Which episode was the beginning of the end for south park?

They still like the music, since they did that with Marc Shaiman

S12E10 - The pandemic.
Most of the material before this episode is still quite good, but this episode marks a noticeable shift in story writing and none of the episodes after this ever return to the wit and morals of the previous episodes. It's like Matt & Trey decided to step away from the show.

Source: have seen every episode atleast 100 times.

When Randy became the main character. If you like Randy, you should kill yourself.

crappy animation was literally half the show's soul, i hate them so much

It's even more insane when they made the episode shitting on Spielberg and Lucas for fucking with their old films. Hell they even had a part in that same episode where Matt and Trey parody it with the whole remaster of the first episode.
Harvey Dent was right.

>Seasons 3 - 8 was kino. The next 10 seasons was a mixed bag. Everything after 17 has been a trainwreck.
Are you talking about South Park or The Simpsons?

2012 election episode. It was at that point when everyone became aware of how the show was produced and they got too up their own asses.

not verbatim

Tegridy farms. Randy is the Joey of South Park now.

Sorry. I meant the 2008 election. I just couldn't wrap my head around the show ranging from mediocre to bad for that long.