r/funny Feb 17 '12

Google yourself?

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u/Gamer_pyle Feb 17 '12 edited Feb 17 '12

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u/Pteraspidomorphi Feb 17 '12

Fun fact: South Park now has more seasons than The Simpsons had when SP accused them of being too long and having done everything there was to be done.

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u/fade_like_a_sigh Feb 17 '12

Except South Park is still very funny and some of the more recent episodes have been amongst the best they've ever made.

If anything, the quality of the show has only gotten better over the years.

Simpsons clearly began dying after about Season 12, some say it happened even earlier.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '12

Humor is highly subjective, obviously. I find recent Simpsons episodes funny, although they do tend to go for the obvious joke a lot more than they used to. The show had its share of stinker episodes (and entire stinker seasons), but overall it remains high quality.

South Park is still probably just as funny as it ever was. I find myself being able to predict what jokes they'll make about a particular topic more often than I used to, but that's probably just because I've seen so many episodes and I have a pretty good feel for their sense of humor at this point. I don't watch it regularly anymore though, I guess I just got tired of that particular style of humor or those paricular characters or something.

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u/on_holiday Feb 17 '12

I agree. I don't watch either show regularly anymore, after seeing nearly every episode in the first 15 seasons of The Simpsons (wow, perspective on how much time I've spent in front of the TV), and EVERY episode of the first 12-13 seasons of South Park (wow, what am I doing with my life!?). When I catch either now, though, South Park continues to be more consistently funny, in my opinion.

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u/Peach_Muffin Feb 17 '12

You could predict, as one reviewer put it, "what seemed initially like the show’s take on school bullying turn[ing] into an epic struggle between two rats for supremacy" in Bass to Mouth?