They don't look up to him. He's portrayed as a sick, degenerate deviant.
Big Gay Al is a character the children look up to, they even took up for him when the show went after the Boy Scouts.
The show defended the Boy Scouts' right to free association. Big Gay Al himself admits he was wrong at the end of the episode, and that the Scouts shouldn't be forced to allow him to join.
I cited an example of the glorification of drunkenness in another post.
I saw your example, and frankly, it's pretty weak. The portrayal of drinking is not necessarily a glorification of it.
Al Gore defeated a monster that is "half man, half bear and half pig" and was apparently some kind of super hero because he used the phrase "Excelsior!"
The "monster" is a metaphor for global warming, and doesn't really exist outside of Al Gore's delusional mind in the episode. He goes to very dangerous extremes to defeat ManBearpig, nearly getting the kids killed over it. And when he says "Excelsior!", it's to make him look like a dork.
Trust me on this. I've seen that episode many, many times, and the only way it portrays Gore is as a dangerous lunatic and a total dork.
As for your remark about "ignorance" ... what kind of foolish person would waste time doing research about a television show?
The kind of person who wishes to know what he's talking about?
Have you ever considered what better things you could do with your time other than watching cartoons?
It's a half-hour show which I watch once or twice a week. The time involved is minimal. I find it interesting that you equate watching a cartoon as a waste of time, and I might ask what you watch on TV. I find pretty much everything on network TV to be vapid, pedestrian, degenerate, anti-American crap written by idiots, for idiots.
If you don't want to watch SP because you find it offensive, I respect that. It is offensive. But I suspect you're getting your information form some knee-jerker with an axe to grind, as you've obviously never watched an entire episode of the show.
The South won (or very nearly did). In that context, that show was a glorification of drinking.
I might ask what you watch on TV
Wheel of Fortune.
you've obviously never watched an entire episode of the show
I'm proud that it's that obvious.