Why doesn't South Park get old? by OPPYH

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Why doesn't South Park get old?

POSTED BY: OPPYH
UPDATED: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 08:04
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008 7:46 AM

OPPYH

I guess maybe the writing, but it's still just as funny now as it ever was...astounding.

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Tuesday, January 29, 2008 8:00 AM

WHIMSICALNBRAINPAN

I think part of it has to do with the fact that an episode takes so little time to make in comparison to other animated shows. If I remember correctly it's something like two weeks. That way they are able to poke fun at current events while they are still current.

"Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle."
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008 8:04 AM

REGINAROADIE

I know. I actually think that SOUTH PARK has gotten better with age than most animated series. You look at THE SIMPSONS, which the series itself has been nearly twenty years old, and you can see that they've gone through various periods not only in animation quality, but also tone, story, characters and what it's generally about. And the first ten years is definitely better than the last ten years. Ever since 2001 or so, the series has been in such steep decline that it's almost unrecognizable to the earlier years. That why I think THE SIMPSONS MOVIE was so good because every joke they've come up with over the last ten years they put into the movie.

But with SOUTH PARK, the opposite happens. The first few years was just crude inside and out. Animation was shoddy and most of the humor was just shock value. The early years didn't really have that much of a political or satirical slant. But later on, when the animation got better, so did the actual stories. I think they realized that Cartman fart jokes and Kenny getting killed in every episode was getting old, so wisely they began focusing on the world around them and taking everything to task. And I think it has to do with the turn-over for episodes. The normal animated series takes about nine months to animate, whereas an episode of SOUTH PARK only takes about a week to write and animate. So if something big happens in the news, they can have an episode making fun of that within days. Whereas if THE SIMPSONS want to parody something, it still has to be relevant within nine months for it to be funny.

So I think it's that constant re-invention, as well as Matt and Trey constantly being pissed at the world that makes SOUTH PARK even better over the years.

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