Sharon chastising Stan "What have I told you about playing Warhammer on the kitchen table?" also means that Stan, in his geeky way, had been low-key rebelling against his mother all spring break. If only Randy could have appreciated it.
I looked at it more like Randy tried to get stan off the table for a little while and did all those crazy things and Sharon straight up says "You can't play on the kitchen table" showing us how simple it really was.
Dickinbaus was easily my favorite episode this season. Of course, I'm a sucker for Butters centric episodes though. He's just easily my favorite character in the show.
I love how it blew up in Cartman's face. Kenny and Butters made bank, while Cartman walked away with nothing. Also parallels the post-Covid special, since we know that Kenny, Butters, and Jimmy end up becoming the richest out of all the South Park Elementary alum when they grow up. Butters's work ethic especially parallels it since we know he ends up becoming a businessman.
@@mattjayce2339 in the new future butters did end up looking like he got the short of the stick however, in both futures he didn't get the best, but a server in a restaurant is 100% a better career decision than an NFT salesman
Personally I thought Worldwide Privacy Tour was one of the best episodes they’ve ever done. There is a bit that almost no one has caught but it’s brilliant. Notice how the Prince only does drum fills when he practices as opposed to actually playing a grove. It’s such a deep implication that he never played with anyone.
I thought that episode was the worst. Nobody cares about the royal family. It could have been a good bit but didn't really need to be a whole episode, especially since there are only 6
That episode was the most pathetic and shallow one. The claim that's been made that Prince Harry and Meghan complained has already been shown to be a total lie made up by media. Some people just like the misogynoir culture war.
This really feels like a return to form for South Park and I love it. That line “A Lord of the Rings prequel?! What were you thinking?!” straight up had me laughing for a good three minutes.
It's really nice to see Kenny and Cartman have their own episode after they'd been distant in past seasons. The boys used to be structured like Stan and Kyle are friends, Kenny and Cartman are friends, and because Stan and Kyle get along with Kenny they sort of just *end up* hanging out with Cartman. So, reinforcing Kenny and Cartman's friendship was both sorely needed and refreshing.
It really shows how making South Park has become less about making a good show and more about having fun for Trey. The character was just distracting, I figured I had missed a plot point from some other episode when it appeared cause it stood out so much.
@@SwordHandler222 I mean a lot of the newer episodes have been pretty good quality wise, if they're having fun with the series it just means more good episodes to come.
I’m so upset this was a short season. I know why (the specials and such) but considering they can pump these out with incredible quality in just a week, makes me wish for more. Maybe it’s just me being greedy, but I feel like we just didn’t get enough.
@@azure2635 lmao back then it was nun hit 12+ episodes n it was all quality, the guys are just somewhat greedy still luv their shit though , I’m taking a guess ur young so I’m not surprised
Toilet paper is made mostly from excess pulp that gets made from the sawdust and branches that timber companies don’t use. We cut down trees pretty much ONLY for timber. There is enough sawdust and other plants to make paper out of, visit a paper plant.
And of course wood is a renewable resource. The people that own woods don’t want a one time payout, they’re interested in continued income. And for that they need constant wood. So they plant new trees for the ones they cut down, to ensure a continuation of timber. And we all know trees create oxygen, so in a way, using more paper is encouraging the planting of more green trees!
Stan is also mentioned in prior seasons with episodes like “freemium gaming” as having addiction problems and using board games to deal with it. So in the episode “Spring Break” him playing board games is Stan’s version of rebelling and having a “Wild bender” of a spring break
@@nickrustyson8124 that would make sense! if your family has a history of addiction, you can be more susceptible. It's why I'm super cautious of alcohol
I always thought it was cool they kept up with that! Like even in a season 23 episode the one where strong woman enters a competition, Eric, Stan, Butters, Clyde, and Scott have a game club and Eric was upset over stuff and Stan just started naming off a bunch of games and Kyle was like ‘dude you’re really into board games’ lol super funny he really did have a wild week
This was a brilliant way to put all your thoughts together and reusing the breakdowns in this way doesn’t feel like a “compilation of videos.” Keep up the great work dude!
I think the Andrew Tate "copout" (rename, w/e) is because he technically hasn't been convicted, so it might be legally irresponsible to put it directly in the episode.
I really enjoyed the Japanese toilet episode, I was in the hospital recovering after nearly dying from Covid, it was a definite mood lifter after waking up for the first time in days and seeing a good new South Park episode
the jump in numbers is because south park clips on tiktok started to get a bunch of traction, and unlike family guy when it was huge on tiktok, south park clips make you want to go and watch more south park to get the context of the crazy stuff that’s happening in them, and a lot of young people use tiktok and most of those people are also on youtube so the traction that it gains on tiktok would translate onto youtube
You know what really makes me confused is Trump was actually a character in an earlier season episode. The one where garrison makes a new mode of transportation and has an investors meeting and trump is in attendance. Kinda funny they turned Harrison into trump
That was before Trump made a complete ass out of himself on the global stage. He was too toxic even for Matt and Trey, so they had Garrison kill him off and fill in. Nobody was expecting him to actually win the election.
