Season Fourteen, Episode Fourteen - First Impressions

Well, that's that season and it ends with a fairly good episode. It really didn't have enough material for a 22-minute episode, but what it had was funny, but they had to resort to too much repetition. I think Randy's plot had potential for more, they should've just explored it a bit more and cut some Sharon bits that got really old fast. Nice callback to Chef as well, I loved that, really made me think of golden era for a moment and that's really cool. I think they should do more of that, make those connections with earlier seasons and stuff. The best episodes of the season, 200 and 201 were pretty much about that and it works, so keep doing that. Good stuff, and nice way to end a season. Overall I think it was probably a bit better than Season Thirteen, which isn't saying much as 13 was the worst ever. We'll see when I do the official reviews, probably in a few months.

Season Fourteen, EpisodeThirteen - First Impressions

Again I'm couple of days late, but still, here it is:

That was some crazy shit. Animation was enjoyable and it was for the most part well made, with nice twist in the end, but damn that was messed up, even by South Park standards. I guess comparing to two other episodes of this trilogy this was pretty good. I loved how Kenny went to sleep by shooting himself in the head.

It just contradicts with the fact that "Kenny dies all the time". I mean, the boys are aware of this usually, yet in this episode they constantly have no recollection of it. But it made for couple of great scenes. Overall it was decent stuff.

Season Fourteen, Episode Twelve - First Impressions

Season Fourteen winds down and we're treated with another quite mediocre episode. This was better than the last, but still, the quality is not acceptable. But it seems that they're not going to drag on for many seasons like the Simpsons, so hopefully it'll all end soon. It's weird to find yourself hoping one of your favorite series ends, just two years ago I would've had none of that stuff. Anyway, one of the problems of this episode was the reveal of Mysterion's identity. I guess that's going to split opinions but I think part of Mysterion's charm was that we didn't know who he was. Still it looked like the episode could amount to something considering Kenny. There was looong and boring scene when Cartman was on Ctulhu's belly - why did it go on so long? It felt like forever. And the episode is inconclusive? Does this mean we're going to see threeparter of this shit? There was mildly amusing Cartman song and couple of jokes hit the target. The episode was visually pleasing as well, but that's it. Mediocre stuff.

Season Fourteen, Episode Eleven - First Impressions

Well that was a mess. There were some semi-funny moments and references, but overall the plot just reeked random shit. All of the charm of original Coon-episode was gone. Things just happened randomly - like Cartman all the sudden beating two people up. I don't really get it. This was really bad. Captain Hindsight was dull and uninspiring - and does this mean that there's two episodes of this shit? Either way, it sucks. Another episode with such a bad premise or an episode without conclusion, pick your poison.

Season Fourteen, Episode Ten - First Impressions

I'm a bit late again, but I tend to forget these episodes nowadays. This was pretty good, goofy but in a good way. That said, it was a rather lazy parody of Inception. It was always going to be easy. That film is really weird that it's so well liked considering it's pretty bad. I think Mackey's childhood had a lot of potential, but that was left unused as they went a bit too far on that complication-thing. It took too much time and the joke got old by the end. It's nothing brilliant, but considering that the show is well past it's best this was above-average outing.

Season Fourteen, Episode Nine - First Impressions

Well, I can honestly say that this is different series that the show was in it's golden era, there's just the same characters. That was crazy. I kind of liked it in parts, but overall it just got way overboard and in the end the plot was predictable, well except the Osama killing. I kinda hoped that in the end ceremony when Osama was thanked that Stan would say "Dude, this is pretty fucked up right here", but of course that haven't been said for about ten years.

What I am trying to say: Overall, it wasn't bad, it was actually very decent and funny, but it's just not the same series any more. South Park has always been crazy shit, but they can't go any more crazier and I don't think they should. Improvement over last week's episode.

Season Fourteen, Episode Eight - First Impressions

Well, that was okay for the most part. You can't go much wrong with Cartman. It was the old formula of Cartman coming up with something crazy but still succeeding. However the episode got worse as it progressed and for the most part just relied on one joke - that NASCAR is for stupid and poor people. The ending was somewhat unsatisfying. It was just a basic South Park episode, not particularly good, not particularly bad.

A New Blog

The Simpsons Junkie
Not that anyone is interested, I had started a new blog. As I said I've been lately watching the Simpsons and now that has caused physical and mental addiction to it, similar to what I had back in late 2008 with the South Park. Therefore it's only natural for me to start a similar blog about it. I'll keep posting on this obviously.

