A bitterly disappointing season from the South Park Boys. Not as sharp as the earlier seasons which I love – the focus here is on more “issue” based comedy but it forgets the surreal, interweaving elements that made the initial run of shows so great. It feels like the material was just pumped out without much reflection and not really developed beyond the inital smart-ass idea, and the post 9/11 episode is surprisingly sappy for a show which has never previously been afraid to punch you straight between the eyes.

Even the “quality” of animation seems different…

Finally, in deliberately setting out to create “the worst cartoon character ever” the Towelie episode shows outright contempt for the audience. Total score is 14 episodes of which two are very good (“Cartmanland” and “Proper Condom Use”) three are OK (“The Entity”; “Kenny Dies”; and “Butters Very Own Episode”) the rest are poor and boring to watch: whoever thought South Park would be boring?