Blog:South Park (seasons 1-3)

''unfinished yet '' South Park is a american animated series created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone for Comedy Central.

While the show is well-recieved the first two seasons (and to a lesser extent, season 3) have a mixed reception by the fans and some critics.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The writing during these seasons weren't the best here, not only the writing was a bit tamer during these seasons, but the pacing wasn't that great, as most of the episodes or has a plot that doesn't seem to last for 22 minutes, but often takes too long to get to the main plot, with the first arc being pointless or having nothing to do with the plot of the episode itself.
 * 2) Because of this, some scenes just end up serving for nothing but filler.
 * 3) While the animation was supposed to replicate the paper stop-motion animation styke, it wasn't the best and it looks pretty by today standarts, as for example being the animation errors that tend to occur during these seasons.
 * 4) Many bad and mediocre episodes, like:
 * 5) * Cartman Gets an Anal Probe (which started the show on a sour note)
 * 6) * Big Gay Al’s Big Gay Boat Ride
 * 7) * An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig
 * 8) * Tom’s Rhinoplasty
 * 9) * Cartman’s Mom is a Dirty Slut (depending on your view, a mediocre way to end season 1)
 * 10) * Terrance and Phillip in Not Without My Anus (a bad way to start season 2)
 * 11) * Cartman’s Mom is Still a Dirty Slut (a terrible sequel to the season 1 finale)
 * 12) * Ike's Wee Wee (depending on your view)
 * 13) * Conjoined Fetus Lady (depending on your view)
 * 14) * City on the Edge of Forever (considered the worst episode of these seasons)
 * 15) * Chickenpox
 * 16) * Clubhouse
 * 17) * Cow Days
 * 18) * Merry Christmas, Charlie Manson!
 * 19) * Prehistoric Ice Man (a awful way to end the second season)
 * 20) * The Succubus
 * 21) * Jakovasaurs
 * 22) * Two Guys Naked in a Hot Tub
 * 23) The humor of these seasons isn't the best comparing to the later seasons, since these seasons (mostly the first two) makes use of gross-out humor (like an infamous running gag where Stan always vomit at Wendy, which thankfully stopped being used in season 3). and toilet humor (like in the first episode).
 * 24) While the voice acting is good, it wasn't that good during the first season
 * 25) Some unlikeable, annoying characters, like:
 * 26) Pip, while not unlikeable, is very one-dimensional character, and the running gag that everyone hates him is just mean-spirited.
 * 27) Shelly Marsh (for self-explanatory reasons)
 * 28) Ms. Crabtree

Good Qualities

 * 1) Thankfully the show would improve starting with season 4
 * 2) It also received the movie which in itself is much better than these seasons
 * 3) Season 3 is considered by many to be the least bad of these seasons, as the writing has improved, giving better episodes than the first two seasons.
 * 4) Passable voice acting, that does improve during the second season.
 * 5) Many of the characters were still likeable, like: Stan, Kyle, Kenny, Cartman, Butters, Pip, Wendy, Randy, Tweek, Craig and Chef.
 * 6) There's still some funny and hilarious moments during these seasons.
 * 7) There's still some decent/good episodes, like:
 * 8) * Weight Gain 4000
 * 9) * Volcano (depending on your view)
 * 10) * Death
 * 11) * Pinkeye
 * 12) * Starvin' Marvin
 * 13) * Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo
 * 14) * Daminem
 * 15) * Mecha-Streisand
 * 16) * Ike's Wee Wee (depending on your view)
 * 17) * Chickenlover
 * 18) * Summer Sucks
 * 19) * Chef’s Chocolate Salty Balls
 * 20) * Spookyfish
 * 21) * Gnomes (depending on your view)
 * 22) * Rainforest, Shmainforest (which started season 3 on a decent note)
 * 23) * Spontaneous Combustion (despise the use of fart jokes)
 * 24) * Tweek vs. Craig
 * 25) * Sexual Harassment Panda
 * 26) * Jewbilee
 * 27) * Chinpokomon
 * 28) * Korn’s Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery (depending on your view)
 * 29) * The Red Badge of Gayness
 * 30) * Mr. Hankey’s Christmas Classics
 * 31) * World Wide Recorder Concert (depending on your view, a decent way to end season 3)
 * 32) Pretty nice soundtrack, such as the theme song and credits song itself being catchy.

Reception
While all the seasons (except for season 20) where all well-recieved by some fans and critics. Over the time, these seasons started to recieve some mixed reception by fans and some critics, with season 3 having more of a mixed-to-positive reception comparing to past seasons. Even Trey and Matt even regret making these seasons.