PompeyVillan Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 Genius. Puerile satire that is relevant but stupid enough to not be taken seriously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabby15 Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 Best. Program. Ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted September 7, 2009 VT Supporter Share Posted September 7, 2009 Randy is the best. He's **** hilarious. But the moment that always makes me piss myself in recent episodes is the global warming one. When the crowd are all running away from "Global warming" and one random guy falls over and proceeds to be trampled to death by global warming. Brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted September 7, 2009 VT Supporter Share Posted September 7, 2009 Oh, and also, "THEY TOOK OUR JOBS!" "THEY DUK ERRR JOBS!" "DURK A DURRRRRRR" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabby15 Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 Oh, and also, "THEY TOOK OUR JOBS!" "THEY DUK ERRR JOBS!" "DURK A DURRRRRRR" :notworthy: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimijames Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 It's very good, but Genius? Not by a long chalk, and Dumb? Not by a long chalk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 at times its let down because admittedly im not clued up enough to know who or what they are talking about (if you see an episode 3-4 years after the event and its about yanks ive got no chance of getting the reference) but if you catch it right, as said the somalian pirate episode its great, and its getting better IMO mother-**** gay fish kanye west was brilliant and probably because his comic genius is underused whereas cartman's can be over used, IMO randy>cartman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted September 7, 2009 VT Supporter Share Posted September 7, 2009 I think Cartman is decreasing in humour because of the way his character is developing. He's now just this evil bastard. He was the best bit about the old ones because he was just a fat spoilt brat who was pretty stupid and had these underlying evil qualities that were in a way quite innocent. That's when he was at his funniest in my opinion. You can't beat his quotes from the old days though "If a woman ever told me that I'd be all like 'AY! You get your bitch ass back in the kitchen...and make me some pie'" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 Genius. Puerile satire that is relevant but stupid enough to not be taken seriously.Excuse me. Everything I know I have learned from South Park. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 Excuse me. Everything I know I have learned from South Park. your as bad as that idiot on here who learn't history from Blackadder and frequently sneaks in quotes from it Oh wait ... :oops: Was just thinking about Cartman feeding Scott Tenerman his parents in the chilli cook-off :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Undesirable Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 was even more impressed that they turned out a Somalian pirate episode with a reference to Susan Boyle about 2 days after she hit our TV's This. The bit when Kyle's 5 year old brother Ike says he's going to eat his own balls if he hears another person praise susan boyle is class. I remember watching south park when it first came out and i thought it was the funniest thing i'd ever seen, since then it's become more topical and cultured but still pushes the boundaries of what is permissable. Some of the stories have been prety close to the bone and i think it's brilliant that they get away with this sort of stuff a country as conservative in parts as the US. Trey Parker and Matt Stone are cartoon geniuses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecraft Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 The Scott Tenorman one was genius, as was the critters christmas one. I also really liked the Imaginationland ones where the american military are trying to work out how to counter the threat of imaginary terrorism. All in, it has the odd bad episode like anything else, but comes firmly in the genius category for me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 He he now I have in my head the one where the Jewish kid has trouble concentrating in class" Cartman : "Yes, he should go to a concentration camp" Straight to hell for me ..do not pass go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fran_villa Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 the bounty hunter one is by far the most funny imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 Love the Bono episode. cant hear that song anymore without thinking Yeah Yeah Yeah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oaks Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 In the Closet one was good..................so i pulled out my gun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted September 7, 2009 VT Supporter Share Posted September 7, 2009 I remember watching south park when it first came out and i thought it was the funniest thing i'd ever seen, since then it's become more topical and cultured but still pushes the boundaries of what is permissable. Some of the stories have been prety close to the bone and i think it's brilliant that they get away with this sort of stuff a country as conservative in parts as the US. To a certain extent that's because it airs on probably the airwaves that are freest from government interference: US cable/satellite TV (since the US government has thus far taken the position that if it's content that is paid for by the receiver, there are no restrictions... even UK cable/satellite channels have to kowtow to Ofcom). Oddly enough, I never got into South Park, even though the few times I've watched it, I've never failed to laugh my ass off and I could fairly be labeled a South Park libertarian: So the first question is, what’s more terrifying, crossing Islam or crossing Scientology? Trey Parker: They’re really the same people. This is what happened. I was on my honeymoon in Disney World. I turned on the television, and there were thousands of rioting Muslims, and the caption said, “Muslims enraged over cartoon.” And I said, “Oh, shit. What did we do?” We actually did an episode five years ago with Muhammad in it. It was an episode called “Super Best Friends,” and Muhammad had super powers and turned himself into a beaver and then killed Abraham Lincoln. I thought, “They finally just saw it, and they’re all pissed off.” But no, it was those other cartoons that they were mad about. So Matt and I were like, “This is great; we have our first episode.” Comedy Central kept saying, “We’re not going to broadcast a Muhammad episode.” And we said, “You totally have the right, it’s your network, but we’re going to make one, and it’s going to