Spring Break

Huge South Park fan here. I laughed maybe twice during this, hence why I don't rate this a 1. What a weak finale in what was an otherwise strong season. The Garrison/Trump and Randy Tegridy farms storylines have long overstayed their welcome. And they combine both into one episode. How can you have a season finale without the main boys (with the exception of Stan)? There's almost nothing to talk about in this episode. It was just a boring episode, and about halfway through I was just waiting for it to be over. We've pretty much seen everything here before. It's a shame because earlier in the season they've done one of their best episodes in a long time (The Worldwide Privacy Tour), and then they end with this. I much prefer the episodes where the boys are the focus. Oh well. Still an otherwise good season, and I'll be watching in the future.

By far the worst episode of the season, maybe the only bad episode after some solid entries. Randy feels off character, he makes decisions that don't combine with him, Andrew Tate is just there, he doesn't add anything to the episode, and the final message is something quite confusing to me, hard to really understand what the writers were trying to say. To make matters worse, seeing Garrison as Trump again brought back memories of the show's 2016 season, which I'd rather forget. Also, the episode's pacing felt sluggish, and the humor didn't land as well as in previous episodes. All in all, a disappointing entry in an otherwise short but decent season.

Not sure what happened here. There are a lot of awkward jokes and the messaging feels a little too on the nose while at the same time being a bit confusing. I feel like there were a lot of missed opportunities for jokes as well. This show is so impressive because of how they create each episode in the span of a week and somehow it rarely feels like that. But this week it definitely felt like they had to rush an episode out. It doesn't feel organic at all, but rather stitched together with a series of mediocre jokes.

However, (despite what some people are saying) I thought this season overall was pretty great. Topical as ever and hilarious throughout, season 26 is another positive season in my eyes, although it was a bit too short.

Honestly, I enjoyed this episode much more than I thought I would mainly because the A and B plot center around Trump/Garrison and Tegridy/Randy which I am typically not a fan of.

For the Tegridy/Randy part, I feel like the commentary they were trying to was super heavy handed but also kind of unfocused. Like the Andrew Tate shoehorn, and Randy constantly talking about "real" masculinity just didn't work. And I feel like the commentary was just too simple. Basically boils down to partying hard bad, also Andrew Tate. Like seriously the Andrew Tate inclusion was just so unnecessary and weird, cause it's not even like its him, it kind of feels like they just made up a random character and made him look like Andrew Tate.

The Garrison arc I enjoyed a little more but only because Garrison is just such a ridiculous character and the whole Garrison Rick relationship thing is kind of wholesome. But again I feel like the commentary is both heavy handed and unfocused. Like Garrison's obsession with rallying as a metaphor for toxic habits is kind of funny but just to over the top. And I have no idea why they just started putting in footage of the capital riots during his speech it didn't make any sense.

So yeah, pretty mid episode, but still mildly entertaining. I wasn't like itching to turn it off, but I probably won't revisit it ever again.

This is the last episode for Season 6. I actually did care for Mr. Garrison's relationship with Rick. I remember how his first name was Herbert. He's called "Herb" in this. Thank you for introducing me to how "Warhammer 40K" is actually played. I just hear about that being mentioned on TVTropes all the time.

I did like how they were just saying that we'll see how things go with the 2024 election. It's great to hear Trump is being put on trial now. I thought Stan would at least mention Wendy. I missed not seeing more of Cartman or Butters from the last episode. Randy's being a party animal again! No, I don't think Trump will win. ***