Oh god. I just watched a new SP episode. Wow, has it ever lost it's uniqueness.
The show has done away with its little quirks like Kenny dying each episode, and all the characters are completely 2 dimensional. The characters just seems like empty vessels for finding fault with societies minor issues.
Honestly, I thought it was still OK, but on watching the new season it seems like the most generic, contrived attempt at topical humour that rarely ever makes a real joke. Instead it just ridicules stereotypes by exaggerating certain traits and then just hammering away at that portrayal until it gets a laugh, regardless of any wit or semblence of considered humour. It is just excess and absurdity. It isn't even creative.
I can't believe I used to love this show, it's so soulless now. I didn't laugh once, and none of the characters felt like actual school kids experiencing strange things. I think at one point atleast, the kids were used as innocents to critique adult society similar to Calvin and Hobbes, but now they are just adult personalities, reacting in adult ways to simply ridiculous situations, only in childrens bodies.
It is not funny, and it makes me angry that people say this is better than it used to be. It is simply not funny. Fart jokes there may have been in past episodes, but along with that was real humour. If you are laughing at south park now, I'm sorry to say that your idea of humour is lower than fart jokes. Call it a parody, but I atleast expect a parody to be funny.