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South Park was a lot better a couple years ago. Anyhow, screw Issac Hayes.

Huh, I had know idea what scientologists believed. Mormonism is just as outlandish if you delve into it. Evidently god gave Joseph Smith magical glasses so he could read the book of Mormoni out in the desert. Or something like that. You just have to wonder what is about these cult leaders (and there are many many more besides) that make them so appealing. I mean how do they go about convincing people to such extent? Are all religious beliefs simply cooked up in this manner?

And what do you expect from South Park? You have to take it for what it is. It's basically these two douchebags from Colorado calling everything gay. Sometimes it's hilarious, sometimes it's not. They could make the show look much better if they wanted, they just don't so it looks like it is all done by hand. (which is how the show was originally made, but it's all computerized now) Matt Stone and Trey Parker are frauds in their own right.

You'd be as well criticising The Simpsons creators for giving the characters yellow skin.

So it is :oops: damn public schooling.

Yeah, like everyone else is saying, he's a filthy hypocrite and scientologists are fucking loony.

Holy shit, you're amazing.

I just reread that one. Wow. Maybe if you had only seen the first two seasons you could make that claim, but many of their best episodes were quite pointed satire for American cable tv.

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So last night was the season premire. Just as I thought they did in fact address Chef. They used word samples from previous episodes to voice him.

Chef decides to join "The Super Adventure Club" which is seemingly just a bunch of mountain climbers and such. He laeves for 3 months and then returns to South Park, but he's not the same. He keeps making sexual innuendos to the children! "Hello there children! How about coming to my place later and letting me make love to your assholes!" Naturally, the rest of the town freaks, but the foursome quickly realize something is not right. They decide to investigate the "Super Adventure Club" and find out they are a group who travels to remote places, with hopes of fucking every sort of child in the world. They belive that fucking kids is the secret to immortality. A montage plays, similar to the Scientology one, complete with "This is what the Super Adventure Club really believes" See the connection yet?

After gaining this info, they kids decide to help Chef. They smap him out of it by taking him to a strip club. Naturally, the SAC can not have this, so they make reconverting Chef their top priority. Well, things progress and Chef winds up getting killed. The Club then decide to ressurect him Darth Vader style. It even mimics the end of "Revenge of the Sith". Basically a Darth Chef.

At the funeral, Kyle gives Chef's eulogy. In it he says "We should not blame Chef for this. We should blame the fruity little club that stole his brain." See, the Super Adventure Club was a reference to Scientology. Brilliant episode, and the war between Scientology and Trey and Matt has only just begun. Not very funny sounding by my description, but I didn't want to ruin the jokes themselves. Funny, funny stuff.

That got a "heh" from me...

It was an okay episode.

Yeah, it seemed kinda thrown together by me. I liked Darth Chef though.

I dont think they could've done the kill any better and the dubbing for chef was hilarious.

The ending for last night's episode was hilarious. The rest was pretty "meh" IMO. Perhaps I missed that "Super Adventure Club" and "Scientology" joke?

I guess with this season, Parker and Stone will do what they did in the Sixth Season and make South Park an ongoing storyline as opposed to a series of episodes randomly strung together. Of course, South Park has been so hit or miss since Season 7 (which I probably would've enjoyed more if it weren't for that "Cancelled" episode).

That's true. I consider the show's golden age seasons 5 and 6. However, I can't even watch episodes from seasons 1 and 2 anymore.

Wasn't the episode thrown together in a week or something?

They all are. They upload the shows 20 minutes before they hit the air.

I'd say South Park's first through sixth seasons were its Golden Age. But come Season Seven, it was getting a little too formulaic (Cartman plotting some kind of scheme, or the boys getting involved in some new project, etc). And it became pretty obvious that Parker and Stone were running out of ideas. Not that the show didn't still have its share of great episodes, it was just becoming more hit-or-miss.

Though I have to admit, now that it's on DVD, Season 7 is actually starting to grow on me. "Christian Rock Hard," "Gray Dawn," and "Raisins" were definite classics. "Cancelled", meanwhile, totally misrepresented what South Park was supposed to be about. What made that whole Anal Probe thing so funny was that it made absolutely no sense. Trying to make sense out of Cartman's anal probe kind of ruined the whole effect IMO. And why was it never mentioned before or after that episode (except in Cartman Gets An Anal Probe and City On The Edge Of Forever)?

Seasons 1 and 2 were really just about shock value. South Park's first real "political" episode was probably Gnomes. By about Season 6, it basically became full-fledged socio-political satire.

Yep, that is why I can't watch 1+2 them anymore. Season 7 doe have a lot of great eps, so I might get that dvd too. Since my sfavorite charcter is Butters, there are a only a couple seasons where he became a central character before the quality of the overall show started to fall.