Is it as bad as people say it is or is it just people being

>>86270256
Bad about what?

I felt it was pretty pointless.
There were many south park episodes that successfully blended tragedy with humor (see : Kenny Dies) but there isn't even a single joke in that one.

>>86270321
The episode, Stanley's Cup. A lot of people complained about it, especially the ending.

>>86270402
Why?
What happened?

>>86270256
It's just people being over sensitive.

>>86270402
What's the big deal?

South Park's whole shtick for the past two decades has been to shock and offend. People should expect that by now.

>>86270256

It was just ribbing typical uplifting sports films, I guess there was trouble stretching it out to a half hour.

>>86270389
I liked it.

>Its as if his cancer is... tied

>>86270256
I think it was fucked up. I didn't find it funny.

>>86270256
People don't like this episode?

I liked the episode. I think many people often get so hung up on how stuff ends that they forget all the funny stuff they enjoyed before. As if every enjoyable moment retroactively becomes terrible.

>>86270570
>>86270691
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley%27s_Cup

It's more or less a parody of sports films and tropes. Underdog teams, cancer patients, freeze-frames, and the like.

>>86270691
>>86270570
If I'm not wrong one of the kids was on the hospital, and Stanley's team lost and the kid died

>>86270570
If I remember correctly, a kid with cancer dies. His last wish was for Stan to have his team win the Hockey Game. Stan failed and the kid dies knowing this.

>>86270570
I was gonna tell you to just watch it, but then I remembered that southparkstudios is dead.

Basically they had Stan coach a peewee hockey team and in the end they... what's the word... did the opposite of the sports movie trope of the team winning in the end. The kids played against the professional team The something Redwings and literally got their asses kicked and one of the team members died in the hospital of cancer (because they lost). The end.

People had a problem with it being such a downer episode? That's the whole fucking point. I guess the problem is uplifting sports movies about underdogs aren't as prevalent these days, so it feels out of place. If it were am early series episode, nobody would've batted an eye at it.

>>86270895
It's not dead. I'm on the site right now.

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>>86270895
>Southparkstudios is dead

>>86270256
What's hilarious is how they show it as an inspiring game for the Redwings. All the celebrating with bloodied kids beneath them.

>>86271224
>>86271235
It might as well be dead though
Hulu is cancer

>>86271385
http://southpark.cc.com/full-episodes/s10e14-stanleys-cup

I thought it was hilarious because it was so dark and depressing and Stan does everything wrong

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>>86270256
At the ending I was pretty much pic related.

>>86271489
>Dark and depressing
Was I the only one laughing at the kids pain? I mean, if it were real kids, sure, but it's cartoon kids, they're not real. It's okay to laugh at cartoon children getting brutalized and dying of cancer, right?

>>86271635
Its okay, I thought it was too.

>>86270256
I also kinda imagine a lot of people that get upset over it miss the other half of the joke.

Yeah, it's dark and sad that the little cancer kid dies.
But at the same time, the opposing team is basically going full "We are the Champions" sports film ending with people reconciling and business being taken care of.

The point was that both sides had their own sports movie going on that we just didn't know about, and Stan's team wasn't the only one that really wanted to win.

haters gonna hate. I loved this episode

>>86271621
This.

>>86271754
No, the ending was pretty amusing there. But overall it was just kind of boring. It was a one note joke sort of episode, and most of it just wasn't all that entertaining. I didn't offend me or disgust me or upset me or anything. It just wasn't very good, and what made it not very good was intended.

The best scene in this episode was after the actual hockey team won and they all celebrated as if it was their hardest game ever.

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>>86271235
>>86271450
>http://southpark.cc.com/full-episodes/s10e14-stanleys-cup

>>86272548
Wow. That is some real bullshit there.

>>86270256
I never had a problem with it

People are too sensitive

>>86272548
It's like they're asking me to just torrent the show.

*record scratch*

>>86270256
As a die-hard hockey fan, I loved the episode and callbacks to my time peewee hockey.

Plus, watching peewee players vs NHL'ers was hilarious.

I'm not an american - how many hours to next episode?

Seriously.

There should be some sort of catharsis to these kind of jokes.

Stan got seriously fucked there, easily rivaling douche and turd.

Someone should have shoved that portable disc player into the commisioners ass! He started all of that bullshit!

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>>86270256
Oversensitive. Everyone finds South Park funny until it makes fun of something they enjoy or believe.

Sometimes a joke works because of how heinous it is. Seeing the kids bloodied and crying, especially "I hate you coach" just makes the other team's generic sports ending funnier.

The kid dying at the end is supposed to be that final "holy fuck" moment. It isn't even, in itself, meant to be funny.

>>86270389
It's not a tragedy, it's a parody.

Is it weird that I enjoy watching this show but don't find it funny, like the only time I laughed was when Mackey was shitting his pants and when that realistic looking monster ate Kenny in school and Cartman started crying about how poor his mom was

It varies from person to person. I mean, I can see what the joke is, I just didn't find it funny. Others do.

>>86271754

Also pointing out the absurd coincidences in these movies where the people playing/coaching always have some totally unrelated drama that gets resolved just around the same time that they manage to win the big game. The movies often imply the two are related.

So of course, the inverse must be true, right? You lose the big game, so your attempt to reunite with your estranged family fails, the dumb kid fails his final test, and the kid with the terminal illness doesn't get better.

>>86271635
Just keep telling yourself that. You're not being desensitized at all, faggot.

