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[nhoward14]

Cartoon Wars Part II

Original air Date: 2006-04-12

After leaving Kyle injured on the side of the road, Cartman races to the headquarters of “Family Guy” determined to put an end to the show once and for all.

[HairOfTheDog]

They had nothing to prove as far as showing Mohammad

No kidding. Jeesh! :~D

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My bet is that M&T NEVER intended to show Mohammad in this episode. Just a way of commenting on CC's recent bowing to pressure. And a way to "get over" on viewers like you. (see post #209) That would be SOP for the SP crew.

You could be right on both accounts. :-)

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both accounts......listen to me, both counts.

[HairOfTheDog]

Balls. Whether who had ~balls~?

I've never seen anything as funny and anal as you actually protesting the fact they didn't show a cartoon version of a prophet you don't even like, on a comedy show.

Matt and Trey do know people, boy how.

[Saint Reagan]

I think the episode was excellent in the sense that everyone was upset at the end. Mohammed wasn't shown then America and Christianity were insulted. The idea was to enrage us over the censorship out of respect to Islam or fear of terrorism. Would showing Mohammed really have meant anything? It was all about the build up. Look at this picture above. This is a from a book nearly 200 years old with the caption "Mohomet [Mohammed], The Imposter." This is more imflamatory than what South Park "sought" to show. Does this really mean anything to anyone? Of course not. Nor would showing Mohammed in a tamer context on South Park. But not showing it sends a much louder message.

[gondramB]

"I don't watch cbs news. I get all my news here or online. FR covers more news stories than all the LSM combined."

That was a joke..or at least it was supposed to be a joke.

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Are we allowed to post the danish cartoon or other images of Mohammed on the Free Republic site?

No way. Mohammed's too scary.

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Terrence looks like crap. He's all bloated and balding. I think's he's all coked up and heading for an early grave, like Chris Penn.

[SubGeniusX]

If you are interested ...

You can see "Super Best Friends" at this link.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xVrWtamt6fA

That should give you your SP/Mohammad fix.

;-)

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Pay me no never mind. I've made two mistakes in a row on this thread. I'm too tired to be reading and posting I guess. With that, I'll just say good nigh.

[Dimensio]

Has no one considered that the "censoring" was itself a joke?

South Park has depicted the prophet Mohammed as a character in a previous episode.

[FreeReign]

But not showing it sends a much louder message.

LOL! They can do no wrong. Right?

Yet they didn't send a "much louder message" when it came to the Virgin Mary.

[gondramB]

"Pay me no never mind. I've made two mistakes in a row on this thread. I'm too tired to be reading and posting I guess. With that, I'll just say good nigh."

Or maybe it wasnt a funny joke. Take care.

[Dimensio]

I believe that I am safe, as I have buried my head in sand.

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My bet is that M&T NEVER intended to show Mohammad in this episode. Just a way of commenting on CC's recent bowing to pressure. And a way to "get over" on viewers like you.

I totally disagree.

I think Comedy Central (like just about every other network and magazine and newspaper in this country) had their testicles shrink up when they saw the Danish media receive fatwas.

I think Matt & Trey decided to make the cartoon and make Comedy Central block the image.

When they knew they would, they showed the hypocrisy of all the western media by having Jesus shit on the President and the American flag, knowing Comedy Central would air that like it was an episode of I Love Lucy.

They wanted to be sure that Comedy Central couldn't claim that their cowardice was some how related to cultural sensitivity.

They're chickenshit pansies, and the South Park team rubbed their noses in it.

[nhoward14]

After thinking about it for a while and watching it again...

I'm with the camp that thinks M&T never intended to actually show Mohammed in this episode. I think their overall point was that once you bend over and pull an episode for one group, you'll have to pull them all because there will always be at least one person upset with every episode.

I give M&T props for the fake Terrence and Philip beginning, although a nice extra touch would have been adding in just once a thing about "Who are the Family Guy writers? The Taliban? Barbra Streisand? Darth Chef?"

And that wasn't Bart Simpson we all saw. It was Burt Sampson, Bart Simpson's stunt double. With SP already gonna be so sued by Scientology, they couldn't risk making FOX and Matt Groening mad. :)

The scenes of Bush and the White House Press Corps just reinforce M&T's comments from a few years ago:

"We hate Republicans... but we really f^*&ing hate Democrats."

I hear you, brothers!

[SittinYonder]

That's about the only thing they could do to make themselves look even more cowardly - to cancel their highest rated show because they were criticized.

Trey and Matt called them out. They must respond or they're wusses.

But that's okay, once a show caves to one group it will cave to other groups, and then it's dead. Soon South Park and its fart jokes will be off the air and the executives at Comedy Central will have won.

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You're really gonna stop watching Southpark over this?
It's the principle involved.

So, to show your disgust with western media bowing to islamist fanatics in the face of terrorism, you're going to boycott the only show that is pointing out their hypocrisy?

Doesn't make much sense to me.

[gondramB]

"But that's okay, once a show caves to one group it will cave to other groups, and then it's dead. Soon South Park and its fart jokes will be off the air and the executives at Comedy Central will have won."

The show didnt cave, Viacom did. I'd be willing to bet the ratings are still quite high.

[SittinYonder]

The show didnt cave, Viacom did. I'd be willing to bet the ratings are still quite high.

I wasn't making a prediction, I was paraphrasing Cartman's plan for ridding the world of the family guy. Did you see the episodes?