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RatHat posted:I dropped off this show around season 13 and now I'm getting back into it. Any particularly good/bad episodes I should watch/avoid? What makes a South Park episode bad is so incredibly subjective that it's probably better to just see for yourself. Although the majority of people would agree that you probably shouldn't bother with season 20 unless you're curious. It's not "bad" but it attempts to set up a big story arc and, for various reasons, botches the payoff in a way that makes it all feel pointless. Episodes that I remember liking or just being generally well-received: Season 14
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Season 18 - this season is good enough to watch all of, but I remember...
Season 19 - probably just go for all of it, it all somewhat ties together and is mostly good
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Wait yeah why aren't 200 and 201 available?
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Oct 19, 2017 14:57
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RatHat posted:Wait yeah why aren't 200 and 201 available? MOOOOOOOHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAMEEEED!
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I actually recorded 201 on a VHS when it aired, and gave a copy to my coworker since there was no rerun to watch. Which I assume is the last time that ever happened in history. Of course, that still had the minute-long bleeps during the last scene.
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Oct 19, 2017 15:10
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Waltzing Along posted:MOOOOOOOHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAMEEEED! Godammit not again
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Sir Lemming posted:I actually recorded 201 on a VHS when it aired, and gave a copy to my coworker since there was no rerun to watch. Which I assume is the last time that ever happened in history. They are on the blu-ray.
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Oct 19, 2017 15:12
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Great episode. Like always, they make top parody songs. Last few episodes have really worked and had me constantly laughing.
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Oct 19, 2017 15:16
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Uh, was Marcus some fan that they wrote a role for, or at least gave a voice to? Because that didn't even sound intentionally weird, that just sounded...weird. And kudos to Matt & Trey for actually making me supremely uncomfortable with the old lady farts.
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Oct 19, 2017 16:29
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i thought the kid was supposed to be vincent d'onofrio
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Oct 19, 2017 16:34
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People are weird, I thought Marcus was great.
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bring back old gbs posted:i thought the kid was supposed to be vincent d'onofrio I think it may have been Josh Gadd...? fake edit: yup http://www.imdb.com/title/tt7325056/?ref_=ttep_ep5 even sort of looked like him
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Waltzing Along posted:It was bad. The old folks home was an amusing idea that should have been a single scene in a good episode. It was just run into the ground. Marcus is a terrible character. You are absolutely insane, this is one of the funniest episodes they've done in a while. But that's not saying much considering how unfunny last season was.
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Oct 19, 2017 18:01
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I didn't particularly like Marcus but I am a little surprised by all the backlash
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Oct 19, 2017 18:01
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I didn't like or dislike Marcus but it was sort of weird to have this new character show up for no particular reason. It probably shouldn't be weird, but I guess they haven't done it in a while.
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Oct 19, 2017 18:14
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I genuinely laughed out loud at Marcus telling Peppa she could jump in muddy puddles all day in heaven soon. My 3 year old is all about that obnoxious pig.
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Oct 19, 2017 18:16
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Sir Lemming posted:I didn't like or dislike Marcus but it was sort of weird to have this new character show up for no particular reason. It probably shouldn't be weird, but I guess they haven't done it in a while. It was as bad, if not worse, than PewDiePie showing up and breaking the fourth wall in the last episode of whatever season that was, but at least that was related to the content of the previous episodes. Waltzing Along posted:Avoid everything from this season and last season. That's 20/21. Everything before it is pretty high quality with hits and misses. Except season 16. That's a bad season, too with only a couple worthwhile episodes. The first half of that season (the spring run) is total trash. The second part is back to normal, but that's only 7 episodes of which a couple are good. I generally agree with this list with the inclusion of A Nightmare on Facetime and Poor and Stupid (because I'd always wanted to see SP do a NASCAR episode and was surprised with how well they did with it). Butterballs is worth it for the payoff at the end alone Butters  ing his Grandma by telling her she's going to die fairly soon and he'll carry on as a happy-go-lucky kid.
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Oct 19, 2017 18:23
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Nah, Pewdiepie was worse. Pewdiepie is always worse. I thought that was a pretty good episode and one of the better ones of the last few seasons.
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Oct 19, 2017 18:35
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I have no idea why people have reacted so viscerally to Marcus. He was an inoffensive narrative device with a few funny jokes.
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Oct 19, 2017 19:25
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Killer Mike rapping about nursing homes was fantastic.
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what ever happened to that deep vopiced lispy conspiracy nerd kid?? i thought he was good
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Oct 19, 2017 20:29
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did anyone know about Hummel statues before this episode? (ignore if you've over 50)
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Oct 19, 2017 20:59
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I loved this episode. After finding inconsistent laughs so far this season, I laughed my rear end off the whole time. I lost it when Chuck E vomited, fell off the stage, and died. The Hummel beat down was awesome, too. Loved it! Marcus felt a little weird, but I don't care, they've done plenty of odd one-off characters before.
