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South Park has endured by being reactionary and conditioning its audience to expect responses on topics like Donald Trump, immigration, the PC police, and so on. A prime example came in last week’s episode when they punched all the way up, roasting the entertainment industry for self-censoring their art to appease China’s authoritarian government and reap the financial benefit of the country’s 1.3 billion citizens.

#SOUTH PARK SEASON 5 EPISODE 3 SUMMARY SERIES#

More importantly, they’ve grown as the series has aged in recent seasons. Yet exactly 300 episodes in, Matt Stone and Trey Parker are still proving they can touch a nerve with their shock comedy.

More competition and, frankly, more sophisticated and sharply-crafted comedies have entered the scene ( the reports of PC Babies killing comedy have been greatly exaggerated) and eclipsed South Park in some respects.

#SOUTH PARK SEASON 5 EPISODE 3 SUMMARY TV#

While its animated rivals skate by on Halloween specials, milestone celebrations, and guest stars, South Park hangs its towel on being the lone survivor of the shock TV era - to diminishing returns. Sure, The Simpsons will continue to set the bar impossibly high, and the fact that they “did it already” will taper fanfare for any of South Park’s episodic accomplishments. So before we get into the specifics of “SHOTS,” the milestone 300th episode of South Park, we should appreciate the show’s longevity. Robot, Atlanta, and Rick and Morty come to mind despite turning out quality follow-up seasons). Even when we get a seemingly zeitgeist-grabbing hit, shorter episode orders and long hitatuses threaten to curtail the momentum of a show ( Mr. Few shows can suck up enough oxygen to dent the news cycle in a meaningful way. The television industry is more bloated and fragmented than ever. It's nice to have the old South Park back.This South Park review contains spoilers. And in this episode, even though there's no mention of anything political, this type of rhetoric is a driving force under the surface of our country. Instead, they're hitting on the more nuanced themes of our current dystopian reality. This season, South Park has done a wonderful job avoiding Donald Trump or directly spoofing U.S. And it all ends with Randy giving a speech about a new holiday, in which he keeps misusing the word 'indigenous'-often confusing it with 'indignant.' This is a similar argument here, in which white people address their own guilt and violent past by rebranding themselves as the victims. In that episode, those men thought of themselves as victims, whose way of life was being taken from them by-in the case of South Park-Amazon Echos. In their opening episode this season, Trey Parker and Matt Stone took on the Charlottesville white supremacist rally. The important take away here is South Park's analysis of white victimization. In fact, he pretty blatantly shows his disregard for the people he's allegedly fighting for-by kicking out the Native American man who's fallen in love with him after their pre-DNA test kiss. Now, instead of this being about Columbus or indigenous people, it's about Randy proving he's the victim.

But to ensure his success, he makes out with a Native American man to get his DNA in his mouth.

I'm a victim of oppression.' To prove that he's the victim rather than the problem, Randy gets tested by DNAandMe. 'I'm also part northern Asian and even some Kurdish.

'Turns out I'm not totally white,' a woman says in the advertisement. Thankfully, there's DNAandMe, a service that determines your ancestry to find out whatever sliver of a percentage of your genealogy might not be white. With the pictures as proof of Randy's hypocritical white guilt, he needs to find a way to get sympathy back on his side. Everyone was stoked on Columbus back then.' 'It was another time,' he said to defend himself. He used to dress up as him on Halloween, at football games, formal dinners. The kids fight to keep Columbus Day to get a holiday, and Randy fights Columbus Day to make up for his many years being a huge Columbus fan. There's never a wholly selfless cause in South Park. South Park Should Forget About Donald Trump

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