Surely critics have managed to convey the point to Trey Parker and Matt Stone by now? Terrence and Phillip are just basically not very funny. In small clips, sure, they can have their comedic moments, but stretched over an entire episode, they are stale, boring, and flat out immature. And then they somehow came up with the fantastic idea of adding in another two irritating identical characters (oh no, wait, they're women), creating an episode with little to no storyline (queefing against farting...not the most mature way in which to discuss feminism and masculinity) and an episode with very few laughs. In fact, I can scarcely remember any which made me do any more than chuckle slightly, and that was more out of respect for some of the previous episodes. Randy, usually such an intelligent central figure, was annoyingly one-dimensional, which is a damming reflection on the 'protagonists'.
Trey and Matt seemed to be trying, for the typical 'April Fools' episode, to recapture some of the immature humour of the previous seasons. However, they fell horribly in attempting to introduce issues, then skirting around them without addressing them. The only thing that kept previous episodes from becoming mundanely immature and pointless was an intelligent and compelling story. Or great humour addressing interesting sets of moral values.
This had neither. No substance, no humour, no storyline. This was little more than a horrible return to reality that, perhaps, all television shows can eventually go under. I'm just praying that this is the lowest point the season can sink to, and am keeping my fingers crossed that the wit and sparkle hasn't left South Park. In my opinion, 2 good episodes this season, 2 bad. What will the next be?
Trey and Matt seemed to be trying, for the typical 'April Fools' episode, to recapture some of the immature humour of the previous seasons. However, they fell horribly in attempting to introduce issues, then skirting around them without addressing them. The only thing that kept previous episodes from becoming mundanely immature and pointless was an intelligent and compelling story. Or great humour addressing interesting sets of moral values.
This had neither. No substance, no humour, no storyline. This was little more than a horrible return to reality that, perhaps, all television shows can eventually go under. I'm just praying that this is the lowest point the season can sink to, and am keeping my fingers crossed that the wit and sparkle hasn't left South Park. In my opinion, 2 good episodes this season, 2 bad. What will the next be?