Those low quality episodes are worse than a waste of time. They directly detract from the satire that South Park otherwise survives on.
“Satire requires a clarity of purpose and target lest it be mistaken for and contribute to that which it intends to criticize.”
Their insistence on making fun of everything makes them no more politically significant than all of the punk bands of the 80’s and 90’s… A footnote in history that otherwise did nothing but make the uninformed fools clutch their pearls and a bunch of teens cheer for that which they could never understand.
Those low quality episodes are worse than a waste of time. They directly detract from the satire that South Park otherwise survives on.
“Satire requires a clarity of purpose and target lest it be mistaken for and contribute to that which it intends to criticize.”
Their insistence on making fun of everything makes them no more politically significant than all of the punk bands of the 80’s and 90’s… A footnote in history that otherwise did nothing but make the uninformed fools clutch their pearls and a bunch of teens cheer for that which they could never understand.