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.