South Park
By girtsmomma
@girtsmomma (297)
United States
January 2, 2007 9:16pm CST
What is your opinion of South Park? Is just a stupid cartoon or political satire? Does it join with other 21st century commentaries like Jon Stewart and Bill O'Reilly? Is it relevent to anything on planet earth or just an alien anal probe attack gone awry?
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@sirensanssmile (3764)
• Netherlands
19 Feb 07
It is pretty relevant. I would say that Trey Parker and Matt Stone are pretty clever and although it may take me a few minutes to get it because I am foreign (That is my excuse and I stick to it) I love the commentary. I also thought that Team America was pretty good too.
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@misskatonic (3723)
• United States
3 Jan 07
I think it's clever satire, but it's satire for the masses. It's well done and intelligent, but presented in a medium that anyone can get, regardless of how up on current events and political subtleties a person is. And they don't hold anything sacred. They don't play favorites. They attack everything equally, and I give them a lot of credit for that.
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@girtsmomma (297)
• United States
3 Jan 07
Satire it is. But I don't think all of it is for the masses. Sometimes the crassness obscures the message--especially messages directed at the hypocracy of our so-called advanced societal structure referred to as a democracy. Remember the episode when the Southparkians gave the Afgani twerps an American dollar?
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@misskatonic (3723)
• United States
3 Jan 07
I don't deny that they do go overboard sometimes, in the crudeness department. And they do have favorite subjects. But they are varied in their attacks, and everyone can find something to agree with in at least one episode.
@girtsmomma (297)
• United States
3 Jan 07
There is usually something to dislike and like. I reasonably sure that my husband has been in some of the episodes. Butters seems familiar. It's too bad that the lessons delivered don't make it beyond late night entertainment. I could just image what would happen if some lit/sociology/philosophy teacher assigned South Park as a project.
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@ItTakesAllSorts (4096)
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3 Jan 07
I have been watching South Park for years and I think it is funny. It certainly takes no prisoners when it wants to attack someone or a social issue.
I love the tongue in cheek humour and the sometimes uncomfortable position it puts me in when I am not sure where it is going.
I feel it shows us up for how stupid we are sometimes and also highlights in satirical ways how closed minded we can be, done through the innocence of children, which allows the makers to get away with so much more.
I hope South Park continues for many years to come.
@xprmnt (35)
• Greece
3 Jan 07
its a good political satire, but then its commercialized and people see it and don't see at the meaning but only laugh about it. The actually get desensitized about the deeper meanings that it wants to give. But that is OK for the politicians I guess.
The equivalent walking in NY and seeing all these homeless people and after a while you just don't see them anymore and eventually don't care about them
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@youfearthetruth (98)
• Canada
3 Jan 07
south park i use to watch that show but since i cut back on my channels i dont get it anymore the best part of the show is when kenny usually gets killed...or the one with chef singing suck on my chocolate salty balls lol that song is a hoot
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@girtsmomma (297)
• United States
3 Jan 07
i just loved chef. Too bad is is a thin-skinned Scientologist, that sucks. Too.
Kenny getting killed--slow learner there. and Butters--always worried about getting grounded.
Cartman reminds me of my other spouse.
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