This project has been very enjoyable for me, even though I didn't attain a big readership. I wrote for myself and that will be the philosophy in my new blog too. I now have so much knowledge on South Park that I think I could take on the biggest fans of the show and still hold my own. I don't know if I still deserve the name South Park Nerd, but at least I don't struggle with the continuity as much as the show's writers themselves seem to struggle. That's not saying much, though.

Season Fourteen, Episode Seven - First Impressions

I'm couple of day late on this one, but to be honest I haven't been paying much attention to South Park's recently. Don't worry, I've not done anything useful or productive, I've just been watching the Simpsons.. and while I knew that "Simpsons already did that", I didn't know they've already done that much of the same stuff.

But enough babbling, about the episode.. Well it was quite poor finish to this run. Very dull and predictable gag with Nathan was the worst thing. The documentary parody didn't work for me and the 'information' snippets did more to kill the momentum of the episode than to amuse you. Maybe I just have to face the facts that Towelie is used up dry towel, in terms of comedy as well.

Some commenters actually say that it's the worst episode ever. I don't know. There certainly wasn't anything funny in it, while the defending worst episode (at least for me) "The Pinewood Derby" had Randy as a princess Leia (still cracks me up). But yeah, maybe this episode's suckage will sink in when I do the 'official' reviews. Back to watching Simpsons for me. Why do anything when you can watch cartoons all day (and night, as in this instance)?

Season Fourteen, Episode Six

To be honest, this episoded didn't live up to expectation, especially when the first episode left such a big hype. I loved the beginning, but after that it got a bit of a mess. It didn't have the usual problems new episodes have, at least all of them, but it had different problems. I for one hated seeing Pip. Not because he was there, it was just that the guy was like ten seasons away and then his seen for 3 seconds before dying. I didn't like the very ending also. Mitch Connor is cool though.

Season Fourteen, Episode Five First Impressions

Holy shit. That's all I'm gonna say. This season just keeps on getting better. Hell of a cliffhanger in the end too, that's going to keep us holding our breaths for a week. Great episode, made me reflect some of the classic episodes. Some recycling, but hell, even recycling is better than what some of the last season's episodes were (this season's been a class apart though). Man, I can't take it. See ya.

Season Fourteen, Episode Five: First Impressions

Wow, what has happened to South Park? Another pretty damn good episode. I also happen to agree with Stan about Facebook. I've not gotten sucked into it, though. I guess "fuck off" is the right reaction to anyone asking about it. I laughed out loud for the guys jacking off -part. Great stuff.. There's nothing much else to say so it was great episode, really hope they keep it up. (Seriously, what is going on? Where's the stupidness of last season?)

Season Fourteen, Episode Three First Impressions

I've finally seen the newest episode. This season has so far been improvement over the last one, this episode proved it. It was as fucked up as they get, but it was also great stuff. There was moments that it reminded me of older South Parks, like the moment "What's ridiculous in this" while guys at the background were bouncing on their balls. The end was a bit abtrupt though. It was also surprisingly good for a Randy-centered episode. That said, there was some standard issues that newer episodes have had. I'm going to talk about them soon in a blogpost, so no more about that.

Season Fourteen, Episode Two First Impressions.

Well.. It was vulgar, it was foul, it was crude.. It was brilliant. I loved the idea of boys writing a book and the implementation was decent too. Funny how you can describe the episode pretty much like they described the book in the episode. The plot was well constructed for once and there was no total fuck-ups like recently has been the custom. Also the message was there and for once it was pretty valid not just Trey Parker pushing the meanings that he wants for words or shit like that. It got the nearest to early South Parks that the show has gotten in ages. Good shit. Hope they can keep this up.

Season Fourteen, Episode One First Impressions

Is is just me or were the plots in South Park always this crazy? I mean it seems that recently they just make the craziest combinations. In terms of message the episode was very basic and therefore too basic to be really that funny. Also I thought Butters was more annoying than funny with his obsession, but it got better. I have to say though that I loved the glancing eyes and the Tiger Woods PGA Tour etc. It's still decentish.

Season Thirteen, Episodes 12-14 - Finishing It Off

Sorry for the lack of imagination on the header..

Episode 12: The F Word
This episode was a bit of a mess. I felt that Matt & Trey just wanted to make their point about Harley riders and because of that the unneccessary things like plot and humor got left bit half-assed. Characters acted at times bit out-of-character and in the end it was a bit of a mess. Besides there's not that much of stuff inside this, there's no b-plot or anything, it's all about Harley riders being gay. Well, at least Harley-riders craving for attention ie. in the cafeteria was good stuff. But that's only enough to get them up to rating 2/10.

