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"South Park" becomes a gem
Denver Post ^ | March 19, 2007 | John Wenzel

Posted on 03/21/2007 11:08:14 AM PDT by EveningStar

"South Park" fans take for granted that the show consistently shocks and amuses in an environment flooded with distractions and imitators.

Watching the Comedy Central series' Emmy-winning ninth season reinforces why. Creators and former CU-Boulder film students Trey Parker and Matt Stone position their pop culture texts violently against the grain, smartly engaging their characters in taboo topics of race, gender and sexuality.

The duo's biggest asset? Their writing encompasses more more than shock value or self-amusement. Yes, potty humor and cheap shots fly left and right, attacking soft-skulled liberals and myopic conservatives alike. But the boys always make an intelligent comment in the end - however brutal the path...

(Excerpt) Read more at denverpost.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: issues; mattstone; politics; southpark; treyparker
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To: Calvin Locke

21 posted on 03/21/2007 1:11:26 PM PDT by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: SittinYonder

A great adventure is waiting for you ahead
Hurry onward SittinYonder, or you will soon be dead
...
The road ahead is filled with danger and fright
But push onwards SittinYonder with all of your might


22 posted on 03/21/2007 1:39:09 PM PDT by BJClinton (There are three types of people in the world...)
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To: SittinYonder

Your problem is that you criticize the show, without recognizing that amongst the juvenile humor and potty language, which truly is irrelevant to an inciteful critique of the show, they have a very incisive, sarcastic humor that takes real intelligence to recognize.

Maybe that's your problem? You can't recognize the humor and therefore fixate on the irrelevant?


23 posted on 03/21/2007 1:41:07 PM PDT by Abundy
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To: EveningStar

Gary's speech at the end of "Team America" summed up Foreign Relations better than any policy wonk ever could.


24 posted on 03/21/2007 1:45:23 PM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Championship U)
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To: SittinYonder
For instance, if I were to say that South Park is juvenile at best and full of fart jokes, all sorts of indignant bile would be flung my way. I would not fling "indignant bile" at someone just because they did not like South Park.

If you were to say that South Park is just too vulgar and no amount of good political satire makes up for that, I might disagree with you, but you would still have my respect. (Michelle Malkin has taken such a position.)

But to say it is "juvenile at best" implies that it is nothing BUT potty humor. This indicates that you don't know what you are talking about, and thus deserving of indignant bile.

25 posted on 03/21/2007 2:03:09 PM PDT by murdoog
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To: Calvin Locke

Actually, I loved the "nagger" show. I thought the "praying the gay out" was lame and pretty obvious except for the picture of Cartman sub plot. Just MHO.
;)


26 posted on 03/21/2007 2:23:55 PM PDT by dynachrome ("Where am I? Where am I going? Why am I in a handbasket?")
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To: BJClinton

"The road ahead is filled with danger and fright"
And listen to the Sparrow King.....


27 posted on 03/21/2007 2:25:08 PM PDT by dynachrome ("Where am I? Where am I going? Why am I in a handbasket?")
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To: dynachrome
"Nagger"? I just don't get it. Except for JJ scene and "emperor" comment. Other than that, it was pretty lame.

Last week's epi pushed the line. But that was fourth graders "experimenting" with gayness, and not a representation of a schizophrenic 7th century murdering pedophile, so it was "ok" with the powers that be of the Comedy Channel.

I wonder if the CC execs got to vote at Sundance for the Dakota Fanning rape scene?

28 posted on 03/21/2007 2:39:04 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Calvin Locke

Well, the tiebreaker will be tonite! Headlice? Could be one of the grosser ones.


29 posted on 03/21/2007 2:44:51 PM PDT by dynachrome ("Where am I? Where am I going? Why am I in a handbasket?")
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To: 49th; SittinYonder
You are like a child who has wandered into the middle of a film and has absolutely no frame of reference.

