Current Events > South Park's 1-hour Season 24 Premier "The Pandemic Special

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Starts in 30min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6bEaBeOVkg



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox1x-OzxRII

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When does it air on HBO Max tho
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Anyone know when this will hit Hulu or HBO Max?

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I just watched it. Didn't like it.

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It was good. Not great except for a part or two

Looks like it's been shelved for a month or so, so I'm hoping the newer episodes hit on more redic stuff

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I found it

New episodes of South Park will be made available on HBO Max 24 hours after they premiere on Comedy Central. That means youll be able to stream The Pandemic Special starting on Thursday, October 1 at 8/7c p.m.

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Is there anywhere to stream this? Ive been wanting to watch it.

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Its on Comedy Central now. And most of CE is going to hate it lol


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Let me guess... they did their tired late-2000s style "both sides" bullshit?

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Shadowplay posted...

Let me guess... they did their tired late-2000s style "both sides" bullshit?

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masticatingman posted...

Its on Comedy Central now. And most of CE is going to hate it lol

I dont have cable tho

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WTF, i just noticed its a literal repeat? is today not wednesday? don't dey ALWAYS air da new episodes on wednesdays at 10 pm???

WTF IS GOING ON WITH DA WORLD
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I assume it'll somehow portray anti-maskers/covid denialists and people really concerned about the disease as somehow equally terrible

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox1x-OzxRII

Was that kid pouring milk on cheetos at 0:17? The fuck?
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ssj3vegeta posted...

WTF, i just noticed its a literal repeat? is today not wednesday? don't dey ALWAYS air da new episodes on wednesdays at 10 pm???

WTF IS GOING ON WITH DA WORLD

Calm down and take some ginseng veggie

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I predict they will exaggerate the beliefs of both sides and make fun of them.

Then both sides will get butthurt.

Can someone send me a link to where I can watch it? Please and thank you.

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It was okay. I only laughed a few times.

Kind of disappointing, though. I felt like they could have done so much more with it.

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Meh

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How the pandemic started, wow...

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Hahaha, this is actually already way funnier than I was expecting.


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Unsugarized_Foo posted...

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I would actually be quite happy for them to take the sensible position on something.

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FFS Randy XD

and oh god that scene before the commercial break.....

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Doom_Art posted...

I assume it'll somehow portray anti-maskers/covid denialists and people really concerned about the disease as somehow equally terrible

Nope. It's mostly been about how Randy fucked a bat and a pangolin in China, and now it's poking fun at police officers, who became school teachers and shot Token. They've barely touched on masks.

Sorry to disappoint you.

EDIT: Now it's actively making fun of Trump and anti-maskers.

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https://www.twitch.tv/dankdragonlive

If you want to watch the special, it's being livestreamed here.
You're welcome.

It's pretty funny, although...I actually think South Park might get cancelled for this because people it's going to piss a lot of folks off.

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lincoln002 posted...

https://www.twitch.tv/dankdragonlive

If you want to watch the special, it's being livestreamed here.
You're welcome.

It's pretty funny, although...I actually think South Park might get cancelled for this because people it's going to piss a lot of folks off.

Bullshit. They'll never get cancelled.

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I was worried Randy would dominate the special with his weed schtick, and he did. BUT at least he didn't just spend the whole time trying to sell weed at the expense of his family, I guess.

The funniest part is probably when Randy sneaks into the research lab, or seeing how happy Eric is about quarantining.

The episode totally fizzles out though. People start getting mustaches, but that doesn't go anywhere like I was hoping it would. I don't get why Cartman is convinced by Stan's little speech at the end. And it was lame the way they used mr garrison at the end to try to close the story. Also I don't understand what the point was in saying OH NO it was actually a pangolin, NOT a bat, like what was the point of that? I think they're cute but I don't get what point there was in doing that. The imagery of Randy fucking a pangolin is no more ridiculous than him fucking a bat.

Overall it's a pretty crappy story, but still it is kind of fun to see them TRYING to make something relevant even though the storytelling is bad.

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Here's the synopsis for anyone who's curious:

Spoilers obviously.

Randy starts a Tegridy Farms weed special to make extra money for his marijuana business. But after watching a news report, he freaks out cuz he remembers that him and Mickey Mouse had sex with a bat and a pangolin in China, and Randy got sick afterwards, thinking it was just the flu, but he unknowingly started the COVID pandemic. He starts to feel really bad as he wanders the streets and sees people dying and stores closing, and begins to question if the pandemic special was a good idea.

Cartman is enjoying school at home, until the district announces kids are gonna start going back to in-person learning. However, they don't have enough teachers anymore, so the police department (who lost all their funding) are hired as teachers. Cartman gets into a fight with Kyle on the first day of school, and the cop-teachers start shooting at everyone, and manage to shoot Token.

