#south park s22

[toruloloo]

Defender of POS

[feministsouthpark]

South Park Filler Guide - Season 26

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S26E1 Cupid Ye is FILLER

I don't buy the relevancy. Kyle is now best friends with Tolkien and Stan is jealous, even though for the past season we had Stan and Tolkien bond and even in this season they will continue to be a duo. This really seems like a filler. S26E2 The Worldwide Privacy Tour is FILLER

I really like the part when the prince and his wife move into Liane's old house, as they make use of the house being empty for the duration of the Hot Dog home story arc, but as they move out by the next time the house will be used, the impact is nonexistent. S26E3 Japanese Toiler is FILLER

How I would have liked if the shooting turned out to be a season-long mystery of who shot Randy, I was looking at the characters of the crowd for way too long guessing, before I realized everything is pointless in this one. Well, not the real world message, but the in-universe events. S26E4 Deep Learning is CANON

The easiest type of episode to recognize as canon is a relationship centered one. We get our confirmation that Stan's attempts - from S20E7 The Very First Gentlemen Oh, Jeez - to change and win Wendy over worked out. Bebe/Clyde are together as well, as are Herbert/Rick. S26E5 DikinBaus Hot Dogs is CANON

While this is the end of the Hot Dog era, it ends in a way, that counts as loss for Eric, still feeding into the idea of how easily he can lose everything and end up being homeless. S26E6 Spring Break is CANON

For Herbert is falling back into his old ways of campaigning, and depending on what happens in real life, this could have a ton of unwanted consequences... S26E7 Joining the Panderverse is FILLER

It's mostly parallel universe stuff, while Randy fixes an oven. S26E8 (Not Suitable For Children) is CANON

Roger Donovan finds a new partner by the name of Janice, and it seems like she's here to stay. Snow Day is FILLER

Yeah, no... This is the latest season anyway, but I don't believe Mr. Hankey would ever return on the show, end of story. If he does, and thus this video game becomes canon, I will change this post to include that. S26E9 The End of Obesity is FILLER

I have a feeling, that the "never mention Eric's weight again" idea will be forgotten like the numerous times Eric promised not to rip on jewish people anymore.

SPOILER-FREE RUNDOWN

S26E1 Cupid Ye is FILLER S26E2 The Worldwide Privacy Tour is FILLER S26E3 Japanese Toiler is FILLER S26E4 Deep Learning is CANON S26E5 DikinBaus Hot Dogs is CANON S26E6 Spring Break is CANON S26E7 Joining the Panderverse is FILLER S26E8 (Not Suitable For Children) is CANON S26E9 The End of Obesity is FILLER

CANON counter:

S1: 9 out of 13   S2: 3 out of 18   S3: 6 out of 18   S4: 10 out of 17   S5: 8 out of 14   S6: 11 out of 17  S7: 6 out of 15  S8: 4 out of 14  S9: 8 out of 14  S10: 4 out of 14  S11: 4 out of 14  S12: 8 out of 14  S13: 3 out of 14  S14: 7 out of 14  S15: 6 out of 14  S16: 2 out of 14  S17: 4 out of 10 + a highly lore based game  S18: 8 out of 10  S19: 9 out of 10  S20: 10 out of 10 S21: 7 out of 10 + a highly lore based game + 2 DLCs S22: 9 out of 10 S23: 8 out of 10 S24: 4 out of 4 S25: 5 out of 8 S26: 4 out of 9

Overall: 167 out of 329 Personal Note: I'm almost certain we'll have another special that I'll add to this season and I'm almost certain it'll be election-based and therefor canon. When it happens, I'll be back to edit this post. This one is basically just me predicting the future, but to be fair, they are pretty safe bets.

[mckitterick]

Aurora deep into southern Midwest!

After Friday night's less-than-stellar experience hunting for a good spot to watch the aurora near LFK (short answer: there is none), tonight we decided to drive north a couple hours to get deeper into the aurora zone, and a little east to reach truly dark skies and skirt the clouds creeping across Kansas and Nebraska. Still pretty far south in the grand scheme of things (northern Missouri), but the darkest skies we've seen in a long time.

At first we parked as planned near a nature preserve in what is billed as a town (really just a handful of houses), but the northern view from there looked over a house that sits beside Loud Frog Land:

So when the sky began to dance (see this image), we drove a bit farther along hilly, winding country blacktop until finding a little gravel turn-around.

