Fatbeard

So many hilarious scenes early middle and end.. Cartman is at his best and the scenes with Kyle are peak South Park. The adventurous plot is fun and the comedy is in prime.

I really find this episode to stand out amongst the other strong ones... Extremely rememberable and doesn't get old. Top tier!

For some reason, this episode was widely well thought of. It has almost entirely good reviews. Why is this? The plot was simple and dumb, and the ending, though obviously fitting to real life activities, was abrupt and not very funny. In fact, throughout the episode, boredom struck me, and by the end, I was definitely ready to watch something else.

Cartman gets some boys together to go to Somolia to become pirates. They learn it isn't all it cracked up to be, and Cartman has no idea what he's doing. The episode's plot is way too short, so it's drawn out by Clyde going into random unfunny tantrums, and by the end, we have a predictable and overall not very good episode.

An idea that was often missing from episodes in the last few seasons was the innocence of childhood. Stan and Kyle usually are the most mature people in South Park nowadays. One positive of this episode, is it brings back an innocent side to the show, but at the same time it was just really dumb. Right when the episode starts, you could predict what will happen and probably be close to right. Cartman mistaking things for what they aren't cannot hold up an entire episode.

This mid-season finale was a disappointment, but it wasn't horrible. It was boring oftentimes, but occasionally had a laugh or two.

My rating: ** out of ****. 30 mins. TVMA

Fatbeard is the season finale of the first half of South Park's thirteenth season.I personally think, this season was fairly good.An improvement over Season 12, but the first two episodes are the best in my opinion.The other ones were good, but "The Ring" and "THe Coon" are definitely the best ones.This episode features Cartman starting a pirate gang and going to Samalia to be a pirate.The pirates there keep them as hostages at first, however Cartman and his friends end up taking over a french ship, that's when they become better pirates, more like the old fashioned ones that Cartman is trying to be.Fatbeard is a fairly good episode and has some funny moments.The rest of Season 13 will start in October, hopefully it's as good as this one, if not better.

I've been a fan of South Park since day one, but if Trey Parker is going to keep writing episode like this then i may have to find something else to enjoy. Don't get me wrong, I love Trey Parker, he is a genius and has blown me away with some of his earlier episodes, but I can't help but feel that Trey has gotten bored with doing south park. This episode is probably up there with the worst. It's almost as bad at the FishDicks episode. There was a moment when I thought that trey had made a comeback with laugh out loud humour like the older series with the queef episode, but it seemed to be a one off. I think Trey needs to throw in the towel and come up with something new before he goes down the inevitable Simpsons road and becomes completely unfunny. This episode raised a few chuckles, that's about it. And the ending...well, lets just say it sucked. I am sure there are a lot of hardcore fans out there who must be feeling the same way as me with the recent series of South Park.