

Zombie South Park been going since about season 15. It's just zombie South Park is still less shit than most else.

it didn't

it was always like this to certain people, you just became one of those people

Touché
t. not even OP

Word

I randomly stopped watching in the middle of season 12 but at the time I thought it was good. Never bothered to catch up but my friend who still watches it tells me it was exactly the time when it went to shit. Though I watched Black Fridady/Game of Thrones episode sbefore playing The Stick of Truth and thought they were the usual quality, pretty funny.

About 3-4 million people tune in every night

It's hard to say. Like The Simpsons, it had its golden years in the first 9 seasons, but even after that it still had some good episodes here and there.

I wanna say it started going zombie when they started really getting political and focusing on stories that weren't really about the town so much as what kind of movie/current event parody they could force in, so probably around season 15. Literally the only good episode in that one was The Poor Kid.

>started getting political
So season 1?

>dissing on season 10
>one of the best seasons

Tell that to the Animation Domination threads.

You're retarded if you think there isn't an obvious difference in quality between the last several seasons and the first ones. The funniest episodes of this current season are nothing compared to what Matt and Trey were putting out in the show's golden years.

I said REALLY getting political. Anything in the earlier seasons even when the Iraq war was in full swing didn't have as much weight as some of the episodes they do now. And more importantly, political satire seems to be all they do these days.

It's kind of like nuSNL, though Matt and Trey seem to be slowly making an effort to get away from that.

When the "Imaginationland" Arc did not include a scene of Anime Prof. Chaos facing off against Butters.

I'd say it started going that way around season 15, but it REALLY kicked in at Season 18. The goddamn Lorde arc was almost as bad as Season 20.

Politics these days really do dominate everything though. Maybe it's just rose tinted glasses, but politics really do seem to be getting worse and worse over time and now everything is toxic and depressing and EVERYWHERE.

It's hardly Southpark's fault in that regard.

After Ass-Burgers. Writers don't wanna keep working in South Park but they don't know if they will have another hit so they keep working in South Park.

season 18

>Zombie South Park
Fuck off

I enjoy episodes from every season, laugh out loud while watching it, love discussing it with others, tune in for every premier and adore the cast.

Never went zombie to me. Everyone has different tastes, opinions, expectations, etc.

My greatest 2 complaints are continuity and randy.

Never did. Unlike the Simpsons and Family Guy, the creators continue investing care and refuse going through the motions. In fact, pic related is the antithesis of zombification, because although season 20 was bad, a genuinely zombified series would never dare to approach season-long experimentation. So conflating a downhill slide (which is inevitable for a two-decade-long series) with the outright slapdash, factory-line production the term implies is fallacious.

There's more to a zombie show than just running for a really long time. People call it Zombie Simpsons because the original writers and directors have long left the show, whereas South Park's still written by Trey after all this time.

This. There is more to a show turning zombie than "I think it used to be better"

South Park is pretty hit and miss now, but that's still way better than a lot of other shows.

I'm in that small group of viewers who have zero interest in Matt and Trey's many intellectually shallow thoughts on politics, only watched the 'nerd' episodes like the World of Warcraft one when I was younger because my family played WoW and DnD and tabletop games together and it was bonding, and genuinely only am interested in the show as an eccentric exploration of what a lot of bored little kids get up to in a mid-sized town in the American Rockies. Frankly, this season has been full of weak attempts at reconciling their political reputation, but its also had some seamless blending of those attempts with simply really good episodes about a strange little town to have a time in. Put it Down and the Hummels episode both captured a certain emotionally timely essence for times that don't feel certain, yet still having a lot of goofiness. Heidi is a particularly fascinating character to have undergone so much recent development -- I think she first was a major player of a kind in Majorinne, since it was her sleepover? The arcs of secondary kids are slowburn but can create some interesting characters.


It's repeatedly been stated Ass-Burgers was not metacommentary on the state of the show. While Matt and Trey have a tendency to shoot their mouths, when an episode has been broadly misinterpreted, they don't make their thoughts quiet.

When you got out of middle school and realized South Park is shit.

i cannot unthink this

Let me guess, you have a very high IQ to understand shows like Rick and Morty?

Rick and Morty has incredible visual crafting and absolutely moronic showrunners.

The fact that we're on Sup Forums is a sign that no one here has ever really gotten out of middle school, dude.

Simpsons >South Park > Rick and Morty > Zombie South Park > Zombie Simpsons

user, Rick and Morty's third season was even worse than South Park's twentieth. Hell, zombie Simpsons episodes were funnier than some of Rick's episodes this year.

You're objectively wrong.

Wrong.
South Park >> Simpsons > Zombie South Park > Rick and Morty >>>>> Zombie Simpsons.

Venture Bros>all

When Kenny died "the final time" and left the show for a while.

You know what, i'm GLAD that South Park is on ~~zombie state~~ if it means people like you get triggered over this

I wonder what Kenny was up to during that time.

Probably chilling in Heaven for a bit, enjoying himself. Free from most concerns and woes.