I don’t watch South Park but I have started watching all your breakdowns because my fiancé does and I am a big fan of your adult animation breakdowns (like the BoJack videos)
i hit send too early on my comment, but now when my fiancé watches the show and wants to talk about the episodes with me, it’s a lot easier because he’ll start explaining to me the premise and i’m like “oh no i don’t need the background, i watched a Johnny 2 Cellos video about it” and then it helps him to tell me his thoughts without needing to synopsis. Your explanations almost make me want to watch South Park.
@@catears_jpg577 you should! I always recommend starting from season 5 and just continuing onward from there. You can watch the early seasons later but it’s kinda hard to get into if you start with seasons 1-4 imo
Wasn't a big fan of Cupid Ye and especially The World Wide Privacy Tour, but after that the season really kicked in for me and I loved the other episodes. My favourite was definitely Dikinbaums Hot Dogs but I'd probably need to rewatch them before ranking the others
Same those two episodes I didn’t care about but I Cupid ye was definitely better than privately tour imo. It was trying too hard in my opinion so I couldn’t laugh
@@iBloodxHunter yeah, I found it kinda too obvious and not that funny with its commentary, but I wouldn't call it terrible. It's far from South Park's best but I still liked some parts of it
Personally, I think that South Park as well as Trey and Matt, have done well remaining popular after so long whereas other animated shows (The Simpsons and Family Guy specifically) have outstayed their welcome for FAR TO LONG, it just goes to show that South Park will hopefully never lose their edge.
For sure the quality of episodes have been better this year. Although, I feel like creators like you, and Blooms have helped get people interested again. You guys put out good commentary on an already phenomenal show. I know you reinstalled my love for the show, so I just want to say thank you.
On your point about the Prince and Princess having lived in Cartman’s house not being mentioned. It can brought up later as a tidbit in a future episode. Maybe mentioning that the house had gone up in value as former celebrity house would be a nice way for Lianne to put Eric in his place. Or simply a visual gag of the Cartman house having a historical plaque by the front door would be pretty funny.
My favorite recent episode of South Park was Basically Cable which focuses on Scott Makleson who of course is diabetic and since I’m diabetic I love it even more
In regards to the conspiracy theory; Matt Stone has made it _abundantly_ clear that he knows who it is that's keeping his bread buttered, and to appreciate his circumstantial success... 6 Days to Air used the analogy of van Halen; their creative engine being primarily Eddie with the writing songs and lyrics, but without DLR, it just isn't VanHalen. (Matt is David Lee Roth, Trey is Eddie.) But I don't see ANY scenario where Matt rocks that boat.
A thing about AI art everyone ignores but is pretty real: AI art is actually more expensive for big companies because it never generates whatever it thinks you want. An artist can fix and clean the stuff you don't need/feel off/awkward/whatever. AI prompters are most tech geeks with no artistic vision who think everything that looks pretty is what the client needs. There have been records of hiring managers on Twitter saying that would love to hire an artist instead of prompters because unlike them, artists actually listen to them and know what they are doing instead of having what is basically a slot machine randomly generating pictures. What is more expensive? 1 art commission of say, 500$ that is exactly what they need, or 10 sets of 5 prompts costed at around the same price each, hoping they will get a result that they like? The biggest offender are chinese game devs. Some of them tweeted that AI actual screwed them over and started hiring human artists again because they much more resourceful.
I saw the shamen in the AI episode as a message on; “It’s impossible to differentiate AI from human if it’s doing its job”. Kind of a superstition is the only option thing.
season 26 was neat, more balanced compared to season 25 and having more episodes focused on the characters that also happen to have references to current topics, my ranking would be Dikinbaus hot dogs Deep Learning Japanese Toilet Spring Break Cupid Ye Worldwide privacy tour
32:37 “Art requires human experience, & I’ll never waiver on that opinion.” The WGA & SAG-AFTRA agree with you. Hopefully something similar can be done for animation & voice actors
You mentioned stan and Wendy’s odd relationship and the fractured but whole, I just finished that game last week, I noticed something odd about Wendy in the game. Her character sheet identifies her as gender-fluid (clearly referencing Wendell in cissies) and polysexual. Her combat dialogue involves flirting with multiple of the boys, but mostly the new kid
Joel Haver using AI rotoscoping: makes his own keyframes, and tells his audience to draw their own as well Corridor: Straight up uses some other anime. draws none of their own keyframes. doesn't tell others to draw their own.
May I say an unpopular opinion? Okay. I hate Randy and I seriously skip all episodes with him in it. He's not funny or entertaining. I think South Park should keep focusing on the kids like they have been recently, not the Tegrerty Farms bullshit plotline. Have one or two episodes which I gladly like with the new season but an entire plotline? Yeah no. Boring to me. Thank you and I will be hiding in my hidey hole for safety to not get absolutely bashed. Loved the videos, Johnny!
