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Remastered episodes from seasons 3 to 11 are now available for streaming on southparkstudios.com. This was promised more than four years ago and they finally did it. Nicely reframed and rerendered. I wonder why they skipped the first two seasons. Maybe in another four years...

I missed this but holy crap, Viacom is really leaning on this franchise to drive its streaming service. FOURTEEN feature-length films in addition to their regular series over the next six years (two of them are premiering before the end of this year), all for $900 million.

I was under the impression South Park was years into a Simpsons-like decline...I guess they still have their audience?

It's at about the same level of quality as ever, for better or worse, which in any case is miles better than the current iteration of The Simpsons

All of the current event references and plot lines ensure it will live on in timelessness as well as Murphy Brown

Kristi Noem graphically shooting three, four little dogs in cold blood on the latest South Park episode is the only time ever an animal's death on screen is hysterically funny.

Finch wrote: Thu Aug 07, 2025 7:19 pm Kristi Noem graphically shooting three, four little dogs in cold blood on the latest South Park episode is the only time ever an animal's death on screen is hysterically funny.

Whoa, whoa, how about A Fish Called Wanda?

beamish14 wrote:

Finch wrote: Thu Aug 07, 2025 7:19 pm Kristi Noem graphically shooting three, four little dogs in cold blood on the latest South Park episode is the only time ever an animal's death on screen is hysterically funny.

Whoa, whoa, how about A Fish Called Wanda?

A vote here for the little dog in Anchorman. Though they chickened out and resurrected him.

reaky wrote: Wed Aug 13, 2025 6:05 pm

beamish14 wrote:

Finch wrote: Thu Aug 07, 2025 7:19 pm Kristi Noem graphically shooting three, four little dogs in cold blood on the latest South Park episode is the only time ever an animal's death on screen is hysterically funny.

Whoa, whoa, how about A Fish Called Wanda?

A vote here for the little dog in Anchorman. Though they chickened out and resurrected him.

Every day is a fresh reminder that not enough people have seen Riley Stearns' Dual.

I might be remembering this wrong but my vote for the best dead dog gag comes up in Up in Smoke. It’s right after Cheech and Chong pretend to be furniture repossessors and their targets realize they got duped before the camera just inexplicably pans over to a random dead dog that came out of nowhere.

I don't know about other times, but in any case, it's a riotously brutal running gag (which is of course what's make it a great one). Less convinced by Trump's constant nudity.

tenia wrote: Wed Aug 13, 2025 8:49 pm Less convinced by Trump's constant nudity.

Why is that?

That link is NSFL btw

domino harvey wrote: Wed Aug 13, 2025 10:00 pm That link is NSFL btw

Yes, the emperor has no clothes, but VanityFair does protect you from his tiny...

...hands.

(This is true: you can't see his hands in the shot.)

Lowry_Sam wrote:

tenia wrote: Wed Aug 13, 2025 8:49 pm Less convinced by Trump's constant nudity.

Why is that?

Because it feels like a simpler joke. They're saying (and showing) he has a tiny weeny, and that's pretty much it. It's not much better than what Trump himself did when talking about Cruz' small hands "oh he has a tiny weeny, what a moron he might be then", and so far, the show hasn't made much more than that with it (though thanks for this link, I didn't know about this, hum, photo ? Is that a real one ? AI ? Deep fake ?).

Vanity Fair released the pictures of a spray tan session during his first term. The most widely distributed one seems to be scrubbed from the internet (at least from a Google search), it was a side shot but from a higher angle showing a belly hanging out over what looked like a micropenis. None of the photos had blurring. There were claims that it was staged with a Trump look-a-like, but there was also a news story of a white house staff person fired because of unauthorized photos at the white house soon after.

That's not going to make the joke feel more elaborate to me, but thanks for this background, it's a story I hadn't heard about so far.

I don’t think there’s any backstory here. I think it’s as simple as Trump is a vain, insecure man obsessed with power and virility. Saying he’s a fatass with a small dick is the best way to humiliate him. It’s a simple joke about a simple man. I don’t know that anything more is needed.

Oh I get this, but it remains a bit too simplistic to me anyway (even if it's at the right level for Trump's buttons).

That’s fair. It’s South Park, you’re going to get plenty of crude, childish jokes. Which is why I thought it was strange some members were trying to locate some elaborate cultural reference here.

For me, it’s the bald face defiance that I enjoyed. I’m neither here nor there about the dick joke itself.

Any joke enough to provoke the White House into a response touting Trump's accomplishments gets my approval since it shows just how under his skin it got.

And to really get under Trump's skin, you have to keep repeating the joke after he's already made it clear that it's bothering him.

At least it wasn't comparing Xi Jinping to Winnie The Pooh.

(Getting this joke in before the UK government approves the Chinese 'Mega Embassy' in the centre of London, complete with its suspiciously unmarked rooms)

I haven't watched new South Park in many, many years but clips of these recent episodes have been popping into my algorithm so it's clearly a smart way to at least get eyeballs on the show.

JD Vance as Tatu I did find funny. Trump as a grossly obese person with a small willy less so - the small willy part is fine, but he doesn't seem as grossly obese as he was in his first term so it feels a few years out of date. Maybe jokes about Ozempic would land better.

Trump replacing Saddam Hussein as Satan's lover is genius though and certainly works effectively on my nostalgia for the feature film way back in the day. Not sure if there is any intervening lore there - last time I remember hearing about South Park, I think they had Mr Garrison playing Donald Trump somehow.