‘Member when Matt and Trey took aim at themselves?
South Park Season 20 Episode 10
The joke was on Hollywood telling us we better member.
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Id argue that season 19 wasnt fully serialized, but the episdoes were thematically linked.
Elsewhere, their two-season long Trump storyline is a win for their shoddy long-game record.
They depicted a tweeting orange deciding to bomb Denmark on a whim.
Or after being egged on by his ex-boyfriend.
Like a little bitch president.
They were thrown off twice, once on election night.
They likely changed a good chunk of that episode.
What struck me tonight, though, was howSouth Parkhad fun playing off the intensity of satire.
The Troll Trace Troll was a satirical extremist.
Gerald was a misunderstood shit-talker.
But really, it’s possible for you to also do shit just to be funny.
Last season, Matt and Trey took aim at all the horrible things the town had done.
PC culture forced characters to presume offense or fake empathy out of self-righteousness or fear of backlash.
See: when Randy pulls the sandwich out of a cardboard cutout of a orphan.
This time around, they targeted the response to their satire, and in turn, themselves.
Troll culture is about what it actually takes to get under peoples skin.
See: Everything that happened in 2016 that got under everyones nerves, from all sides.
The episode goes as far to make a literal formula of how to create an online uproar.
Who knows better than Matt and Trey?
This is peakSouth Park.
A second season in a row ends with a reset in South Park, but it doesnt mean much.
Garrison is president now.
Women surely arent funny anymore.
it’s possible for you to NEVER rely on the basic decency of the American people.
And you cant control how people interpret your satire.
Rating:
4 out of 5
