When did South Park stopped being based?

its golden era is well behind it but it hasn't stopped being consistently good yet
name a better south park song than the one from that episode

what is going on here?

They make fun of everyone though.

What is this shit? It's clearly a rip off of the hit show "Non-Family."

World War Zimmerman

Fuck that episode was legit funny with that rape scene and Bin Laden scene. I wish they would start making episodes like that again. Instead we get fuck bullish episodes about “muh sjw, muh Trump, muh school shootings, muh trannies, muh gentrification, muh weed, muh sexism, muh terrorists” Like dumb niggers, we don’t watch entertainment shows to see shit about IRL things happening, we watch them to escape from the shitty reality.

After Imaginationland or so. By 2015, or whenever they started the PC principal shit it was stale and dead.

I think everyone has a specific year/season/episode. For me it was around Season 13 in '09 when I realized it just wasn't the same, or funny. 'Pinewood Derby' and then 'Fatbead' were the last episodes I exceptionally enjoyed because it caught that feeling of old SP where the kids end up in a really ridiculous situation, without much reliance on poor jokes and pop culture, and was actually pretty funny. But that was the last one, and the season finale convinced me it wasn't the same and I sort of dropped it after that.

Real question is what's the worst South Park episode? Cause a lot of the newer seasons are pretty bad.

>but it hasn't stopped being consistently good yet

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this but I do kinda like PC Principal in the few clips I've seen

It's been said here and elsewhere on this board a million times before. Now if you weren't an election tourist/underage faggot you would know. Now move along and post this on ifunny or wherever you insufferable faggots gather

Apparently you've never been to a public pool in the last 20 years.

It's hard to do a satire show when the culture you are satirizing is super gay and boring.

That episode was one of the first I actually saw (I didn’t watch SP till Middle School) and I remember thinking it was hilarious. It’s still great. But you’re right that newer episodes suck because they always have to tackle what’s in the news. Older episodes did to a lesser extent and commented on popular things (Jersey Shore) but the jokes came first.

>Name a better South Park song
Too Many Minorities was funny but pretty much all of them from the movie are actually exceptionally good.

When the culture overtook the boomers writing this shit.

Fatbeard is fucking hilarious

This.

Like how fucking hard is to write episode plots that are completely out of the top and not about things happening IRL or about fucking pop culture?? Just make the kids do stupid shit like the one we’re they LARPED LoTr or the one where jimmys gets a boner and needs to find a prostitute to get laid, or the one were they are music agents and have a shout-out with the Chinese mafia.

golly it looks like al gore was right after all!

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You don't like the minorities in my water park song?

Trey and Matt somehow salvaged this show when every other older adult comedy turned into trash. new seasons aren't even that bad, that Christmas drunk driving episode was hilarious

kek

When you stopped being 12 years old.

>name a better south park song than the one from that episode
I've Got Something In My Front Pocket For You
or even the hillbillies' song that same episode

Wasn’t the show originally about kids doing adult stuff but seeing it through their childish lenses?

Season 11 episode 5

>Imaginationland
I liked this when I was younger, but going back to it, it's boring. Not that bad, just boring.

>the kids end up in a really ridiculous situation
This is where the soul lies

i catch myself singing that a lot

Major cope.

The cop episode and anime one are the best for that reason

That's the most fair inflection point. The episode was funny, but it was clear after that they were just LA liberals who had totally lost their voice. Slight redemption arc with PC Principal. They just don't get Trump, but no GenXer who was cool does.

BEST SOUTH PARK SONG COMING THROUGH PLEB
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I thought it was a legit song until 2 weeks ago

Based south park dabbing on zogland

Yeah, the problem is this was always the center while pop culture and other shit were the side bars holding it up and the ending common sense lesson was a nice decorative cherry on top. At some point the celebrity/current event/pop culture stuff supplanted the kids themselves and the common sense was lost. Like I remember celebrities back in the early seasons but they were there to help in the joke and ended up in crazy situation, like Barbara Streisand turning into Mecha-Godzilla and fighting that guy from The Cure.

>You got weapons too? Where'd you get those?
>From the nice guy at the county fair. At first he said we needed out parent's permission, but then we told him our parents were dead
>Aw man now every douchebag in town has ninja weapons lame!
Shit was great

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That one episode about Stan growing up and moving on. That would have been a great last episode.

Yup

exactly at season 20 after PC Principal Final Justice. It becomes distinctively shitty to watch from that point on. Season 19 was weak on its own but 20 onwards is simply impossible to watch also stick of truth is playable but fractured asshole is unplayable

I just want the four main kids in absurd situations with them raging, laughing, teasing each other and hurling curse words at each other.

Despite being genuinely great episodes on their own, I consider "Scott Tenorman Must Die" (S05E03) and "Trapped in the Closet" (S09E12) to be the earliest 'landmark' episodes in that negative sense.

When was it at its most based?
For me, it's season four

1999

>name a better south park song than the one from that episode
Up There. it's not even a contest.

>Scott Tenorman Must Die
What reason for this? I understand Trapped In The Closet was a tipping point where their pop culture references started getting distracting

For me, it's season 8, pre-school to be exact

Mr. Garrison but a Trump guy

When they stopped writing episodes with multiple plots. Which is after Scott Tenorman must die.

>Parker and Stone had also cited this episode as a milestone in the writing of South Park, as the first episode to only have a single plot, without another subplot (that is, a B story or even a C story) to support the episode

Therefore, if a plot sucks, the entire episode sucks which is modern South Park's most glaring flaw.

>I'm now reminded of them trying to do the Mexican Joker episode
Good God how they've fallen.

Didnt bother me too much because it had Caitlyn Jenner running over people after saying "buckle up buckaroo".

At a certain point they kind of lost touch with reality. The entire shtick was "ridiculous shit happens but they handle it from kids' perspective." But now shit got very meta now, for example in "good times with weapons" it's just kids obsessing over cool weapons untill shit gets real when they fuck up Butters' eye. These are things that could really happen to kids and episodes revolving that kid shit are gold, whereas when things get too political and superlative it loses touch.

Mostly the flanderization of Cartman, in that episode alone instantly going from being a basic shitty fat kid to being le epic evil psychopath

>they completely abandoned the 'I've learned something today' wrap-up joke despite it usually holding a pretty good or common sense message.
Fuck that hurts. I don't even know when or why they stopped doing that.

Everyone's become flanderized in some way, though some more than others. Just look at Randy, the new chosen main character.

I love that sound

Yeah but Cartman has always been insufferable, but it was satisfying seeing him get what was coming to him.
Now he's even more insufferable and it seems like he wins in the end at least half the time.

You're Getting Old was when i tapped out at that point it just stopped being funny

I doubt that has any longevity to it. It's the best stoner humor that has come out in awhile, but it's still stoner humor. I'm not looking forward to Corona jokes.

Yeah one I saw the other night was mr garrison trying to get fired for being gay after having mr slave shove gerbils and stuff up his ass in class but he got awards and just trying going harder but kept getting applauded. Then at the end he said a decent common sense message because he was so fed up with people allowing a degenerate that invites people that shoves gerbils up his ass to teach their kids. Well now that's pretty close to reality in places like california so it's kind of sad really.