Adult Swim pretty much rocks all around. It's the hearty, vitamin-B-rich yeast paste scraped from the bottom of the long-fermenting barrel of television beer.

At least for all the pot smokers who are up watching cartoons at ten PM.

omg I love Harvery Birdman xD

That episode you are not supposed to take the trans person as an example of an actual transsexual.

If you watch the show throughout the seasons, Mr. Garrison is well known for being ignorant and racist, and indecisive of his own identity. First he wants mexicans out of south park, then he is homosexual, then he wants a nose job, then he is a transexual, then he is an extremist christian, then he is a violent atheist, then he is a man again.

Mr. Garrison is the manifestation of discrimination and ignorance. He is to be learned from his actions, and not his preaching. South Park is saying DONT BE THIS PERSON! They are not saying THIS PERSON IS CORRECT!



Also, that last line in the episode was priceless! "Well get an aids test thomson cuz your wife's a dude, ->-bleeped-<-got!"

Quote from: Gracie FAISE on May 31, 2008, 12:56:17 AM
That episode you are not supposed to take the trans person as an example of an actual transsexual.

If you watch the show throughout the seasons, Mr. Garrison is well known for being ignorant and racist, and indecisive of his own identity. First he wants mexicans out of south park, then he is homosexual, then he wants a nose job, then he is a transexual, then he is an extremist christian, then he is a violent atheist, then he is a man again.

Mr. Garrison is the manifestation of discrimination and ignorance. He is to be learned from his actions, and not his preaching. South Park is saying DONT BE THIS PERSON! They are not saying THIS PERSON IS CORRECT!



Also, that last line in the episode was priceless! "Well get an aids test thomson cuz your wife's a dude, ->-bleeped-<-got!"

Thanks Gracie  , that explained alot about Mr Garrison, he must be the embodiment of all the fundies out there.  I only saw that episode concerning him and I was kinda wondering what stance they (Sthpk creators) were taking on transfolks.  Probably not watching enough episodes makes it more confusing.

Quote from: buttercup on May 31, 2008, 01:02:04 AM

Quote from: Gracie FAISE on May 31, 2008, 12:56:17 AM
That episode you are not supposed to take the trans person as an example of an actual transsexual.

If you watch the show throughout the seasons, Mr. Garrison is well known for being ignorant and racist, and indecisive of his own identity. First he wants mexicans out of south park, then he is homosexual, then he wants a nose job, then he is a transexual, then he is an extremist christian, then he is a violent atheist, then he is a man again.

Mr. Garrison is the manifestation of discrimination and ignorance. He is to be learned from his actions, and not his preaching. South Park is saying DONT BE THIS PERSON! They are not saying THIS PERSON IS CORRECT!



Also, that last line in the episode was priceless! "Well get an aids test thomson cuz your wife's a dude, ->-bleeped-<-got!"

Thanks Gracie  , that explained alot about Mr Garrison, he must be the embodiment of all the fundies out there.  I only saw that episode concerning him and I was kinda wondering what stance they (Sthpk creators) were taking on transfolks.  Probably not watching enough episodes makes it more confusing.

Lol I've been watching south park for as long as I can remember and there is definitely a pattern.

True there is a pattern with Garrison (I watched the show from 99 to 06 by the way). Oh and the show is still lame.    (i was just being a bit of a brat with that last part.)

I think most people who watch south park are uniformed kids who think its funny to ridicule others

Quote from: kim_plumbobs on December 23, 2008, 07:53:53 AM
I think most people who watch south park are uniformed kids who think its funny to ridicule others

I'll be sure to pass that on to the folks I know who are 30+ with PHDs and love South Park. 

Oh. South Park. It is here too. Generally it just despises all that is possible. I have never looked it really. Just read about. Total rubbish.

Quote from: goingdown on December 23, 2008, 02:47:30 PM
I have never looked it really. Just read about. Total rubbish.

Chocolate tastes bad. I've never actually tasted it, but I've read that it does. It's total rubbish.

I have seen parts of the episodes sometimes. The opinion comes always from that.

If South Park was not offending people then I'm sure Matt and Trey would be major bummed out. 

Quote from: goingdown on December 23, 2008, 02:51:36 PM
I have seen parts of the episodes sometimes. The opinion comes always from that.

And seeing a fragment of something is enough to form a solid opinion of it?
"Hi, I didn't read the whole book for my book report. I only read a few random pages and I didn't like them. So the book is crap. End of review."

How do you expect to understand the context of the scenes you watched if you didn't view the whole episode?

Quote from: tekla on December 23, 2008, 02:53:36 PM
If South Park was not offending people then I'm sure Matt and Trey would be major bummed out.

They actually did an episode about that, interestingly enough. 

But is it as funny as the Michael Jackson molesting all of them, or Hillary Clinton's vagina episode.  That stuff was way over the edge, just when we thought they had run out of ideas.

Quote from: tekla on December 23, 2008, 02:59:49 PM
Hillary Clinton's vagina episode.

The snuke.
*ROFLS*
P.S. The episode wasn't about her vagina, FYI - it was about sensationalising terrorism and hysterical whistle-blowing. It was very Crucible.

Anytime you have a cartoon Hillary Clinton, with lots of vagina references, with lots of cartoon kids around her all referencing her vagina, its what people will remember.  I doubt that most people got the subtext of the Tourette episode either, at least the first time they saw it.  Everyone was so busy laughing you had to watch it again to get the half of the jokes you missed the first time cause you couldn't hear them.

I watch South Park.  The interesting thing is that, when I was in third grade [I think the show had just come out the year before or something] there was a kid in my class who watched it and quoted from it all the time, and my mom was appalled that a third grader was watching a show like that, so I was appalled, too, and assumed South Park was a crappy show only watched by juvenile delinquents.  I never watched an episode until high school, at which point I discovered it was actually quite funny.

Sometimes there are episodes that make me a little sad, like the one where Garrison became a lesbian and there were all these dyke jokes floating around.  But I can't get all angry and upset about it because South Park makes fun of everyone.  Equal opportunity offensiveness, if you can dish it out then you should be able to take it.  So even if I'm offended by certain episodes, I can still enjoy South Park. My favorite episode is when Tom Cruise was trapped in the closet.. aaaaaahhhhhh... Never fails to crack me up.

Quote from: tekla on December 23, 2008, 03:08:44 PM
Anytime you have a cartoon Hillary Clinton, with lots of vagina references, with lots of cartoon kids around her all referencing her vagina, its what people will remember.

...
And?
Doesn't change what the episode was about.

QuoteI doubt that most people got the subtext of the Tourette episode either, at least the first time they saw it.  Everyone was so busy laughing you had to watch it again to get the half of the jokes you missed the first time cause you couldn't hear them.

Try headphones.

Oh I watch that stuff with other people, its a social deal at work and all.  And the Clinton episode had just as much to do with the amount of BS in our political system and the campaigns as terrorism.  Turns out that often Matt and Trey have a bunch of stuff they are talking about, not just a topic sentence.  Its a cartoon, not a school essay.