Unfortunately, “Goth Kids 3: Dawn Of The Posers” was a fairly limp episode, one that an extra unexpected week of time apparently could not fix. The idea of putting the goth kids front and center is fine: The show hasn’t remotely overused them, and putting them in a new scenario offers up the type of perspective break that South Park does at least once or twice each season. But comparisons to the exponentially better “The Ungroundable” were present throughout the installment, and after watching that episode before tonight’s new one, it’s unclear why Trey Parker and Matt Stone went back to this particular realm if there was nothing new to explore.
Still, "Goth Kids 3: Dawn of the Posers" had enough good laughs throughout to stand on its own merits. While not the strongest episode of the season, this week's installment did prove that the goth kids still had a bit of juice left in them, albeit probably not a full 22 minutes' worth.