Blog:Death (South Park)

Note: This is my opinion.

"Death" is the sixth episode of the first season of South Park. It originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on September 17, 1997.

Plot
Stan's grandfather, Marvin, tries to convince Stan to kill him, but Stan is unsure if it is the right thing to do, and also is extremely nervous about it. Meanwhile, Kyle's mother, Sheila, discovers that a show that many of the children in South Park are watching, Terrance and Phillip, contains lots of toilet humor. As a result, she tells many of the other mothers about it along with Mr. Garrison, her son's teacher. She also starts a protest where everyone goes up to the company's headquarters and complains about the show. However, the company responds with a somewhat controversial "Fuck you", so people start committing suicide on the building and defecating near the headquarters.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) While the main plot of the episode is a decent idea, the episode's subplot is terrible as it is essentially Trey Parker and Matt Stone "responding" to the criticism they got from the toilet humor of "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe" as if they were in the right, despite that the toilet humor they used for that episode and this one is atrociously disgusting. While toilet humor is often in South Park and can be done well, in this case it is not done well at all.
 * 2) *Not to mention the episode overuses toilet humor throughout the episode, not just because of the Terrance and Phillip scenes shown, but also because of everyone repeatedly defecating (which isn't a completely unfunny idea but it was poorly executed, especially considering that they made defecating sound like flatulating).
 * 3) In addition to the toilet humor ruining the episode, even if the idea of the main plot is good, the character of Death is badly made and if anything just creepy. Plus, Grandpa Marvin's grandfather's design is very bad and also somewhat creepy.
 * 4) While Stan's difficulty figuring out whether or not assisted suicide is a bad thing is kind of funny, it still feels pointless and is really just a time filler.

Good Qualities

 * 1) As mentioned on BQ#1, the idea of the main plot is actually good and isn't executed that badly.
 * 2) Some funny moments:
 * 3) As mentioned on BQ#3, Stan's difficulty figuring out whether or not assisted suicide is a bad thing is kind of funny.
 * 4) The fact that Stan understood what it was like for Grandpa Marvin because he put on a song that Stan didn't like and didn't let him get out of the room is somewhat humorous.