Just as we set out our folding chaise lounges, the sky really heated up, and for about 20 minutes it was amazing:  

This image and the top one (by @bugs-are-buddies using her Android S22 Ultra) are much better than from mine (Note9); thanks, darlin'.

My tripod-mounted DSLR was a bust, though I managed to snap the below Moon image once I got the telephoto lens working - had to turn the autofocus on and off again to manually focus at all (always the same story with tech), so we missed imaging the burst of aurora action with that machine.

(Left image is me fiddling with the camera by the light of the Moon and the aurora's fading glow.)

We stuck around for a while after the dramatically waving red-pink-green curtains diminished from their peak, hoping the huge Coronal Mass Ejection had more to offer, but things tapered off around Cassiopeia. And it was getting cold. So home we went.

The drive back was dinner of nut bars and pears, and introducing my sweetheart to some 1990s bangers on le Wedding Trip Jag's awesome speaker setup.

Two nights of dramatic aurorae - visible as far south as Kansas! Wow!

I hope you got a chance to catch some of the Sun's beautiful assault against Earth's skies. Ad Astra!

[south-park-polls]

South Park Song Tournament

Faith In Christ - A Boy and a Priest (S22 E2)

Make Bullying Kill Itself - Butterballs (S16 E5)

[wendytestabrat]

why family guy needs to shorten its seasons

ok so i just saw how s22 of family guy is gonna wrap up with only 15 episodes (this season was terrible, but i digress) i hope it stays that way because i think a BIG reason why family guy has gone downhill is bc the writers and staff are burnt out af with the huge episode load rather than it being a lack of talent. like ya’ll be shitting on modern family guy for being bad but then praise modern south park, well in all fairness matt & trey are only making 6 episodes a season now while the family guy writers make like 20 so i don’t think it’s rlly a fair comparison LOL. plus the family guy episodes take longer to make too bc of the animation, they take up to 9 months to a year while matt & trey make the south park episodes within 6 days. so yeah i’ve been wanting family guy to make shorter seasons FOREVER bc i feel like the show would benefit A LOT from making quality over quantity. it’s been hard for me to keep up with family guy episodes these days with how many bad episodes they keep pumping out. it makes it hard to dig and find which ones are actually good and worth watching lol. (which i’m on a mission rn to torture myself with a bunch of modern family guy to find those episodes bc i’m such a martyr like that, i’ll link the blog i did a while back on the top 10 modern episodes below) bc yeah family guy still comes out with good episodes and funny jokes every now and then which shows the writers are talented and do know how to make magic if they rlly try lol. (and i still think modern family guy is wayyyy better than a lot of shows these days) so i think the show just needs to make less episodes that are higher quality than 57382992 bad episodes. i mean literally every other popular adult cartoon these days has shorter seasons too. south park has 6 episodes a season, rick & morty has 10, bojack horseman has 12, even the latest futurama season only had 10 episodes lol, so yeah i think that’s what family guy needs to do too to keep up with the popularity of those shows and become the cool kid on the block again like it once was. (bc yeah back in the day family guy was like the most popular adult cartoon on tv and i feel like it deserves to become that again and has the potential to as well) ik family guy always had long af seasons but it worked in the past when the show was actually good and every single one was a masterpiece. that was something i appreciated abt family guy back then was how we were getting WAYY more consistently good episodes than south park (bc south park seasons have always been shorter than family guy seasons). anyway i hate it when people complain about the south park seasons getting shorter like ya’ll are dumb u do realize matt & trey are old af and burnt out right? LOL stop pressuring two dudes in their 50s who are close to the age of retirement to pump out 473892923 cartoon episodes. i feel like if south park had longer seasons the show could’ve gone downhill as badly as family guy did (and we did see the show getting pretty bad in seasons 20-23 before they shortened the seasons even more) so lets be grateful matt & trey are doing what they need to do to keep the show running and going strong still. anyway here is the list i did on the top 10 best modern family guy episodes a while back if u haven’t seen it.

this video is based bc they put “send in stewie please” at #1 too. people don’t appreciate how much of a masterpiece that episode is lol

[methinmycoffee]

(TW: mentions of homiside/suicide)

Okay, let’s talk about Britney’s New Look (S12 E2) because I watched it with some friends over the weekend. We watched it because it was a play on “The Lottery” which we had recently read for English class. I told them that it was gross and a dark, it had some good points to make about tabloid culture, but “Britney Spears blows her head off”. We watched it, and they were understandably like ‘,:-\ the entire time. I get it, I really do, it’s a gross episode that I don’t like that much even though it makes some great points.

