South Park: Joining the <PERSON>
much, much better than any of the other recent specials. still has the same endemic problems (tired libertarian fodder to be lapped up by the guys who still share "dank memes" on facebook 10 times a day, stretching the same 3 jokes over the entire runtime, the palpable sense of self-consciousness coming from the writers having aged out of knowing what's hip, etc.) but the bones of comedy are here. 777
the randy storyline, for the first time in at least 40 or 50 years, isn't about "isn't it funny when a guy smokes weed" and as a result there's some funny stuff that happens! some actual humor-style jokes about getting hoisted by one's own petard! there's a bit late in the episode where <PERSON> experiences how much of a ~mindfuck~ <PERSON>'s conception of the multiverse is that really got a good laugh out of me. it's probably the least crude joke of the entire special but ends up feeling like the only one with any real teeth. after watching two specials where the joke was "what if we parodied the recent glut of streaming services by talking about actual streams of water and the water was used by a waterpark and there was some pee in the water," what can you say but bravo, relatively 282