Loud and lewd but sweet underneath (South Park)

TheAge.Com.AU ^ | December 14, 2006 | FRAZIER MOORE

[DogByte6RER]

South Park rocks! So says this South Park Conservative.

[DogByte6RER]

[DogByte6RER]

Scientology's "Xenu" from that South Park episode where Tom Cruise wouldn't come out of the closet...

[lesser_satan]

SP Ping!

[AnotherUnixGeek]

"Instead of being crappy," says Parker, "we decided we better figure out how to actually make it good."

He's right - South Park is getting sharper and funnier with age. The Simpsons wishes it could say the same.

[The Blitherer]

And then there was the episode in March 2005 that seized upon the highly charged issue of a patient's right to die, even as Terry Schiavo lay comatose, a political and media circus raging around her.

I love South Park. Sometimes I find it too offensive, so I just turn it off and go read a book. I don't always agree with it either, but I appreciate how they always try to show (and ridicule) both views. On this particular episode, I think they ultimately came to the wrong conclusion, but that's the beauty of it. It's okay to disagree.

[ikka]

This marklar really marklars the marklar every marklar.

[EveningStar]

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[dfwgator]

TIMMAH!!!!

[SevenofNine]

Thanks for the ping OMG ES other night they show Passion of the Jew where they goof on Mel Gibson

[Tanniker Smith]

Wow, what an uplifting article.

You know, I learned something today . . . .

[Proud_USA_Republican]

I'm a south park conservative through and through.

Conservative, but with a strong sarcastic sense of humor.

[norton]

Like a lot of other things in life, some people simply cannot acknowledge the message because they will not understand the medium.

[KoRn]

Ah man. I saw this ping and thought there may be a South Park showing. They always make my night!

[rockrr]

I thought the last two episodes were big wet steamy piles of marklar.....I think I'll go marklar them again ;'}

[spinestein]

[I think I'll go marklar them again]


Silly, Marklar. Marklar can't use Marklar as a Marklar, only as a Marklar.

[Brandie]

I love it, thanks!!!

[Watery Tart]

Another headlines-generating episode, "Trapped in the Closet", may or may not have riled mighty Hollywood star and Scientologist Tom Cruise for its mocking treatment of Scientology (and him) - so much so that Cruise may or may not have pressed Comedy Central never to air it again. (It has since been repeated.)

Too late!

[RubyCosmos]

Sadly, a lot of people I know are saying the exact opposite ... although I think Cartoon Wars showed pretty well that Trey and Matt know what people are saying.

One guy where I work says that it's because ComCen has given them license to do a lot more (oh?), so they're losing their edge. I think it's because the general public is having trouble understanding anything that goes beyond d!ck-n-fart jokes.

[Phantom Lord]

I enjoyed the Schiavo episode. And it was truly educational.

I learned that the Japanese have no souls.