The police don't want anyone to know they shot a kid, so they make a giant coverup where they tell everyone that one of the students had to go to the hospital "due to coronavirus", and tricks the school into forcing all the children being forced to quarantine at the school for 14 days.

Randy sees another news report saying they found the pangolin that originally caught COVID, and are close to discovering a vaccine from it. They point out it has some other species DNA in it, and think that's the key to making a cure. Randy hears this and realizes if they do that, they'll find his sperm in the pangolin, and know he caused everything, so he kidnaps the pangolin.
Randy then figures if his DNA is the key to a vaccine, he can put his sperm into his weed and sell it to people. He tries it out on Jimbo, who's dying of COVID, and it works at first. But after he starts this on a widescale level, it turns out that it caused a new COVID strain that makes people grow moustaches like Randy.

The kids eventually break out of school, which throws everyone into chaos, because they think the kids are all sick. Everybody riots, and so the police convince the mayor to give them their funding back, which leads to the cops driving tanks and military vessels into the streets, where they just kill people on the spot for being outside.

Randy gets so guilty that he decides to give the pangolin back to scientists so they can make a vaccine. At the last second, Cartman grabs it, and is going to kill it, but then Stan makes a poignant speech about how he misses normal life, and how if they can have the vaccine, everything can go back to normal. Cartman actually has a moment of humility, and gives the pangolin back to the scientist.

The scientist declares that they can now come up with a vaccine and everyone can work together to make things right again, but then Donald Trump-Garrison shows up and uses a flamethrower to kill the scientist and the pangolin. (Earlier in the episode, Trump-Garrison tells Stan that he isn't gonna do anything to help the pandemic, because it's killing a lot of Mexican people.)

Tegridy farms gets set on fire, and Randy has to close the farm for good, before he gets ready to tell Sharon the truth about how he started the pandemic. But as he's about to, he notices she has a mustache, meaning she has the new strain of COVID you get from Randy's sperm-weed. He asks if she's been smoking any, and she says "No, you know I dont smoke marijuana." Randy knows she's lying, gets annoyed, and says "Know what, I think I'll do a few more specials after all." before leaving.

Overall, honest to God, that was the most I've laughed at South Park in like 5 years. I wish they'd take their time and put effort into episodes like this more often.

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Johnny_Nutcase posted...

It's pretty funny, although...I actually think South Park might get cancelled for this because people it's going to piss a lot of folks off.

Matt and Trey would consider that a victory I think. They joked about the #cancelsouthpark thing a few years ago

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just finished it. it was kinda like a second South Park Movie almost. I liked it mostly

SuperExcitebike posted...

Matt and Trey would consider that a victory I think. They joked about the #cancelsouthpark thing a few years ago

You misquoted the fuck out of me. That was someone else who said that.

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so, there really weren't any pandas involved? I was so sure Sharon's strange pronunciation of pandemic in the commercial was a tell. guess it was just a hint of an accent.

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Johnny_Nutcase posted...

You misquoted the fuck out of me. That was someone else who said that.

Was just highlighting what I wanted to respond to. The quote system is pretty screwed here

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So is this a part of Season 24 or just a special?

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Blue_Target posted...

So is this a part of Season 24 or just a special?

First episode of S24

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Wetterdew posted...

The episode totally fizzles out though. People start getting mustaches, but that doesn't go anywhere like I was hoping it would. I don't get why Cartman is convinced by Stan's little speech at the end. And it was lame the way they used mr garrison at the end to try to close the story. Also I don't understand what the point was in saying OH NO it was actually a pangolin, NOT a bat, like what was the point of that? I think they're cute but I don't get what point there was in doing that. The imagery of Randy fucking a pangolin is no more ridiculous than him fucking a bat.

It's a little thing called a joke

The fact that Randy had intercourse with more than one animal had me on the floor laughing

I love South park, watch re-runs several times a week, but this was so boring and could've been so much better.

I guess it doesn't help that the Tegridy Farms thing isn't really that funny. Like it would be a fun thing to focus on for one episode per season, like how they do with PC Principal now ever since the season they introduced him.

But they've been letting Tegridy Farms take over entire seasons in a row, and it's just so played out. It's good for a funny episode every now and then like when Randy works with Towelie to destroy the vaping syndicate, but South Park tends to overdo things when they serialize their episodes. Just like the god awful season 20 with its constant low-hanging fruit Trump humor.

I also hate how they made Mr. Garrison be Trump. Garrison was probably the funniest character in the show and now he's relegated to slightly edgier versions of recycled Trevor Noah () Trump jokes.

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Also lmao at the person in this topic who suggested THIS episode of all things would be what gets South Park canceled. How old are you?

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It was surprisingly okay. Wasn't great but there were some funny bits. Overall better than the last few seasons.
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