ITT: Name a better TV show than South Park

[TuralyonW3]

and I'll tell you why you're wrong. Go ahead.

[Dead]

prison break, bones, 2 and a half men

[waltermcphilp]

scrubs

[TuralyonW3]

Originally Posted by Dead

prison break, bones, 2 and a half men

prison break is stupid melodramatic bullshit. I've never seen the other two but I can guarantee SP is better.

[Esty]

Originally Posted by Dead

2 and a half men

Ok, you're kidding me right?

[TuralyonW3]

Originally Posted by waltermcphilp

scrubs

South Park is funnier and sets up much grander jokes and schemes, and scrubs is just stupid/unfunny sometimes. It's like it's watered down to appeal to a large tv audience.

[Nimrod's Son]

The Office

[Karl Connor]

simon & simon

[teh b0lly!!1]

i dig southpark but its not the best
it tends to get too stupid sometimes (remember the crab people episode? christ that was fucking dumb) and although theyre self concious, the episodes are still very bad at times.
sometimes its sheer brilliance though.
i think the first 10 or so seasons of the simpsons beat southpark, if only because of the amazingly complete "universe" the series has created... its hard to believe its all made up, so many characters and places that just gel into one big unit. i think thats admirable.
i am also tempted to suggest malcolm in the middle because its really funny sometimes

/way too long a post for this thread

[Dead]

Originally Posted by Esty

Ok, you're kidding me right?

its well written, shithead.

[Dead]

south park has been way too inconsistent for the last several years, they've had some really good ones and then some really bad ones and even more average ones. It used to be much better.

[TuralyonW3]

Originally Posted by Nimrod's Son

The Office

I knew somebody would bring this one out. I'll be honest, I should see more of both the U.S. or British version, but the U.S. one depends too much on Steve Correll, and the British one too much on Gervais, while I believe South Park more evenly distributes the funneh over its sprawling cast of characters. You could argue that SP depends too much on Cartman but I think they've done a really good job of using all of the other characters as well. Also, South Park explores alot more diverse settings (which the freedom of animation allows) and again has much grander scemes and jokes, while still managing to capture some of the office's dry humour at times, in between all of the siliness.

[TuralyonW3]

Originally Posted by Karl Connor

simon & simon

Simon & Simon doesn't have a talking turd who lives in the sewer with his alcoholic wife and little corn nugget turd children.

[pale_princess]

nip/tuck

[Dead]

he was born with a peanut in his brain!

[TuralyonW3]

Originally Posted by teh b0lly!!1

i dig southpark but its not the best
it tends to get too stupid sometimes (remember the crab people episode? christ that was fucking dumb) and although theyre self concious, the episodes are still very bad at times.
sometimes its sheer brilliance though.
i think the first 10 or so seasons of the simpsons beat southpark, if only because of the amazingly complete "universe" the series has created... its hard to believe its all made up, so many characters and places that just gel into one big unit. i think thats admirable.
i am also tempted to suggest malcolm in the middle because its really funny sometimes

/way too long a post for this thread

I enjoyed the crab people, they completely came out of nowhere and were probably better than any other stale humor you could wring out of the whole Queer Eye metro thing.

[TuralyonW3]

Originally Posted by Dead

south park has been way too inconsistent for the last several years, they've had some really good ones and then some really bad ones and even more average ones. It used to be much better.

I completely disagree, the show is much richer and deeper in the last few seasons than when it began.

[Nimrod's Son]

Originally Posted by TuralyonW3

I knew somebody would bring this one out. I'll be honest, I should see more of both the U.S. or British version, but the U.S. one depends too much on Steve Correll, and the British one too much on Gervais, while I believe South Park more evenly distributes the funneh over its sprawling cast of characters. You could argue that SP depends too much on Cartman but I think they've done a really good job of using all of the other characters as well. Also, South Park explores alot more diverse settings (which the freedom of animation allows) and again has much grander scemes and jokes, while still managing to capture some of the office's dry humour at times, in between all of the siliness.

South Park relies on Cartman far more than The Office relies on Michael Scott. Sorry, but you are incorrect here and perhaps you should watch more episodes.

[TuralyonW3]

Originally Posted by pale_princess

nip/tuck

Oh god this show is just garbage. They try to be fucked up and wierd and exploitative but its watered down for a mainstream audience. Tries to be really realistic about the industry sometimes but then compltetely ridiculous at other times. Mediocre acting as well. South park is funnier, more entertaining, better characters, grosser, weirder, etc.

[Trotskilicious]

Originally Posted by Dead

prison break, bones, 2 and a half men

[TuralyonW3]

Originally Posted by Nimrod's Son

South Park relies on Cartman far more than The Office relies on Michael Scott. Sorry, but you are incorrect here and perhaps you should watch more episodes.

I think they did in earlier seasons, but I've seen every episode, and there are many in the last few seasons where Cartman's story is the main storyline, but there are also many episodes where Cartman hardly even makes an apperance or is never seen at all. I don't think the Office could get away with that with one of its main characters. It would be like Watching Seinfeld and having Jerry of Kramer barely in the episode.

[Trotskilicious]

Originally Posted by Dead

its well written, shithead.

you don't even know what that means.

my submission to this thread is The Venture Brothers.

[Sylvia Woods]

w33ds, the adventures of pete and pete, arrested develz

[TuralyonW3]

Also regarding the office, South Park has this huge rich world that even extends to heaven and hell and god and satan and stuff, and an amazing continuity that has kept some great gags running for 10 seasons, which I don't think either Office can touch.

[TuralyonW3]

Originally Posted by Sylvia Woods

w33ds, the adventures of pete and pete, arrested develz

I haven't seen Weeds, but I bet South Park is better. I LOVE Pete & Pete, it has some great ideas, but it was very limited because of its young audience, and I don't think it ever really got to achieve the wierdness and subversiveness that it wanted to (using Iggy Pop was genius though). Arrested Developement is one of my favorite shows, it's hilarious, and all I can really say is that South Park had higher highs than AD, and had alot more time to develop a rich chronology. AD was robbed, oviously, when it was cancelled.

[TuralyonW3]

Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

my submission to this thread is The Venture Brothers.

eh, I never liked this show as much as other people. I admire its frenetic pace and wierdness, but South Park has more likeable characters and is more diverse in its comedy and plotlines IMO.

[I Ate My Hamster]

Me:

1. Arrested Development --don't care that it's not on the air anymore.
2. 24
3. SouthPark
4. The Office

[TuralyonW3]

Originally Posted by I Ate My Hamster

Me:

1. Arrested Development --don't care that it's not on the air anymore.
2. 24
3. SouthPark
4. The Office

See above for AD. I don't like 24, I think it's melodramatic, contrived, and cheesy, especially the acting. I admire its cinematic visual style I guess.

[pale_princess]

intervention!

[Sylvia Woods]

Also, no matter what you can say, nothing could top Simpsons in their prime. Everything you've said in regards to South Park applies to the Simpsons, even amplified!