South Park Should Drop The Tegridy Farms Plot
Although South Park has mined some solid comedy out of Randy Marsh’s cannabis business Tegridy Farms, it is time for the series to bring its focus back to the show’s true stars, Stan, Kyle, Cartman, Kenny, and Butters. The formula of South Park has changed numerous times over the show’s 25 seasons. Early on,South Park became infamous overnight due to its bawdy, often grotesque humor, its goofy surrealism, and its surprisingly gory black comedy.
However, as South Park began to gain critical acclaim for its sharp satirical elements, the show began to transition from an anarchic black comedy into a more pointed political satire. Particularly after the success of 1999’s movie spinoff South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut, South Park started to cover weekly events since the show’s uniquely quick turnaround allowed the series to comment on stories as they unfolded. Famously, South Park addressed the Elian Gonzalez affair and the capture of Saddam Hussein within days of these events being major news stories.
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However, this was not the last time that South Park changed the show’s formula. From as early as season 9, Stan’s father Randy Marsh was singled out as a fan-favorite character who worked well as a supporting star on South Park. As a result of this popularity, when South Park began to serialize its storytelling in season 19, it was not long before the show focused on Randy’s story arcs as much as Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny’s plots. However, South Park season 25 focused less on Kyle, Cartman, and company and more on Randy and the Tegridy Farms plot to its detriment, and the show’s fixation on the ongoing story now detracts from its primary appeal.South Park, first and
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