I don’t see a recent general discussion of South Park, so here it is.
I appreciated last night’s Not Suitable For Children episode. If you don’t have a middle schooler who loves Prime hydration drink, its premise may have been lost on you.
Overall, I think it was the right angle to joke about the fact that “It’s shameful to advertise things only intended for adults towards children,”…while having a television show that kids will see…that is only for adults.
Seriously, Prime Hydration drink is out of control in middle schools.
I was just trying to think about the last time I watched South Park with any regularity – probably the 2016 season? I just remember it because they’d built the story of the season around the assumption that Hillary would win the election and had to swerve.
It’s not like I made a decision to stop watching, I adored South Park for much of my youth. I just kind of drifted away.
It’s a little sad to look at the viewership numbers over the years, going from regularly drawing 3 million U.S. viewers to only one episode in this latest season topping half a million. That’s obviously not a trend unique to South Park.
The Prime fad seems to have run its course here. During the summer it seemed to be rare and would disappear just as fast as they put it out. Now I see pallets of the stuff sitting in grocery stores marked down not moving. I think the kids have moved on to other stuff.
Oh. I’m not subscribed to “specials,” so I missed this, and apparently an episode in October. Calling these “specials” instead of “episodes” apparently helps them avoid a commitment to Max.
On August 5, 2021, Comedy Central announced that Parker and Stone signed a $900 million deal for extending the series to 30 seasons through 2027.[14] The deal also included a series of 14 films for Paramount+, which are released twice per year.[15] Parker and Stone later denied that the projects were films, and clarified that it was ViacomCBS (currently Paramount Global) which decided to advertise them as such.[16] Paramount+ advertises the projects as “exclusive events”, and they are generally accepted to be television specials.