Posted on 12/29/2005 4:27:58 AM PST by balch3
Is Cartman a crook?
Peter and Bobby Farrelly, the gross-out gurus behind Dumb and Dumber and There's Something About Mary are accusing South Park masterminds Trey Parker and Matt Stone of ripping off a movie idea.
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And take a look at the idea they're fighting over: Making fun of retarded people. Real uplifting.
They make fun of everyone. Mostly, they make fun of our indignation.
Since you clearly didn't watch that episode let me fill you in. Cartman thinks he can easily win but because he's out of shape he loses every event because his competitors have trained hard for the games. Know what you're talking about.
ping
what about the plagiarism?
South Park makes fun of human foibles: greed, lust, stupidity, avarice, political correctness, gullibility, etc. If they feature a "victim", it's usually to make a point about someone's reaction to that person.
I liked the interview when they were asked who they enjoyed lampooning the most, and they said "Liberals - they scream louder."
I'm not a SP fan but I watched them skwewer global warming last night. Aside from a GD and couple of F words It was hilariously funny to watch the envirowacko's holy grail cause get mocked and humilated in a manner that is shockingly funny.
I hope they do one on Hillary Clinton running for president.
Parker and Stone are themselves involved with the disabled, financing and executive producing How's Your News?, a series of documentaries featuring mentally challenged reporters interviewing high-profile celebs, politicians and regular folk.
I am indignant at your indignation...
Your turn.
SP fans will get this:
"Simpsons did it! Simpsons did it!"
I don't think using the same concept is plagarism. By that logic the producers of "Tombstone" could sue Kevin Costner for "Wyatt Earp".
I think that maybe I should sue all of them, since just after Mel Brooks' "Silent Movie," some friends and I decided that we wanted to make a movie (using super8 movie cameras). We decided to do a movie that was a take off of the special olympics, and fixing them, based on some Monty Python sketches. Hey, maybe the surviving Monty Python members should sue all of us!
Mark
"what about the plagiarism?"
Did you get this upset when Joe Biden did it? That was plagiarism.
How many movies have their been that have similar plot themes? Happens all the time.
Hah!
I'm no "South Park Conservative", but I find the show to be funny, sometimes very funny; albeit at a very base and crude level. The problem is that their complete obsession with this baseness and crudity prevents them from achieving any level of truly memorable satire or humour. That requires a least a modicum of subtlety.
So you don't mind taking the Lord's name in vain. Okay.
Read the disclaimer at the beginning of each episode. As far as the 'plagiarism', it's probably a misunderstanding. Btw, what's with all the anti-SP rhetoric?
Well as a conservative, I sure wasn't going to vote for Biden, plagiarism or not. Don't know how he got into this.
Original air Date: 2004-03-24
Jimmy is in training for an upcoming sporting event and he's determined to win at any cost. Cartman feels he can easily take first place against Jimmy. He just has to convince the qualifying committee he's handicapped.
March 24th of 2004? How is that ripping off a brand new movie?
I sincerely hope to enjoy the barbs these folks will throw at each other. Who cares if they think what they say is original. Both groups only expose the lowest common denominator of human behavior and there are only so many ways to defame the human condition.
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