Review
| - Coming off the pretty good gentrification riff in "The City Part of Town," this week's South Park made an attempt to continue that storyline by adding Yelp to equation. Alas, while Cartman and his legion of food critics offered a few laughs early on, "You're Not Yelping" as a whole felt drawn-out and dull. Although, to its credit, it did at least end on a high note, thanks to a prolonged speech bit and a catchy musical number.
- Tonight disrupted that pattern by giving the episode’s targets their just—and very disgusting—desserts, hinting that maybe Trey Parker and Matt Stone built SoDoSoPa and its successor CtPaTown not just to make the viewer and a handful of characters feel helpless, but to knock down the hip urban shopping districts and get some huge laughs along the way. Having already established both places as breeding grounds for citizens trying to keep up with the Joneses , Parker and Stone are free to get hyper-specific with their examination of smug entitlement. And who’s more smugly entitled than the obsessive Yelp reviewer?
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