While I did not quite love "More Crap", it seems to be a statement as to what can make South Park so brilliant. This is arguably one of the show's most immature and toilet-humour oriented episodes yet and it is both a statement to the show that South Park is as well as a complete rejection of being honoured by the Academy when they won an Emmy for the now legendary episode, "Make Love, Not Warcraft". It is as if Matt and Trey devised the episode around their winning an Emmy and wanted to mock that victory in much the same way they mock everything in the show. And it's rather brilliant and fair.
"More Crap" is a Randy episode which is almost always a great thing and this is one of his most absurd outings yet, another good thing. After an intense three week bout of constipation, Randy takes a crap so huge that he feels proud. Soon afterwards, he shows all his friends and they agree that it might be the biggest ever and a potential record holder, while current record holder Bono will stop at nothing to make sure he does not lose the title.
The episode is so "South Park". Where it is short on commentary, it excels in absurdity and the show's characters and world building are so strong that episodes like this can exist and feel substantial enough and work well enough at this point. Some of the episode's funniest moments for me revolved around the dynamic of Randy and Sharon here, which was hilarious.
The direction that Matt and Trey take Bono and the twist to this side story is rather clever wordplay and leads to some amusing stuff, though it is always Randy that holds the episode strong. When he is encouraged by his friends to attempt to replicate the glory of his last significant bowel movement, the way Matt and Trey draw parallels purely through wordplay between Randy anticipating another record breaking bowel movement and the birth of a child is hilarious. There's plenty of odd, quirky but entirely South Park-esque humour that make this feel like a classic episode.
"More Crap" is absurd, immature and stupid and boy is it rather wonderful. Randy is always a delight and this is a fairly strong Randy entry if for the levels of stupidity that the episode reaches. It is immensely entertaining, is a hilarious South Park "f**k you anyways" to the Academy and has a great sense of fun. While I get the sense that the show is slowly on its inevitable decline (all good things do come to an end...sorta), here is an episode that once again makes me re-think that.
"More Crap" is a Randy episode which is almost always a great thing and this is one of his most absurd outings yet, another good thing. After an intense three week bout of constipation, Randy takes a crap so huge that he feels proud. Soon afterwards, he shows all his friends and they agree that it might be the biggest ever and a potential record holder, while current record holder Bono will stop at nothing to make sure he does not lose the title.
The episode is so "South Park". Where it is short on commentary, it excels in absurdity and the show's characters and world building are so strong that episodes like this can exist and feel substantial enough and work well enough at this point. Some of the episode's funniest moments for me revolved around the dynamic of Randy and Sharon here, which was hilarious.
The direction that Matt and Trey take Bono and the twist to this side story is rather clever wordplay and leads to some amusing stuff, though it is always Randy that holds the episode strong. When he is encouraged by his friends to attempt to replicate the glory of his last significant bowel movement, the way Matt and Trey draw parallels purely through wordplay between Randy anticipating another record breaking bowel movement and the birth of a child is hilarious. There's plenty of odd, quirky but entirely South Park-esque humour that make this feel like a classic episode.
"More Crap" is absurd, immature and stupid and boy is it rather wonderful. Randy is always a delight and this is a fairly strong Randy entry if for the levels of stupidity that the episode reaches. It is immensely entertaining, is a hilarious South Park "f**k you anyways" to the Academy and has a great sense of fun. While I get the sense that the show is slowly on its inevitable decline (all good things do come to an end...sorta), here is an episode that once again makes me re-think that.
