Every joke now feels like it was the first draft.
Before they would spend months crafting storylines, refining jokes, now a “And… and then Cartman eats Kyle… and Kyle’s cereal!” or “Make sure Kathleen Kennedy is not under my bed” is considered top tier writing.
Before the jokes were topical and diverse. Now it’s the same “handyman know more, so funny” joke over and over for 40 minutes.
what do you mean “now”? its been many years since they had consistently great writing , honestly anything after the 3rd season is subpar, although there are many great episodes and it’s still the best cartoon of all time. subpar south park > whatever else you can think of.
Even the first 3 seasons blow