Posted on 09/11/2017 9:16:36 PM PDT by artichokegrower
Over its 20 seasons on the air, “South Park” has never been afraid to take on controversial topics of the times.
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"201" is the sixth episode of the fourteenth season of South Park, and the 201st overall episode of the series. It originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on April 21, 2010. The episode continued multiple storylines from the previous episode, "200", in which a group of angry celebrities demand South Park produce the Muslim prophet Muhammad. In "201", a superhero-like group of religious figures team up to save South Park from the celebrities and their monster Mecha-Streisand, while Eric Cartman learns the true identity of his father.
The episode was written and directed by series co-creator Trey Parker. Like "200", it alludes to several past storylines and controversies from previous South Park episodes, especially Comedy Central's refusal to show images of Muhammad on the network following controversies in 2005 and 2007 when cartoons depicting Muhammad ran in European newspapers, resulting in riots and threats. Prior to the broadcast of "201", the radical Muslim organization Revolution Muslim posted a warning on their website that Parker and Stone risked being murdered for their depiction of Muhammad. Comedy Central modified Parker and Stone's version of the episode, obscuring all images and bleeping all references to Muhammad—to the effect of disruptively obscuring the entire two-minute moral conclusion of the story
Comedy Central is a Viacom property — one of the 4 major corps continually pissing in your shoes.
Iconoclasts that they are, I doubt South Park will leave anyone unscalded. It should be a good episode.
Christians and such is pretty safe territory for South Park. There is one area that they are afraid to venture into.
As usual in South Park episodes, the adults will be doing this (making fun of white people) and the kids will be the ones that realize how stupid it is and put a stop to it.
I’m looking forward to it. SP will skewer the libtards.
South Park has made fun of just about every conceivable group out there, Blacks, Jews, Asians, the Catholic Church, LGBT-ers you name it. Occasionally Bill Donahue from the Catholic League, or the ADL would take exception when they think SP goes over the line, but the most militant, threatening reactions to South Park’s ridicule comes from Moslems, and Scientologists (the episode where Tom Cruise “refuses to come out of the clost”). Isn’t that peculiar?
I knew Trey and Matt, here in Colorado, as we’re all loosely the same generation of Colorado film/tv industry dudes and the same hood. I went to their private party after their first year run. They are authentic. It’s why Trump is a success. They do not give a damn about what anyone thinks of them; they make Trump look like a snowflake with that confidence, especially Trey! This is how everyone should be so lucky to live their lives...
I understand satire, and know these guys have moments of brilliance in targeting all sides, especially those who seem to have power. And I’m no snowflake, but they also moments of utter unexplainable depravity, as if they’re sick.
Also, I doubt their ultimate target is white supremacists, since only about 17 exist nationally. Look for them to skewer the Left’s mass hysteria.
It takes no courage to cover white racism. What would be courageous is to cover antifa or the racism of BLM. They won’t do that
What is white supremacy? If they mean Western Culture and the whites that made it then yeah I’m a white supremacist. It is the culture I prefer.
I bet AntiFa gets skewered in this episode, if not by name, then by actions.
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