Exactly right... Shut up SittinYonder, you are out of your element ;~)

The fart jokes are not the issue here. :~D

30 posted on 03/21/2007 2:45:38 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: dynachrome

At least it's head lice and not crabs.


31 posted on 03/21/2007 2:48:35 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: HairOfTheDog

32 posted on 03/21/2007 2:48:45 PM PDT by ecurbh (Giuliani 2008 - http://www.rudygforamerica.com/)
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To: Calvin Locke
"not crabs." This thought just traveled thru the vasty open areas of dynachrome's skull.
Lice = baby crab people?
33 posted on 03/21/2007 4:34:06 PM PDT by dynachrome ("Where am I? Where am I going? Why am I in a handbasket?")
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To: dynachrome

Now that would be a gross epi.

I heard a science show last week about crabs coming originally from gorillas, and the evolutionary biologist used a term like "unseemly acts" as a slight possibility of how the parasite jumped species.


34 posted on 03/21/2007 6:57:00 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Calvin Locke

"unseemly acts"

My sociology professor in college had a similar theory about the origins of bigfoot :~)


35 posted on 03/21/2007 8:12:35 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog
Crabs can live off the host for about 24 hours. The more polite explanation is that some early man utilized a vacated gorilla's nest, and picked them up that way.

But, sort of getting back to the "other way":

"How did you get crabs from a contemporary gorilla to compare DNA?"

"We had to go to people that worked with [protected] gorillas and asked them. They were on very good terms with some gorillas."

"I guess they'd have to be."

"Yes they were."

Head lice branched off from chimps, btw, as "man" lost body hair.
36 posted on 03/21/2007 9:35:29 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: SittinYonder
Offer the merest bit of criticism on Free Republic about the sacred cow of the South Park fans, and you will find very quickly that they are the ones who "really get steamed."

Actually, your criticism hasn't been so much about South Park, but of the fans themselves, not quite getting into personal attacks, but coming close. You don't "get it." They do. Get over it. If you don't like South Park, then don't watch it. Which it appears that you don't. But that still doesn't keep you from commenting on it, or the people who do "get it." You seem to be looking for something to get your panties in a wad over. Sounds to me like you've just got too much time on your hands.

For instance, if I were to say that South Park is juvenile at best and full of fart jokes, all sorts of indignant bile would be flung my way.

Of course it's juvenile. That's simply one of the best things about it. Because they'll often approach serious issues in such a juvenile way. Sometimes "grownups" don't see how stupid their actions and policies are. This juxtaposition is one of the things that those who "get it" like the most.

The funny thing is that with the exception of the "fart jokes" and "potty humor" comments, your criticisms are about what's normally heard about the "3 Stooges" comedies. Again, some people get it, others don't.

Mark

37 posted on 03/22/2007 5:38:24 AM PDT by MarkL (When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
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To: Ramius
But I always come around in time to see the point being made, and there's always a larger point.

Or a cheap shot, like last night... I kept waiting to see if AlGore or ManBearPig was going to show up.

Mark

38 posted on 03/22/2007 5:40:20 AM PDT by MarkL (When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
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To: KosmicKitty

Oh sure, bring up Harlan Ellison!

Mark


39 posted on 03/22/2007 5:42:18 AM PDT by MarkL (When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
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To: SittinYonder
It's funny how these South Park freaks will go on and on and on about how "Matt and Trey" poke fun at everyone and everything, but if you say anything about South Park, those very same freaks nut-up.

So, come on... Fess up. Which one are you, Matt or Trey? You guys were great in Orgasmo! I really hope that there will be a sequel! And Baseketball?!??! A cinematic masterpiece! I loved the scene on "Free Range Chicken Night" at the ball park, when they were "collecting" the chickens! And I swear I couldn't breath from laughing so hard the first time I saw the hospital scene!

Mark

40 posted on 03/22/2007 5:45:43 AM PDT by MarkL (When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
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