Same with Cash for Gold (S16 E2). Some darkly funny scenes where Stan and some old people coax a shady jewelry salesman who runs one of those Home Shopping Networks to kill himself make the episode a little harder to watch. We actually watched that one too, because I told them that it has made me cry before (it did, The monologue about Patches the Dog got me sobbing). I enjoy this episode, unlike Britney’s New Look, but it’s still hard to show people, especially when they’ve never seen South Park before. In case anyone was wondering, I don’t think they minded this episode because they were either already desensitized or thought it was funny. The “earrings would look good on your dead body” line is iconic.

Dead Kids (S22 E1), Cartman Sucks (S11 E2), the B-plot (the plot with Indiana Jones) of The China Problem (S12 E8) which I cannot stand because of how gross both plots are, and HUMANCENTiPAD (S15, E1) which is also gross but makes some good points about consumerism. These episodes also have this problem, especially the last two, which you probably don’t even remember the morals of if you have seen them because you were just like ‘ew’ the whole time.

This is just me pointing something out. South Park has so many other episodes that follow this pattern. Good point, poor taste execution. I don’t want this to change, for the most part, because the way this show tells stories is literally what makes South Park, South Park. Maybe this whole thing is just to prevent some poor soul who remembers the moral/point of an episode like Cash for Gold, or remembers crying, but who doesn’t remember the suicide. The guy who remembers the commentary on the Britney situation, but doesn’t remember that the townsfolk kill her at the end. Maybe this long post was for nothing. Anyway that’s all, thank you for coming. <3

(P.S. I cannot figure out how to make my posts say ‘read more’ so if it bothers you that I leave it, jus know that it bothers me too)

[amporella]

I think now that COVID production delays and all the 2016 election and tegridy experimental stuff is over South Park is going to enter a new golden age 🙏 this episode was miles better than s22, s25, etc. I think the paramount specials have really opened them back into writing for the show.

I’m really happy that Tolkien is basically a new main character in this era now! I was worried once they dropped Tegridy that he’d also be gone

ANON I HOPE YOU ARE RIGHT. I HAVE OPTIMISM AND LOVE AND HOPE IN MY HEART RIGHT NOW. I FEEL LIKE I WAS GIVEN THE GIFT OF LIFE!!!!!

AND YOU ARE SO RIGHT ABOUT TOLKIEN... HE LITERALLY DESERVES TO BE A MAIN CHARACTER!!! AND THEY DID HIM SO WELL!!!!!!

[heloflor]

Regarding Craig in Buddha Box

So, watching this episode, there’s something that I want to talk about, something that, as I’ve heard, apparently worried and torned the Creek fandom a bit; and it’s the way Craig acts in this episode. More precisely, I want to talk about what he says to Cartman in the bathroom and its implications. To put it shortly, I believe that, while what Craig did was clearly shitty, why he did it is understandable.

Think about it : Tweek clearly has issues. He has some severe anxiety and even some paranoia; and his parents don’t give a shit about it. On the contrary, they’re only making it worse (*cough* weed in coffee *cough*). The only reason Tweek started to get better in the latest seasons in because Craig was there for him and the two of them are rubbing off on each other.

But thing is, Craig is a ten years old child who grew up in a family that doesn’t do feelings. We especially see it in the double episode “Pandemic”, the episodes with the giant guinea pigs : when Craig is upset about something, he either flips people off or shut down completely and becomes emotionless. Craig doesn’t do emotions. And suddenly, he’s put in a relationship with a partner who needs a lot of attention due to his issues caused by his own family. And as we see in “Put it Down” and in “Splatty Tomato” (the S21 finale), Craig tries; he really tries to be there for Tweek, but it’s not easy for him because it doesn’t come naturally.

So, in “Buddha Box”, it’s no surprise that he complains about how he sometimes feels like Tweek wants his constant attention. While he does clearly love Tweek and genuinely wants to help him (as we see near the end of “Put it Down” in which he’s unhappy in the cafeteria because he failed to help Tweek; and once he understands what he needs to do he immediately goes to see him), the relationship is overbearing at times. Craig is still a ten years old child, he shouldn’t be expected to “fix” his partner (though, honestly, no matter the age, nobody should be expected to ‘”fix” their partner. Instead they should support them and help them work through their issues the best they can).

