Was his popularity forced?

Normalfags fucking love him

>>149225457 (OP)
No, they just leaned way too hard into it, he inadvertently became yet another wacky sitcom dad like Homer or Peter.

>>149225457 (OP)
Randy was always funny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrMz0SyVqcY

>>149225457 (OP)
No, it was gradual. Only zoomers and faggots hate him.
>>149225497
This. but to be fair, his focused episodes are pretty amusing.

>>149225457 (OP)
Only healthy normal adjusted people are Randy fans

>>149225457 (OP)
He was genuinely popular.

>>149226455
>was

>>149225457 (OP)
He is not popular.

>>149225457 (OP)

>>149225457 (OP)
Why the fuck did it had to be weed? Why couldn't get into beekeeping like a normal redneck dad?
Why couldn't he do something cool and related to his job like spelunking instead?
So many story opportunities.

For that matter why doesn't he hallucinate when he smokes weed? Trey is such a lazy unimaginative piece of shit.

>>149226427
How does she feel about the fact that he's married?

>>149225457 (OP)
There's a lot wrong with nu-South Park, but one thing it's never been is forced

>>149225457 (OP)
He's the most popular character in the show, alongside Cartman, on every online platform other than /co/ and tumblr

>>149227676
>For that matter why doesn't he hallucinate when he smokes weed?

Do you hallucinate when you smoke weed?

https://north-park-creations.fandom.com/wiki/Special:AllPages

>>149228503
Jimsonweed

>>149225474
Were they the usual SP fans from early past of the show?

I want a Carol episode so bad.

>>149228327
1 word: suicide

>>149226427
It's funny that Nora's friends with a cringecow collector Ai that aims to put people like her on the farms but she thinks she's immune.

No, his popularity wasn't forced.
His overuse was.

>>149225457 (OP)
Randy was popular, but it was precisely because he was used in controlled doses. You'd be enjoying a regular old season and then suddenly you'd get an episode with a Randy A or B-plot and it'd be like a little zest of lemon on top of a nice slice of pie.

Making him critical to too many episodes was like an overdose or just dumping a bucket of whole lemons onto your pie. It was way, way, WAY too much. I mean, Jesus tittyfucking Christ, the Tegridy Farms crap was the A-plot for like half of the episodes in Seasons 22 and 23.

>>149231263
I basically said the same thing.

>>149231263
Trey thinks because he's a pathetic old man everyone wants to see a pathetic old man mess up others' lives. It's like when Cartman got overused to where even if you like some of his wacky antics, it was too predictable.
If the SPS BBS were still around, Randy would probably have his own dedicated hater making a "Randy Pissing Me Off" meter the way the fat boy did.

>>149227676
Because Matt and Trey were there at the time Colorado became the first state to legalize weed and experienced the massive caravan of weed culture fucks that moved there and overturned everything else in the state in the span of about...2-3 years.

The whole fucking state culture transformed from western mountain rural country to Seth Rogan DUDE WEED almost instantly. The Colorado Matt and Trey were making fun of in the early seasons is fully extinct. What we see now in Tegrity episodes is the Colorado of today.

>>149229937
Based Carolfag

>>149231355
Also, they took away what made the other adults cool in favor of making Randy the only adult who actually does zany stuff. Besides Garrison, I guess

REDHEADS!!!!! Why aren't they real? Everyone only has orange hair, bunch of gingers.

>>149225457 (OP)
No.

>>149225474
Fatherless statement.

>>149227676
It's a Colorado thing.

>why doesn't he-
Because you don't?

>>149231355
Leave Paris alone.

>>149231557
More fanart?

>>149231557
>>149232753

>>149225457 (OP)
No. It's natural. It then became forced once they started playing in to it too much

>>149232753

>>149233386

>>149233402

>>149233414

This thread becoming a Carol thread was a nice thing. No one gives a fuck about Randy.

bump

Also, someone made a Carol Brap fic.

bump

>>149225457 (OP)
He organically became popular, but then the creators went too far with him.

>>149233491
Makes you wonder who the troll who edited in the info about her giving birth to Kenny at 16 was, they've created a longstanding fandom war over her being a teen mom vs. not.

>>149235481
That's genuinely based. Someday, I wanna do something like that...

>>149235481
Probably the same based autist who gave Karen her name

>>149235496
They liked claiming Matt said it but nobody could find the sauce. Then it became canon, wouldn't be surprised if Matt and Trey were gaslit into thinking they named her.

>>149235527
Pretty sure M&T just checked the South Park wiki for her name when they came to write the Poor Kid episode and presumed they'd given her it and forgotten about it

IIRC the person who did it confessed on the old southparkstudios.com forums a few years later

>>149235552
Makes sense. Matt & Trey wouldn't remember something like that.

>>149235659
Just look at how they kept forgetting if Butters' dad was Chris or Stephen before settling on the latter.

>>149227632
Who is the rabbit? Heck, who are the bottom three?

bump

>>149227676
>do something cool and related to his job like spelunking instead?
RANDY NUTTY PUTTY EPISODE!

