Tegridy Farms

Tegridy Farms is a storyline in South Park canon during the 22nd thru 24th seasons in which Randy Marsh moves his family out to a farm just outside town and begins farming marijuana, taking on Towelie as a business party, much to the chagrin of his wife, daughter and son Stan, who desperately want to leave the farm and move back home, with multiple episodes in the arc involving Stan or Shelly expressing glee at his business shortcomings or trying to achieve an ends to close the business. Randy begins acting uncharacteristically violent in his pursuit of business and money, as acknowledged in "Season Finale".
Though it was more of a subplot in season 22, making smaller appearances in multiple episodes, the first six episodes of Season 23 had a special 'Tegridy Farms' intro instead of the traditional South Park opening and meta-humor lampooning the show's own rebrand, such as Randy claiming he couldn't care less about South Park anymore or declaring South Park is 'nothing' without Tegridy Farms. In "Tegridy Farms Halloween Special", he notices his family's dissatisfaction and dismisses that he is his only real target audience. The farm returned only three episodes later in "Christmas Snow" and played a huge role in several further episodes.
"Season Finale", The Pandemic Special and South Park: The Streaming Wars over three years teased a return to the status quo and suggested Randy would give up marijuana and go back to his old self, drawing a contrast between the familiar Randy as someone who cared about folks and the marijuana farmer version, dubbed Karen, as entitled and greedy. In the third of these instances, Randy does indeed briefly return to his 'old' self and is seen getting along better with his family; but all three storylines lead to Randy smoking marijuana and resuming his new ways.
It has become a controversial storyline with fans, with many members of the mainstream press citing it as among the show's strongest arcs, while fans on social media, including Tumblr, Twitter, South Park Archives and South Park Studios message board expressing great dissatisfaction with it.
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