South Park, Season 14

I wholly believe that South Park is one of the greatest things to ever happen to television. I will not use this post to attempt to convince anyone that it is. However, I will say that it is genius because it lures stupid people in and shows them truth through satire. South Park did this for many years, but it was around season 12 or 13 that they began to fall. They started to just make fun of the freak of the week and made their characters less important than the people they were pissed off at. This season especiall featured some absolute shit: Sexual Healing (about Tiger Woods), Scrottie McBoogerballs (Butters is a shock writer), You Have 0 Friends (about Facebook), It's a Jersey Thing, Poor and Stupid, and Crippled Summer. I admit that 200 wasn't awful, the BallCancer one was marginally funny, and the ones about the Coon were decent. But South Park should not be making bad episodes. In their good years, they never made a bad one. It wasn't until Season 13 that they made a bad one. I am reminded by one of their great episodes entitled Free Hat (Season 6). In it, the boys are pissed off that Spielberg and Lucas are fucking with their old films. They implore the Directors that their work belongs to their audience. The creators of South Park should now realize that they are failing at their work. "South Park is our life", said one of the creators. But it also belongs to their audience, shocked at how shitty the episdoes are getting. "South Park used to be about showing people how retarded a lot of things were, but now all they do is tell you: hey that thing that you already know is retarded, we're going to prove to you they are"- Paraphrase of Owen Peterson.
South Park Season 14: ★★