I feel asif South Park has returned to it's roots.
The last 2 - 3 seasons have been hit and miss for me, and Season 21 in particular was abysmal! How long could they carry on with Cartman in a relationship & Member Berry's, it stopped being funny after 1 damn episode.
I prayed they'd go back to 1 story per episode and it feels asif they have, let's just hope this Black Panther joke doesn't run for the whole season now.
The problems I've had with South Park in the previous couple of seasons was that they had become tame, and the meanings behind the story's felt way too (read between the lines) ish, rather than tackling it head on like the South Park of the past would have. The Halloween episode for instance where the witches were kidnapping children. We all know what it was pertaining too after some research, but man was it masked, I've missed the South Park that was offensive, head on, the kinda episodes you watch and think "wow, how was that even aloud to air" and that's what they've given us with this first episode.
Randy will always be my favourite character so an episode of so much Randy was bound to be a hit for me.
Lastly I just want to say, watching the new South Park episode and comparing it to the new Family Guy episode has made me realise, you'd be lucky to get 1 genuine belly laugh per SEASON with Family Guy, whereas with South Park, a bad EPISODE is one where you only laugh 2 - 3 times, for me, this really goes to show the levels of humour in each show, and how dry Family Guy actually is.
South Park ftw.