>>86271635
No you weren't, and yes it's perfectly fine and normal, because it's not real and the subverted expectations made it funny.

A lot of /co/ is just incredibly autistic when it comes to treating comics and cartoons and their characters as though they're real, like you should feel empathy with with fictional characters who can feel no pain, or treating lolicon as though it was actual child abuse.

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Would you say this episode was mean spirited?

It turns out in the end, the big match was an uplifting story for the rival team. Remember when the hockey player is reconciling with his estranged father?

Stanley's Cup is the best episode of South Park.

>>86275133
Not really; We're not laughing at the kid, we're laughing at the absurdity of the situation and parody of sports film cliches.

>>86271635
i laughed at the unexpected plot twist

>>86270895

Detroit

I honestly thought it was really funny.

This was always my favorite episode. It was just so brutal. And pointless. Like live.

>>86276053
Life*

The only time violence against children is funny is when the target is either Cartman or Kenny.

>>86276183
Lol white knight.

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>>86276183
>The only time violence against children is funny is when the target is either Cartman or Kenny

How many episodes does Cartman actually get his comeuppance in? I know there's some in the earlier seasons but it seems like all the new episodes have him getting away scott-free

>>86276261
Last year's season premiere had PCP beating Cartman to a pulp. The scene went on for like 5 minutes. The livethread was nuts.

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>>86270256
i liked it

no real message but its funny parody about sports films

How long until the new season?

>>86276369
West coast anon here, for me its a little over 4 hours from now.

>>86270256
OP was just a regular guy with everything going for him until one day

>record scratch

...he had to form an opinion for himself.

>cue upbeat music

Now this once lurking anon is gonna go out of his way to search among his peers for acknowledgement and discussion as he unsuccessfully tries to form an unbiased opinion.

Coming this summer:

It Doesn't Matter If It's Bad As Long As You Get a Laugh Out of It
>Rated PG 13

>>86276299
Got a link to the livethread?

>>86270256
The latter. People on /co/ are notorious for being sensitive faggots, you should know that by now.

>>86272646
>ROB SCHNEIDER IS

>>86273145
Any descent to this opinion is an admission of this, no? PC season sucked ass and stanley's cup sucked ass. There is no joke.

>>86277509
This is /co/mblr after all.

>>86270805
a bad ending can ruin an otherwise good episode, it's like if you were enjoying a nice stew and then someone took a dump in it before you could finish it(and to make matters worse this episode wasn't even all that good before the ending)

>>86275133
honestly yes, people overuse that term, but it definitely fit with that episode

>>86270797
before 1% this was my least favorite, nothing about it was funny and the ending was fail

Boondocks did the plot better with their basketball episode, you know I'm right

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>>86277594
>PC season sucked ass

It's not as good as it was, I miss when the comedy came from irreverent things over current events. Stuff like Robert Smith secretly being mothra, or the Loch-Ness Monster.

>>86276299
And not only that, but Cartman was too afraid of the power of PC to ruin lives to plot revenge.

>>86278151
There's no joke in the entire season. It's just SP characters mugging about internet shit with no punchline, and then the conclusion was "ads." Awful

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>>86278257
Them constantly roasting Tom Brady in the season premire was hilarious. And the gags with Stan trying to shop at Whole Foods and endlessly being hit up for charity was hysterical.

And Leslie was kinda heartbreaking.

>>86278257
>There's no joke in the entire season.

Strawman arguments won't lead you anywhere, anon.


Seriously, the internet would be so much better if people tried to be fair about shit instead of going hyperbole about and call it a day

>>86278419
You mean Randy

>>86270256
It used to be one of my favorite episodes but then I recently rewatched it last year and now I hate it. Huh.

>>86278539
The phrase is "straw man" and that's not a straw man argument.

>>86278419
>And Leslie was kinda heartbreaking.
The fact that her character wasn't even used and that ads weren't even mentioned until 2 (maybe) episodes before the finale makes the whole conclusion feel rushed. They clearly banked the entire season on Jerry Seinfeld-ing tumblr shit like safe spaces and lambasting PC ideals instead writing an actual plot. It's like if Orgazmo was just about a mormon doing porn and the characters reacting like "Huh, a mormon...doing porn...hmmm" for an entire season.

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>>86278580
D'oh. Yeah, Stan.

>>86278712
>hating on Leslie

How could you?

It was a slow build through the entire season.

Matt and Trey go out of their way to stomp on sjw/bleeding heart libs so I'd say if it goes too far, that's the whole point.

>>86278761
>It was a slow build through the entire season.
It was a slow build to nothing then in the last episodes they did the whole blade runner with ads plot.

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>>86278817
It was based off of Ex Machina (with ads) if anything.

>>86270256
It was funny

>>86270256
>We're deader than Steve Irwin in a tank of stingrays
>No... nooo... *flatlines*
>Estranged father and son are reunited out of nowhere at the end
>STAN MARSH WAS AN AVERAGE BOY...
I fucking love this episode.

>>86277745
You sounded like you were going to make a good point then ended with a shit analogy which are often tiresome and stupid (ironically proving your point about how the end can ruin something)

That Safe Space episode layed it on really fucking thick. It was ok but it left a weird taste in my mouth.

>>86270895
And people enjoy this?

>>86279034
Reality was one of the funniest bits I've seen on South Park.

>>86279056
>asking this in a South Park thread

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>>86270256
People complained about this episode? It was hilarious. It's so over the top how the fuck can people be offended.