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It didn't need to be that funny, just enough to work as the setup for the rest of the episode.

It's episode was purely intended for shock value and trying to push the buttons of people. Matt and Trey even say that their show South Park is more to try and pushing the boundaries to see how far they can go before getting canceled.

>>26252
>>26237
typical Gen X/Millennial edgelord slop that celebrates vulgarity while hiding behind "teĺing it like it is".

Trey Parker and Matt Stone both went on record to diss Family Guy for its random punchline/gag non-sequitors.

>>26256
>typical Gen X/Millennial edgelord slop
You're oversimplifying it. It's more like typical millenial edgelord slop is trying to be South Park while having nothing to say beyond being vulgar and having a repulsive art style. If producers stopped fearing kids' animation and its… uh… pretty visuals and, uh… no sex and swearing, we would be much better off as a society. But alas, gotta show that you're VERY ADULT and DON'T WATCH CHILDREN'S STUFF.

Invincible and Primal are peak fiction.

>Trey Parker and Matt Stone both went on record to diss Family Guy for its random punchline/gag non-sequitors.
I don't think they have any ill will towards this. It was just a parody. Ironically the cutaways is when Family Guy was at its peak, when it became progressively more vulgar it lost all its charm.

>>26261
>You're oversimplifying it. It's more like typical millenial edgelord slop is trying to be South Park while having nothing to say beyond being vulgar and having a repulsive art style. If producers stopped fearing kids' animation and its… uh… pretty visuals and, uh… no sex and swearing, we would be much better off as a society. But alas, gotta show that you're VERY ADULT and DON'T WATCH CHILDREN'S STUFF.

Which is what Gen X/Millennial entertainment was at its core. Just trying to edgy and vulgar to compensate.

>Invincible and Primal are peak fiction.

What are those?

>I don't think they have any ill will towards this. It was just a parody. Ironically the cutaways is when Family Guy was at its peak, when it became progressively more vulgar it lost all its charm.

Matt Stone and Trey Parker both say they hate the cutaway gag style of Family Guy.
And alot of other adult animation studios agreed with them.

Also, cutaway gags are great as two minute clips by themselves.

>>26264
>What are those?
Adult action cartoons. Like, actually adult. They mostly rely on gore to bump up their rating but otherwise they're not that different from more mature Saturday morning cartoons, with Primal having no dialogue and Invincible barely having vulgar humor and swearing, not enough to get on your nerves and be obnoxious (it's action drama though, not comedy). I'd also recommend Lastman, which is about as vulgar as Invincible is but it's French so it means it's twice as funny. And we also have Samurai Jack season 5.

I'll also take an opportunity to shill Invincible Fight Girl, which was originally planned to launch on CN but it's on Adult Swim now so… it can be considered an adult cartoon… kinda?

>>26266
Those aren't really adult cartoons then
IMO, kids cartoons tend to have more depth and peculiar designs compared to adult cartoons.
I mean seriously.

Adults cartoons often have to rely on satire or parody of kids cartoons to have any relevancy.

>>26267
>Those aren't really adult cartoons then
Excuse me, what?

Yeah, I was talking in the other thread about how shounen is not a genre and yet you're making the same mistake, mistaking the demographic for the genre. Just because adult action cartoons and seinen anime don't have swearing and full-frontal nudity every 2 seconds doesn't make them not adult, the marketing and the explicit content do. What you're referring to is "animated shock comedy." Which is unfortunately what most adult cartoons are, but it's not the rule. Just like not all shounen is action comedy, not all adult cartoons are shock comedy.

Maybe it's because I'm not American but I never understood the appeal of South Park.

I remember marathoning the whole show up until the latest season at the time, this was about 10 years ago or more.

The one time I actually laughed, ONE TIME IN THE ENTIRE MARATHON, is Cartman swearing at Mr. Garrison with a megaphone ("I said, HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO SUCK MY BALLS, Mr. Garrison"), and only because of the context of Mr. Garrison being gay + Cartman randomly pulling out a megaphone.
Okay, the ending of the World of Warcraft episode ("what do you mean? Now we can finally play the game") got a chuckle out of me too.

>>26358
imo it's kind of like Seinfeld in how at the time what it was doing really shifted the landscape, but now 30 years later what made it unique has disseminated through the genre and it doesn't look like anything special anymore.

I was watching the classic seasons of the Simpsons with my girlfriend recently, who is a good decade younger than me. She was kind of mystified by it and didn't understand why Homer is SUCH an asshole especially early on, and I had to explain the media and culture it was responding to at the time to give the show the sort of character it had.

Tbh I remember SP as being kind of the same in that regard. It caused a BIG social reaction with its violence, language, and subject matter. There was a big moral panic about it especially since it was a cartoon, kids watching it, adults freaking out about it, the whole magilla. Nowadays the early seasons of SP probably look pretty tame compared to something like Rick and Morty.