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South Park: A Political Guide?

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AngelofShadows:
My hunch....even though South Park has improved greatly over the seasons, the fact that it still finds way of pushing people's buttons on issues (saying shit on TV comes to mind) and the earlier seasons (the fact that most people would only referance the way Kenny died, which was played out 5 episodes in if you ask me [IT WAS USED AS A JOKE FOR BOY MEETS WORLD! BOY MEETS WORLD!]) have placed a shadow over it as an immature obscene cartoon. It doesn't help much that it's paired with the Sarah Silverman show and Drawn Together. It does make some good political points, and it is ussually more fair than most poking fun at both the left and right side of the political spectrum, and it's a shame it isn't mentioned in the same lines as the daily show, which didn't get noticed at all until John Stewart took over (If anyone remembers, it was pretty much a stupid celeb show with Craig Killborne (sp?)) 

analogthought:
Completely agree. I think the reason I didn't like it at first was directly because of what you said. Like most things in pop culture... if it becomes an excessive part of our social dialog (think, "no kitty, that's my pot pie") I tend to run the other direction. It's the same reason I could never like Titanic... it was too EVERYwhere you turned when it came out.... no less accompanied by that obnoxious celine dion song.
It's funny that you mention the "shit" episode....
I often that of that as their way of pushing things in our face we don't want... which is what the show does almost more often than not. It got ratings, it got news coverage... but it also reminded us that there are limits according to the FCC and the extent of freedom of speech on television. There was still a point to be made. I also commend the show for saying/making fun of the things and people that I wish I could make fun of too (in a public setting).

Kartoon Kween:
Anyone with half a brain can tell that South Park contains political opinions.  Some think they are clever, some don't.  A book doesn't need to be written about it.

Most people, instead of treating it like an ingenious political critique, just watch it for entertainment.

Furthermore, saying that "incredibly genius political ideas are interlaced into every South Park episode" is a bit much.  Many of my favorite episodes don't contain any political ideas whatsoever.  If every episode contained some sort of political garble, the show would get really annoying really fast.

Cartilage Head:
WRONG THREAD

ThinWhiteDuke09:
I feel its more of a social commentary than a political show, but in any case, I think its a general trend following a sort of formula and more appropriate to go over in an essay rather than highlighting specific episodes.

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