What's a pet peeve

@Zaquarvious Something that bothers you.

I have quite a few with the show itself, and a lot with the fandom which I explained in a post a couple months back but it got locked for getting too heated. With the show itself, I don't like how prominent torture porn episodes are, the overly topical nature in recent seasons, how a lot of characters are defined by only one trait, and how they can get a bit repetitive with their jokes at times, for example the Member Berries, Tegridy Farms, most of the jokes in the Vaccination Special, etc.

As for the fandom, I don't like the cultist fans (the ones who will defend anything the show does and the ones who feel the need to share the show's opinions), the millennials who won't shut up about the glory days, the zoomers who won't shut up about how anything not modern is bad, the obsessive pedophilic fangirls who create extremely inappropriate fanarts/fanfictions that involve children engaging in you know what, and how they often start shipping wars, but those are my biggest pet peeves with the fandom, of course there are some really nice people too.

@Sega&Nicktoons fan 3000 Those sound more serious than pet peeves. A pet peeve is more like a nitpick, something that annoys you unreasonably.

@JohnVMaster I'll admit, I did go a little more serious than pet peeves, but a couple of them are. The fandom part in particular wasn't a pet peeve.

Idk

@Sega&Nicktoons fan 3000 I'm sure. It's national sport at SPA to complain about the fandom.

Do you have an actual pet peeve though?

Tweek x Craig

Tegridy Farms, but that was mostly restricted to Season 23. In general, how the season seemed to be poking fun at how people were tired of Tegridy Farms, but they kept using it anyways. It made the season feel dated; if you look back on episodes like Season Finale, Randy's meta comments like "South Park is nothing without Tegridy Farms" doesn't make much sense without the context that it's sniping at the fan reaction.

In a more general sense, the serialization in later seasons, simply because the writers just aren't good at seasonal arcs. They set up major plot points, then don't conclude them in a satisfactory way or just have them taper off. Season 20 is the big one, with the Member Berries and the Gender War not going anywhere, but this element was in Season 21 as well. The girls' role in Heidi sticking with Cartman is brought up in one episode, and then never followed up on.