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So what do you think of south park?

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Hat:
I like it when I'm blasted and accidently tune in to one of the more surreal episodes, but apart from that, I don't give a dicks toss really. They've had up and down moments, in the long haul I don't think they've done that badly.

Boro_Bandito:
I voted Gold because this show I think growing and watching this show has helped me to learn to take everything with a grain of salt and more than a little dirty humor. I'm not saying that I agree with everything said by these guys and in several cases I've been completely in opposite view and pissed off with these guys, but I really think this show had been an important and at least somewhat beneficial part to our society over the past decade. It also cuts away a lot of that bi-partisan bullshit that's coming through a lot in the past few years and at least the last two very divided elections. There isn't always a black and white point of view and to say that you are one or the other and not anywhere in between is and uneducated point of view and in general just blind following of established tradition.

That all being said I haven't been keeping up recently, and I haven't even seen all three of the imagination land episodes.

ALoveSupreme:

--- Quote from: Ital1Stall1 on 27 Dec 2007, 20:55 ---The Guitar Hero episode had a few decent jokes, but was otherwise terrible.

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Aw, c'mon, Herion Hero!!?!  Hilarious!

Also, the last episode for this season was really well done.  I've actually heard that Trey and Matt enjoy doing episodes where the kids are just being kids more, rather than the political fluff.  The episode last aired is definitely a knockout in that regard. 

KvP:

--- Quote from: ALoveSupreme on 27 Dec 2007, 12:28 ---The WoW episode, to me, was a great genre parody.  I think what they proved they could do in that episode is take tired cultural cliches and turn them around.  They've proven they love montage sequences in the series, but in that episode in particular, it struck me as creative to take the typically perceived lethargic act of playing video games/MMOs and turn it into the equivalent of a Rocky training sequence.  The rest of the episode struck me in a similar way.

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I thought the WoW episode was pretty shit, not because of any of the content, per se (although it was both unfunny and totally obvious) but because they collaborated with Blizzard in making it. It's like when a celebrity shows up on SNL with his cast impersonator. It's not funny because it's claimed to be satire but all the edges are softened with the purpose of making sure the subject of its ridicule comes out with an unbruised ego and no hard feelings. Satire is all about edges. The WoW episode was an exercise in self-congratulation on the part of Blizzard.


--- Quote from: Ital1Stal1 ---haven't ever thought that their desire was to subtley comment on politics.
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You must not be watching the right show.


--- Quote from: Boro_Bandito ---I voted Gold because this show I think growing and watching this show has helped me to learn to take everything with a grain of salt and more than a little dirty humor. I'm not saying that I agree with everything said by these guys and in several cases I've been completely in opposite view and pissed off with these guys, but I really think this show had been an important and at least somewhat beneficial part to our society over the past decade. It also cuts away a lot of that bi-partisan bullshit that's coming through a lot in the past few years and at least the last two very divided elections. There isn't always a black and white point of view and to say that you are one or the other and not anywhere in between is and uneducated point of view and in general just blind following of established tradition.
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I'm aware of the "no politics" rule here, but still, it's inaccurate to depict Parker and Stone as centrists, they're not, they're enamored of a particular strain of conservatism. Difference is not such a virtue that anarchocapitalist politics are to be considered valuable simply because they aren't well represented in the major parties. Indeed, in the coming decades it may very well gain prominence in the Republican party, in small part because of this show.

Ital1Stall1:
"You must not be watching the right show."

The key word was subtle.

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