South Park - Season 11

South Park has been funny for a long time now. It's not as consistent as it used to be, which can happen when you've been on the air for over a decade, but when it's on its game, it's still great. When it started it lived off the shock value of little kids swearing and fart jokes, but over time it's matured and said a lot of smart, real things about the world. It's always a treat when you suddenly realize what real-life issue Matt and Trey are cleverly lampooning. As you can see from the intro, the cast has been expanding quite a bit and is now reaching Simpsons-level proportions, but the episodes usually focus on the four boys and a few others so it doesn't seem like there's many one-trick ponies. It's become a pleasant routine to get seven new episodes every six months, and I hope it last a while longer.

There's no shortage of good episodes in season 11. In recent years they've gotten into multi-part episodes, and this time they had their longest and perhaps best yet, "Imaginationland", which stretched over three episodes. Funny, ironically epic, and they even managed to pull some comedy out of Gore and the Manbearpig. "The Snuke" is a spot-on (if a little late) parody of 24 that jabs at Hillary and "Lice Capades" spoofs disaster movies with equal skill. The Easter episode was excellent, as was the one that took Guitar Hero down a peg. The only ones that weren't great was probably the lesbian one that parodied 300 and the homeless one, but they weren't bad either, parodies were just getting a bit boring. The 12th season is already off to a decent start and I'm wondering where it will lead.