South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone's response to merger

okay. should we proceed with 900 forced threads about how south park sucks now because they won't dick ride donald genocide mexicans or whatever?

>>212264337
Personally, I don't care about politics, I care about South Park being enjoyable

>>212264337
i just don’t care if the show airs at all anymore. i haven’t cared for nearly 20 years.

>>212264388
I just looked up when S17 ended.
>December 11, 2013
The show has been zombie for over a decade, it ain't coming back.

>and its fucking up south park
and here it thought it was the terrible writing

>>212264529
They're too high on their own farts to consider that.

>>212264690
i was rewatching some of the earlier seasons, like 1-5 recently and they are pretty good. the show starts off strong to begin with, but they claim to hate the first 3 seasons now i heard and those are the overall best. there is a bunch of great eps spread out over the next dozen seasons, but it becomes more and more sparse. i couldn't make it past s16 for anything recent, and they're on 20 something now. its zombie simpsons tier at this point

>>212264789
27. Also, they're inching towards Zombie Simpsons, they aren't there yet.

>>212264293 (OP)
They’ve been unfunny and irrelevant for 10-15 years. And in retrospect, a lot of their espoused stances were fluff and ear service hiding the fact that all they really care about is their tribe.

>>212265634
>they aren't there yet.
How? They even rushed the reaction to Kanye saying Jews control Hollywood episode so multiple characters have shit voices because whichever jew was so upset, he couldn’t wait and make their le topical response a week later.

And then it ends in this sincere monologue from a hoarse-voiced Stan who has to deny that Jews have any more influence in Hollywood than any other race/group. So incredibly out of touch.

>important psa: this business move is really screwing with my revenue stream!

what merger

It must be nice to have Fuck You money.

>>212264293 (OP)
>Conveniently ignoring the fact that South Park was never good.

>>212264293 (OP)
Legally, can Trey say this?
What the actual fuck is going on?

Trey is like "we just want to make the show" but actually, him and Matt are trying to get money from WB while Paramount tried to lock them into exclusivity.
Wouldn't it be easier to just respect the company thay gave them the chance in the first place. They're already millionaires.

>>212265939
This, kek
The company that pays for his little cartoon show are asking that they get some ROI to not bankrupt themselves and Trey has a tantrum.

>>212265846
Do you use /pol/, by any chance?

>>212268385
no

>>212268385
>/pol/
Kill yourself newfag

>>212268499
>>/pol/
>Kill yourself newfag

>>212264293 (OP)
900 BILLION DOLLARS TO TEGRIDY FARMS

>>212268537
Not watching your gay porn nigger you have to be over 18 to be one this site

>>212264293 (OP)
They should go back to s1-3 format and just have the kids be kids and retarded shit happening around them.
It's been almost 30 years and they still have not made an episode as great and iconic as Chicken Lover.

I remember thinking when they landed the big contract that there's no way South Park is actually worth $935,000,000

This is a franchise that peaked with an $80 million movie and five million weekly viewers, twenty-five fucking years ago. I refuse to believe there's a billion dollar revenue stream hidden in there.

>>212268795
Merchandising perhaps

>>212268795
streaming platforms massively over-pay for popular episodic shows, because that's what everyone actually uses streaming platforms to watch.

I can't remember which season it was (might've been the memberberries episode) but the show effectively ended for me when they transitioned from each episode being a self-contained story into weird storylines that continued from each episode

>>212264337
South Park has always been terrible regardless of their politics.

>>212265846
Not a single one of you Kanye zoomers can explain how begging the Jews for forgiveness in Hebrew is somehow a principled stance against Jews.

>>212268618
Wonder if KORN would come back for a follow-up episode.

>>212268871
that was season 17. 12 years ago. Shit, you're getting old was 14 years ago.

>>212266381
Since they're already millionaires, why would they need to keep their mouths quiet? They're being paid to make the show, what logic would it be to punish them and then not have any show at all?

>>212268966
>you're getting old
God there was no mistaking that from being the last episode. Matt and Trey basically scream in our face that they hate South Park and don't wanna do South Park anymore but they're going to continue because doing a job you hate for $100 million a year is way better than doing a job you hate for $7.25 an hour

It reminds me of Supernatural, which had a surprisingly focused run of 104 episodes, leading the Winchester Brothers on a steady JRPG progression from investigating sightings of a woman who drowned her children to facing off with Lucifer and the Four Horsemen and preventing the apocalypse.

Then it continued for another 237 fucking episodes.

