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.