Also, what is implied in “Buddha Box” can be seen in “The Fractured but Whole” with how much of a mess Tweek is during the first civil war fight (though according to Craig’s parents their son is also being pretty miserable) and, honestly, it makes me wonder about the possibility of the relationship falling into codependence on Tweek’s end; which is a toxic thing.

So my point in all this ? Basically, both sides of the argument are right to some extent. Tweek needs an actual therapist, he can’t just constantly dump all of his problems on Craig or their relationship might suffer greatly. Of course, I’m not saying he should hide everything to him. After all, there is no denying that Tweek needs more attention than your ‘usual’ partner, and Craig is the best thing that ever happened to him and for his mental state. But it’s just that Tweek needs the help of an actual professional on top of having Craig as moral support (though given how terrible adults are in this show and how little Tweek’s parents care, this might not happen very soon…). As for Craig, he needs to keep trying to be there for Tweek. An if sometimes it feels like it’s too much and he needs some time alone, he needs to tell Tweek instead of shutting him off like that.

 You know, this whole thing kind of reminds me of how people apparently got angry at Kyle in “You’re Getting old” (the one with Stan turning 10 and starting to get depression) due to how he abandoned Stan but 1. Kyle tried to spend time with him, the best example being that scene at the theater with Kyle letting Stan come with them on the condition that Stan doesn’t complain; but Stan just keeps complaining, no matter how many times Kyle warned him. Also during the rest of the episode Kyle clearly wasn’t very happy about having to give up on Stan. And 2. Kyle was like 9-10. You can’t expect a child of this age to realize that his friend has depression and help him through it. What Kyle did by the end, refusing to spend more time with Stan in order not to get depressed himself, is how a child his age would act in this situation; and he shouldn’t be blamed for it, although his attitude in the second episode definitely felt shitty.

 Finally, I’d like to point out, about “Buddha Box”, that having Tweek in this episode feels pretty clever. I mean, the episode is about making fun of people who use anxiety as an excuse to be assholes, but apparently a lot of people missed this point, thinking instead that Matt and Trey were saying that anxiety doesn’t exist (probably because of Kyle’s speech to Cartman). So I think that having Tweek in it is pretty clever given that he’s the only character who truly have anxiety, and the show seems to acknowledge it (I mean in the S21 finale, when Craig is trying to calm him down and Stan and Kyle show up, Craig says that Tweek is having a panic attack, which is a stronger term to use instead of saying something like “he’s freaking out”). And yet, he’s one of the characters who don’t use a box, showing the others’ hypocrisy more. Hell, Craig using one accentuate this point even further and makes it pretty hilarious and head-banging when the therapist tells Tweek of all people that Craig doesn’t respond to him because he’s scared due to his “anxiety”.

[stagefullofsilly]

WAIT

Is satan really dead?!? WHAT ABOUT DAMIEN? IS HE GOING TO BE KING OF HELL NOW?!?OMG MY POOR SON WHERE IS HE?!?!

I know that I'm late but whatever :/

AAAAHHHHH FUCK

[sp-kenny-mccormick]

Okay little headcanon here that I thought about, would if, Kenny was the one supposed too be shot but Stan protected him, I mean there has been other episodes where Stan has gone out of his will too save Kenny..

I keep giving myself emotional damage, I need to stop

[cartflovski]

Tfw u get kidnapped on ur birthday

[feministsouthpark]

South Park Filler Guide - Season 22

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S22E1 Dead Kids is CANON

Sets up the main theme for the season, which is the fact that school shootings happen way too often. We get comfirmation that Nichole and Tolkien got back together since their breakup in S20E2. Stan gets shot at the end. S22E2 A Boy and a Priest is CANON

Stan has his arms in a cast, which is the only way they ever acknowledge his incident from the previous canon episode, which means this one is canon, even if most of its content is basically filler. Clyde has his birthday party for which is probably the same birthday he invited others in S21E8. Stan also seems to love board games now, which is a follow-up to S18E6. S22E3 The Problem with a Poo is CANON

This is the continuation of the Strong Woman arc from S21E10, in which she got pregnant, and now she is giving birth. Her children will return in later episodes and get their own arcs. Mr. Hankey also gets banished from the town. S22E4 Tegridy Farms is CANON

If there is one episode that you won't ever question the canonicity of is this one. If the season premiere set the tone for the season, this one sets the tone for the next season and basically serves a new pilot for the remainder of the series. They were not joking around with this one. S22E5 The Scoots is LORE

