15 Most Dated South Park episodes...this may be the worst article ever

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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.

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