>>212266427
the South Park guys are multi millionaires, they have more money than they could ever spend, money to throw away reviving Casa Bonita. They're literally the thing that made Comedy Central a successful network. They're annoyed their distributor is fucking with their schedule

>>212268871
It's fine to try something new but it turned out to be a dude

They banked on Hilary winning and lost tremendously. Name a bigger list from the election then Hillary

oh no!

>>212266381
What would be illegal? It seems like its just an opinion, opinions are legal. But if Trey really signed away his rights to free speech for a little money, he deserves a lawsuit. I just dont see it here.

When's the last time South Park said anything that would offend the median bitchmade Californian that's offended by everything?

>lmao fuck Trump
yeah sure
>stop being transphobic
fuck off
>leave Kathleen Kennedy alone she's doing her best
Seriously? You guys did an episode about George Lucas raping Star Wars
>we gotta stop kids from vaping
Holy fuck you've become Rob Reiner

>>212270819
>maturing is bad!
That's what you sound like

>>212270819
Put a chick in it and make her lame and gay.

>>212264293 (OP)
You are comedians. How about you just write jokes?

>>212270889
If you think about it logically there's nothing edgier and more hardcore than just agreeing with everything the average college professor on BlueSky says

>>212268618
Based

>>212270819
Reminder that they literally apologized for mocking climate change

>>212270951
How so?

>>212268795
It peaked with SOUTH PARK ENTER THE NIGGERVERSE

>>212264337
SP was shit long before trump came along dumb zoomer

>>212270977
And how is that a bad thing?

>>212266381
>Wouldn't it be easier to just respect the company thay gave them the chance in the first place.
Did you just ask why they don't just kowtow to some business men?
They got "fuck you" money, so even if those business men wanted revenge, they could go off and make another hit broadway show

>>212268812
when’s the last time you saw somebody wearing a South Park t shirt? 2002?

>>212268966
>you're getting old was 14 years ago.
there’s something poetic about this. The “unofficial” final episode approaching 20 years

>>212271075
Not anymore. Basketball, Book of Motmon, Team America. That style of comedy wouldn't fly more.

>>212271147
In 2025 Americans collectively cancelled pride month. People care more about Harry Potter than trannys. I think we’re ready for another edgy offensive comedy film.

It’s crazy that out of all of the long running adult animation shows, South Park was the only one smart enough to release its movie at its peak. I guess arguably SpongeBob did (canon ending too)

>>212271646
>you now remember bobs burgers had a movie
I’ve never seen a show get infested with gays and trannys so quickly
>season 1 has Bob driving trannys and drag queens around in a taxi cab and were meant to laugh AT them and the absurdity of the situation
>2 or 3 seasons later the tranny is seen as an “icon” and fan favorite character

Skipping the /pol/ arguments to point out that David Zaslav is hilariously incompetent and that (You) could have done a better job at running Warner Bros Discovery

>>212271277
We definitely are. The only commentary I hear about those films always goes along the lines of "why the fuck arent there any comedies anymore?" and never along the lines of "Im so glad they dont make raunchy comedies like [raunchy_comedy] anymore." Of course, I dont hang out with zoomers, but their opinions dont matter anyway.

>>212270819
Idk how they didn’t make a single joke for 4 years when a man with dementia was in the White House.

>>212271745
>pay somebody millions to come up with the idea of changing HBO Max to MAX
>wait 3 years
>pay millions to go back to HBO Max

bump

bump.

it's a "shitshow" because of a two-week schedule change?

is the subtext here: "we're writing and animating episodes referencing world events that are so current, a two-week delay means each new south park will feel old and irrelevant."

i could see that that feeling regrettable and shitty as a creator, but is that the thrust of their complaint?

>>212275144
Maybe come up with original shit that doesn't use current events for at least 60% of its runtime?

>>212271720
I feel like I can remember most jokes from the BB pilot and 0 jokes for the whole rest of the show, having stopped S6 or so? The pilot was so much better a vision of the show.

>>212271745
they're talking about the skydance/paramount merger

>>212264293 (OP)
WOAH DID THEY HECKIN DO A SWEAR CAN YOU DO THAT??

Just an excuse to change up the script for the Diddy episode

>>212275473
Why does everyone hear talk like that now, you know ''rephrase what Op said but make it sound silly and say heckin''. So fucking gay

>>212271103
video games and everything else

Reminder, these idiots bought the Casa Bonita restaurant and way overspent to remodel it. They are now stuck with a money losing asset that is forcing them to keep making a shitty cartoon.

>>212275462
at the same time selling shows to Warner Brothers then scheming them out of episodes by releasing them as streaming exclusives for Paramount+. All because how much star trek sucked.

