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When I discovered South Park studios, I legit stopped pirating south park. It was great. Good (enough) quality, access to every episode afaik, and easy to use. Then they switched to Hulu for sps and it went to shit: ads, videos failing to load, ads failing to load in the middle of the video causing it to reset from the beginning, only a few seasons available at any particular time, etc.
Fuck all that shit.
Man South Park used to be one of my favourite shows but I considered it dead when it moved to paramount+ my country didn’t even have access to paramount for like a year, now nobody cares
Can you access https://www.southparkstudios.com/ ?
Never checked, tbh once the Tegridy farms thing started I lost interest in the show
I get that, had the same initial reaction, but I felt it picked up and got good.
It's just a full season of their greatest episodes you're not getting, that's all. Pay up.
Most of these replies seem to be missing the reason. Paramount is trying to merge and needs FCC approval and the Trump administration has been using the FCC as a cudgel to keep them in line.
Anyone know where I can download the entire series for my server?
Edit: thank y'all I'll take a look when I get home!
I just downloaded the entire 130gb mega folder from 1337 lol
probably not gonna watch past the first few seasons but it gets my seed ratio up in the long term I'm not complaining
fmhy.net
Qbit torrent has direct downloads these days.
I can't imagine that any torrent service doesn't have thousands of seeds for South Park. It is precisely their target audience.
I'm sure there's some sort of pirate bay or 1337 people that would answer this question. But you should really know there are a torrent of answers.
Broooo two days before the day after tomorrow is fucking golden though.
Never watched this show, but isn't the point of the show basically to be saturatingly offensive? Why would you remove a shotgun-scatter subset of episodes?
They were always riding on the edge of being censored by the network. In some cases the network literally censored them right before airing (the Muhammed episodes) and in others they were just restricted after the airing (like the list above)
And Paramount also probably has a slightly different "that's still ok" standard than comedy Central had/has
In this case Paramount is consistent with southpark.cc.com, so apparently the stupid is contagious.
https://southpark.cc.com/episodes/4rcpa5/south-park-big-gay-al-s-gay-boat-ride-season-1-ep-4
What's wrong with big gay al?
Nothing is wrong with Big Gay Al.
Most likely there is some misunderstood joke in the episode that is getting the whole episode pulled. The football game announcers have a banter about one saying unacceptable things and it is probably one of those, but instead of censoring the one thing they just pulled the entire episode.
I did some googling, apparently its a holocaust joke that most networks are scared will attract litigation.
Most of the other banned episodes are due to jokes about real life child death or acts of terrorism that the studios are concerned will either attract litigation or copycat killers.
Censoring the one joke instead of banning the entire episode including the overall positive message about acceptance would be a far better approach than this bullshit.
Clearly they don't understand that the show is mocking the character who says the holocaust joke, but at least they wouldn't be dragging down everything else that is good with their overreaction.
"Oh look, it's the Oppressors! Christians and Republicans and Nazis! Oh my!"
Omg they must've felt so good when they got that domain name back when URLs mattered