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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Yep, and if I remember correctly there are two more season to come :-(

    The original series runs didn’t have that many “topical” episode plots. That’s become the go-to for the new seasons, and some of the topics are already too old to be topical in the way South Park has pulled off. Initial run topical episodes I can think of:

    • A sort of Titanic parody
    • Iron Chef parody
    • Kidnappster, I guess

    And I think those were still very light connections to current events and more parodies, compared to eyePhone, cryptocurrency, NFTs, fast fashion, antivax…

    The VAs have been aging, too, and I feel like their hearts aren’t in it either. I’m going to assume this is a cash grab – Disney is good at extracting as much value out of IP in the short term; from their perspective, there’s only upside to cranking out some more Futurama.