>>212270084
Their schedule of like 6 extended episodes every two years or some shit like that?

>>212271834
by barely making any new episodes in the last 4 years

>>212276177
900 million...40 million renovation

They couldn't care less

>>212270819
>>we gotta stop kids from vaping
Vaping is gay compared to smoking weed so I loved that episode

>fucking up South Park
These guys literally read current event news tabloids and make an episode in 6 days. And they haven't been good in a long time now and they're only doing what, less than four episodes a year now? And what precisely are we missing out on since the corporate merger shitshow that is "fucking with South Park" exactly? More drawn out long after they stopped being funny Tegridy Farm jokes? They're going around shitting on Family Guy, but then do the exact same thing Family Guy does with the Chicken Fight and Conway Twitty cutaways to pad out episode runtimes.
Two entire presidencies of Biden and Obama come and go an they didn't take potshots at either of them once. They lost their spine after the Scientology and Muhammad episodes and since Trey and Matt are so desperate to be accepted and a part of the Hollywood scene that they have been ripping on ever since they arrived that they will no longer truly rock the boat. Hopefully, this mergers fucks them so hard it forces them to either wake their old asses up and make better content again or fuck off back to Colorado for good. (They won't.)

>>212276111
shutup bitch

>>212264293 (OP)
they're still making that shit?

>>212269157
They signed a contract and the season is already made.

>>212270084
Trey signed the contract to make the Paramount Plus """movies""" which got them all sued for breaking the first exclusivity contract. The schedule change was a direct aftershock of his greedy decision.

>>212276670
The difference is Seth MacFarlane thinks he's this cultured intellectual

>>212264293 (OP)
I haven't cared about south park for like 20 years how are they still alive? How do these zombie shows continue to run despite completely losing their souls?

>>212277260
All right, you got me there. As much as they want to break out of their mould, Trey and Matt more or less stayed in their lane and made the most of it. Seth branched out all right, but American Dad only really took off after he got out of the writers room and stuck to the voices, Orville sounds like its a great show, but that may also be another case of it being in spite of Seth instead of crediting it all to him. And as musically gifted as Trey is, he's never deluded himself into thing he's some sort of 1940's crooner lounge singer and released an album. Indeed, a lot of things Seth has done was a result of the talent he built himself up with and not solely because of him. Trey and Matt did the whole thing themselves when they started.

Seth was even working on a Flintstones reboot and I cringe at Family Guy tier humour desecrating The Flintstones.

>>212277456
You sign a deal with the devil when you start out, dude. That's why you see Brian Johnson and Angus Young jumping around on stage even when they're both old fart geezer grandpa's and its embarrassing.

>>212277475
Seth is talented it's just holy shit man the projecting he does

>>212277512
I'd rather see Angus than the hipster pubebeard bullshit that's called rock today

>>212264337
Saying it ironically doesn't make it not true.

>>212270819
>>212270951
They weren't defending Kathleen Kennedy, just how raging all the time is no different than being woke all the time. Vaping deserves to get ripped on.

>>212277644
Based.

>WHERE'S ALL MUH BIDEN JOKES REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Watch Gutfeld then. The only real hypocrisy they deserve to be called out for is mobile gaming

>>212277696
They goofed on Lizzo's body positivity messaging didn't they? The double standard has some merit. John and Jane Smith get Lizzo, the wealthy Hollywood guy gets Ozempic.

>>212270819
Getting kids to not vape is not the same as banning smoking EVERYWHERE like Rob Reiner does...especially when the latter thinks everything is fascism

>>212277644
>person makes bad decision
>wow that was a bad decision
>you're just as bad you’re raging all the time

>>212277644
>just how raging all the time is no different than being woke all the time
No it's very different, calling faggots faggots is not as bad as being a faggot

>>212264293 (OP)
genuinely what the fuck did they think was gonna happen
did they really think they could get a contract for like 15 seasons and at the same time make little "entretainment events" for another conglomerate?
lawl serves them right trying to outsmart these gajillion dollar corpos

>>212264293 (OP)
hope the show gets canceled

>>212277533
>>212277561
True

>>212277699
Real shit. Make an episode blasting freemium games, then make Phone Destroyer.

>>212278130
Thinking EVERYTHING is woke isn't toxic?

>>212278782
That doesn’t happen though.

>>212278914
What about the ton of grifters who cry woke at everything?

>>212278914
There's quite a few YouTubers that try to make it this way like The Quartering

>>212278987
>>212279186
Why are you paying attention to ecelebs?

