I say this as a huge fan who has been watching this show over and over again for over a decade.
Yeah, I don’t like the “we took this meme from the internet and applied it to our show” lines either. When they made stuff that took off as memes, it was us taking mainstream culture and deriving shit from it. They’re just scooping up whatever’s around and parading it around. Maybe with the parody stuff or “from the headlines” they were doing the same thing (gas crisis, etc) but it feels especially hollow when they crowbar in “Cock chewah” or “rawdogging”
I feel that so much, and agree that the new episodes that center around ‘of the moment’ issues/trends feel very manufactured and forced vs. funny commentary like early seasons did. There’s a subtlety that’s been lost and it feels artificial.
Yeah, I don’t like the “we took this meme from the internet and applied it to our show” lines either. When they made stuff that took off as memes, it was us taking mainstream culture and deriving shit from it. They’re just scooping up whatever’s around and parading it around. Maybe with the parody stuff or “from the headlines” they were doing the same thing (gas crisis, etc) but it feels especially hollow when they crowbar in “Cock chewah” or “rawdogging”
Using the phrase “soyboy beta cuck” was a poor choice. Then they used it a second time later in the same season.
I feel that so much, and agree that the new episodes that center around ‘of the moment’ issues/trends feel very manufactured and forced vs. funny commentary like early seasons did. There’s a subtlety that’s been lost and it feels artificial.