Posted on 07/30/2004 10:33:41 AM PDT by Leroy S. Mort
Paramount Home Entertainment plans to release the DVD version South Park: The Passion of the Jew on Aug. 31, the same day that 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment is scheduled to release the home video version of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. The South Park disc will also include two other religious episodes: "Christian Rock Hard" and "Red Hot Catholic Love." A slew of additional religious movies are also due to hit the home-video market around the same time, including Paramount's Judas, on Aug. 24, Koch Entertainment's The Power and the Passion of Christ on Aug. 10, the BBC documentary Jesus: The Complete Story on Aug. 31, and the 1966 movie The Bible ... In the Beginning on Aug. 31 and NBC News Presents: The Last Days of Jesus, also on Aug. 31.
They are equal opportunity bashers... but bash the left way more than the right.
It is parody. If you don't like them making fun of Mel, then don't laugh when they make fun of Streisand. I am sure she doesn't like it either. :)
There sure are a lot of fickle South Park fans here, and some who missed the sarcasm of your post, as well.
I forgot about the "rain forest" episode. That was hillarious!
They'll attack hypocrisy wherever they see it. It's definitely not a show for everybody, and the religious-themed issues definitely ruffle some feathers around here. But you have to be able to laugh at yourself sometimes.
They strike me as mainly libertarians in many ways.
I read an interview with one of them a few weeks ago, and they mentioned that it wasn't so much religion, but people who are using religion to make themselves rich or for their own motives. The question was specifically about the Christian rock episode, and he went on for several sentences about people who are promoting their music/beliefs, but not actually living up to what they are singing/saying. If I could find it, I'd post it, but one sentence made me think he was talking about Amy Grant, and another made it clear he didn't like televangelists (no surprise, they rip on televangelists in several episodes).
Such as Starvin' Marvin in Space, where Pat Robertson keeps asking his viewers for more money to build bigger and faster spaceships, so they can chase down Marvin and preach to him. I love that one.
Yawn alert.
He directed one episode, two seasons ago. Parker and Stone have had many guest directors over the years. Lear was one of many. The creators of SP are self identified libertarians, so they definitely skew both sides of the political spectrum, but they save the most vitriolic and scathing attacks for leftists. They have bashed Babs Streisand relentlessly, called Clinton a d*ck, and drilled Whoopi Goldberg as well. If you'll watch, you'll see that they save the worst for the libs.
It took me a while to get that epsiode as well, but the joke is on all those who labeled Gibson a zealot. By making Gibson a slobbering fool, they were portraying him the way that many of his detractors described him. He obviously isn't crazy like he was portrayed in that episode, and the dig is at all those who described him as a mad zealot and anti-semite for making the Passion. All in all, it was good episode, but they probably went a little too deep for most of their audience.
South Park is an equal opportunity offender. I love it. Where else can you see Satan & Saddam as gay lovers?
I agree with you on both PotJ and CRH. PotJ was not funny. It was as if Matt and Trey were trying to prove something to somebody. Their criticisms of Passion were straight out of conventional wisdom 101.
>>The "Christian Rock Hard" episode, however, was off-the-charts hysterical.
"Token, you're black, you can play the bass." < /Cartman>
I love the way he took old love songs and replaced "girl" and "babe" with Jesus to write his music.
That was classic.
I think you're right about religion. Their three pet peeves seem to be: (1) pompous celebrities, (2) political correctness and (3) religion. Probably what they consider the more distasteful aspects of religion, but they really distinguish. I must admit, I liked the Mormon episode, though.
LOL!!
Unclean! Unclean!
Actually, you might have some right here on FR!
LOL! This South Park episode is great! (Not as good as some of the classic SPs, but still great). Cartman trying to lead a group of Nazis...Mel Gibson acting like his loony Leathal Weapon character on acid! Kenny and Kyle getting mad after seeing the movie and calling it nothing but a Snuff Film!! LOL!!
Personally, I enjoy both South Park and the message within The Passion of the Christ. But then again, I've got a sense of humor and don't personally take religion too seriously.
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