Homer, Conservative Hero

NRO ^ | 11/8/02 | Deroy Murdock

[Texas_Jarhead]

LOL! - keyword 'DOH'... lol

[SoothingDave]

Was that the one where they milk the dog and teach a pony to eat a weenie but it just coudn't get it to bite?

The dog was in the sex education episode. The pony was the Scott Tenorman one. That's where this older kid kept making Cartman act stupid and embarrass himself.

Until Cartman planned a chili-cookoff and fed Scott Chili made with his own parents. Absolutely the most stunning ending of a TV show I've ever seen.

"Ne ner ne ner ne ner! I made you eat your par-ents!"

SD

[JavaTheHutt]

The show may be rude, crude, and full of toilet humor, but it is funny, and has a strong conservative message to it. the examples are endless, but I suspect you care not to listen or learn.

To quote Cartman: "Democrats piss me off!"

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Homer Simpson is the funniest man on TV!
He should have won an emmy.

You're too kind.

[Aquinasfan]

Springfield's government elementary school is lampooned mercilessly. As she hands students an exam, teacher Edna Krabappel tells them: "The worse you do on this standardized test, the more money the school gets, so don't knock yourselves out." While Lisa Simpson is sharp, many others learn nearly nothing. "Me fail English?" asks little Ralph Wiggum. "That's unpossible."

ROTFLMAO!

This reviewer nails it.

[GraniteStateConservative]

They said that big business destroyed the world-- causing the extinction of the dinosaurs. They were like the West Wing-- liberal allegory.

[newgeezer]

In reality, it is ..., I sincerely believe, television's single most intelligent offering today.

That speaks volumes about the writer and/or today's television.

[Publius]

FReeper review of South Park sex education episode.

[L.N. Smithee]

Maybe you don't understand the purpose of cartoons.

I once considered being an animator for a living. The cartoons of my youth were the classic Looney Tunes shorts with Bugs, Daffy, Elmer, Porky, and the Road Runner. They had their own brand of social commentary and pop culture references.

There has long been an animation underground similar to the comic underground that made Robert Crumb famous, but only in the post-Saturday morning Hanna-Barbera age of television has the tide turned toward subversiveness as a stated goal of cartoons on TV.

The Simpsons didn't start as particularly controversial until the merchandising success of Bart's bad attitude. The subversiveness began in earnest in 1991 with John Krucfalusi's Ren and Stimpy, and the homoerotic undertones of some shorts that led to Nickelodeon pulling the plug on the show. A year later, MTV unleashed Mike Judge's Beavis and Butt-head, playing "Frog Baseball" and introducing children to pyromania and attitudes worse than Bart's. And now, South Park's depravity knows no depths, regardless of the political views of its creators.

I don't know what you think "the purpose of cartoons" is, but based on your Freeper profile (revealing that you were in college in the mid-nineties), I would suggest your assessment is based too much on current trends.

[L.N. Smithee]

Was that the one where they milk the dog and teach a pony to eat a weenie but it just coudn't get it to bite?

No, that was the one where they masturbated a dog to ejaculation in someone's face and tried to train a pony to bite off a child's penis.

[SoothingDave]

A year later, MTV unleashed Mike Judge's Beavis and Butt-head, playing "Frog Baseball" and introducing children to pyromania and attitudes worse than Bart's. And now, South Park's depravity knows no depths, regardless of the political views of its creators.

I see your problem. You think "animation" means it's automatically suited for children. That is a huge mistake.

SD

[SoothingDave]

The cartoons of my youth were the classic Looney Tunes shorts with Bugs, Daffy, Elmer, Porky, and the Road Runner. They had their own brand of social commentary and pop culture references.

By your logic, these "classic" cartoons introduced children to dynamite, shooting others in the face with shotguns, and the perils and joys of huge rubber bands and electromagnets.

And these were designed for children. You have a lot of explaining to do.

(And Bugs Bunny didn't have an "attitude?")

SD

[L.N. Smithee]

I rather thought [Dinosaurs] was equal-opportunity pablum, myself.

The heck it was. The only major difference between West Wing and Dinosaurs is that everyone knew that the dinosaurs weren't for real. Democrats, searching nowadays for a heroic standard-bearer, have taken to pretending that Bartlet is for real.

[L.N. Smithee]

MTV's for adults?

[hattend]

Well, you're right but I didn't want to spoil it for somebody who wanted to catch it in reruns.

Oh Well, still hilarious.

[Mr. K]

The correct (and also my favorite) version is this:
Granpa starts receiving checks for cartoon episodes written by Lisa and Bart.
[context: Clintoon had just won the election.]
Lisa asks him: "Why do you think you started getting those checks?"
Grampa: "I thought it was because the democrats were back in power"

[SoothingDave]

MTV's for adults?

It is for those old enough to realize there are implications to playing with lighters. Which was the bad rap Beavis and Butthead got, cause some "parent" let her 7 year old watch them and he caught their trailer on fire.

I distinguish between children who are naive and impressionable versus those who have attained an age of reason, somewhat.

SD

[Future Snake Eater]

One of my favorite lines was from "Sideshow Bob Roberts" (when Sideshow Bob was running for mayor of Springfield). He tells Bart and Lisa that they had better stay out of his way because "no children have ever meddled with the Republican Party and lived to tell about it." Hey, I can laugh at myself!

[HamiltonJay]

I believe you are right.

[HamiltonJay]

Nah, the best SP episode had to be the recount episode! They produce the episodes so fast that it was incredibly current! Ike's kindergarden class election for president turns into an endless recount, with Rosie O even showing up to stick her nose in the mess... it was right in Dec or Early Jan it was the best as far as timing and satire as an animated series has ever gotten IMHO.