I hope he fucked all the silly bitches. Best boy deserves it.

Do you think Kenny's powers are something he can eventually learn to control?

What is there to control? If you mean choosing to stay dead, I doubt it.

I mean he's the son of an eldritch horror. Maybe his powers go beyond simply not being able to die.

South Park transcends Zombification. By all rights it should have gone zombie in Season 6 but then Butters was made a main character giving it a second wind. There was a bit of a lull from S12-S17 save for the double/trilogy episodes, but it picked back up again since S18. S20 was somewhat of a dip in quality again but S21 has so far been stellar.

>Implying his attempts wouldn't just make things *Worse*.
The Outer Gods would probably take that as a challenge and just fuck him over out of spite.

I don't think they'd care if Cthulhu's personality is anything to go by.

Those aren't people frienderino

Zombie South Park started after Season 1 if we're being honest.
They started relying on current events and threw away any attempt at originality.

When they started making fun of my newly acquired political opinions from the reddit board.

i dont know user,last two seasons of venture bros werent that great,i particulary disliked the last one,it felt short and they never did anything with those superheroes they introduced

Maybe some of them would care.
>A certain "father" of a certain squid-headed demon god hears about his son having spawned.
>Thinks nothing of it at first.
>Then hears that his son did the deed with a human.
>Rockets towards Earth immediately.
>In South Park, it's just the usual, with wacky shenanigans all around and Cartman being Cartman.
>Especially so with the McCormicks, who are barely scraping by as usual, and are fighting amongst each other as expected.
>Suddenly a giant "thing" falls from the sky and demolishes their house.
>All: The FUCK!!!?
>Suddenly the mass unfurls and reveals a......"mass" of black tentacles, teeth, bulbous eyes, and dripping mandibles that directly hurts to look at for too long.
>Worst of all; It Speaks.
>"GREETINGS YOUNGLINGS. I AM NUG, FIRST-BORN OF THE BLACK GOAT, FATHER OF THE YELLOW KING, LORD OF GHOULS, DEVOURER OF HOPE AND PROGENITOR OF THE DREAD ONE YOU MAY KNOW AS CTHULHU. I HAVE HEARD THAT MY USELESS SON HAS SPAWNED WITH A HUMAN HARLOT, AND THUS HAVE I COME TO MEET AND OBSERVE MY GRANDSON. WHICH OF YOU MAY THAT BE?"
>Kenny is screaming.

FUND IT

I feel like drawing this.

Kenny's poverty and the fact he's the fucking son of creatures straight outta Lovecraftian lore is so interesting. Why can't Matt and Trey give more spotlight to him?

Because he's not Randy or Butters. Kenny's probably the most interesting character with the most potential for a wide variety of stories, but that would require them to get serious and put forth more effort.

I really hope Matt and Trey do more stuff with Kenny and his eldritch parentage. There's just SO much potential there, and it would be a shame if it was completely wasted.

Dooooooooo iiiiiiiiittt.

So Stuart is not Kenny's dad?

fpbp

If you think nuSouth Park is anywhere near zombie-show tier you're retarded.

Kenny and his sister melt my heart. She's a sweetie and the whole foods episode is one of the best for how human kenny felt and that wonderful moment with him just trying to make his little sister feel a little happier. he's a good little kid.

He's Kenny's human parent, and is likely the reason Kenny doesn't look like a mish-mash of demonic body-parts and tentacles, but he isn't Kenny's *direct* parent, nor is he why Kenny keeps on reviving without end. That "honor" goes to the Big C Himself.

Show was much worse few seasons before Memberberies.

Are we sure Cthulhu is the dad and not some other cosmic horror creature? for all we know, the dad could be Pennywise

>trying to give south park DEEPEST LORE
fuck off. there's a good reason that they dropped all the superhero plotlines after Coon vs. Coon and Friends.

Season 10 or so.

>Being tihs easily triggered.
"FLESHLETS, WHEN WILL THEY *EVER* LEARN?"

He's been slacking off lately though.

>dropped the superhero plotlines
>interrupted good episodes this season to have a dull zuckerberg joke supporting an advertisement for an ENTIRE VIDEO GAME OF SUPERHERO PLOTLINES

you on some dumb shit bruh

But Mysterion appeared a season later.

no, stop... its just until they finish playing superheroes he'll be home soon.... don't do this to me user

But Kenny's plotline has nothing to do with him being a superhero but rather an immortal being which also explains the longest running gag of SP. They could definitely work on some shit regarding that.

What do you think
>HE'S
>HARDLY
>EVER
>HERE
>ANYMORE
Means, user? Kenny's getting detached

I'M NOT LISTENING

ACCEPT IT

KENNY DEEP IN HIS HEART CARES ABOUT HIS SISTER HE'S JUST GROWING UP AND THINGS ARE CONFUSING WHEN YOU'RE A TEN YEAR OLD WHO CAN'T DIE

i mean, he's still objectively the best mccormick brother, whats their big brother ever done, like, ever

>It's repeatedly been stated Ass-Burgers was not metacommentary on the state of the show.

