Let it be known that I have watched every episode of the new season, and it is shit. It is literally garbage, and know what, this is the episode that is neither funny or clever in anyway. Never have I seen the show suck so hard before, and I'm a huge fan. 
 
The episode revolves around a biker gang coming to South Park and annoying the living hell out of all of the townspeople. The episode actually starts when Cartman goes to tell them that they are being fags. The show doesn't get better from there, in fact it has used the same defenses I've heard and once used myself (When I was stupid) and they give it even less justice. From there, the gang go on to try to make the word "Fag" be all about disruptive Harley bikers, and they succeed. They start by spraypainting "Fags get out" on a nearby block of buildings, then admit to it gladly in court. Now if there has been a single theme in the show of late, it has been the warping of characters from one place to another in seconds, but the destination being even more unbelievable. With the help of Mr Slave and Big Gay Al, they manage to put into law an indefinite changing of meanings of the word fag to mean the disruptive bikers. Then by the end of the episode, they change the meaning of the word by changing the dictionary's definition. 
 
By that point I thought, "Fuck it, they're going nowhere with it". A terribly written episode with an even worse lesson behind it. It doesn't work when you have the main characters call other people "gay" on a sentence to sentence basis. Give me a break, this preachy bullshit doesn't hold up. Especially when the social meaning of the word fag has meant what it meant for a long time (As in a near century). You can't make the case that the meaning has changed because kids have a supposedly bullshit different popular usage for it, it doesn't work that way. I mean, the god damn timing of this is just great. Coinciding with the MW2 video, the recent election in Maine, and the not so recent but still ingrained in our memories the brutal assault of a gay man by two guys who repeatedly called him a fag. 
 
Lately, there has been a trade-off. Matt Stone and Trey Parker have decided to scrap witty writing with kids swearing constantly, and it doesn't make for good television. There are two south park shows, one that is a comedy show and the other that is a preachy right-wing libertarian plug that fails to get off a laugh. When there is a message, the show opens itself up to scrutiny because it isn't satire (But rather satire with a really bad message). I just think that they could go back to their old way of doing the show. 
 
Somebody should tell all of these people how language works. 
 
3/10