15:15 i would like to add that trees are a renewable resource and tree farms are a thing. Demand for paper means more trees which means more good as far as having more trees goes
I wouldn't say everything has been good, but it's been a lot better than the past couple of seasons. The Spring Break episode definitely is Randy being is good old drunk self
This season is like going to McDonald’s, ordering a burger, and they give you half a burger. It’s surprising because normally they give you a lump of shit instead of a burger.
If Matt Stone is the only one credited, it only reaffirms THAT belief. Regarding the Megan Markle episode, MOST people believe the other way around, where the royal family is MUCH better than THAT pair.
Honestly, HBOMAX doesn't deserve it seeing as how they have been treating animated shows by canceling, removed them from thier library and refusing to air completed shows/films in order to get money from a tax right off. HBO is probably mad that they can't use south park as a tax right off as well.
I loved the World Wide Privacy Tour. But Meghan Markle didn’t say anything to the press after the episode. It was just so many people going “you’re so mad” at nothing
Curious thing about the season was there was no clear tie-in to the current game in development, though is worth noting the kids seem to be getting into Warhammer 40k, since they were playing it online in Worldwide Privacy Tour and then with Tolkien and Stan playing in person during Spring Break. Wonder if the Specials will have some hint towards the game’s theme/story (Like Black Friday Trilogy and Franchise Prequel) in any case was a pretty strong season overall and a nice return to form. Also, was anyone else nearly expecting the chandelier to crash on the kitchen table? Warhammer isn’t cheap so glad Randy fell away from the table.
I can't believe South Park referenced my state even briefly, it was so crazy for me I just feel like South Carolina is nothing and hearing about it is uncanny.
I have been a fan since the first episode.. before I had cable back in the pre streaming stone age that was the 90s my grandma would tape each week on vhs for me. It's the only show I haven't taken extended breaks from.
No I’ve been telling people the same thing. The recent seasons have been making a come back better than it’s been since season 20-23. Tbh never thought it would get better again. I didn’t realize it was good again till this year tbh. And it started getting better in 23 but it’s honestly so much better now tbh.
15:15 Here in argentina (and other parts of the world like Europe and east asia) we have a separate thing for that called a Bidet, that just sprays water up. Depending on the family we either use it only on painful situations/washing feet, or we use it for EVERYTHING. Look it up on wikipedia. Very useful if you use it a bunch. I personally use it sparingly.
I remember seeing an image about AI in art that really made sense to me, and it basically said “don’t use AI to make a masterpiece, use AI to learn how to make a masterpiece”.
My personal ranking: 1. Deep Learning 2. World Wide Privacy Tour 3. Dikinbaus Hot Dogs 4. Cupid Ye 5. Japanese Toilet 6. Spring Break *NOTE* Although I ranked Spring Break as last in mine that does not mean that I think it is by any means a bad episode but rather it speaks so highly of the others in this season.
I also noticed the massive South Park resurgence, I work in a public school and the kids are always trying to watch/ are watching south park on youtube and other platforms.
A lot of Jewish comedians tend to use self deprecating humor in their comedy, particularly about their own faith. Which should be fine but it may have also lead to a sort of normalization of it where even people who aren’t Jewish use it as well without really thinking about what they’re saying.
In my opinion, most every season of South Park has been gold although I do feel the 7th and 20th years of the show were a little on the patchy side. To be brief: This was just another winning season of South Park for me. The series is still watchable compared to The Simpsons and Family Guy in later years.
I think you are wrong about the ai voices. I think that all the voices in the chatgpt ep were ai. If you listen carefully you do hear something off and to me it sounds like the ai is picking up on some ambient noise or the space between its training voice lines and incorporating it into the base of the voice itself. You can really get a great example of this effect in the Dagoth ur memes floating around. I'm not dismissing the crew getting older or being sick, but I wouldn't be shocked if the voices were 100% ai with some clean up by an audio engineer/sound guy.
I'm not huge on my Dad, but even he sent me a text asking if I'd seen Worldwide Privacy Tour, which I hadn't, and I have to say - I'm glad he did. They're back in the zone, and I'm for it.
The thing about cutting down trees to make paper always gets to me because like.... Their farming the trees for paper like they have these gigantic farms they grow them and cut them in cycles. If they were just going all willy-nilly cutting down trees we would run out of paper really fast.
I was surprised how much hate the showrunners had for trump during the entire time he was president, even flat out ignoring the actual good things he did
Did you not watch the chat gpt episode. You said Garison is scared he'll get fired if his students use AI, no he was using the AI to grade the homework and tests n shit. Why tf would HE get fired if his students used AI, I feel like you just read a fecap of the episode or skipped half of it or something cause its super obvious in the episode ehy garrison is scared of getting fired.
