Back to the Cold War

This episode is all about characters going back to the Cold War. I will admit it was weird how there was no mention of Ukraine. I thought that Melancholy was a female horse at first. I'm just too used to watching "My Little Pony". I do like the relationship Mr. Mackey had with his mom. We're all getting older.

It's just funny to see an old woman with a huge head. Mr. Mackey using old technology was pretty funny. It did seem to get too vulgar with Melancholy. I am glad Butters was the one riding him. He likes riding himself, if you know what I mean. ***

Not a bad episode, but feel as if they only scratched the surface on what they could have satirized. So much has happened the past two years which has given them so much writing material, or so you would believe. Hopefully Parker and Stone fine their mojo once again.

Parker and Stone really have lost their edge. Wasn't a fan of their serialization attempts in the last couple seasons. It seems they have lost their skill to make great standalone episodes now. Both, their political and their just boys doing fun stuff standalone episodes no longer work :( They are just boring, sadly.

This episode is pretty much exactly what we needed given the Russia/Ukraine situation. Them mocking Putin was absolutely glorious. The Mr. Mackey stuff did feel a bit meh to me, but I can look past it. Also, there's a scene involving Butters' horse that I didn't expect but made me laugh hard.

My only gripe with it, and the reason I'm not giving it a 10/10 is the fact that I feel they could have mocked Putin even more. Something similar to what they did to Bin Laden in the post 9/11 episode would have been sweet. But still, the episode is great, best one of the season so far.

The whole episode just felt so... off. The pacing was odd and seemed like they didn't really have much to say on the matter. Mr. Mackey was already established with his younger self much differently in prior episodes and it just didn't really mend well in my opinion.

Props to South Park for being so quick to the draw, unfortunate the messaging kinda wasn't there.