>>149237029
No, we don't need more Randy. What if the McCormicks did that to try to get richer?

>>149230439
>>149226427
Qrd on this person?

>>149237297
Twitter famous anti-shipper who collects Randy Marsh merch.

>>149225457 (OP)
EVERYTHING about South Park is forced.

>>149237285
Stuart puts himself through undignified acts for cash including all sorts of near death situations, while his son facepalms. Hey, who cares if Kenny did it before, if they don't remember then the fans shouldn't either.

>>149225457 (OP)
He has his moments but I think he pretty much took over the show at some which I did not appreciate l. Haven’t watched in a while so Idk if this has changed or gotten worse.

>>149228327
>she

>>149225457 (OP)
Not at first, it came naturally.

>>149238458
Yeah she's some skinny lesbian, and her Kiwifarmer friend is an attempted gonzo journalist named Hallie who's a similar skinny autist.

That Lorde episode is where you can pinpoint the change in Randy's prominence

>Trey used to portray his dad as a dumb but otherwise normal person and his ex like a horrible slut
>Trey now portrays his dad as a psychotic manchild and his ex like an incompetent but well-meaning mother
What happened?

South park became shit, the moment they turned Wendy into Lisa Simpson

>>149240161
So, season 1? Because she was already yelling at everyone and quoting books like Walden in season 1.

I THOUGHT THIS WAS AMERICA

>>149240095
Trey said his dad loves the Randy episodes, so he's just giving his dad more of what he wants. While with Liane, Trey just moved on and it doesn't hurt as much.

>>149225457 (OP)
With the Tegridy shit you'd imagine they'd be applying it evenly

>>149240469
Well, they love Randy way too much now.

>>149225457 (OP)
The last funny Randy-focused episode was Crème Fraîche.

>>149225457 (OP)
no it naturally and gradually grew with the show as well as coincided with Matt and Trey growing older, stating they started to idtenify more with the adult characters and had a hard time still putting themselves in the shoes of the kids

>>149240095
I mean isn't it just stereotypical Flanderization?

no, it was good at first and midway in the seasons but later on was too overused and forced

>>149241730
What Liane went through was reverse Flanderization. All of her exaggerated traits got toned down or erased and now she acts more normal than half the other parents.

>>149240187
Yeah, that was always a part of her.

>>149241750
This goes for all of the girls as well. In South Park's earlier seasons, the girls had wacky traits. Nowadays, they constantly play the straight man. Either that or they're a hivemind or two-faced bitches.

>>149241797
Yes that switch started to happen when Mary Kay died sadly

>>149241804
You can tell which female VA Trey considers funny and which ones he doesn't.
>April Stewart: Always plays the straight man or the voice of reason
>Mona Marshall: Always plays the quirky ladies
>Jessica Makinson: Always plays the two-faced bitches or sluts

>>149241804
>>149241815
Part of me thinks the "girls are funny, get over it" was Trey and Matt thinking they don't think women are funny. Heck, the entire joke behind Eat Pray Queef was that females would never think queefs are funny.

>>149241750
I don't necessarily think it was reverse Flanderization, I just think the joke of "Cartman's mom is a slut" got old? Just like how a bunch of stuff falls by the wayside as things go on.

>>149241831
Just like Kenny dying every single episode.

>>149241823
>Part of me thinks the "girls are funny, get over it" was Trey and Matt thinking they don't think women are funny.
It was making fun of the media narratives around the 2016 female Ghostbusters reboot

>>149242033
Who said it couldn't have a double-meaning?

>>149225457 (OP)
it insists upon itself

>>149225457 (OP)
absolutely. aside from leeane and stans grandpa, all the parents are terrible. mostly in part that theyre more unhinged than the kids. south park needs a chef like character again

>>149242184
I've been saying the same thing.

>>149225457 (OP)
There was a choice to base less of the episodes around the boys and expand into other characters in the town. Whether you call that forced is a matter of opinion. I think he got popular because the viewership got older and found themselves relating more to an adult than any one of four children.

>>149242390
Well, the problem was when Randy became the main character. Expanding other characters isn't inherently bad, it's just how it was done

>>149240417
Trey's voice acting just helps sell the humor of these lines, that's part of why Randy is a good character despite what this niche echo chamber will say.

>>149242546
He was only good when used sparingly. I will say he was really fuckin' good back in the day.

>>149225457 (OP)
It's like a Steve Urkel scenario. The popularity was genuine, but the writers played too hard into it, and the entire show suffered as a result.

>Season 27 delayed to July 23rd
But how will this affect DIGMAN?

>>149242879
Now we need Randy to go "Did I do that?"

>>149243607
Digman's as good as dead

>>149243861
Cute!

Bumping the thread

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WE'LL MAKE OUR OWN SOUTH PARK, WITH BLACKJACK & HOOKERS.

With cripples, cripplefucking and cripple Hitler!
https://north-park-creations.fandom.com/wiki/Rulf_Br%C3%BCkmalleg

>>149245002
Do we get girl farts in this South Park?

