The kicker for me is - we as an audience have spent the entire season imagining what this guy could be. Seeing it was always going to be underwhelming in some aspects, sure, but some really solid camera trickery, among other things, could've really sold those prosthetics.

Definitely. Something that evoked menace or chaos in some way, even small-form, would've been wonderful. I'm just a simple hayseed… but even I know spending an entire season talking about how crazy and violent something is requires some form of payoff eventually. what we received was not exactly it.

little late to the party here but what the hell, i'll post anyway.

thank you! :) and EXACTLY! well put!

it took a while to personally warm up to new girl, but i was won over by its emotional honestly once it shook off the adorkable and started being a show for humans by humans. the 4th season decked that trust in the teeth, reeling back from almost every development for the sake of status quo. it wasn't until i watched…

true. however i don't believe my post disregarded jokes like that. south park was built on throwaway gags, as you've alluded to, so we can both agree that cartman's head exploding still makes (ridiculous) sense within the context of the show.

I didn't even consider that! That explanation would certainly make things hang together better.

"His presence as a floating chat box, eternally commenting but never physically in the room, is just plain weird, a breaking down of the rules of reality that’s unusual even for this show"