Board 8 > South Park, S21E03 - Holiday Special

(+) Yeah! (+)

An undeniable bond is formed in an all-new episode of South Park entitled Holiday Special on Wednesday, September 27 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT on Comedy Central.

In a return to form, a forbidden love story between a white man and a Native American man unfolds. However, the boys story exploits peoples misery for laughs.
4 ½ out of 5 stars. A-


Gotta believe that last line with scores has importance to this episode. Episode title is strangely on the nose yet vague enough too.
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The description makes me think we're getting a Columbus Day episode...odd holiday to choose, but why not.
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About to start...!

I'll have to catch the replay if I get home at a reasonable hour (probably won't).
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dat sync
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yeah I was about to say is it just me or is the audio out of sync
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I didn't notice it. Has it been the whole episode?
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seems fine now
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I'm loving this episode
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Coming on in a minute...gonna get to catch it!
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+ The DNA Testing commercial was great
+ Randy freaking out and trying to clear the house was really funny, most especially the reactions of Sharon and Shelly. "I don't give a shit about Colombus." Love how Randy is trying to thrust his own blame onto other people. Classic white guilt persona: Stoked on [idea] > It's decided that [idea] is offensive > blames literally everyone else but himself for supposedly being so into [idea] and leads the charge on needing to eradicate [idea] from all memory.
+ Kenny actually had stuff to do! Nice!
+ Cartman literally believing that all Columbus cared about was getting kids a day off from "skewl" and that's what the holiday is all about. The motivational speech was great.

- Despite it being a good episode I'm pretty tired of Randy so constantly getting such a huge focus on the show. As soon as they had the scene in the gymnasium and then revealed that one person in particular was responsible for the holiday being cancelled I pretty much immediately knew who it was going to be. Show has become way too predictable at this point.

I will say that opposed to the last two weeks I thought the payoff to the main plot was very strong. The Neanderthal bit was great, hilarious, and built perfectly on everything that came before.
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Lots of fun lines here.

Cartman's rhymes
Randy needing three minutes
"Being a victim has its downsides"
That ending

South Park's comfortably 3/3 with me so far this season. South Park has arrived this season.
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i love randy's continued existence within social justice being just stereotypical SJW bullshit.
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Eh I didn't really feel it this episode. Some of it was funny, but it's probably not an episode I'd care to rewatch

South Park delivered for sure this week, pretty good episode.

Also note there won't be a new episode next week.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/southpark/comments/73arug/i_can_no_longer_differentiate_satire_and_reality/

fucking hell

I think I just bumped this episode another point for being so pre-emptively relevant
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...that's amazing to predict within a week. sure if it's previous people or those more in the future i get it but the same week as release? damn.
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yeah this kind of hypocrisy is pretty common, it's more the timing of it and the sheer level of similarity that is relevant
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