Why does the IC hate South Park?
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soul rattler
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Before South Park changed direction, I was never a fan and could barely make it through one episode. The talking towl, the talking log of ? , the homosexual Satan/Saddam Hussein relationship made for a painful show. I much preferred The Simpsons and Family Guy. But something happened around the mid-2000's and The Simpsons' comedy began to grow stale and Family Guy began sacrificing comedic absurdity for better animation and musical score. Meanwhile over at Comedy Central, South Park moved towards socio-political satire, similar to how the Boondocks had been doing since its publication in the Chicago Sun-Times.
What's so good about the modern South Park? It's aimed at virtually objective commentary on issues in American politics and pop culture, pulling no punches, even if its aimed at itself. A lot of people can't get over how the show looks but its visual simplicity is what allows them to consistently produce new seasons constantly, unlike the Boondocks whose animation production is so expensive and thus takes so long to put together. For those that put the Boondocks on a pedestal:
Huey = Stan and Kyle
Riley/Uncle Rukus = Cartman/Randy
Tom DuBois = Butters
Again, the highlight of South Park is the social commentary wrapped in hilarious satire.
South Park on lying politicians, athletes, and murders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSeek1ouq7A
South Park on Islamic extremism regarding portraying Muhammad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAcwzrwsEnc
South Park on Mormonism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06jF1EG8o-Q
South Park on Scientology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7EEOMbBIO8
South Park on Kanye West and Kim Kardashian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXDaBxavZbk
What's so good about the modern South Park? It's aimed at virtually objective commentary on issues in American politics and pop culture, pulling no punches, even if its aimed at itself. A lot of people can't get over how the show looks but its visual simplicity is what allows them to consistently produce new seasons constantly, unlike the Boondocks whose animation production is so expensive and thus takes so long to put together. For those that put the Boondocks on a pedestal:
Huey = Stan and Kyle
Riley/Uncle Rukus = Cartman/Randy
Tom DuBois = Butters
Again, the highlight of South Park is the social commentary wrapped in hilarious satire.
South Park on lying politicians, athletes, and murders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSeek1ouq7ASouth Park on Islamic extremism regarding portraying Muhammad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAcwzrwsEncSouth Park on Mormonism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06jF1EG8o-QSouth Park on Scientology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7EEOMbBIO8South Park on Kanye West and Kim Kardashian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXDaBxavZbk Comments
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You really weren't up on South Park like that if you think it took them that long to include sociopolitical criticisms in their work.
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The development of the Randy Marsh character is probably my favorite thing to come out of the newer seasons though. Proven to be the Goat character.
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They didn't do it consistently. When it did happen, it was in spurts. A lot of the plots had nothing to do with the real world.You really weren't up on South Park like that if you think it took them that long to include sociopolitical criticisms in their work.
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soul rattler wrote: »
For the most part I agree. The movie was all about censorship though. And they were throwing shots at laws, politicians, celebrities, religion, and taboo pretty frequently.
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South Park been the funniest imo. always consistent.
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south park has run its course.
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south park is on its 17 year or so, and still churning out classics. that new kanye west/kim episode was hilarious.
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South Park is GOAT ? you talking about bruh?
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I feel the same way.
Back I'm the day I couldn't get into South Park at all because it jus seemed to be a jumbled mess of extreme ? humor but sometime around 2006 i think ,
I saw a couple episodes and was impressed with the way they actually were trying to be a legit socio-political spoof -
South park has always been the same
They always picked a current event or some common beliefe and made fun of it and shed light on it in a poignant way
I still love South Park.This season's game of Thrones/black friday 3 part was hilarious
I love South park. They still making classics. The ep where everything sounded and looked like ? season before last may have been the best ep ever to me -
I still watch it nobody talks about it though. this season has been on point so far that recent kanye episode was funny and that goth kids episode was a trip too lol at the black vampire guy.
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South park is the ?
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I ? with South Park
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That R. Kelly episode is still funny as ?
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earth two superman wrote: »south park is on its 17 year or so, and still churning out classics. that new kanye west/kim episode was hilarious.
This ? right here was classic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoBzuNF2RJM
"It was no dragon so my girl ain't a hobbit/That was a quiznos and my ? went to rob it" lmao.
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south park is cool. over rated imo. does have classic episodes tho. Cartman as AWESOM-O, The ? guy, Obama Wins, Butters bottom ? , ? and friends trilogy, and the episode where they made fun of famous ppl getting caught up in sex scandals and Timmy and crippled dude in bloods n crips gangs ? come to mind of top.
but im sure writing for show like that for so many years cant be a easy job. the creators are legends imo for their body of work. -
In TV and movies there's two genres where arguing about em is close to pointless: comedies, and horror films. Either the ? make you laugh, or make you scared, or it don't.
South Park still makes me laugh sometimes, so I still like it. Yeah, it gits clever, but basically if it wadn't funny, I wouldn't watch it. You gotta love a show that parodies Game of Thrones and mixes it with new video game system fanboi-ism and Black Friday ? on top and pulls it off...
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I used to really like it, but I haven't ? with it in years. I don't hate it, I just don't check for it anymore.
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I still ? with Randy Marsh and butters be killin me
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MikeydaGawd wrote: »South Park been the funniest imo. always consistent.
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Its CaC ? .. that takes liberties unde the guise of "anybody" can get it, it desensitizes individuals to keep it short i would compare it to boondocks in any way
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indeed randy went from one of the parent characters to being the GOAT crazy cool dad on the showThe development of the Randy Marsh character is probably my favorite thing to come out of the newer seasons though. Proven to be the Goat character.
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MikeydaGawd wrote: »South Park been the funniest imo. always consistent.
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I was just watching an interview where the creators were saying they made an entire episode about atheism but realized it was too serious and replaced it with jokes about the Nintendo Wii. That episode ended up being a trilogy. A pretty good one too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VffJgs_jqdI