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What South Park managed very well for a while was to repackage politic subject in ways you couldn't really notice. Now they can't seem to manage to make them as subtle as in the older days.
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I need to check it again, cause I don't remember off the top of my head what the season was. I did all of South Park though. Caught up on it these last few days.
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Oh, that one I remember quite well. I guess I'd interpret it as an admission that their work isn't that good anymore, but they're still going forward while accepting that they can't reach the same standard.
I don't remember money being a big theme of the episode, so it's harder for me to see it as "we're still doing it for the money".
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I recently saw a clip of the episode, and I think it was Kyle that gives Stan the advice to keep going forward by taking a left turn instead. This I see as an admission that the show can't really continue in the same formula, and they need to change things around a bit. And after that we can indeed see some season wide themes being introduced for instance.