>>212278782
Yeah it might be the case that they're unproductive retards who mislabel things but star wars is actually a verifiable case of it so it's not really applicable there
They should've chosen a better case example

>>212280423
Not my fault their shit is all over the algorithm.

>>212276670
The DMV religion episode Let Go Let Gov is an Obama parody, you're just a tad of a midwit my friend.

>>212280625
Yes. It is.

>>212280882
How? I barely watch their content but I get them crying woke at everything they see.

>>212280945
>I watch their content
Thus, it is your fault.

>>212268966
>That was season 17. 12 years ago
Are you sure? It thought that started with the Mr. Garrison/Trump storyline in 2016, which was 9 years ago.

>>212281052
I literally don't watch it and I get it on my feed. It isn't my fault.

>>212268537
thats the same fag that doxxed stonetoss, dumbass. you are the diaper shitter

>>212280945
>>212281183
>I barely watch
>I never watch
which is it

>>212264293 (OP)
They should have stopped making new episodes 10 years ago

>>212281181
It started with the kickstarter/NFL/tedtalk episode leading into the gluten/ebola episode. Randy dressed as Lorde at the end of the ebola episode so they decided to actually make him be Lorde for the rest of the season. The middle episodes are mostly self-contained but then they end it with a two-parter that calls back to every other episode.
The season after that was when they introduced PC Principal, and the entire season was about South Park getting pressured to modernize to appease the PC fraternity and wholefoods. Most episodes can be watched standalone but they all lead into each other.
Then you get to the election season. This is where they really overdo the syndication. Most episodes end on cliffhangers. This season even a lot of the B-plots get set up by the main plot, like everything Butters does this season. Besides the election continuity, you also get Heidi for two seasons. I would argue that the beginning of their relationship was the funniest.
The season after this is less serialized than the one before, but is still the second most serialized. Pretty much every episode sets up the next one, but no cliffhangers until the second to last one. Unlike the prior season, there are a lot more standalone B-plots.
I would kindly remind people that Tegridy Farm is a setting, not a plot device. There are only really a few episodes where the farm is the main driving force behind the episode. Simply having Stan eating breakfast at his new house isn't the same as making everything a weed joke. And I love Towelie so fuck y'all.

>GET ME OFF THIS FARM

>>212264789
The early seasons unintentional charm outmatches the intentional tryhard preaching of later seasons.
Based on everything I've seen, especially the new Casa Bonita documentary, I'm 99% certain that all the topical and political stuff that came later is because of Matt, not Trey. Matt is the guy with (((connections))) and his body language and entire vibe does not add up with his record of contributing virtually nothing to the show, Trey is clearly supplicant to him.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out why a hit product among young people, filled to the brim with filth, would suddenly start agreeing with and amplifying the "dirtbag", Michael Moore-tier politics of the day.

>>212270930
Trey Parker & Matt Stone is a business partnership which includes one comedian, the credits speak for themselves.

>>212264293 (OP)
Oh no! The new episodes. What if I can’t see them? Oh noooooo. Anyway.

>>212264529

>>212281181
It started when the seasons went to ten episodes.

>>212277644
White nationalists aren't defending Hitler, just how kvetching all the time is not different than being a Nazi all the time. AIPAC deserve to get ripped on.

>>212265846
>>212282171

>>212264529
>>212264690
The candle has been burnt at both ends. They had a great run in the 2000s and early 2010s, back when they were full of piss and vinegar and didnt seem to care if they offended anyone, but now they clearly hold back and avoid certain topics and it makes the show not feel honest anymore. The reason people loved the Kathleen Kennedy episode was because it actually spoke some harsh truths for once, even if it didn’t full acknowledge all the problems at Lucasfilm and what went wrong with Star Wars. But they don’t do episodes like this anymore. We don’t have the episode about marvel being fucked with M-She-U shit because that would offend some people. We don’t have the episode where the boys acknowledge all entertainment and popular IP is basically ruined because of diversity and woke. We don’t have the episode where the boys point out how disgusting and greedy the game industry has become because Trey and Matt have resorted to greedy video game practices themselves. The show barely comments on current pop culture or politics anymore, only if it’s Drumpf, which they did a whole season of, and it wasn’t even funny.

>>212264337
It's kind of pathetic that you inject your political views blatantly into a show and there's retards like this that think this is ok
It was very funny that they made a mega arc culminating in what they expected to be, Hillary winning, and then had to scrap and wrap it up one episode later because she lost
That was good south park content

>>212281854
Listen to the old episode commentaries and they're full of Matt pushing edgy humor ever chance he gets and Trey barely laughing at any of it. I think you've got it ass backwards my friend.

