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Overall I think this season was just meh. Personally I got tired of all the President Garrison/Trump bashing, especially when Matt Stone and Trey Parker previously said they would back off of the Trump jokes for season 21 and get back to making South Park the way it was before, where every episode was self-contained and focused on the 4 main boys. Yet, they went back on their word and a good portion of the episodes this season were involving Garrison/Trump and most of the episodes all had some sort of connection to the next.

Whether you are a supporter of or just hate President Donald Trump, after this tense political season, I think we could all agree that South Park should have just left Garrison/Trump and any current politics out of season 21 or at most, just made him just a background character with a quick scene in a couple of episodes and then focused on the main group of kids doing something new each episode. Lets face it, people get constant coverage of what's going in politics from both sides via the news, talk shows and social media all the time, so it would have been nice to just have 30 minutes of a politically free cartoon series about a group of kids from a mountain town doing crazy things.

My other issue this season was the whole Cartman and Heidi relationship. They really just let it drag on all this time, when it really should have ended at the end of season 20 or at the latest, the early half of season 21. Watching him become a total dick to her and then watching her transform into a female version of Cartman after her friends hated on her was just sad.

To me, the only really standout episode this season was "Franchise Prequel". "Hummels and Heroin" and "Super Hard PCness" were also great, but "Franchise Prequel" was my absolute favorite of the season. I honestly felt like "Super Hard PCness" could have been a better season finale that "Splatty Tomato". As much as I like Nathan and Mimsy episodes, "Moss Piglet" was definitely just a meh episode that could have been better if they went with something other than the NFL. But at least those 4 felt like they were getting back to the original style of South Park.

I honestly hated “Put It Down”, not only because of the constant President Garrison/Trump bashing, but Tweek's constant screeching every five seconds really gets annoying. He's good in small doses, but for almost an entire episode of him yelling and screaming constantly about Garrison/Trump bringing the town to the brink of war with North Korea, that's just too much in my opinion. "White People Renovating Houses" and "Holiday Special" were also episodes that I just really didn't like.

Maybe Trey and Matt though it might be easier to join the Trump bashing train that almost every other show is doing, instead of keeping their word and trying to create episodes that were original each time while staying out of politics. Maybe they realized that after 20 years, its hard to keep churning out fresh ideas. Who knows. In any case, I just felt disppoined with how season 21 turned out for the most part. I really hope next season, they get back to their old ways and make South Park great again.