The problem with your logic is that this trend will still continue even if AI is not used as much. The concept of the "professional artist" has taken over where most "art schools" just teach technique and marketing but discourage originality. The filed is dominated by individuals calling themselves artists but doing the exact same thing AI does. They are artisans who create safely marketable products but most art these days is not made as a personal/origional expression. It is not wrong to be an artisen and make a product but it is not right to them pass it as art from an artist. It is the same with AI. fromulas and patterns are used to create something from established popularity. The human AI artists have already taken over most of the art field to make profit and often are drones employed by a higher force. Matt and Trey are an exception but how often are media based art mediums created by a large team of hired staff doing interchangeable tasks to a larger project of no origionality. Replacing these salary drones with AI doesn't actually add any automousy to the process..we are currently living in the homogenized, corperate art takeover so this is just the very slight next step. Even most independent artist don't create anything truely origional or unique because they are focused on selling and programed by art schools to do so in a specific "creative" marketing based process. I mean..you aren't even an artist..you are just going through the motions of what works as a youtuber and saying the things you think the majority target audience will want to hear. Nothing you are doing shows orional individualized effort without a base of established work to stand on. You are doing work and using skills but not creativity or origionality. Its the same with most "professional" uoutubers these days. Just formula copycats defacing the name of art for attention and a paycheck.
34:59 when Cartman first asks his mom for job she is watching Randy in the Hell's Kitchen Nightmares Iron Top Chef Cafeteria Throwdown Ultimate Cookoff Challenge
tbh i agree super hard with the statement you made with Deep Learning. I've seen plenty of examples of this, from South Park, to Qualia Automata, which is a story kickstarted by Team 6x111 playing with GPT-3 or whatever to make lyrics based on their songs. It's pretty fuckin cool
South parks always been a show I feel disappointed when watching the season live. But then they end up being some of my favorite episodes. Like I used to hate imagination land then after a year or so I found myself constantly quoting it lol here’s to the next 15 seasons
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Sharon chastising Stan "What have I told you about playing Warhammer on the kitchen table?" also means that Stan, in his geeky way, had been low-key rebelling against his mother all spring break. If only Randy could have appreciated it.
You missed the point completly
@@chabbab6698 That Sharon forgave Randy's bodycount without a word, but chided Stan for such a harmless offense? Nah, I got that joke.
That why I like stan
@@chabbab6698 you missed the irony completely
I looked at it more like Randy tried to get stan off the table for a little while and did all those crazy things and Sharon straight up says "You can't play on the kitchen table" showing us how simple it really was.
Dickinbaus was easily my favorite episode this season. Of course, I'm a sucker for Butters centric episodes though. He's just easily my favorite character in the show.
I love how it blew up in Cartman's face. Kenny and Butters made bank, while Cartman walked away with nothing. Also parallels the post-Covid special, since we know that Kenny, Butters, and Jimmy end up becoming the richest out of all the South Park Elementary alum when they grow up. Butters's work ethic especially parallels it since we know he ends up becoming a businessman.
@@mattjayce2339 in the new future butters did end up looking like he got the short of the stick however, in both futures he didn't get the best, but a server in a restaurant is 100% a better career decision than an NFT salesman
@@orcashamudeluxeu567 he ended up becoming the owner of the restaurant. So not just a server.
@@mattjayce2339 oh really? shit good for him
I thought it was pretty terrible
57:10 here in the UK you could definitely tell worldwide privacy tour had a huge impact on getting people back into the show
Chippy?? I did not expect to see you here.
Atleast they're keeping it fresh :D
australia too
Ayy
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Personally I thought Worldwide Privacy Tour was one of the best episodes they’ve ever done. There is a bit that almost no one has caught but it’s brilliant. Notice how the Prince only does drum fills when he practices as opposed to actually playing a grove. It’s such a deep implication that he never played with anyone.
yeah, i laughed so hard when they were on a talk show and they said princess new book ,,Weh""
I thought that episode was the worst. Nobody cares about the royal family. It could have been a good bit but didn't really need to be a whole episode, especially since there are only 6
That episode was the most pathetic and shallow one. The claim that's been made that Prince Harry and Meghan complained has already been shown to be a total lie made up by media. Some people just like the misogynoir culture war.
@L F you might not care about them but a lot of people do
@@gintaregasiunaite5948 "WEH" fucking killed me.
This really feels like a return to form for South Park and I love it.
That line “A Lord of the Rings prequel?! What were you thinking?!” straight up had me laughing for a good three minutes.
Your corny
It's even better if you remember that Kyle is like 9 or 10, so that means he made that before he was born
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I think they mean The Rings of Power, but the Hobbit trilogy works just as well.
The chat gpt episode is easily a top 3 episode for me. I'm such a huge fan of the druid with a falcon dedicated to combating AI, it's so sick
It's really nice to see Kenny and Cartman have their own episode after they'd been distant in past seasons. The boys used to be structured like Stan and Kyle are friends, Kenny and Cartman are friends, and because Stan and Kyle get along with Kenny they sort of just *end up* hanging out with Cartman. So, reinforcing Kenny and Cartman's friendship was both sorely needed and refreshing.
Butters is the 5th boy
Betsy is actually voiced by treys daughter! And when she was recording her lines she actually added in the you herself!
No one cares kid
It really shows how making South Park has become less about making a good show and more about having fun for Trey. The character was just distracting, I figured I had missed a plot point from some other episode when it appeared cause it stood out so much.
so is ike hahahaha
@@SwordHandler222 I mean a lot of the newer episodes have been pretty good quality wise, if they're having fun with the series it just means more good episodes to come.
