I'm surprised I didn't see this thread before, but I dislike South Park a lot. Mostly because as a political science student, it frustrates me to no end seeing people call South Park 'social commentary' when none of the political or social statements made on that show have been anything other than blindingly obvious. Like in the Katrina episode, where they said that people should stop shifting blame and just help the people who were affected. Really? That's your big revelation on the subject? Way to go out on a limb there, guys. Not to mention that they frequently don't even bother with a message and just turn one of the parties involved into gay alien crabs or something idiotic like that. It really pisses me off that they're so smugly certain that people need to hear their opinion and then they say absolutely nothing of merit or value.
Then of course there's the fact that due to the show's popularity the media has to bend over backwards to talk about how great it is. The thing that really convinced me was the World of Warcraft episode winning an Emmy. There was nothing remotely original about that episode, they just spouted the same cliche about MMO players ad nauseum, and then at one point Cartman sprays his mother with shit. Fantastic. The fact that South Park has ever been considered for any award of any kind is just proof of how fucking far the standards for television have fallen.
And then of course, there's the fact that they spend the large part of every episode detailing this overarching and often extremely simplistic metaphor for whatever issue is the subject at that point and then 9 times out of 10 come out and explain that metaphor in excruciating detail because they apparently feel that their audience is too stupid to understand their hamfisted attempts at subtlety. Sorry, but I have better things to do with my time than be condescended to by a couple of arrogant jackasses acting behind a troupe of cartoon fourth graders.
I feel better now.