Look back at the funny episodes of this season. Look back at the continuity that ran threw it and all the potential it could have had. Then look at the introduction of Michael Jackson's hologram last episode. There was SO MUCH that could have been done with this. Instead it was all squandered. I mean in an EPIC squandering.
What did we get with all the build up and history from previous episodes with Michael Jackson? We got rehashed jokes from the previous episode, empty rehashed jokes about Michael Jackson (who himself seemed to serve no use whatsoever in this episode other than to bring him back), a plot so boring and uninvolving you'd be surprised it was saved for the season finale, a quickly shoved in attempt to make fun of Bill Cosby; more retreaded ground about the Washington Redskins; and the most stunning attempt at humor involving racism, using the propaganda about police being peddled in the news right now. Maybe if Trey spent as much time writing these things as he apparently does watching propaganda cable news networks, the show would be funny like it used to be years ago.
I mean the police were making jokes about black people, using tactics like shooting them and choking them, and other things. The the dead aborted National Socialist (AKA: Nazi's) mutated fetuses from the "Stick of Truth" game is nothing compared to this. I literally said aloud in a disgusted manner, "Wow. You've got to be kidding me." I almost quit season seventeen because of unfunny and boring episodes, taking it one at a time and ultimately skipping one or two of them after reading reviews. I decided that is season eighteen wasn't funny, I'd stop; thankfully there were more funny episodes this season, but after this painful experience with the culmination of the previous season, I honestly at this moment can't say I'll tune in next season. I stopped watching "Family Guy" when it became unfunny and needlessly disgusting; I stopped watching "The Simpsons" about season nine when it stopped being funny, and it looks like I might end up not watching this show anymore. Folks like to say garbage like, "Oh, you'll watch it anyway." Ah, no. I wasn't kidding about the aforementioned shows.
That's how bad this episode was. If I had known in advance, I would not have watched it.
And you know what's sad? It doesn't need to be! The show hasn't outlasted its potential, it hasn't become a tiresome slosh. It could still be the laugh out loud belly rumbling experience it used to be. It could easily go another years, yet Trey and the staff writers just don't seem to care anymore.
What did we get with all the build up and history from previous episodes with Michael Jackson? We got rehashed jokes from the previous episode, empty rehashed jokes about Michael Jackson (who himself seemed to serve no use whatsoever in this episode other than to bring him back), a plot so boring and uninvolving you'd be surprised it was saved for the season finale, a quickly shoved in attempt to make fun of Bill Cosby; more retreaded ground about the Washington Redskins; and the most stunning attempt at humor involving racism, using the propaganda about police being peddled in the news right now. Maybe if Trey spent as much time writing these things as he apparently does watching propaganda cable news networks, the show would be funny like it used to be years ago.
I mean the police were making jokes about black people, using tactics like shooting them and choking them, and other things. The the dead aborted National Socialist (AKA: Nazi's) mutated fetuses from the "Stick of Truth" game is nothing compared to this. I literally said aloud in a disgusted manner, "Wow. You've got to be kidding me." I almost quit season seventeen because of unfunny and boring episodes, taking it one at a time and ultimately skipping one or two of them after reading reviews. I decided that is season eighteen wasn't funny, I'd stop; thankfully there were more funny episodes this season, but after this painful experience with the culmination of the previous season, I honestly at this moment can't say I'll tune in next season. I stopped watching "Family Guy" when it became unfunny and needlessly disgusting; I stopped watching "The Simpsons" about season nine when it stopped being funny, and it looks like I might end up not watching this show anymore. Folks like to say garbage like, "Oh, you'll watch it anyway." Ah, no. I wasn't kidding about the aforementioned shows.
That's how bad this episode was. If I had known in advance, I would not have watched it.
And you know what's sad? It doesn't need to be! The show hasn't outlasted its potential, it hasn't become a tiresome slosh. It could still be the laugh out loud belly rumbling experience it used to be. It could easily go another years, yet Trey and the staff writers just don't seem to care anymore.