>>149237029
>Randy goes spelunking to find a rare strain of weed rumored to be in the caverns deep in the mountain
>goes deep spelunking but had PF Changs before diving so he's going to shit himself
>cave rescuers tell him to hold it in because if he shits himself he'll drown in it
>holds it in for most of the episode until time is about to run out, says his tearful goodbyes to everyone
>rips a massive shart that propels him into the Crab People lair

>>149245262
It should be Kenny's dad. He already had diarrhea once.

>>149242879
Urkel didn't steal his show ten seasons into its run.

>>149225457 (OP)
>Was his popularity forced?
a lil bit

stupid Bitch

>>149225457 (OP)
Randy's the only parent on the show they regularly used, so he quickly became Matt & Trey's go-to whenever they needed an adult lead in an episode.

>>149246027
I want her to do to me what Cartman did to her son in Ginger Cow.

>>149246267
And it led to every other adult (except Mr. Garrison and the rednecks) being straight men for the most part.

>>149246027
She's PERFECT

>>149246826
Sheila is genuinely the best SP Mom to me. A voice of reason who can go off the deep end and do kinky stuff.

>>149246027
PLEASE SHARE MORE!! The South Park moms are hella underrated

For me it's Alexa

>>149246972
I remember seeing an Alexa brap pic. Wonder if a Leslie could do the same thing

>>149246027
WHOA MAMA

>>149246950
>A voice of reason
Did you watch this show? or the movie?

>>149225457 (OP)
i've never watched south slop. if the last simpsons season for me is 9, which season does south park go to shit?

>>149247310
Ok, she's a well-intentioned extremist. She also mellows out a ton after the movie.

>>149247485
Depending on who you ask, it's either Chef's Death, You're Getting Old, when serialization happened (especially S20) or Tegridy Farms.

Don't know.

>>149247758
Come on, anon! Use your head

>>149245002
/co/! analyze this for me! what am I looking at and how does it compare to South Park? what are some noteworthy things about it?

>>149248007
heheh

>>149241815
Don't forget Kimberly Brooks. I've been seeing her name come up a lot lately.

>>149243861
Cute art, but what the point in being invested in her character if Randy's taken up all the screentime nowadays?

>>149248460
Well, maybe it's a reminder that Peter Griff- I mean Randy, isn't the only South Park character that matters.

>>149248521
Holy Crap Sharon

>>149248521
I stopped giving a shit about Wendy when Sharon and Liane became more of the main female leads than her. Hell, even Heidi, a girl who only took up 2 seasons worth of screentime, was more compelling than Wendy from the past decade.

>>149225457 (OP)
I like how he looked like a guy who stuck in the 80's but now most zoomers look like him.

>>149248663
I actually agree. They haven't done shit with Wendy worth writing home about since The Hobbit. Deep Learning was more of a Stan episode where Wendy was just Stan's motivation.

>>149225457 (OP)
Jackie Chan

>>149226427
based

>>149248663
Heidi herself seemed to cover some points Wendy originally did, which makes you think how if that happened earlier in the show we'd get a fat pimply Wendy

>>149249093
It's absolutely insane how "The Hobbit" was the last episode to have her be the main character until "Deep Learning" - 10 years later.

In between those 10 years, Wendy got demoted to background character. For ten. Fucking. Years.

>>149249465
Well, they needed to make more space for other characters! Like *checks notes* Randy! And some other adults, I guess...

>>149249495
Ah yes, the other adults: Lorde Randy, PC Randy, Tegridy Randy, Karen Randy...

>>149249384
Missed opportunity to have a main girl be unhinged, like Lizzy or Nelly.

>>149249508
The Karen Randy shit was, is and will forever be stupid. Sheila's right fucking there!

>>149249520
Lizzy got dumped after season 11 unfortunately, when they started retiring more of the old style character models. Some guy made a petition to bring her, Mole, Gregory, and other rando kids back but can imagine if Tratt saw it they'd just have those kids appear to kill them all off in one swoop.

>>149249582
Well, Nelly's in the pic for the new season, so maybe she'll do something? (this is cope, btw)
The girls in this show deserve way better.
Also, they'll do them like Ms Crabtree, where they say no one will miss them. Only this time, they'll give us more dumbass Randy.

>>149248663
>>149249093
>>149249384

It's not even just Heidi, now that I think about it. The other minor female characters tend to be WAY more entertaining than Wendy. Some instances:

- Leslie, the girl who was secretly an AD in the PC Principal arc; great twist villain in a series when you usually expect Cartman to be the Big Bad

- Classy, the black hoe in that same arc; her taking no shits from Nathan and slapping the shit outta him is hilarious to watch

- Alexa, Stan's AI wife from the COVID specials; say what you want about her, but I love how she's designed to be a darker version of Sharon to Stan's Randy, yet in the end she does help him solve the mystery (in her own way...)

Compared to all of that, modern Wendy is just... bland. Dull. There's nothing fun about her anymore. All of that died when her original VA died, and nothing has ever been the same since. Again, why should we still care about her when the latest episode shows that even Stan doesn't care about her anymore?

>>149249826
Well, Wendy still has more than the other girls in the show. The other girls are just a hivemind.