South Park is now doing "commercials" for the Repugs!

[tom_paine]

:-( :-( :grr: :mad: :grr: :grr: :argh:

Damnit, I really liked that show! Early on, they aimed their humorous blows at both the Left and the Right.

For that reason, I paid it no mind and enjoyed it, because they gave shots at both extremes. The lampooning of the Left, as with PJ O'Rourke and others, relied on grains of truth at their core, and so was as funny as the rest.

(as a Left-Centrist, I can certainly related to thinking both extremes nuts and worth lampooning)

Somewhere along the line they became Busheviks. Somewhere along the line they stopped poking at the Right. Somewhere along the line they started essentially writing Bushevik Commercials.

Are they being paid (how would you bribe guys like that) by Uncle Karl? Or are they just discovering that the richer they are the less they could give a shit about anyone else outside their mansion walls?

Like so much in Imperial Amerika, the motivation no longer makes a difference, just the action itself and the terrible harm they are helping the other Busheviks in bankrupting and destroying America.

Now they give free Bushevik commercials with every third episode.

Which in itself is grotesque and Orwellian, filling as it does quite nicely Bradbury's prophetic book "Farenheit 451", where the fix is in and the 'Ins' run Winston Noble, who wins in a predetermined landslide over the 'Outs' Hubert Hoag.

Grotesque madness.

:puke: :silly: :puke: :crazy: :freak: :argh:

[kiahzero]

1. huh?

What episode? What was the plot? Back during the wartime, they made fun of both sides.

[tom_paine]

3. Earth Day -- Terrance & Philip Reunion

It was on Comedy Central tonight. If you haven't seen it, it will come back around.

Earth Day is coming to the school and the boys promise (a promise they can't keep) to get Terrance & Philip to perform.

So they go on a quest to get them to perform for South Park Earth Day.

I left out the Bushevik parts. This one ran like a fucking commercial for the Busheviks, and even incorporated a Brownshirt phony fucking talking point or two.

:grr: :mad: :grr: :argh: :argh:

[kiahzero]

7. I'm pretty sure that's a repeat

Was that the one where the environmentalists keep doing the Jedi Mind Trick and saying "The Republicans are to blame?"

If so, that's a really old one.

[Clete]

2. South Park isn't funny anymore.

Dennis Miller isn't funny anymore. Jay Leno isn't funny anymore because their humor has become a bottom feeding, right-wing meaness reaching for cheap laughs.

[Skittles]

4. CLETE YOU ARE SO F***ING RIGHT

DANA CARVEY TOO. I GET A CHILL EVERYTIME I SEE IT.

[jbm]

5. a few weeks ago..

they did an episode on tolerance. The teacher with the talking hand was trying to get fired for being gay,so that he could collect a big settlement from the school. Instead of firing him,the town imposed 'mandatory tolerance' rules,and eventually the boys were sent off to a concentration camp (run by Hitler)to 'instruct' them in the ways of tolerance. The teacher kept becoming more and more extreme in his behavior(still trying to get fired) until he finally exploded and gave the town some huge lecture on how tolerance doesn't mean condoning all behaviors. After the lecture the boys were released from 'tolerance' camp..and came out looking like holocaust survivors.

That episode changed my mind about South Park. Maybe I misinterpreted it..but I haven't watched the show since.

[LifeDuringWartime]

6. i thought that episode was funny.

but to each his/her own.

[jbm]

10. hmmm....

maybe I read to much into it..lol. I've been known to do that occasionally.:)

[Langis]

9. I didn't have a problem with it

I loved the smoker part at the museum of tolerance!

[_Jumper_]

11. Same here

n/t

[alphafemale]

12. Wasn't that the one with the heroic gerbil Lemmiwinks?

That was one of the funniest episodes I've ever seen.

I'm still okay with South Park. It's a deliberately obnoxious and often hilarious cartoon.

[pstokely]

8. Matt Stone appears in Bowling for Columbine

nt

[alphafemale]

13. And he's responsible for that stunning animated bit in the film, isn't he?

Didn't read the credits to be sure, but that looked like his.