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Oct 19, 2017 21:02
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Ein cooler Typ posted:did anyone know about Hummel statues before this episode? (ignore if you've over 50) Early forties, yes. My mom has some, and my grandmother has some. My grandmother actually got into collecting statues that were considerably more expensive, like Tiffany crystal cats and such. They were ridiculously popular mid-1900s, and some were actually worth money as collectibles. But the problem is, there is no demand anymore, so they are worthless. I used to go to estate auction regularly, and as more and more of The Greatest Generation dies off, nobody wants the Hummels. They practically have to give them away. Same goes with fancy-eatin silver, china and crystal; the grandkids and great-grandkids just don't want that stuff. They were also featured on an episode of Better Call Saul.
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Oct 19, 2017 21:07
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I'm sorry, but are people seriously bitching that a new character was introduced? Is there something I haven't found that said he's a permanent addition to the 4 kids, or are people whining just because? Were the same people as mad last year when Heidi was added?
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Oct 19, 2017 21:23
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Ein cooler Typ posted:did anyone know about Hummel statues before this episode? (ignore if you've over 50) Yes, because of the Do Handicapped Go To Hell? Episode. I'm 32.
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Oct 19, 2017 21:24
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Ein cooler Typ posted:did anyone know about Hummel statues before this episode? (ignore if you've over 50) My gran had two which held pride of place. One was of a little girl holding a lamb which I accidentally decapitated as a kid; I got into some serious poo poo for that!
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Oct 19, 2017 21:37
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Ein cooler Typ posted:did anyone know about Hummel statues before this episode? (ignore if you've over 50) Simpsons did it
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Oct 19, 2017 21:42
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They were the Beanie Babies of their day.
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Oct 19, 2017 21:46
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PostNouveau posted:They were the Beanie Babies of their day. Eh, Hummels lasted a LOT longer then Beanie Babies, they spilled over from one generation to the next. Wikipedia says that they started in 1935, and hit the peak of popularlity in the 1970s. If they didn't really become worthless until this century, that's still a 60+ year run.
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Squashy Nipples posted:Eh, Hummels lasted a LOT longer then Beanie Babies, they spilled over from one generation to the next. So their day was longer
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I thought it was weird that they ominously referred to the real source of the problems faced by the retirement communities, only for it to actually just be big pharma and not a joke like the company that makes Hummel figurines.
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Oct 19, 2017 22:32
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Squashy Nipples posted:Same goes with fancy-eatin silver, china and crystal; the grandkids and great-grandkids just don't want that stuff. After my great-grandmother died my grandmother fought tooth and nail to get some of the furniture that was left over. It caused ripples in the family from the siblings infighting over all the old stuff. Now that my grandmother passed away, my mother and I couldn't give two shits about any of it. There is this huge incredibly crafted dining room table that seats 10 just sitting in an empty room with a filled china cabinet next to it that never gets used. I understand why stuff like that was so valued years ago but it just isn't practical in modern America. No one wants or can even fit huge pieces of gaudy and over the top furniture in their
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Small White Dragon posted:Oh, what would be the fun in me answering this for you? The yaoi is strong in that game. Duzzy Funlop posted:Uh, was Marcus some fan that they wrote a role for, or at least gave a voice to? They've worked with him before. You might recognize him as Olaf from Frozen and as the original Elder Arnold Cunningham in The Book Of Mormon. He's been a producer on the show since the start of this season. He's... Josh Gad. 
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I thought that was the best episode in a pretty long time, and I don't particularly hate this or the last season. Marcus is kind of annoying, sure, but also his part of the story is totally necessary for the nursing home stuff to work as well. Which was great, I loved the Killer Mike song and the oldies in particular, but just in general it felt like a very old school episode.
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mobby_6kl posted:...it felt like a very old school episode. This exactly. Every once and a while Trey and Matt will surprise us with an episode that feels like Classic South Park, just to prove that they still have it in them to make a good show. I think the problem is just that with their self-imposed weekly turnaround structure for the show, they have to be consistently "on" all the time and that's going to mean a lot of hit-and-miss. The issue with the longer narrative seasons was probably the fact that they had to keep up continuity which stretched out a "miss" for multiple episodes, instead of just loving up once with a weak episode but then turning it around with a fresh idea next week.
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When I heard Killer Mike laying down some badass granny verse I was sold on this episode.
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So is Marcus based on someone or not? Is he supposed to be Citizen Kane or something? (Note: I have never watched Citizen Kane.)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtW6HW8jO_U This is the second song playing during the Prison/Old People scene. I was really into this dude for like a month and then spent $15 to go see him at a bar for the luls and he spent fewer minutes on stage than dollars I spent to get in. He Milli-Vanillied 2 of his songs, then did some fake coke out a plant in the crowd on stage and left and the crowd (Philly) got angry and weird basically immediately. I'm so stoked they used this song for an episode of South Park
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Waltzing Along posted:Avoid everything from this season and last season. That's 20/21. Everything before it is pretty high quality with hits and misses. Except season 16. That's a bad season, too with only a couple worthwhile episodes. The first half of that season (the spring run) is total trash. The second part is back to normal, but that's only 7 episodes of which a couple are good. You're forgetting in season 13 Margaritaville
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