Professor Takes on "South Park" in Forthcoming Essay Collection

Central Michigan University (CMU) ^ | November 30, 2005 | staff

[EveningStar]

Central Michigan University English professor Jeffrey Weinstock is taking Kyle, Kenny, Stan and Cartman into a new realm: academia.

Not usually a topic of high-brow conversation, the "South Park" gang has caught the attention of Weinstock, who studies popular culture, along with other academic colleagues who have submitted 50 proposals for his forthcoming compilation, due out in 2008.

[Incorrigible]

A class on South Park...

My kids are majoring in Engineering or they can forget about me paying for their college!

[EveningStar]

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[SoothingDave]

The real CMU would never have time for this.

SD

[SevenofNine]

THis is what tax dollars SORRY ES I like South Park this is ridclous LOL!

[cripplecreek]

I should have a degree.

[flashbunny]

I've seen every episode, including the original 'spirit of christmas'. I've seen the south park movie and own the DVD.

In addition, I've seen amd pwm team america and orgazmo. The only one I haven't seen is "cannibal: the musical"

I think at this point I should have a PhD in south park studies.

[pikachu]

I should have a degree.

I would like to do graduate work in Cartmenology. And yes, you would have to respect my authori-te!

[Condor51]

Cartman would kick Professor Weinstock's butt.

[EveningStar]

It's not a class. It's a still-to-be-published book of essays. :)

[BJClinton]

I hate hippies. May I be your research assistant?

[kaylar]

What about BASEketball?

[cripplecreek]

I liked the way the show ended with a dead whale on the moon last night.

"it was funny before and it'll be funny again."

[Nicholas Conradin]

I hope that this will become the topic of a future episode.

Kenny will die of boredom.

[Ramius]

Hmm... A South Park episode about South Park as a college class, studying the episode about the class, in class...

...and then the universe folds in on itself.

Too dangerous.

[peyton randolph]

I think at this point I should have a PhD in south park studies.

I've watched the Babs Streisand eps. Does that qualify me for a BS degree? ;-)

[kallisti]

By all means, see "Cannibal."

[LeftiesBinWhinin]

It's all still a bunch of tree-hugging hippie crap!

[Billthedrill]

Some things resist overintellectualization, thank God, and South Park is one of them. You can, of course, make an attempt to deconstruct the thing after the usual fashion -

In the works of Trey Parker, a predominant concept is the concept of subsemantic language. Thus, Sartre’s model of social realism states that narrativity has objective value, but only if neocultural rationalism is valid.

However, Lacan uses the term ’social realism’ to denote not theory, as Baudrillard would have it, but pretheory. Lacan’s essay on neocultural rationalism implies that class, surprisingly, has significance.

...and so it goes. And you just know that stuff is going to turn up on Terence And Philip Do PostModernism and that the punchline will be another juicy fart.

[Starter]

Track "Cannibal" down. It's moderately amusing. (And at the very least, you'll figure out where music on the "Braniff" production logo comes from.) Plus the commentary for the movie involves the cast drinking scotch... and finishing 2 bottles of it before the film ends.