South Park Right Now Is Doing A Schiavo Story

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[My Favorite Headache]

Is anyone else watching this? Cartman as Michael Schiavo? Kenny as Terri?

[flixxx]

Yes...I about ruptured a hernia laughing about that...kind of like a traffic accident you know you should not be watching, but you just cannot stop...South Park is able to just blast both sides of an issue.

[rwfromkansas]

There are a lot of hot women I know who still watch cartoons and like a man who has a bit of kid in himself. Of course, they are still in college like myself.

Now, if you watch them all the time, well, that is a bit of a problem and no doubt the women would be a bit concerned about you then.

[VA_Gentleman]

One of my favorite episodes will always be when Robert Smith of The Cure saves South Park from mega-Streisand. Now that was a classic!

[wi jd]

The Mormon episode is one of the best. Just absolutely skewers their "history" and mocks it wonderfully.

Dum, dum, dum, dum dum.

[rwfromkansas]

There were some parts of that ep I did not like, but it did a good job of warning us of the danger of making people into idols.

[Mr. Blonde]

I liked how they stated that you should follow Jesus for how he lived and why he died, not how he died.

[rwfromkansas]

that is great as well

[Xenalyte]

Give Cartoon Network's "The Venture Brothers" a shot. I promise you will like it.

[Xenalyte]

9/11 generated the best Onion story ever: "God Angrily Clarifies 'Don't Kill' Rule."

[antiRepublicrat]

The only morbid topic of the last twenty years that AFAIK never generated any jokes was 9/11.

A guy walks into the World Trade Center and says "Can I buy a plane please?"

The women at reception replies, "Sorry sir, we dont sell planes."

"Funny," says the guy, "you have one in the window."

[E Rocc]

9/11 generated the best Onion story ever: "God Angrily Clarifies 'Don't Kill' Rule."

LOL good point. Though that wasn't quite the same tone as "Need Another Seven Astronauts", or Santa passing Indonesia and giving them a wave, it qualifies.

As did this one: Hijackers Suprised To Find Themselves In Hell.

-Eric

[farmfriend]

I've discovered that not taking yourself too seriously is liberating.

Isn't it though? Sure makes life a hellof a lot more fun.

[Xenalyte]

I'd forgotten the Hijackers one! That is priceless!

[MHT]

That's the whole point of being poor in America--you can buy things, especially with someone else's money. 99% of people living under the poverty level have telephones, own tv's and vcr's. I never heard of anyone giving up smoking because they couldn't afford it. Most people on welfare own cars and 40% own their own homes. One of my friends was working an emergency payment helpline for a utility company and a woman called in who couldn't pay her bill--but the call was placed from the woman's cell phone!

Actually, it's probably highly realistic that the kid who buys the PSP is the poor kid and the other kid who is in line to get one is from the household of the single working mother, who was heckled into getting out of bed.

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

I'd have to say my all-time favorite was the episode with Chris Reeves and stem-cell research. They haven't replayed it since he died, but if you ever get the chance, watch it, because it's hillarious.

[Zeppelin]

Actually, their first ever was Santa vs. Frosty, I believe. It was a Christmas card lol!

[Thoro]

Me too. I think the Cartoon Channel jumped the shark although I like the Adult Swim cartoons if I can catch them, especially, the "Aqua Teen Hunger Force." "Master Shake, Meatwad and Frylock" are cool. B-) I also liked it when MTV had "Liquid Television" too. I got to see the early Beavis and Butt-Head cartoons there along with sleep classics like "Slow Bob in the Lower Dimensions."

I still love the classics though. I always liked Jonny Quest.

If you like ATHF and Johnny Quest, you HAVE to tune into The Venture Bros. on Adult Swim. It's Johnny Quest gone to the absurd.

[Nowhere Man]

How did Kenny get the money to buy the PSP? He's hella poor.

Um, welfare paid for it? I've been in areas where people were on welfare and I've seen people with big screen TV's and so on while I work and watch a 1982 Zenith. B-) I do think the idea of the safety net is good but when people use it as a hammock it is bad. IIRC, Kenny's who family is on welfare.

[technochick99]

but South Park's "cute little" Jesus jokes make me physically ill.

Perhaps society is being skewered here, not Jesus.

[Rainbow Rising]

Such as their stating that America has so forgotten Jesus and his message that he has to do a public access show to get his word out? Or when Jesus and Satan had a boxing match that Satan is such a deceiver and shouldn't be trusted as evidenced by his throwing his match against Jesus to win all the gamblers money who bet on Satan?

Those are great episodes. I also like the one where Santa's sleigh is shot down over Baghdad on Christmas Eve, and Jesus goes over there to rescue him. He saves Santa, but is mortally wounded in the process. Santa and the kids fly back to South Park just in time for Christmas, and then Santa makes a passionate speech to the townspeople about how Jesus gave his life to save him. He then says that going forward they should use Christmas as a time to remember and celebrate Jesus. What a wonderful moment that was: A "filthy" cartoon urging us to remember Jesus on Christmas Day.