Episode 13: Dances with the Smurfs
I don't know about this. It has the same characteristics that most episodes this season have had. I mean that it was a bit of a mess. But then again, you can't go too wrong with Cartman vs. Wendy -plotline. It's solid old matchup and it works again. Avatar is being rightly mocked here and for that including the smurfs works fine. But I'm rambling again a bit. I'm starting to feel like this review is as big of a mess as the episode was. The biggest failure in this episode was obviously the start. It's not funny, at all. There's always been the fair share of shock laughs in South Park and I feel that this season they have just forgotten about the laugh part. Just going for shock value is.. kind of a douchebag thing to do. All in all, there's enough funny shit to lift this episode barely to 3/10.

Episode 14: Pee
This was perhaps the best episode of the season. It too had it problems, but most of it was good and it had more of the old South Park feel than the rest of the episodes. Cartman's song about minorities was great. If there's any certain way that any South Park -episode could be improved it's always a song by Cartman - anything will do. I guess they are starting to notice this considering how many Cartman's songs we got this season. 2012 was always the easy thing to target and they made a decent job in it. But enough about the positives, there were annoyances in this episode too. Or to be honest only one, the character Pi Pi. Rest of the episode was pretty solid, but it's not that great when you compare it to the earlier season's best works. I rate it 5/10 anyway.

So overall, this season averaged a rating of.. 2,93. Now that's pretty pathetic. There was no real high points, and not enough solid episodes and couple of real downpoints. It's fair to say that there needs to be improvement for next season, cause this season crushed season two for the lowest rating. The series has been on a decline for few seasons, but this season the quality just came down crashing. At least for me it came.

Perhaps I someday revise these ratings too like I did to the earlier ones. The rating might still see improvement that way, but like I've said, there will probably not be that big of a difference.

Season Thirteen, Episodes 7-11 - Almost Finishing It Off

I'll try to do as many as I can in this post..

Episode 7: Fatbeard
So it's the last episode of the halfseason and unlike the usual end-of-the-run episodes this doens't get way out of hand. It's pretty basic stuff plotwise. When this episode was coming up I remembered waiting it with expectation of it being a solid episode.. Well, it fell a little short. Whole pirate idea felt kind of good, it just didn't work out as well as I expected. It's not bad at all, just not that good either (my feeling for pretty much half of these episodes). There was couple of solid moments with pirate stuff, but I feel that it didn't quite use it's potential. At least I was glad that Kyle got what he deserved for openly wishing Cartman would die.. I mean, Kyle's supposed to be the good guy, right? Good guys don't wish for anyone to die, even if it is an asshole like Cartman. I also felt the somalese guy's speech about pirating was stupid and overly preachy. It was used in moving the plot forwards anyway, so it's acceptable. But anyway, enough about that. In summary, it was near-decent episode, so I rate it 3/10.

Episode 8: Dead Celebrities
Could the be more disgusting way to open a new run of episodes than having Gerald & Sheila having sex? Well, it gets worse with most of the episode dealing with bloodstains on underwear and then having two old guys jacking off to a bunch of children. There was lot of stuff in this episode that disturbed or appalled me. So was it funny in any sense? Well I guess there was something good, but there wasn't anything that good. There was too many references I didn't get and the Dr. Tangina's speech was dragged waayy too long. I guess the writers hated her too since she got such a violent death. The parts about purgatory didn't entertain me, they made me feel just like those dead people - waiting for something to happen. So in the end, this episode failed pretty miserably and the only question is, whether I rate it 1 or 2 out of 10. Well, there is one fact that manages just lift it to 2; Michael Jackson reintroduction. It's blatant recycling of old jokes, but it works, so anything goes. Unfortunately that's what it has came to.. So it's 2/10 and we'll move on.

Episode 9: Butters' Bottom Bitch
I don't know if I like this episode or not. I remembered liking it when I first saw it, but it has lost much of it's power after that. I think both storylines were fairly funny, though I understand what I've been reading over the discussion boards that the Stoley's prostitution sting was more disgusting than anything else. I guess I'm just a sick bastard who can handle that sort of shit and still think it's pretty good. But to be honest, Butters going around calling girls bitches and Stoley's ridiculous plotline weren't as funny as they were. That's not to say that they sucked, but I feel that this episode lacks staying power. When I just watched it again, I thought for some moments "what the fuck am I watching?", and I don't know if it's good or bad thing. Still, for the great first impressions only and Butters being so awesome, it gets to 4/10.

Episode 10: W.T.F.
I didn't like this episode originally simply on the basis that real wrestling is more funny than what this episode was. It got a bit better though during the rewatch. I still feel it didn't live up to it's potential, but it managed to attack the matter on a different angle than expected. The boring thing was that there were all the obvious jokes about WWE being soap opera and "that isn't real, idiots" stuff. The wrestling itself were pretty fucked up stuff and I liked the fact that the real wrestling guy got a place in the WWE in the end. So this episode failed to deliver much of it's humor potential, but it still had it moments. Lastly, what's with the "they took our jobs"? They must really like that line, they've fuckin' recycled it to death. I give it 3/10, but it's close.

