To the nosy woman in the bus terminal. South Park did not corrupt your kids. If you didn’t pay attention to what they were watching on TV, it’s YOUR FAULT. So don’t impose yourself on a quiet conversation two strangers are having about a shared interest with your obnoxious and condescending bullshit. Harassing random teenagers doesn’t make you a better mother.
—sick of immature adults
This article appears in Mar 5-11, 2009.
Adults are not always mature, and teenagers are not always immature, but South Park is always a great show.
South Park speaks more truth than most other cartoons of this genre. Take the Mormon episode – they simplified the beliefs of this bizarre cult and were amazingly accurate in their research. They did something similar with AA, concluding people didn’t have to abstain as much as they had to control their alcoholic intake. It’s one fucking smart show.
Some people watch five minutes of the show, get offended, and turn it off before they can see the brilliant social commentary and satire, not to mention perfect comedic timing and general hilarity. Their loss.
South Park is really offensive.
And I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Either everything is okay to make fun of, or nothing is.
You know there’s an episode making fun of parents who blame television for corrupting their children.
So if this ever happens again, you tell her, “Shut your fucking face uncle fucka, that’s u n c l e, uncle fuckaaaaa! …suck my balls!”
TTFN, “concluding people didn’t have to abstain as much as they had to control their alcoholic intake”
You don’t believe this shit, do you?
I believe more in self-control than AA. Works for me.
South Park crosses the line. The statement that “it is either okay to make fun of everything or nothing at all” is bull shit. Making fun of Hitler is fine. He deserves the public ridicule for centuries. However making fun of the holocaust, and the Jewish people in concentration camps is an affront to Jewish people, and the lives of millions of soldiers who laid down their lives to liberate Europe and protect your freedom of speech. Poking fun at People dying of AIDS is horrible. When did practicing freedom of speech become more important than human dignity?
Freedom of speech IS so much more important that “dignity”…especially when everyone is an equal target. Now that’s true equality!
Rafiki is right, South Park crosses the line on just about every issue they tackle.
And that is just one of the reasons why the show is so great. All the Jewish people I know love South Park, Matt Stones mother happens to be Jewish. Besides if all or nothing is bullshit, who gets to decide what is and isn’t okay to make fun of. You?
SP is indeed smart. The episode “All About Mormons” is a great example. It has to be one of the few shows on TV that will intelligently make fun of religion or hoaxes (as in the case of Scientology) and will still be silly on the next episode (Imaginationland Series). Sure, it’s offensive, but so is life sometimes.
Rafiki: Don’t know, but probably happened because freedom of speech IS more important than someone’s butthurt feelings. I would rather be offended than party to gagging someone; saying horrible things is reprehensible, but forcing someone into silence is worse.
South Park is smarter than a lot of people.
No matter what is done or said or made fun of…… SOMEONE WILL get offended….
Did that make sense?
Yep. Someone’s also bound to tell Jesus he has bread crumbs in his beard – ewwwwhhhh…
south park is offensive, but its not anybody else’s buisness. If you’re offended just don’t watch, plain and simple. That’s what I do for nancy grace anyway…
They do have a hit on their hands…
and it’s not that everything they make is gold… I mean look at baseketball…
but they know how to hit peoples buttons, especially the latest hot topics. all that free publicity from the initial uproar was enough to get them a permanent job for nearly a decade and a half now.
ps,I think the country-kitchen buffet episode was one of their best, alongside the mormon one and the one where stan gets exiled and goes to live with PETA.
South Park, the Simpsons, Family Guy… all animated, all intended for ADULT audiences. I’m with the OP on this.
Jesus was a zombie