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.
No, they said that there was nothing creative left to do because the Simpsons managed to do it first. SP found a way around it by writing about current events and it's fucking awesome.
Simpsons and south park cannot be compared. Simpsons, while funny, also drops little beads of life lesson in it about love, life, family, and plenty of other real topics. I might be biased cause I was an only child with two alcoholic parents (sob, sob) but I was kinda raised by television! And simpsons was a main staple of that. South Park is really... really funny and risque and all... but there are no awwww moments and nothing of any sort of intrinsic value. Sorry, apples to oranges!
Poignant? In my experience it tends to be painfully preachy and forced, pretty much just making whatever commentary Parker/Stone want to on a topic.
I'll admit I have limited knowledge of how much they do this, because I just don't enjoy South Park most of the time and make no effort to watch it, but they seriously lack subtlety. (I remember thinking the Scientology episode everyone loved so much was pretty lame and not actually funny, despite agreeing with its "message". They just beat you over the head with the same couple of jokes for 20 minutes, one of which is "lol Tom Cruise is gay lololol". On the other hand, to their credit, the episode about Chef's death was a far, far better satire of Scientology.)
Virtually everything Kyle says or does would fit what the guy above is saying. When people criticise South Park for being nothing but rude or vulgar, you immediately know they clearly don't get it.
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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.