Posted on 11/28/2004 10:01:27 AM PST by SittinYonder
My wife and I are South Park fans and we watch a good bit of Comedy Central in general. Recently Comedy Central began airing a show called “Drawn Together” after South Park. We’ve watched it a couple of times and it’s pretty raunchy – lesbian and queer sex images/jokes, a cartoon pig that gets erections and urinates on furniture, a lot of sex jokes … pretty raunchy and not really the kind of show I have an interest in. The premise is that it’s a reality “Big Brother” type show except it’s cartoon characters.
But I’ve seen pieces of it a couple of times and until last night I was mostly indifferent toward the show, if it was on as background noise I might leave it on, or I might flip back to it during commercials on another show.
Well, Friday night I stopped being indifferent.
Drawn Together was on after a South Park rerun Friday night and we left it on. For the first time we actually watched the show all the way through.
The episode was about a character, Xandir, realizing he was gay. They had a “gay bash” (a queer party) where “everything the light touches is gay” and it was a lot of gay sex. I was getting less and less indifferent toward the show (more and more disgusted) and had already decided I wouldn’t watch it again, but I didn’t change channels. I watched it to the end and saw the final scene where God was sitting in a booth talking to the camera about how homosexuality is OK, and then the cartoon depicted a blurred-out penis coming through a hole in the booth where the character identified as God was sitting, and as the show ended, this “God” was clearly about to perform oral sex on the penis.
I was disgusted and shocked and angry.
I’m not one who promotes government censorship or the FCC getting involved with cable – I think the marketplace will probably put an end to Drawn Together soon enough – but I did want to let people here know what this show portrayed because I imagine most of you didn’t watch it.
I’m providing a link to the “viewer feedback form” for Comedy Central. Though I’m not trying to get a letter-writing campaign started, if anyone feels so inclined I wanted to at least provide a link. I’ve written them.
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I have watched this show and it is disgusting and filthy. And not funny. I don't expect it to be on very long.
I was outraged at this. Mostly if shows want to be disgusting and filthy I'll just not watch them, but this goes too far, IMO.
I watched the first two episodes with high hopes. I am not easily offended, but this 'toon goes out of its way to be "edgy" and is just stupid. It's like sitting in the middle of a room surrounded by high teenagers who draw out one lame, stupid joke for 22 minutes.
Of course, the reviewers love it. I have noticed the level of critical praise is pretty much equal to the offensiveness of the critiqued (whether it be art, film, or television). Average Joe Watcher will see what it is, though: Stupid, boring, and witless.
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Stupid boring and witless certainly has its place - MTV has to show something since it no longer shows music videos - but God performing oral sex on queer cartoon characters is something other than edgy. Blasphemous comes to mind.
It was "back-ground noise" for me (I was freeping). My husband had just finished SP and this came on.
I didn't hear the end as just the part I heard was enough (pretty gross...not funny, just gross). We changed it.
Huh? I thought all MTV did was show music videos. What do they show if they're no longer showing music videos?
(Serious questions - I do not watch MTV).
We never watch any of that tripe. Sitcoms are beyond stooopid.
Not on Comedy Central. But it sounds like the kind of show Bravo will probably want to give a run.
MTV is pretty much Road Rules, The Real World and Jackass spinoffs anymore. Once in a while a countdown show with some videos.
You should have known it was coming. Anybody whos watched the show for any length of time knows that they offend everyone eventually. Sometimes they offend me and sometimes they don't.
That is absolutely disgusting, perverted, and incredibly disrespectful. I'm going to pray for the people who write this "show". They're going to need it.
never got past the opening credit, the southpark boys have really lost it.
next...
I dont think the South Park guys have anything to do with this
Thanks for your report. You are brave to be able to view something that I cannot.
I hadn't really watched it before, just pieces of it. Friday night was the first time I watched an entire show. I'm not easily offended, but depicting God in a queer sex act apparently is what it takes to offend me.
Television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation
When Jesus comes it won't seem so funny any more.
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