"South Park" [Stone-Parker, 1997] Season 3 [Apr. '99- Jan. '00] [TV-MA-LV]

By pushing the humor more up front here, Matt Stone and Trey Parker manage to obfuscate a pleasantly large-- though still nowhere near large enough-- portion of their inability to portray sincere and inherently humorless, even (increasingly so as time goes on) dour, scenarios. This grade may be the same as Season 1, but it is a much higher one. So S.P. more closely resembles the Eagles than the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Hmm... food for thought there, huh? Grade: B