Episode 11: Whale Whores
I know it's common for South Park to use ridiculous plotlines, but when it's such a lazy writing like in this it sucks. I won't get into detail about it, but I just think the whole Enola Gay thing was stupid & not at all funny and the whole japanese killing whales like they were at the beginning weren't a very good start for an episode. But enough moaning, there was sweet stuff also in this episode: Cartman doing Lady Gaga. I also liked how Whale Wars were mocked, though I'm not familiar with the show. Though I love the Cartman's rendition of Poker face, it isn't enough the lift episode higher than 2/10. If the rest of the show would've been just mediocre, rating could've gone higher, but it's terrible for me, so that's it.

This leaves three episodes for the last post. Will do it pretty soon, but see ya for now.

Season Thirteen, Episodes 1-6 - Back in Business

It's good to be writing the short reviews once again. Let's get to it!

Episode 1: The Ring
Technically speaking this is a pretty solid episode. It's got pretty good plot with some really funny jokes. But it's far from flawless. First thing that catches an eye is the fact that the rest of the guys are so amazed about Kenny having a girlfriend. It shouldn't be that amazing considering Kenny has always been into girls and already had one for short time in third season. Aside that there's also the ending that once again gets a bit out of hand, and I'm meaning the Mickey Mouse turning giant etc. part. Still it has couple of very funny jokes, the Jonas brothers concert was good shit and Mickey's inclusion overall was insane but amusing. Decent start to the season and I rate it at 4/10.

Episode 2: The Coon
I love these kind of episodes that make parody of some other style. So this is your modern superhero -style episode and it's pretty good stuff, albeit it seems to have lost pretty much of it's power since the first viewing already. It's well constructed but kinda repetitive episode and the fact that it's so memorable means that it isn't that good for repeated viewings. It's still funny stuff and the best parts were Professor Chaos' inclusion and the schetch of Mysterion. The only question is.. Who is Mysterion?! I rate it 4/10.

Episode 3: Margaritaville
This episode got an Emmy. That's pretty much it. I guess it's clever use of biblical plot in sync with satirizing the economic recession, but.. It just didn't feel that funny to me. I think it's fair to say that both earlier episodes were better than this. I don't really get why they would give and Emmy for such an episode. I'm not saying it's terrible or even bad, it's just plain mediocre. Once you got into the groove that it was going to be the Jesus all over again, you knew everything in advance and there was no surprises. I'm trying hard to think something especially funny about this episode, but I can't think of anything, so it gets 2/10. Also, I'm starting to hate Randy.

Episode 4: Eat, Pray, Queef
To be honest, I was disgusted with this episode, but at least it had couple of decent jokes unlike the previous episode. Seeing Martha Stewart again in South Park was a pretty good one and the Road Warrior -queef was just sick and funny at the same time. Even thinking about that makes me smile, and that's cool. Still I have to say that it doesn't make this episode good enough for a better rating than a 2/10. It's just that it was overall rather stale episode with most of it involving Terrance & Phillip & Queef sisters - and that is boring and not at all funny.

Episode 5: Fishsticks
This was a small improvement on the previous episode. We finally get a peek inside Cartman's mind how it works things, and it's the best part of the episode. Obviously Kanye West and Carlos Mancia getting murderer (latter literally) is good too, but the main thing for me was Cartman's mind changing everything everytime. "..And you're totally not fat", was the best thing. Kinda brings memories from season one, from the tea party in "Cartman's Mom is A Dirty Slut". I guess it narrowly edges as high as 4/10.

Let's do one more.

Episode 6: Pinewood Derby
"Well that sucks", says Randy just before credits at the and that just perfectly sums it all up. This episode was atrouchious. It was fuckin' suffering of the mind. It was torture to sit through it again, but I did it just to write this review. This is probably the worst South Park episode ever, and I hardly think it will be possible to do worse than this. It's not even the fact that Finland gets bombed back to the stone age (I'm a Finn). I'm fine with that. It's just that.. It was so god damn stupid! Nothing is even remotely funny or interesting and even South Park can't get away with such idiotic stuff. I also said earlier in this post, that I'm starting to hate Randy.. Well now I officially fuckin' hate him. I loved him in the earlier seasons, now seeing him makes my blood boil. He as a main character practically equals bad episode. I'll never watch it again. 1/10, and the 1 comes from Randy as Princess Leia. That's only funny thing this episode offers.