That's trash it's obvious what is thinking the writter behind this episode. But people may criticized their work after that episode saying that they don't even try to make it a good show anymore.

Yeah I lived it. When I was younger I thought that South Park was a really cool series but now I has come to understand that this show was ever REALLY gay and It was written by gay people. And I hate it, I really hate it; and now I ask myself how couldn't notice it before?

I dislike Rick and Morty but I dislike South Park too.

well, he stills congratulates you for giving Karen her doll back and if you're a girl he says something like "You remind me of my sister, I have this weird urge to protect you" so he's still there. He just needs to spend more time at home.

Rick and Morty is honestly boring though. At least you can laugh at south park.

Dude Ass-Burgers is arguably one of the most STRAIGHTFORWARD episodes of South Park. Matrix parodies with alcoholism aren't that complicated.

I'm legit surprised they haven't used Nyarlathotep yet.

It didn't.

Honestly, it seems like you mentally regressed, judging by you calling them gay and writing words in all caps.

Season 7 with Butt Out was when Matt and Trey first blatantly inserted their personal politics (i.e. smoking) into South Park, along with The Death Camp of Tolerance in Season 6. Overall, Season 10-13, while still having stellar episodes, contributed more to politics and parody rather than just following the boys doing shit. Still a general overall good quality, but it doesn't really have much of the heart that the original 1-4 seasons did, as much of a shitty vague buzzword that "heart" sounds like. Season 19-21 was when it hit peak zombie, using characters like Jimmy to suddenly soapbox anti-PC and anti-Ad content or using Mimsy to turn Nathan's comment about wanting to get laid into something about the recent issue of women getting harassed by men in positions of power in Hollywood. Now the show has mostly lost its original twisted flair in favor of force political commentary. There's still decent eps like Hummels and Heroine and the overall quality is still decent, but it's as tainted as Post-Season 8 Simpsons were, and it can easily go downhill form here.

There's also nothing wrong with being a little gay.

Season 19 was great.

I have decided to write more about this. Here you go, Anons.
>"IT IS MOST STRANGE, CHILD. YOU ARE POSSESSED OF KIN, AND YET YOU CHOOSE NOT TO DEVOUR THEM AND BOLSTER YOUR OWN DARK MIGHT. WHY?"
>Kenny: Listen.......'Grandad'. I'm not going to eat my own fucking siblings. Sure, shit could be better, but they're still family.
>"YOU ARE MOST ODD, KE'NN'YITH. TRULY, YOU WILL BE GREATLY UNIQUE WHEN THE TIME COMES."
>Kenny: ......When the "time" comes for what?
>"WHY, WHEN TIME COMES TO CEASE THIS TRIVIAL EXISTENCE AND ASCEND TO REIGN WITHIN THE DARK COURT OF THE DAEMON SULTAN, CHILD. I THOUGHT THIS WAS OBVIOUS."
>Kenny begins to scream once more.
>"PERHAPS I SHOULD HAVE OFFERED TO ALLOW HIS FLESH-KIN TO JOIN HIM?"

They've soapboxed anti-PC behavior and anti-ad content since season 1, user. Like in the Mr. Hankey episode where they mocked all the people who thought Christmas was offensive, or Death where they made fun of soccer moms for calling TV shows offensive, or in Starvin Marvin where they mocked the Save the Children commercials. You're acting like these are new elements in South Park instead of things that have been there since the beginning.

I love it. Get to it, faggots

There's a difference when characters like Sheila were built from the ground up to be an overreactive mom and when characters like Jimmy are used out of character to talk down to the opposing topic as a mouthpiece. It's about actual execution and implementation, and Season 19-21 have been mostly flopping at that. Like, take my other example of Mimsy. There's a difference between Season 18 where he talks about the way that Taxis could be improve their business when it's part of the plot compared to Season 21 where he'll drop a comment about Nathan not "abusing his position of power" when it actually has no bearing on what his goal is and the plot.

How is Jimmy being anti-PC out of character? He makes lewd jokes all the time, and called the Crips negroes in that Kripples episode.

Maybe I don't expressed myself correctly. That episode is great, really great, Ass-Burgers is my favorite episode and probably the best one, they will never make a better conclusion to the series. But the writers deny Stan's behaviour as a reference to they being tired of work in the show because people would criticized for "these writers don't even try it anymore".

Again, it's about implementation and execution than how it is on paper. Namely, Jimmy being aggressive and condescending rather than being passive and friendly. Like Mimsy, it's taking an established character trait but using in a way that's out of character or without relevance in order to be a mouthpiece. Not to say Jimmy hasn't been a bit aggressive, such as his initial appearance in Season 5, but it's either an exception or a result of escalation, rather than the general rule.

So TweakxCraig thread now then?

But are Trey and Matt really the same people after all this time?

faggot

It's time.

>gets his daughter to say "You're a fat bitch. Suck my balls" in a recording booth
Yeah.

Are you gay?