be one of the seven you pay for.” Matt Stone: And then we made it two episodes out of seven. It was life imitating art, because the whole week after the first one aired there was a teaser, “Will television executives take a stand for free speech? Or will Comedy Central puss out?” That whole week we were trying to get Comedy Central to show Muhammad. And they pussed out. Reason: They did show most of the episode, but they blocked out the specific moment when Muhammad appears. I know people who assumed you decided to run those title cards yourself, as part of the satire: “In this shot, Muhammad hands a football helmet to Family Guy. Comedy Central has refused to broadcast an image of Muhammad on their network.” Stone: It was really hard to come up with the right approach. What do you do other than just put black and white cards up to say this isn’t us, the network really wouldn’t show this image, they really have been bullied into this? We toyed with the idea of putting some really incredible quote up or making a big speech. At the end of the day it felt a little too high and mighty, so we ended up doing the driest thing possible. Parker: When we did the Muhammad episode, we got flowers from the Simpsons people because we ripped on Family Guy. Then we got calls from the King of the Hill people saying, “You’re doing God’s work ripping on Family Guy.” Even though it was this big political thing about Muhammad and whatever, everyone was just, “Thank you for you ripping on Family Guy.” Reason: Are you secretly hoping that radical Islamists, who are not always the closest readers of texts, will actually think Family Guy ran an episode showing Muhammad? Stone: Well, that’s the other big joke. We really weren’t that brave. If it did make it over to some obscure part of Pakistan, they’d be like, “Hey, we ought to kill the guys who did Family Guy.” Reason: A few years ago, Matt, you said, “I hate conservatives, but I really **** hate liberals.” Who do you hate more these days? Stone: That’s a tough question. Obviously, South Park has a lot of politics in it, but ultimately we want to make a funny show and a good show. We try not to be, “All right, here’s the point we want to make.” But things like California’s smoking ban and Rob Reiner animate both of us. When we did that Rob Reiner episode [2003’s “Butt Out”], to us it was just common sense. Rob Reiner was just a great target. That’s when a lot of people started calling us conservative: “How could you possibly rip on Rob Reiner? You must be conservative.” Parker: A big key to us is that we both grew up in Colorado in the ’80s, and we wanted to be punk rockers. When you were a teenager in Colorado, the way to be a punk rocker was to rip on Reagan and Bush and what they were doing and talk about how everyone in Colorado’s a redneck with a gun and all this stuff. Then we went to the University of Colorado at Boulder, and everyone there agreed with us. And we were like, “Well, that’s not cool, everyone agrees with us.” And then you get to Los Angeles. The only way you can be a punk in Los Angeles is go to a big party and go, “You can say what you want about George Bush, but you’ve got to admit, he’s pretty smart.” People are like, “What the **** did he just say? Get him out of here!” Reason: So what is it that you hate about liberals? Can you boil it down to a consistent impulse, and then a consistent impulse among conservatives? Parker: Wow, that’s a good question. Stone: I’ve never thought about that. Parker: To some degree, South Park has a simple formula that came from the very first episode [“The Spirit of Christmas,” which featured Jesus and Santa fighting over who owned the holiday]. There was Jesus on this side and there was Santa on this side, there’s Christianity here and there’s Christmas commercialism here, and they’re duking it out. And there are these four boys in the middle going, “Dude, chill out.” It’s really what Team America is as well: taking an extremist on this side and an extremist on that side. Michael Moore being an extremist is just as bad, you know, as Donald Rumsfeld. It’s like they’re the same person. It takes a fourth-grade kid to go, “You both remind me of each other.” The show is saying that there is a middle ground, that most of us actually live in this middle ground, and that all you extremists are the ones who have the microphones because you’re the most interesting to listen to, but actually this group isn’t evil, that group isn’t evil, and there’s something to be worked out here. Except when it comes to Scientologists. They’re all **** up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heystally! Posted September 7, 2009 Author Share Posted September 7, 2009 Parker: To some degree, South Park has a simple formula that came from the very first episode [“The Spirit of Christmas,” which featured Jesus and Santa fighting over who owned the holiday]. There was Jesus on this side and there was Santa on this side, there’s Christianity here and there’s Christmas commercialism here, and they’re duking it out. And there are these four boys in the middle going, “Dude, chill out.” It’s really what Team America is as well: taking an extremist on this side and an extremist on that side. Michael Moore being an extremist is just as bad, you know, as Donald Rumsfeld. It’s like they’re the same person. It takes a fourth-grade kid to go, “You both remind me of each other.” The show is saying that there is a middle ground, that most of us actually live in this middle ground, and that all you extremists are the ones who have the microphones because you’re the most interesting to listen to, but actually this group isn’t evil, that group isn’t evil, and there’s something to be worked out here. Except when it comes to Scientologists. They’re all **** up. Surely that belongs in the 'Riot Riot Riot' thread? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RunRickyRun Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 Great interview - thanks for posting Levi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 Cartman:Dont call me fat you **** jew. Mr Garrison: Eric did you just use the f-word? Cartman: Jew? Kyle: No hes talking about "****" you cant say "****" in school you **** fat ass! Mr Garrison: Kyle! Cartman:Why the **** not? Mr Garrison:Eric! Stan:Dude you just said "****" again! Mr Garrison:Stanley! Kenny:**** Mr Garrison:Kenny! Cartman:Whats the big deal?it doesnt hurt anybody. ****-fuckety-****-****-****. Mr Garrison:How would you like to go see the school counselor? Cartman:How would you like to suck my balls? Mr Garrison:What did you say? Cartman:Im sorry, Im sorry. Actualy what i said was.... [picks up a megaphone] Cartman:HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO SUCK MY BALLS, MR GARRISON? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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