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RoyalTea

seems like SP has always split their seasons into two halves, one in the spring, one in the fall.

Was there a batch of new episodes in the spring? I feel like it's been a year since I've seen a new episode.

redrum

last episode was Season 16's episode 14 on Nov 7, 2012

My Other Self

It's been almost a year. The last episode was "Obama Wins!".

When Matt & Trey renewed their contract with Comedy Central through Season 20 part of their agreement was a shortened season with no mid-year breaks so they can plow through their crazy schedule all at once instead of twice a year.

Josh-da-man

Wonder if we can expect this season to suck as much as the last one?

Don't even know if I'll bother watching.

Damfino

That and I think they are only making 10 episodes this season instead of 14.

Mike86

It wasn't that bad. I think the issue they had last year was they were more focused on The Book of Mormon but still had to do new episodes of South Park too and they gave more attention to The Book of Mormon.

Rypro 525

gotta love Alec Baldwin coming off like a dick

PhantomStranger

That was a great start to the season. The stuff with Alec Baldwin was very funny.

Rypro 525

I also loved Officer Barbrady's confession "yes, i masturbate to Game of Thrones"

Red Dog

Most of it fell flat for me.

The Black

Ditto. Did laugh at Cartman calling on speakerphone at first, but that joke went on too long.

Deftones

Yep. Very lackluster episode to start off.

Gizmo

That.

Tuned out towards the end.

Neil M.

Yeah not a good start to the season.

Giles

I was a little shocked by the language (and for someone who thinks 'Drawn Together', and 'Brickleberry' - reaches the all time lows for some gutter level mean-spirited humor)

Mabuse

All the Baldwin stuff was awesome: "If you're ever in Los Angeles Jennifer Love Hewitt makes a cock meat sandwich that'll beat those queers etc." was hysterical.

And they made a good point that while we complain about the NSA we voluntarily give up our privacy every day.

BJacks

Seemed a little scattershot; some good ideas but nothing really jelled for me. Cartman on the phone was a little funny, Baldwin was a little funny, but no real big laughs for me. Hope next week is better.

ben12

Yeah, I'm glad they stuck it to that guy! He's had it too good for too long!

Bill Needle

I thought it was a little weak for having almost a year off. Not terrible, but not that good. If I was trying to get someone into South Park I would definitely not use this episode.

van der graaf

The main problem (for me) is that it seems all the characters do now is scream.

DJLinus

Loved the name of his show: "Free Pass with Alec Baldwin". I like Baldwin and he was great on 30 Rock, but that is so true. If someone else would've spewed the crap he has, Hollywood would forever label him a hateful bigot. But since he's so active on their political "team", they kind of squirm and say it's just "Alec being Alec." South Park is always good about pointing out hypocrisy like that (across the spectrum, too).

As for the rest of the episode...I got some laughs. Not one of their better ones, though.

beavis69

I thought the episode was excellent and laughed through the whole thing. Great start for me.

PhantomStranger

Like some prior episodes, this had some really scathing political commentary running below the surface. South Park is the only comedy on television that would even attempt something like this episode. If the political commentary was missed, I could see how one might think this was a poor episode.