‘South Park’ Fans Are Convinced That Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are In The Subreddit
It’s official: South Park sucks now. Stick around in the subreddit for an exciting financial opportunity to fix it.
In last night’s South Park Halloween special “The Woman in the Hat,” series creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone directly addressed the most common complaint about their show among perpetually aggrieved internet communities. Despite the fact that Parker and Stone have been planning for the series to drastically expand in scope since Season One, many modern South Park fans continue to express their public indignance about the lack of grounded, small-scale, four-kids-and-a-chef-style adventures in the new season as the national political landscape takes the center stage.
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In “The Woman in the Hat,” Stan, Kyle and Kenny declare that they are fed up with the way their town has been taken over by politics and pushed the personal dynamic of their friend group into the background, and they launch subreddit called /r/SouthParkSucksNow to find like-minded complainers to commiserate over the state of South Park. Over in the IRL South Park subreddit, fans celebrated the shout-out from the show – they even turned Stan's community of cryptocurrency customers into a real-life shitposting forum.
Users in the post-episode thread for “The Woman in the Hat” on the South Park subreddit celebrated “The Woman in the Hat” as a tastefully meta takedown of their own community, with the top commenter writing, “Brilliant episode. Addresses all the people who think the show sucks now and just says deal with it cause that's how things are now but they won't be this way forever.”
"Love how this episode was a big fuck you to the complainers on this subreddit lmao," another fan added.
One more user asked of the show's explicit shout-out to Reddit's most perpetually triggered South Park fans, “Does this mean M&T are among us?”
Considering how “The Woman in the Hat” nailed the most common criticisms of South Park Season 27/28 in the show's subreddit – namely, the lack of focus on the core four boys, the absence of Kenny episodes and the increasingly political nature of the series – Parker and Stone certainly seem to be as terminally online as the rest of the South Park fandom.
“It's official. The guys frequent this sub,” one South Park fan wrote in the live discussion thread for “The Woman in the Hat,” adding the shoutout, “Hi, Matt & Trey! Loved Orgazmo!”
“Lmao they noticed the sub Reddit,” another user added.
“I loved that they acknowledged the divisiveness of this season, I've definitely had my share of problems with this season but I've seen it more as an experiment than the way the show will be forever now, and I think they pretty much confirm this with Kyle's speech at the end,” one more opined, “I for one am totally ready for them to move on from the White House plotline but I still appreciate this season for being different.” Much like this user, many other commenters agreed that a little meta humor doesn't fix their problem with the show's politics.
While most South Park fans in the subreddit seemed to enjoy the snarky wink from the show's creators, the exact criticisms that Parker and Stone acknowledged remain prevalent throughout the fan forum. “Apparently acknowledging that these two seasons have been crap makes them retroactively good because it's ‘meta,’” one dissatisfied Redditor wrote, “I dislike Trump as much as the next guy, but making it the focus of the whole season was a mistake so many jokes revolves around the guy and so few stick the landing...”
“Plus SP was never good at doing overarching plots, I don't care about Satan's baby and the fact that more than half of these episodes is given to this slapstick humour makes them a drag to go through,” the user concluded.
With Parker and Stone presumably in that same comments section, perhaps those complaints will be addressed in the next episode on November 12th. Maybe Trump himself will respond to the critique – in his words, “Relax, guy!”
