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15 Most Dated South Park episodes...this may be the worst article ever
Posted on 5/16/17 at 11:20 pm
Posted on 5/16/17 at 11:20 pm
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oh screen rant.....what happened guys?
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t: People in the entertainment industry not named Trey Parker or Matt Stone, specifically environmental activists and the focus that community had placed on rainforest preservation throughout the 1990s. But while the episode itself remains amusing, viewers not around at the time are likely to be surprised to hear that rainforest activism – now widely accepted as a key aspect of mainstream climate science and biodiversity maintenance disciplines – was ever particularly controversial in the first place.
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Jakovasaurs,” produced around the same time, expanded the creators’ dislike of Jar-Jar across a whole episode wherein the town is besieged by strange creatures who mimic the character’s behavior.
However, a funny thing has happened to the popular culture in the almost two decades since Jar-Jar Binks’ debut: Star Wars fandom has grown by leaps and bounds, and while “original” Gen-X fans like Parker and Stone tend to be reliably hateful of the character; that same hate doesn’t seem to be widely shared by the younger generation of fans who grew up with Binks
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But over a decade later, divorced from the “it’s funny because every other media entity is passionately on the other side of this – aren’t we just incorrigible scamps?” context of the day (and with hard-fought protections from workplace bias for LGBTQ citizens once more being described as an imperiled hot-button issue under the Trump-era justice department) it’s probably understandable that modern audiences too young to recall said context (and probably plenty who recall it just fine, too) may find revisiting “Death Camp” about as uncomfortable as Parker and Stone’s generation likely would’ve found circa-1960s editorial cartoons mocking the Civil Rights Movement.
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Let’s not dance around it: Over the past decade, widespread understanding and normalization of Transgender persons and gender-reassignment surgery has increased to a degree which is nothing short of incredible given how long such cultural shifts have taken in the past. As such, even if one were sympathetic to what seemed to be South Park’s outlook on the matter – i.e. reassignment-surgery being “gross” and the idea of people insisting otherwise being innately funny, likening it to surgically altering one’s race or species (and the implicit suggestion that Garrison’s womanhood is similarly invalid as Gerlad Broflovsky becoming a dolphin) by now you’d probably be aware that this puts one decidedly outside the mainstream of the cultural discourse of today.
oh screen rant.....what happened guys?
This post was edited on 5/16/17 at 11:21 pm
Posted on 5/16/17 at 11:24 pm to BilJ
Rainforest Schmainforest is one of my favorite episodes.
Posted on 5/16/17 at 11:30 pm to BilJ
I was hoping for a bashing of Season 1-4, but this is indeed an awful list. Really, Butt Out aged poorly? You have to be one of Reiner': stooges to think that. Not to mention the Death Camp of Tolerance and all of Season 19. Just a bunch of pussies.
Posted on 5/16/17 at 11:32 pm to alajones
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Rainforest Schmainforest is one of my favorite episodes.
isn't that the one w/ Jennifer Aniston?
Posted on 5/16/17 at 11:36 pm to BilJ
That entire article was written so they could list #1 - THe last two seasons.
Rainforest, Garrison's Vagina, Death Camp, Manbearpig, all still quite relevant.
Rainforest, Garrison's Vagina, Death Camp, Manbearpig, all still quite relevant.
Posted on 5/16/17 at 11:39 pm to BilJ
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hat same hate doesn’t seem to be widely shared by the younger generation of fans who grew up with Binks
I stopped here. I'm going to have to see some data to back this up. That's a bold statement. I do not recall ever hearing any positive opinions about Jar Jar. I also am part of that generation that "grew up with Binks," I guess. I'm not sure if i qualify. I'm probably on the cusp.
Posted on 5/16/17 at 11:44 pm to BilJ
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(and with hard-fought protections from workplace bias for LGBTQ citizens once more being described as an imperiled hot-button issue under the Trump-era justice department) it’s probably understandable that modern audiences too young to recall said context (and probably plenty who recall it just fine, too) may find revisiting “Death Camp” about as uncomfortable as Parker and Stone’s generation likely would’ve found circa-1960s editorial cartoons mocking the Civil Rights Movement.
Oh get the frick out.
Death camps aren't funny anymore because Trump, something something gays....
Get. The. frick. Out.
Posted on 5/16/17 at 11:56 pm to BilJ
That article seems like it was written by a guy who gets triggered a lot.
Posted on 5/17/17 at 12:07 am to PowerTool
I'd love to meet the person who watches 15 year old television and gets retroactively offended at a cartoon not being able to predict the future
Posted on 5/17/17 at 8:16 am to BilJ
They were pretty spot on with the Candidate garrison criticism buts it's not dated as much as it was funny last season.
But it's fricking stupid to criticize the Turd Sandwich Giant Douche episode after last election.
But it's fricking stupid to criticize the Turd Sandwich Giant Douche episode after last election.
Posted on 5/17/17 at 10:04 am to BilJ
I'd really like to watch Team America with this guy and see him get outraged by every single scene.
Posted on 5/17/17 at 10:24 am to Crusty Juggler
The earlier episodes are BY far the best ones
Posted on 5/17/17 at 10:50 am to BilJ
Giant Douche vs Turd Sandwich is more appropriate than ever. You literally JUST had an election with the two most unpopular candidates in generations. Voters on both sides held their noses while they voted. It was even more appropriate this past November than when it first aired.
Posted on 5/17/17 at 10:57 am to BilJ
Those are some of my favourite episodes.
On a related note, this puts to bed the bullshite narrative that the early seasons never touched on social commentary.
On a related note, this puts to bed the bullshite narrative that the early seasons never touched on social commentary.
Posted on 5/17/17 at 10:58 am to crispyUGA
this guy is an idiot
he acts like they took it easy on trump
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ooking back, it’s all quite clear: Amidst all the continuity business about sentient ads and Member Berries, the two season-long storylines were once again preoccupied with aligning South Park as the naughty little boy perpetually tossing eggs at various strains of mainstream piety: So-called “political correctness,” safe-space schools, Whole Foods gentrification, etc all came in for their whacks, making it crystal clear that South Park was expecting their long-time humor target Hillary Clinton to become President and for the show’s humor to thus focus on 4 to 8 years joking at the expense of the same nominally-progressive incrementalism that had characterized the Obama era. True to form, they didn’t really bother much with Republican candidate Donald Trump, instead having Mr. Garrison operate as a Trump-like surrogate who (as many had joked about Trump) was actively trying to lose the election.
he acts like they took it easy on trump
Posted on 5/17/17 at 11:05 am to BilJ
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he acts like they took it easy on trump
THEY LITERALLY HAD GARRISON frick TRUMP TO DEATH ON SCREEN.
Posted on 5/17/17 at 12:25 pm to BilJ
Who cares if they're dated? They are still funny.
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