Not Funny
- Episode aired Nov 30, 2016
- TV-MA
- 22m
IMDb RATING
7.3/10
1.9K
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Cartman decides to go to Mars, Mr. Garrison seeks revenge on the people of South Park.Cartman decides to go to Mars, Mr. Garrison seeks revenge on the people of South Park.Cartman decides to go to Mars, Mr. Garrison seeks revenge on the people of South Park.
Trey Parker
- Stan Marsh
- (voice)
- …
Matt Stone
- Kyle Broflovski
- (voice)
- …
April Stewart
- Sharon Marsh
- (voice)
Mona Marshall
- Sheila Broflovski
- (voice)
- …
Jessica Makinson
- Heidi Turner
- (voice)
John 'Nancy' Hansen
- Mr. Slave
- (voice)
- (as John Hansen)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWhen Kyle asks his brother Ike (who is played by Betty Boogie Parker) where'd he learn to talk like that, Ike responds "Daddy." Betty who is Trey Parker's daughter, was being told to say the lines from her father.
- GoofsIt makes no sense for Kyle to let himself be persuaded by his father to take over the trolling for him. All Gerald has done to persuade him is insult Kyle and everything he believes in.
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This season has officially flown over the heads of its audience.
This season is just teeming with interwoven plot lines and has a pace, that makes in an amazing thing to watch. But this episode, they've officially broken the awesome meter and went waayy over the complexity level most people (in the US) can handle.
So as good as the show is, as unfortunate is the situation: If people can't follow it anymore, the most beautiful structure will look like meaningless chaos, confusing and empty, and people can't feel it either.
That's why we see so many people saying that it doesn't make sense, that they lost their ways, that it's not funny, or a mess It *is* to *them*. Which is a problem, if *them* — however limited they may be — are most of your audience and the reason you can finance it in the first place.
This is an old familiar pattern.
The same thing happened to Revolver, that film by Guy Richie, that was nearly universally hated in the UK and US, but is considered the best movie he ever made and nothing short of a masterpiece here in Germany and many other countries. It takes a *lot* of brains, and I'm not just talking about obsessive logic skills, to fully follow that film. I can completely see how it might just look like nonsense, if some of the parts went over your head.
So I'm afraid this episode marks where this Phoenix flew too high, and burnt itself on the clouds of the minds that lifted him.
Let's hope the show is international enough by now, that Comedy Central can just ignore a soon-to-come regional ratings drop. Because I'd be very sad to miss this, after *twenty years*, still best show currently on television.
WATCH IT WHILE YOU STILL CAN.
So as good as the show is, as unfortunate is the situation: If people can't follow it anymore, the most beautiful structure will look like meaningless chaos, confusing and empty, and people can't feel it either.
That's why we see so many people saying that it doesn't make sense, that they lost their ways, that it's not funny, or a mess It *is* to *them*. Which is a problem, if *them* — however limited they may be — are most of your audience and the reason you can finance it in the first place.
This is an old familiar pattern.
The same thing happened to Revolver, that film by Guy Richie, that was nearly universally hated in the UK and US, but is considered the best movie he ever made and nothing short of a masterpiece here in Germany and many other countries. It takes a *lot* of brains, and I'm not just talking about obsessive logic skills, to fully follow that film. I can completely see how it might just look like nonsense, if some of the parts went over your head.
So I'm afraid this episode marks where this Phoenix flew too high, and burnt itself on the clouds of the minds that lifted him.
Let's hope the show is international enough by now, that Comedy Central can just ignore a soon-to-come regional ratings drop. Because I'd be very sad to miss this, after *twenty years*, still best show currently on television.
WATCH IT WHILE YOU STILL CAN.
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- evimchine
- Nov 30, 2016
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