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Noonan

If Kanye didn't like the fish sticks episode, he's going to REALLY hate this one.

Osiris3657

I love Cupid Me.

Anyone notice the end credits where the creator was only Matt Stone and Trey was listed as an assistant to Stone

Troy Stiffler

I didn’t catch that.

A joke or is Trey taking it easy?

caligulathegod

Matt is the Stan analog, also Jewish.

Neil M.

Yes. I thought that was pretty funny along with the chanting in the background. Pretty good episode to start the season.

Red Dog

at how the entire audience was cheering for Kyle to run Hollywood after his speech.

Deftones

Holy mother of God this is amazing

MrX

Cupid Ye with arrows that made everyone anti-Semitic cracked me up

ViewAskewbian

I also love how, it was actual Cartmen running out of Toilken's house when his father peaked in the room.

Osiris3657

You mean Kyle. Trey is Stan (and Cartman) and Matt is Kyle (and Kenny). But Stan and Kyle are supposed to represent them and their real life friendship

caligulathegod

You're right. Reverse the names.

ViewAskewbian

Taking it to Harry and Meghan

Noonan

Was Harry rubbing his blue dick on Kyle's window a reference to something or random?

Poor Kyle can't catch a break this season so far.

MrX

“I just think some people might say that your Instagram-loving bitch wife actually doesn’t want her privacy.”

“How dare you, sir! My Instagram-loving bitch wife has always wanted her privacy.”

Josh-da-man

Maybe it was just my mood last night, but I found the episode to be horribly unfunny.

I don't really follow or care about Harry and Meghan, so having an entire episode devoted to mocking them fell flat for me. As often I find the case to be, I think people who complain about something annoying are actually more annoying than the thing they complain about.

As for the b-story, I find the theme with Stan hanging out with Tolkien more and more and Kyle becoming estranged from his best friend to be more interesting. It's probably one of those things everyone goes through around that age where your best friend or another close friend finds another friend and starts to cut you out.

bluesix

You probably didn't catch the excerpts in the media where apparently Prince Harry included a story in his book about getting frost bit on the head of his cock while on a trip to Antartica. In the story it sounded like he didn't take it that seriously and was trying to use women's skin care products to heal the damage. I assume he eventually sought medical attention since he has fathered children since it happened.

Osiris3657

No episode this week?

Gizmo

Probably another 6 episode “season”. What are they working on besides South Park?

Deftones

The next video game, the movie version of Book of Mormon, specials for Paramount+

Gizmo

Weirdly enough
https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/sou...nt-1235534780/

HBO is going after Paramount for producing low episode volume seasons and making "specials" for Paramount+

Josh-da-man

I think HBO might have a case. After the HBO deal was made they delivered a truncated two-episode season, and two truncated six-episode seasons, while shifting (arguably better) content over to Paramount+. I always thought it was kind of weird that "Season 24" only consisted of two episodes, but now it sort of makes sense.

I'm not sure they can even use the Pandemic as an excuse to not produce more episodes, since South Park would probably easy to put together remotely while everyone was on lockdown.

Gizmo

HBO will win because the contract is for 3 seasons of 10 episodes each. Paramount didn't deliver but also created new content for Paramount+ it should'n't have.

Josh-da-man

Yeah, if they were contractually obligated to deliver three ten-episode seasons to HBO, then I don't see how Paramount can wriggle out of this. We haven't seen the actual contract involved, but I would assume that HBO would have been smart enough to not give them a way to weasel out of it. On the other hand, I also have trouble believing that Paramount would be stupid enough to renege on a $500M contract, too.

TheBang

I don't think they actually had that (3 seasons of 10 episodes each) in the contract, which is a big oversight by HBO MAX, otherwise it would have been explicitly referenced in the lawsuit. That said, there's plenty of juicy, underhanded stuff and misrepresentations by Paramount in the lawsuit that I assume HBO MAX can back up with communications records.

Anyone with half a brain can see that Paramount regrets licensing everything out to HBO MAX and wishes it had the content to prop up Paramount+, and that the "specials" were a way to try to circumvent that. HBO MAX makes a pretty compelling case of that in the lawsuit, but I guess we'll have to see what Paramount's response is.

I imagine the parties will come to some kind of settlement, maybe reducing the amount of of fees HBO MAX has to pay. Paramount has a lot of nerve complaining about licensing fees not being paid. I wouldn't be paying them either if Paramount hadn't been delivering content like they should have.