>>212280803
I checked the fuck out and stopped watching and paying attention to that show ages ago, Grandpa Tripfaggot.

>>212282367
>Matt pushing edgy humor
So the jew with no credits pushed "edgy" humour which we got in buckets in later season, and the white man credited with writing all of their funniest bits and songs didn't react to the unfunny. Got it, thank you.

>>212282316
We don't have an episode about "M-She-U" because they already did an MCU episode and they already did a woke Disney episode. Respectfully, I thought this thread was calling for them to repeat their jokes less?
For what it's worth, I think Mickey talking down to Thor like he's his bitch struck the cord you're looking for back in the Band in China episode.

>>212282464
Those are old episodes tho. Lots have changed since then.

>>212282443
I know you hate jews, rightfully so as I go out of my way to fight my autocorrect and keep that j uncapitalized, but sometimes goys are jewiers than jews and some of the biggest antisemites are jews just like there are a lot of self-hating blacks on /pol/.
Matt is an edgelord. Trey is a literal cuckold with a black kid and a soft pussy voice. I think you're missing the forest through the trees.

>>212282407
Why would you complain about the Obama era if you were already not watching it by then?

>>212282709
>I go out of my way to fight my autocorrect and keep that j uncapitalized
Her I thought I was the only one doing that.

>thjs show has been shit for the last 40 years
and that's why I've watched all of it and will continue to for the next 40

>>212278914
You know fine well that is bullshit.

>>212282514
The MCU parody was in 2017, you're right about that. Kind of unrelated but I just remembered the Thanksgiving episode that was a parody of the first Thor movie. They like going back to Thor. Band in China was 2019, still a bit old.
But they just covered woke Disney in 2023. I don't see the same potential in this concept that you see. It would be more interesting if they parodies feminist movies using Wicked. Wicked was actually successful too so it's seems more worthy of a takedown than Eternals or Ironheart or whatever particular Marvel flop you think they need to make an entire episode about.

>>212282918
No, I don’t. It’s literally just >>212278130, except it happens so often the woke think it’s white noise.

>>212282984
At least three different retail customers have called me woke for telling them their coupon doesn't work.

>>212264337
I don't mind satirical or political humor but when they outright said "Do not vote for trump" thats when the humor went out the window and they're clearly paid off by democratic party

>>212282709
>Trey is a literal cuckold with a black kid
Matt is married to the sheboon, Trey has a daughter who looks white at a glance. You ok, hun?

>>212265846
>Kanye saying Jews control Hollywood
They built Hollywood. Literally fucking built it themselves. With hammers and nails.

>>212283090
It's always worth remembering that people will behave towards and treat retail employees in ways that they never would if another real person was involved.
Have you ever shouted at an inanimate object that malfunctioned? It's like that.

>>212283090
>tripfag admits he’s a Best Buy wagie
Big oof

>>212283313
>Republicans are against jobs now
Keep that pendulum a-swingin', R-tard.

>>212283313
>>212283258
Don’t reply to tripfags/namefags

>>212283669
fair, paying back the captcha you had to solve to post that

>>212281378
I don't watch it, dumbass.

>>212283962
You said you did. Either way youtube has correctly determined you’re a moron.

>>212283151
>they're clearly paid off by democratic party
yeah only the democrats would be opposed to the insanity that is trump

>>212283988
Well, if I didn't watch it and it still showed, then what? I'm still a moron?

>>212284168
Just admit you want to get gay married to Spic Fuentes

>>212264293 (OP)
The real question is will Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the biggest Zion shills, defend or criticize Israel in the show?

>>212284066
Dude, I voted for Trump three times in a row!

>>212264293 (OP)
>double-dip and put dozens if not hundreds of jobs in jeopardy because you want to fund your own personal childhood nostalgia trip
I will never feel any kind of sympathy for these selfish kikes.

>>212284494
Will Matt and Trey prostrate themselves in front of Palestine so I can see if they pass my moral shittest because I'm a weird brain broken retard?

>>212284658
Ironic.

>I’ve worked out a deal with some pretty powerful people.
https://youtu.be/Qgy2iX8Sn6o?si=dBZHR7cbaiC1VOhm
These are the powers that be in control of everything that Garrison cuts a deal with to save his ass. Matt Stone and his assistant Trey Parker, the hollywood elite, and Israel.

>>212284421
That's oddly specific. Projection much?

>>212284066
>Vote Hillary guys c'mon seriously

Hilarious when they had to scrap their original plan after Trump won

>>212285308
Only in a cosmic sense. The season sucked afterwards.