Gosh, what happened to King of the Hill? There's a winner

While the structure of the Simpsons episode was interesting (even though similar things have been done before). The actual stories weren't particularly good, the whole stuck in a cave/hidden treasure thing...South park did it much better in the ManBearPig episode.

The South Park guys did say the only reason they nominated that episode was because at the time they thought the network would never air it again so they wanted at least a few more people to see it. Trey even admitted it wasn't their best episode that year.

I'm not surprised The Simpsons won at all. They had a great episode that broke the show's typical format. The South Park episode was actually one of their weaker ones from that season. Sure, it mocked Hollywood's favorite cult, triggered rumors of Tom Cruise trying to get it taken off, and caused an actor to resign, but when you ignore the hype, you have a pretty bad episode. It was basically the same three jokes done over and over and over again until the ending. The point of the episode could be grasped in 5 minutes, yet it lasted 30. Being controversial does replace a good story, something The Simpsons knew way back in 1990 when it was actually bold programming and hasn't lost sight of to this day.

Yeah, that's kind of weird. I don't want to go into the whole "gosh the simpsons hasn't been good since the mid 90s" thing that people go on and on about, but even though I liked the recent season, I didn't see anything that made it better than other cartoons, South Park included.