Kenny bonds with Mr. Mackey and while the scooters will appear later, other than their existence, the events of the episode don't matter much. S22E6 Time to Get Cereal is CANON

How could it not be, when ManBearPig not only appears, after being heavily foreshadowed back in S10. (Yes, I know real life context is different, but by storytelling logic that is what has happened), but Satan is also back for the ride and sets up a new development for his arc, but that is to come in the very connected next episode... S22E7 Nobody Got Cereal? is CANON

Satan v ManBearPig fight to the death. This is a big one for the series canon, which has had Satan go through a ton of development that helped him get to this very point. S22E8 Buddha Box is CANON

The Strong Woman arc continues! Seems like this season is really good at switching between a few multi-season storylines to focus on. Eric also gets diagnosed with anxiety. S22E9 Unfulfilled is CANON

Yeah, sure, why not? Tweek Bros. Coffee is no longer alive, due to Amazon, this might have helped Helen's independence in later seasons. The mall workers are now zombies from abandonment. But this is more obviously a set-up for the finale and that one IS canon, because... S22E10 Bike Parade is CANON

This is the culmination of the season as a whole. Although if I really want to find a reason for this one to count, we see Ned to be alive after the events of S22E6, which made it dubious if he survived his incident with ManBearPig.

SPOILER-FREE RUNDOWN

S22E1 Dead Kids is CANON S22E2 A Boy and a Priest is CANON S22E3 The Problem with a Poo is CANON S22E4 Tegridy Farms is CANON S22E5 The Scoots is LORE* S22E6 Time to Get Cereal is CANON S22E7 Nobody Got Cereal? is CANON S22E8 Buddha Box is CANON S22E9 Unfulfilled is CANON S22E10 Bike Parade is CANON *We learn how the scoots in the finale first appeared

CANON counter:

S1: 9 out of 13   S2: 3 out of 18   S3: 6 out of 18   S4: 10 out of 17   S5: 8 out of 14   S6: 11 out of 17  S7: 6 out of 15  S8: 4 out of 14  S9: 8 out of 14  S10: 4 out of 14  S11: 4 out of 14  S12: 8 out of 14  S13: 3 out of 14  S14: 7 out of 14  S15: 6 out of 14  S16: 2 out of 14  S17: 4 out of 10 + a highly lore based game  S18: 8 out of 10  S19: 9 out of 10  S20: 10 out of 10 S21: 7 out of 10 + a highly lore based game + 2 DLCs S22: 9 out of 10

Overall: 146 out of 298 Personal notes: This season is heavily serialized, however unlike S20, not all 10 episodes follow the same storylines, mostly 2 episodes share a storyline and that's it. We have two two-parters and another two that are part of another storyline, a status quo changing episode and several cross-references between them all. South Park keeps finding new ways to handle continuity.

[ssunflowerdude]

OK BUT LOOK AT THIS BOY JUST CHILLING IN PRISON

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South Park Song Tournament

Faith + 1 Album Medley - Christian Rock Hard (S7 E9)

Unfulfilled - Unfulfilled (S22 E9)

[wendytestabrat]

OK I WAS RIGHT (AS ALWAYS)

we finally got some codepentent kyle and this special was kyle-sided kyman AF and YES those screencaps are real in case u were wondering. i swear if anyone still says “kyle hates cartman!1!1!” after watching this they’re dumb af. like how can anyone not see that kyle loves cartman at this point. HE DEADASS HELD HIS HAND which shows if kyle is in the right mood he doesn’t mind touching cartman at all even tho his lying fake ass was like “don’t touch me” when cartman tried holding his hand back in s22 lol. i rlly feel like matt & trey took my feedback on that rant i made recently abt how annoying kyle has been in seasons 24-26 bc of all those moments they’ve been giving us where cartman has changed and kyle STILL gets annoyed with cartman which is out of character af for him bc we all know kyle is codependent af and cares abt cartman and wants him to be better lol. so this special was DEF a course correction and i’m glad kyle was written in a more likable way this time bc i DEF enjoyed the kyle screentime we got wayy more in this than in the panderverse special and cred special lol. anyway i wish i had more time to talk abt this episode in depth but i can’t which sucks bc they always have to come out with a new south park special every time i’m on the verge of a major life change.

hopefully this special is giving us some more codependent kyle bc it looks like he’s making a weight loss drug for cartman or some shit lol

[believeinthecheese]

Patiently awaiting the inevitable gay roller-disco fanart.