Lots of people will look at this and think “What? How can you not like South Park?” looking back to all the classic moments from the 16 years it’s been on the air. But I’m sorry, anyone who watches the latest series cannot deny that the program has gone on far too long…

The first few seasons are brilliant, they are funny, the stories have points and morals, the characters are well developed, voices are done well and looking back at these episodes now they have a wonderful nineties nostalgia about them. Then we hit Seasons five onwards and a lot of that charm is gone, the episodes seem less thought out and the humour and illicit content is there more for the sake of trying to be funny than trying to make a point.

To give you an example, a recent story revolved around Cartman and Stan who, after football practice, head off to KFC only to discover it has closed and the store has become a medical Marijuana store. Stan excitedly goes in to get some but is told he can’t without a doctor’s note, after a check-up he is told he is perfectly healthy, so decides to give himself cancer. His chosen method, microwaving his testicles, succeeds and he gets cancer and balls the size of a dustbin that he happily bounce around on. He tells the other men in South Park what to do and soon enough all the men are bouncing around on giant cancer riddled balls smoking pot.

It’s for this reason more than any other you might find that I think it should be cancelled; it’s lost its purpose. The offense is still there, it’s humour is still as black today as it ever was but the stories are weak, the humour is gone and all that’s been left to replace it is poor political satire. It’s a shame, but it’s a classic example of what happens when a show is dragged on for too long, South Park is still set to go to at least 2016, but I wouldn’t expect anything amazing from them…