Lol good to know, when i first saw her i thought "whose self insert got into rhe show"
I love how Spring Break has this underlying theme that both Garrison's and Randy's partners help them being better versions of themselves.
I’m so upset this was a short season. I know why (the specials and such) but considering they can pump these out with incredible quality in just a week, makes me wish for more. Maybe it’s just me being greedy, but I feel like we just didn’t get enough.
no i agree 100% it was so good
quality over quantity
@@azure2635doesn't mean anything when before they have us have higher quality and higher quantity
The why is contract fuckery.
@@azure2635 lmao back then it was nun hit 12+ episodes n it was all quality, the guys are just somewhat greedy still luv their shit though , I’m taking a guess ur young so I’m not surprised
Toilet paper is made mostly from excess pulp that gets made from the sawdust and branches that timber companies don’t use.
We cut down trees pretty much ONLY for timber. There is enough sawdust and other plants to make paper out of, visit a paper plant.
And of course wood is a renewable resource.
The people that own woods don’t want a one time payout, they’re interested in continued income. And for that they need constant wood.
So they plant new trees for the ones they cut down, to ensure a continuation of timber.
And we all know trees create oxygen, so in a way, using more paper is encouraging the planting of more green trees!
Stan is also mentioned in prior seasons with episodes like “freemium gaming” as having addiction problems and using board games to deal with it. So in the episode “Spring Break” him playing board games is Stan’s version of rebelling and having a “Wild bender” of a spring break
Now that I think of it, the Marsh Men might have addiction problems because Stan, Randy, and Grandpa all had episodes on their addictions
@@nickrustyson8124 that would make sense! if your family has a history of addiction, you can be more susceptible. It's why I'm super cautious of alcohol
I always thought it was cool they kept up with that! Like even in a season 23 episode the one where strong woman enters a competition, Eric, Stan, Butters, Clyde, and Scott have a game club and Eric was upset over stuff and Stan just started naming off a bunch of games and Kyle was like ‘dude you’re really into board games’ lol super funny he really did have a wild week
That's why i'll never touch Opiates, i have had immediate family get addicted to it during the Opiate epidemic
This was a brilliant way to put all your thoughts together and reusing the breakdowns in this way doesn’t feel like a “compilation of videos.” Keep up the great work dude!
Thank you! Glad it came across that way!
Great season! I'm really glad Kyle let them release it.
Nice
This was such a big improvement over the last several seasons. I don't even dislike those episodes, but these were so much better.
I think the Andrew Tate "copout" (rename, w/e) is because he technically hasn't been convicted, so it might be legally irresponsible to put it directly in the episode.
There’s no technically, hasn’t been charged either
@Gino Maurino they detained him for several weeks on the basis of various crimes. While not charged, he is under suspicion and detained.
Homestuck In 2023 punched me in the teeth
@@scarletnight1077 lmao.
@@Duneboy13 Well... he is charged for being a POS lol fuck tate
These episodes have been incredible, can’t wait for more South Park
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@@Animegirllover837 haha, nice
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@@a3vee Maybe he gay?
I wish they’d do full seasons again. The specials are great extras but not at the expense of shortening the seasons themselves
I think they’re just trying to speedrun their contract
I really enjoyed the Japanese toilet episode, I was in the hospital recovering after nearly dying from Covid, it was a definite mood lifter after waking up for the first time in days and seeing a good new South Park episode
the jump in numbers is because south park clips on tiktok started to get a bunch of traction, and unlike family guy when it was huge on tiktok, south park clips make you want to go and watch more south park to get the context of the crazy stuff that’s happening in them, and a lot of young people use tiktok and most of those people are also on youtube so the traction that it gains on tiktok would translate onto youtube
You know what really makes me confused is Trump was actually a character in an earlier season episode. The one where garrison makes a new mode of transportation and has an investors meeting and trump is in attendance. Kinda funny they turned Harrison into trump
That was before Trump made a complete ass out of himself on the global stage. He was too toxic even for Matt and Trey, so they had Garrison kill him off and fill in. Nobody was expecting him to actually win the election.
I don’t watch South Park but I have started watching all your breakdowns because my fiancé does and I am a big fan of your adult animation breakdowns (like the BoJack videos)
i hit send too early on my comment, but now when my fiancé watches the show and wants to talk about the episodes with me, it’s a lot easier because he’ll start explaining to me the premise and i’m like “oh no i don’t need the background, i watched a Johnny 2 Cellos video about it” and then it helps him to tell me his thoughts without needing to synopsis. Your explanations almost make me want to watch South Park.
@@catears_jpg577 you should! I always recommend starting from season 5 and just continuing onward from there. You can watch the early seasons later but it’s kinda hard to get into if you start with seasons 1-4 imo
theres just so much good material for southpark now
also randy going "bro i got fucking shot" to stan was pretty funny
Wasn't a big fan of Cupid Ye and especially The World Wide Privacy Tour, but after that the season really kicked in for me and I loved the other episodes. My favourite was definitely Dikinbaums Hot Dogs but I'd probably need to rewatch them before ranking the others
Hated Cupid ye episode.... but I'm British so I kinda loved world wide privacy tour
Same those two episodes I didn’t care about but I Cupid ye was definitely better than privately tour imo. It was trying too hard in my opinion so I couldn’t laugh
Cupid Ye is such a lame episode.
