[5.5/10] There wasn’t much to this one. The Mark Zuckerberg as Kung Fu overdub bit was a complete and total misfire. The metaphor that people invited Facebook into their lives and then complained about its omnipresence was pretty blunt without having a particularly interesting satirical take on the idea.
There was some easy humor to be derived from the boys not being interested in becoming superheroes to make lots of money rather than to help people (and jokes at Netflix’s expense about greenlighting everything), but it’s pretty simple stuff. And Butters running his own misinformation campaign had potential but didn’t get really off the ground.
Frankly, I would have expected a more incisive take on the whole “fake news” phenomenon from South Park than this. Sure, using fake news against Zuckerberg himself to win is mildly clever, but even then it’s a pretty standard reversal. I guess this one mostly existed to reintroduce Coon and Friends ahead of the new South Park game.
Overall, one of the shaggier and all around weaker episodes of the season so far.
One of the worst South Park episodes I've ever seen. To be fair, I only watched the first couple seasons and the last 2 so I missed a lot of clunkers. I never liked the superhero plotline but thought I'd stay open-minded. Maybe it will get me hyped for the game that is about to come out which is clearly the intention of this episode. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if this is an evergreen episode they wrote years before and held on to for this occasion -- scenes even align with scenes from the game's trailer, using variations of the same bad jokes. This episode was so painfully unfunny I had to turn it off halfway through. There is no insightful social commentry, no good goofs and no boldness. This is bland and safe in a way South Park rarely is. The Zuckerberg part had me cringing at how bad it is. It's like one writer said "Wouldn't this be funny?" and no one had the heart to say no. Ultimately, this episode had the exact opposite of its intended effect: Now I have next to no interest in the South Park game if this is the quality of comedic material it's going to be working with. Hopefully they'll get back to current topics (and no a shoehorned Weinstein reference doesn't count) and the bold, sharp wit the series is known for.
2 words: Horrible episode.
It is clear that they went into making this episode with just 2 ideas, which were fake news and Facebook, but boy, did they screw it up big time...
It was plain boring and annoying, nothing more I could make of it.
Which is really disappointing, as there was so much South Park could have done with these subjects, and I expected even so much more, but instead this is actually the worst episode I have seen of South Park...
Painfully unfunny episode, it was hard to even finish this one with the whole Zuckerberg thing.
There were elements in there that worked, but the whole Zuckerberg thing was a complete miss for me. I can't shake the feeling that they seem to have lost their mojo a bit.
They have lost there way. Not funny anymore and yes FUCK FACEBOOK!!!!
Shout by HaibaraBlockedParent2017-10-15T08:37:20Z
Well, personally I enjoy the random superhero stories with the children much more than the many episodes about American politics, though I just couldn't get into that whole Zuckerberg thing.