Friday, May 5, 2017

South Park Season 14

 My Ratings:

Excellent:  You Have 0 Friends, 200, Insheeption, Coon 2 - Hindsight
Notes: "o friends" is a witty spoof facebook, while "Insheeption" satirizes the complexity of the move Inception. "200" has some laugh out loud lines relating to Tom Cruise. "Coon-2" continues the story of the South Park superhero with Cartman being Cartman.

Good:  Mysterion Rises, Coon vs. Coon and Friends, The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs
Notes:  "Mysterion" and "Coon vs." are inferior to the first part of the Coon trilogy, as Parker goes off the rails with some tepid satire of BP Oil Spill (remember that?) and a dull origins story involving Kenny.  "Scrotie" is a Butters episode and Butter rules.

OK:   Sexual Healing, Medicinal Fried Chicken,  201, Its a Jersey thing
Notes:  The first 3 episodes have hilarious "B" subplots involving Cartmen which save them from being rated lower.  "Fried Chicken" has Cartman as a 'Scarface' dealing in bootleg KFC, while "201" shows Cartman finding out who is his father. "Sexual" has him playing a  hilarious Tiger Woods & wife video game.   "Jersey" starts out strong with a satire "Jersey Housewives" - but ends weak. Finally, "201" would be rated higher except large hunks of dialog related to Mohammad  are censored.

Bad:   Poor and Stupid, Crippled Summer, Crème Fraîche
Notes:  All three episodes are poorly done. "Crème" has a somewhat funny subplot involving Sharon and a piece of exercise equipment but its not good enough to save yet another episode where Randy acts insanely stupid.  In "fried chicken" Randy deliberately gets cancer in order to smoke pot, while in "Creme" he becomes so addicted to cooking he quits his job to become the school's chef.

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