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The Worst South Park Episode I’ve Seen
The reason I say that is because it just wasn’t funny – at all.
To sum it up it was about Stan having to teach a Pee-Wee hockey team because his bike gets towed for unpaid parking tickets. The kids obviously suck and one of them has cancer.
The cancer kid asks them to win for him but they lose and the kid dies. Also there are 2 lame Steve Irwin jokes also.
It seems like the writers where having an off week or something.
Here is a link to the episode if you want to judge for yourself – South Park Episode 1014.
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I couldn’t agree more. My grandson and I sat there, watching this episode in completely disbelief. It was without ANY humor. It was depressing and completely cynical. We couldn’t believe what we saw.
Matt Stone once said that he and Trey Parker attempted to keep the show from being cynical, and until this episode (1014 – Stanley’s Cup), they succeeded. All lessons and hidden sweetness were gone… just a nihilistic, unfunny tale of the futility of faith and life. Wow, if we wanted to see this, we could have watched any one of a number of Ingmar Bergman films.
What is Parker & Stone’s problem? After a great opening episode (about the online war game dominated by Someone Who Has Absolutely No Life), a hilarious episode with great graphics… the season has gone downhill slightly. But it hit rock bottom with episode 1014!
We actually turned it off halfway through. Haven’t they done the whole Stan/Randy thing a million times? Randy doesn’t want Stan to be in a boy band because of his issues…or he doesn’t want him to dance…enough already!
Too bad you thought that was bad. You missed the “hilarious” ending, when a kid with cancer dies and goes flatline and that’s the end of the show!
@ Ol Jimbo – Actually that was part of what made it bad
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Dan, I thought it was obvious that I was being sarcastic. I just meant to tell Colleen that, if she thought it was so bad when she turned it off mid-way, then she REALLY missed the worst part — the “hilarious” ending.
I have seen some goths on South Park sites describe that ending as “hilarious” etc. There really ARE cretins out there who thought that ending a season on a note of despair — a little kid dying of cancer finds out his final wish (his team wins) is denied him by the cruel deity, and then he flatlines.
Most S. Park episodes end on really funny or touching notes, or at least conclusions that teach us a relatively sweet lesson (in spite of the outrageous gross-outs during the episodes). But no, this one had ZERO redeeming qualities, and its ending was HORRIBLE and downright depressing. ( Contrast that, for example, with the episode about Timmy, the turkey and the musical Helen Keller play, which I found downright touching. )