@@iBloodxHunter yeah, I found it kinda too obvious and not that funny with its commentary, but I wouldn't call it terrible. It's far from South Park's best but I still liked some parts of it
Personally, I think that South Park as well as Trey and Matt, have done well remaining popular after so long whereas other animated shows (The Simpsons and Family Guy specifically) have outstayed their welcome for FAR TO LONG, it just goes to show that South Park will hopefully never lose their edge.
For sure the quality of episodes have been better this year. Although, I feel like creators like you, and Blooms have helped get people interested again. You guys put out good commentary on an already phenomenal show. I know you reinstalled my love for the show, so I just want to say thank you.
South Park season 25 and 26 were HUGE comebacks to the roots of Prime South Park, I enjoyed them both especially after the failure of 20 to 23
I actually got into South Park again cuz of you. I used to watch it back in high-school not super regularly and it's been a nice trip.
On your point about the Prince and Princess having lived in Cartman’s house not being mentioned. It can brought up later as a tidbit in a future episode. Maybe mentioning that the house had gone up in value as former celebrity house would be a nice way for Lianne to put Eric in his place. Or simply a visual gag of the Cartman house having a historical plaque by the front door would be pretty funny.
Isn't Kyle's dad a lawyer? Maybe that's why Randy didn't invite him. Can't flex on someone who can afford it too.
I know I watched all of your episode reviews, but rewatching them was still a good time.
My favorite recent episode of South Park was Basically Cable which focuses on Scott Makleson who of course is diabetic and since I’m diabetic I love it even more
This season felt like old South Park and I loved it
In regards to the conspiracy theory; Matt Stone has made it _abundantly_ clear that he knows who it is that's keeping his bread buttered, and to appreciate his circumstantial success... 6 Days to Air used the analogy of van Halen; their creative engine being primarily Eddie with the writing songs and lyrics, but without DLR, it just isn't VanHalen. (Matt is David Lee Roth, Trey is Eddie.)
But I don't see ANY scenario where Matt rocks that boat.
A thing about AI art everyone ignores but is pretty real:
AI art is actually more expensive for big companies because it never generates whatever it thinks you want. An artist can fix and clean the stuff you don't need/feel off/awkward/whatever. AI prompters are most tech geeks with no artistic vision who think everything that looks pretty is what the client needs.
There have been records of hiring managers on Twitter saying that would love to hire an artist instead of prompters because unlike them, artists actually listen to them and know what they are doing instead of having what is basically a slot machine randomly generating pictures. What is more expensive? 1 art commission of say, 500$ that is exactly what they need, or 10 sets of 5 prompts costed at around the same price each, hoping they will get a result that they like?
The biggest offender are chinese game devs. Some of them tweeted that AI actual screwed them over and started hiring human artists again because they much more resourceful.
I saw the shamen in the AI episode as a message on; “It’s impossible to differentiate AI from human if it’s doing its job”. Kind of a superstition is the only option thing.
I honestly wish Matt and Trey never stop making South Park. This show is like pillar of our culture by this point.
My episode rankings:
1. Dikinbaus Hotdogs
2. The Worldwide Privacy Tour
3. Cupid Ye
4. Spring Break
5. Japanese Toilets
6. Deep Learning
wait i just realized that this part of world wide privacy tour (19:31) was inspired by the beatles magical mystery tour?!
Right after the Paramount+ assassination attempt joke I got an actual commercial for Paramount+... This video literally brought to you by Paramount+
Stick of Truth and The Fractured But Whole brought me back to watching South Park again.
season 26 was neat, more balanced compared to season 25 and having more episodes focused on the characters that also happen to have references to current topics, my ranking would be
Dikinbaus hot dogs
Deep Learning
Japanese Toilet
Spring Break
Cupid Ye
Worldwide privacy tour
Great season. Glad every kid got their fair share of screentime
Did tweek have any line?
@@sadcrab69 no
32:37 “Art requires human experience, & I’ll never waiver on that opinion.” The WGA & SAG-AFTRA agree with you. Hopefully something similar can be done for animation & voice actors
You mentioned stan and Wendy’s odd relationship and the fractured but whole, I just finished that game last week, I noticed something odd about Wendy in the game. Her character sheet identifies her as gender-fluid (clearly referencing Wendell in cissies) and polysexual. Her combat dialogue involves flirting with multiple of the boys, but mostly the new kid
Joel Haver using AI rotoscoping: makes his own keyframes, and tells his audience to draw their own as well
Corridor: Straight up uses some other anime. draws none of their own keyframes. doesn't tell others to draw their own.
6) Spring Break - 7.5/10
5) Cupid Ye - 7.9/10
4) Japanese Toilets - 7.99/10
3) World Wide Privacy Tour - 8.3
2) Deep Learning - 9
1) Dikinbaus - 9.1
I feel that a lot of us just want the original Randy model. The Blue shirt can not just be replaced
Yes! Your south park content is amazing! Thanks so much for this!
