"when parents don't have rules or enforce them that's not Parker's and Stone's fault."
Excellent point. But in fairness, I'm sure there was nothing on tv as coarse as South Park when you were a kid.
I hated claymation.
WRONG! We had Benny Hill, on our CBS station after the news (Friday night wasn't a school night), and whoever was buying the tapes wasn't doing any censoring, there were at least three different sketches on Benny Hill that showed bared breasts. And unlike South Park Benny didn't put any useful (or unuseful) political messages, it was just coarse for the sake of coarseness. On the PBS station was Monty Python, they got pretty coarse once in a while, and had tranvestisism (luckily my mom raised me as a fan of Milton Berle so it didn't phase me). Late night TV has been a home for coarseness since the first time an animal sniffed Johnny Carson in the place where animals like to snill each other.