User Reviews

To all the critics of the season premiere, this episode must exhibit some lack of political affiliation on behalf of Parker and Stone. It definitely showed me. This episode was not as funny to me as the first, but it strayed away from the 'leftist' politics the first episode had. For as long as I have been watching South Park (going on twelve years now), I know its creators do not hold back against any issue or political side. They make fun of any and everything if it is worth satirizing.

While I do not have as much to say about this installment as I did with the first episode, I will say this season has still been very enjoyable so far. I loved the focus on the sudden trend of biopics about musicians and the Chinese audience controlling American creativity. Of course, Randy and Mickey get along just swimmingly and export American weed to China to turn a profit. The two characters share the same sociopathic disregard for life. They just want to make money.

Stan's band, Crimson Dawn, is a death metal band who gets controlled by Chinese censorship. The only difference between Randy and Stan is that Stan is unwilling to change just to make money. Some may say that is real personal integrity. That is the real irony this season is going after, right? Randy is the owner of an industrial farm that sells fake integrity. He capitalizes off of other hard-working Americans who actually do have integrity and independent views for which they are willing to stand their ground.

I really appreciated the shift in topics this episode offered, but the satire did not land as well for me this go around. It was a delight to see Mickey again and the show's distaste for Disney's sell-out policy. It will be interesting to chronicle the show as it evolves week-to-week to cover newer and more relevant social issues. Though I did not enjoy this as much as the first, I am hopeful the show will improve over the rest of the season and continue to make fun at the absurdity of all our society has to offer.

This week's episode had its moments , Lets start with the good , Stan's band was legit and were the better moments of the episode , The little throwback At The end brought back some nostalgia and I loved it . Now the Bad , you probably guessed it , Tegridy Farms , Randy's character has kind of developed into an adult version of Cartman , The show is trying to fit two episodes in one and it just doesn't feel right , I really hope next week's episode is good !

I loved this episode. The reason why is Trey Parker and Matt Stone go full on and target the Chinese Government and The NBA and the Censors of China.

I remember looking up and finding out that Winnie The Pooh generates even more revenue than "Star Wars" along with Mickey Mouse and "Pokemon". They had done episodes about Mickey Mouse and "Pokemon" and here's one about Winnie The Pooh! He's not depicted as evil, but he does get killed. So the plot is that Randy is trying to sell weed in China. He gets arrested for doing that and gets out of prison by offering to help the Chinese. He gets help from Mickey Mouse too.

I just really do love how the song is going on with story arcs. I mean, for a show that's topical, that is a very hard thing to do. Aww, I missed Towelie. I had no idea Winnie The Pooh was controversial in China. Great allusion to the "Fingerbang" song. That might be the catchiest one they ever made. ****

The synopsis is that Randy flies to China in an attempt to make Tegridy Farms make more money and Stan forms a band in which he and his friends get to film a biopic.

The first plot where Randy goes to China is funny but does have some flaws. I thought the fact that Winnie The Pooh and Piglet where in jail because the show is banned in China was hilarious and was probably my favourite part of the episode. I almost lost it when Pooh said his iconic line "Do you have any honey?" in Prison.

I loved it when they brought back old characters in the last season, so my favourite part was when they brought back Mickey Mouse. I love how they have always portrayed Mickey as an overlord. And his appearance in this episode is just as good as he ever was.

As for what I didn't like about this plot. The Chinese Prison was a pretty bad scene since we already saw a detention center in the last episode, it felt extremely repetitive for them to put Randy in prison in this episode. Also, other than the fact that Kenny was in Stan's band, he had no lines and the episode wouldn't be any different without him.

Overall, "Banned in China" is a good South Park episode with little but some flaws. I can't wait to see what Matt and Trey to next for the 300th episode.