TV Rewatch - South Park - Season Three

And so I've come to the third season of South Park. I think I found it just as enjoyable if not more so than the second season. Whereas Season 2 went for more of expanding on the same as the first season, Season 3 really tried to once again push the boundaries of what was acceptable, and what you can laugh at. I found myself continuously laughing hard on many occasions throughout the 17 episode season, with barely any low points.

This season we got the introduction of one of my favorite characters Butters, as well as some of my favorite episodes so far, including Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery, a Halloween episode based around Korn coming to town to play a Halloween festival when a bunch of ghost pirates come to town and ruin everyone's events, ala a Scooby-Doo episode.

While some episodes this season didn't make me laugh out loud, the premise behind the episodes themselves made me appreciate the jokes they were telling. For example, in the season opener Rainforest Shmainforest, the boys join a singing kids group to travel to the Rainforest and encourage people to stop destroying it. However they get lost and people end up dying. By the end of the episode, they're petitioning to destroy the rainforest because of how dangerous it actually is. Another was the episode Jakovasaurs, in which the boys find a male and female of an extinct species and the town  decides they need to help them to repopulate. Once they intervene however, they find that the Jakovasaurs are the most annoying and irritating things they've ever encountered and should have left them to die. They spend the rest of the episode trying to get the creatures to move away from South Park.

There were so many good episodes this season, with things like Sally Struthers as Jabba the Hutt in a Star Wars/Star Trek pastiche episode, the Kyle and Stan's dad's having an eye-opening sexual encounter that makes them define what it means to be straight and gay, and one of my personal favorites, the New Year's episode Are You There God? It's Me Jesus, in which God agrees to reveal himself once every 2000 years to answer one single question they can think up, and Stan wastes the one question they can ask in 2000 years by having to have God explain how Stan can't have a period because only girls can.

Overall, this season was solid, delivering laughs all around. The only episode I didn't really enjoy was the Christmas episode Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics, because as much as I appreciated the novelty of it, it was low on actual jokes for me.