May I say an unpopular opinion? Okay.
I hate Randy and I seriously skip all episodes with him in it. He's not funny or entertaining. I think South Park should keep focusing on the kids like they have been recently, not the Tegrerty Farms bullshit plotline. Have one or two episodes which I gladly like with the new season but an entire plotline? Yeah no. Boring to me.
Thank you and I will be hiding in my hidey hole for safety to not get absolutely bashed. Loved the videos, Johnny!
15:15 i would like to add that trees are a renewable resource and tree farms are a thing. Demand for paper means more trees which means more good as far as having more trees goes
My favorite moment to be Darryl in the dikinbaus episode, that “they took my job” joke had no right to make me laugh so much.
I wouldn't say everything has been good, but it's been a lot better than the past couple of seasons.
The Spring Break episode definitely is Randy being is good old drunk self
5:59 impressive. Let's see the ADL's history.
I hope DikinBaus gets the casa bonita treatment and gets made irl
Casa Bonita was around before South Park though...
This has been my favorite recent South Park season. I hope this quality continues.
Have you ever watched any other season?
@@DarMatter97 wdym?
11:02 bruh the other news on the side
South Park has been popping up on so many peoples radars lately. Eventually, John is going to have a spike in viewership too. Let’s hope, anyways.
This season is like going to McDonald’s, ordering a burger, and they give you half a burger. It’s surprising because normally they give you a lump of shit instead of a burger.
If Matt Stone is the only one credited, it only reaffirms THAT belief. Regarding the Megan Markle episode, MOST people believe the other way around, where the royal family is MUCH better than THAT pair.
It mocks THAT belief.
Jimmy's big reveal about the TP companies to stan was clearly a parody of a scene from the movie JFK with Kevin Kostner
One of the best seasons by far!
Honestly, HBOMAX doesn't deserve it seeing as how they have been treating animated shows by canceling, removed them from thier library and refusing to air completed shows/films in order to get money from a tax right off. HBO is probably mad that they can't use south park as a tax right off as well.
I loved the World Wide Privacy Tour. But Meghan Markle didn’t say anything to the press after the episode. It was just so many people going “you’re so mad” at nothing
Curious thing about the season was there was no clear tie-in to the current game in development, though is worth noting the kids seem to be getting into Warhammer 40k, since they were playing it online in Worldwide Privacy Tour and then with Tolkien and Stan playing in person during Spring Break. Wonder if the Specials will have some hint towards the game’s theme/story (Like Black Friday Trilogy and Franchise Prequel) in any case was a pretty strong season overall and a nice return to form.
Also, was anyone else nearly expecting the chandelier to crash on the kitchen table? Warhammer isn’t cheap so glad Randy fell away from the table.
I think we’re still quite a ways out from the new game being released
I loved Season 26. I just wish it was longer.
What I liked about season 26 is that Bebe got some screen time.
i sometimes wonder if it's worth watching for the first time considering just how much praise it's seen and how popular it's been recently
I can't believe South Park referenced my state even briefly, it was so crazy for me I just feel like South Carolina is nothing and hearing about it is uncanny.
South Carolina is definitely something now! the new Detroit in a good way
2:40 My mans hitting that L in Tolkien really impressively lmao
I have been a fan since the first episode.. before I had cable back in the pre streaming stone age that was the 90s my grandma would tape each week on vhs for me. It's the only show I haven't taken extended breaks from.
Really Good Video 💯 I'm Glad to see someone still doing deep dives on South Park Content, keep up the good work‼️
South Park did one thing that Rick and Morty will never do...
Stayed good after season 3.
5:08 my brother in christ when people do the actual research they develop these opinions.
early life.
No I’ve been telling people the same thing. The recent seasons have been making a come back better than it’s been since season 20-23. Tbh never thought it would get better again. I didn’t realize it was good again till this year tbh. And it started getting better in 23 but it’s honestly so much better now tbh.
15:15 Here in argentina (and other parts of the world like Europe and east asia) we have a separate thing for that called a Bidet, that just sprays water up. Depending on the family we either use it only on painful situations/washing feet, or we use it for EVERYTHING. Look it up on wikipedia. Very useful if you use it a bunch. I personally use it sparingly.
We have a bidet too, it’s separate
I got sick of South Park around season 14 when did it get good again?
I mean season 15 is like one of the all-time greats lol
It didn't
@@Johnny2Cellos maybe the show isn’t for me 😂
After like season 12 atleast
I remember seeing an image about AI in art that really made sense to me, and it basically said “don’t use AI to make a masterpiece, use AI to learn how to make a masterpiece”.
My personal ranking:
1. Deep Learning
2. World Wide Privacy Tour
3. Dikinbaus Hot Dogs
4. Cupid Ye
5. Japanese Toilet
6. Spring Break
*NOTE* Although I ranked Spring Break as last in mine that does not mean that I think it is by any means a bad episode but rather it speaks so highly of the others in this season.
