Simpsons or South Park?

[MikeH]

Futurama and Family guy!

[Arrian]

Simpsons. Not that South Park isn't good. It has moments of sheer brilliant greatness. But overall, the Simpsons still wins.

-Arrian

[Demerzel]

The Simpsons' 300th ( read 302nd ) episode was a case in point in just how unfunny the Simpsons has become. A total waste of 25mins of my life actually waiting to find one of the "jokes" funny.

Can't believe they cancelled Futurama whilst continuing to make the Simpsons. *sigh*

[The Andy-Man]

Originally posted by Demerzel
The Simpsons' 300th ( read 302nd ) episode was a case in point in just how unfunny the Simpsons has become. A total waste of 25mins of my life actually waiting to find one of the "jokes" funny.

Can't believe they cancelled Futurama whilst continuing to make the Simpsons. *sigh*

wasn't that done because all the fans wouldn't let the mstop the simpsons?

[Stefu]

I stopped watching Simpsons from telly after that horrible horrible episode where that judge tethers Homer to Bart. From what I've seen from downloading episodes from the Internet, it didn't get much better afterwards, either. Exceptions: The marijuana episode and the internet cartooning episode - marijuana episode was good and internet cartooning episode was brilliant, especially with the digs at "kids' cartoons that's also suitable for adults" ("I've got a date with *Sarah* *Jessica* *Barker*!")

[Ubergeek]

True enough, the Simpson's can't reach its previous heights of glory. It's still frequently amusing, but it's not the show it was, say, seasons 2-7.

On the other hand, South Park had about one half of one good season. Once the novelty of seeing little kids spout obscenity wore off, the show stopped being funny for me.

I know not what others may say, but as for me, Simpsons!

[rah]

I thought the Marge Big Boobs episode was hilarious. Equal to many earlier season episodes.

[Kontiki]

For all the artistic talent in South Park, it may as well be a radio show. Definitely some good satire, but I can't condone the animation.

Simpsons, all the way.

[Apocalypse]

Originally posted by rah
I thought the Marge Big Boobs episode was hilarious. Equal to many earlier season episodes.

They weren't that big and it continued a very hurtful stereotype that a woman with anything bigger than a D is some kind of freak.

[Dinner]

South Park all the way dude.


(begins singing)"I'm going to make love to ya woman..."

[rah]

Originally posted by Apocalypse
They weren't that big and it continued a very hurtful stereotype that a woman with anything bigger than a D is some kind of freak.

Hmmmm, maybe that was the point.

[loinburger]

South Park, though it's started sinking into the same trap that the Simpson's fell in, where it spends more time poking fun at itself than poking fun at something worth mocking. "Lol, Rupert Murdock sure is rich!" "Rofl, Fox sure does suck as a network!" "Roflmao, we already had this alien episode before, we're starting to repeat ourselves!" Yeah, ****ing hilarious.

[Apocalypse]

Originally posted by rah
Hmmmm, maybe that was the point.

[rah]

I did like them making fun of the reality show promo's scrolling across the bottom of the screen. For a sec, I thought it was a real promo till Homer reached out and ate it.
And some of that making fun of themselves can be funny if used sparingly and not over done. Like the end of the cult mind control episode where they're sitting down watching tv afterwards saying how happy they were to be able to think for themselves again..... while watching fox. It didn't need for them to chant Fox, just showing them watching it would have been good enough.

[loinburger]

Used sparingly, those can be some of their best jokes. I'll never forget the time that Homer says "Oh Lisa [or maybe it was Bart? Whatever], cartoons don't have to make sense," at which point another Homer walks past the window. I was in tears.

Overdone, it sucks, and it sucks hard.