Twelve years ago I sat at a friends house, doing my best to stay awake. We were waiting for midnight, for the very first episode of South Park to air. I can still remember how excited I was, this show was supposed to be funnier and more vulgar than "Beavis and Butthead" or "Ren and Stimpy". Which at the time were considered to be the "bad cartoons" that kids would watch behind their parents back.

As everyone knows the first episode was about Cartman getting an anal probe. That was a big deal at the time. Parents freaked out about the show, kids were banned from wearing South Park merchandise from schools. I myself was suspended for wearing a t-shirt with a dead Kenny on it.

Over the next decade I was a loyal viewer of South Park. I loved the show, and I loved it for the intelligent humour that underlined each episode, not the poop and fart jokes or the swearing (although on occasion that stuff can be funny). The downside being that most of the other people my age who watched the show, didn't pick up on that humour.

At the time South Park was edgy enough by modern standards to appeal to a wide age group. The little kids would get their kicks from farts and swearing, but there was also humour there for a slightly older crowd. See how many 10-14 year old kids know the likes of Barbera Streisand, Robert Smith, Sidney Poitier or Leonard Maltin to name a few.

In later years each episode started to have a sort of "moral lesson" if you will, at the end or an underlying message they wanted to get across. An example off the top of my head would be the Wal-mart episode, in which they are really making a statement about huge corporate businesses and how they take over the market and flush the little guys out. They would touch real world issues in a funny and most of the time ruthless way- And thats what I loved about it.

Now however, I have to admit that my time with South Park has come and gone. A decade and a bit later its aimed at the next generation of pre-teens. To name some plots from recent episodes...lets see...there was Jonas Brothers, Highschool Musical, and an episode about Vampire and Emo kids (and might point out that when I was in school, vampire kids, emo's and goth kids were all the exact same thing - losers). And so it has become apparent to me that South Park just doesn't have anything left to offer my generation. I dont find these things funny, I find them lame.

It's been a good run and I have my boxed sets for when I want to go back and enjoy my favorite episodes. But from here on out I accept the fact that South Park just isn't for me anymore, it's for you youngens. I look forward to any other future work from Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Been fun.