I also noticed the massive South Park resurgence, I work in a public school and the kids are always trying to watch/ are watching south park on youtube and other platforms.
A lot of Jewish comedians tend to use self deprecating humor in their comedy, particularly about their own faith. Which should be fine but it may have also lead to a sort of normalization of it where even people who aren’t Jewish use it as well without really thinking about what they’re saying.
In my opinion, most every season of South Park has been gold although I do feel the 7th and 20th years of the show were a little on the patchy side. To be brief: This was just another winning season of South Park for me. The series is still watchable compared to The Simpsons and Family Guy in later years.
I think you are wrong about the ai voices. I think that all the voices in the chatgpt ep were ai. If you listen carefully you do hear something off and to me it sounds like the ai is picking up on some ambient noise or the space between its training voice lines and incorporating it into the base of the voice itself. You can really get a great example of this effect in the Dagoth ur memes floating around.
I'm not dismissing the crew getting older or being sick, but I wouldn't be shocked if the voices were 100% ai with some clean up by an audio engineer/sound guy.
I'm not huge on my Dad, but even he sent me a text asking if I'd seen Worldwide Privacy Tour, which I hadn't, and I have to say - I'm glad he did. They're back in the zone, and I'm for it.
Enjoy the time you have with your loved ones
Forgive your dad and spend time while you have it.
31:18 the moment ai takes over art, is the moment i am FUCKED. it'll completely screw over my chances of pursuing my passion.
The Episode about "Big Toilet Paper" is obviously a stand in for Big Tech...
i have a bidet, its the kind that just attaches to your existing and uses the water that the toilet already links to. its life changing
Warhammer all spring break was the best spring breaks I had in highschool.
''I WANNA BE IN DIKINBAUSSSSS'' really is peak comedy
The thing about cutting down trees to make paper always gets to me because like.... Their farming the trees for paper like they have these gigantic farms they grow them and cut them in cycles. If they were just going all willy-nilly cutting down trees we would run out of paper really fast.
Gerald was def off cheesing somewhere
I was surprised how much hate the showrunners had for trump during the entire time he was president, even flat out ignoring the actual good things he did
have you ever watched this show before when have they ever portrayed a president positively
@@Johnny2Cellos It looks like the pair who made South Park are LIBERTARIAN. They are not Conservative or even Republican leaning.
@@TheManInBlueFlamesthey're actually against politics as a whole, which isn't a bad thing tbh
"Good things"....yeeeaaah....
AI will likely be used to do all the grunt work in animation. Which is the starting point for most artists to get into animation industries.
Spring break was the worst for me imo, felt like 2 B plots that were left over from a season or 2 ago
Did you not watch the chat gpt episode. You said Garison is scared he'll get fired if his students use AI, no he was using the AI to grade the homework and tests n shit. Why tf would HE get fired if his students used AI, I feel like you just read a fecap of the episode or skipped half of it or something cause its super obvious in the episode ehy garrison is scared of getting fired.
The problem with your logic is that this trend will still continue even if AI is not used as much. The concept of the "professional artist" has taken over where most "art schools" just teach technique and marketing but discourage originality. The filed is dominated by individuals calling themselves artists but doing the exact same thing AI does. They are artisans who create safely marketable products but most art these days is not made as a personal/origional expression. It is not wrong to be an artisen and make a product but it is not right to them pass it as art from an artist. It is the same with AI. fromulas and patterns are used to create something from established popularity. The human AI artists have already taken over most of the art field to make profit and often are drones employed by a higher force. Matt and Trey are an exception but how often are media based art mediums created by a large team of hired staff doing interchangeable tasks to a larger project of no origionality. Replacing these salary drones with AI doesn't actually add any automousy to the process..we are currently living in the homogenized, corperate art takeover so this is just the very slight next step. Even most independent artist don't create anything truely origional or unique because they are focused on selling and programed by art schools to do so in a specific "creative" marketing based process. I mean..you aren't even an artist..you are just going through the motions of what works as a youtuber and saying the things you think the majority target audience will want to hear. Nothing you are doing shows orional individualized effort without a base of established work to stand on. You are doing work and using skills but not creativity or origionality. Its the same with most "professional" uoutubers these days. Just formula copycats defacing the name of art for attention and a paycheck.
I loved this season, my only complaint is that it wasn’t longer
34:59 when Cartman first asks his mom for job she is watching Randy in the Hell's Kitchen Nightmares Iron Top Chef Cafeteria Throwdown Ultimate Cookoff Challenge
Art doesn't care what people think is or isn't art. Art connects us with strong feelings, if ai does it then it will be used
tbh i agree super hard with the statement you made with Deep Learning. I've seen plenty of examples of this, from South Park, to Qualia Automata, which is a story kickstarted by Team 6x111 playing with GPT-3 or whatever to make lyrics based on their songs. It's pretty fuckin cool
South parks always been a show I feel disappointed when watching the season live. But then they end up being some of my favorite episodes. Like I used to hate imagination land then after a year or so I found myself constantly quoting it lol here’s to the next 15 seasons