South Park and those with little to no sense of balance.

[skids]

I like South Park. I disagree vehemently with their ridicule of Global Warming (twice now recently.)

I don't think their slam on Gore was merited.

That doesn't mean I don't like the show.

I can laugh at the inventiveness of a running comical gag even if I disagree with it's core premise.

I can also say a big FU to the South Park creators for some of their bullshit.

That doesn't mean I don't like the show.

I can look forward to the day in a decade or two when their favorite childhood oceanfront beach gets submerged, and consider that justice served...

...and all the time still like the show.

Some South Park fans don't seem to like that fact.

To that I say what I'm sure the South Park crew would say:

Fuckem.

[TheFarseer]

1. yeah, basically the same

I thought tonight's episode was the best one this season (not that that's saying much). I thought it was funny. I disagree with the message, but I think they only do it because everyone else is making fun of the republicans and they want to do something different.

[LexMan81]

2. Manbearpig (half man, half bear and half pig) was searched by algore

Al Gore was funny looool Manbearpig hahahaha.. but felt sorry for cartmen FAKE money

[w13rd0]

3. Some of the episodes are funny...

..some are dumb as hell. And the concept of the "South Park Republican" is just a more polite term for "crass dumbshit conservative". But sometimes crass dumbfuckery can be amusing, but I certainly wouldn't take any cues from those guys on policy matters. They seem ill-informed at best, and proudly and willfully ignorant at worst.

[Mojambo]

4. I got tired of it pretty early on.

First couple of seasons were clever and funny though.

As time went on I felt like they were trying to make a point rather than be funny and I just kind of drifted off into other things.

[Guaranteed]

16. Yup. They're preaching.

Preaching, yet with no insight.

A very tiresome combination.

[amitten]

5. Even if it was farther left than George Carlin, I'd hate that show.

Because it's NOT. FUNNY.

(unless you're twelve)*

*Disclaimer applies to any and all South Park threads.

[azurnoir]

6. Some times I love it

sometimes-well I don't > I don't understand how the wightys claim it. South Parks writers are kind of like Zappa in that they take a poke at pretty much every one left,right or in between.

[ruggerson]

7. When have they ever caricatured Bush?

He was on during the Muslim twofer and was presented as a rather neutral, boring character.

Why haven't they viciously mocked Bush?

I love the show, but I thought this Al Gore episode was truly stupid.

They're brilliant when they do allegorical social commentary. Like the one where Cartman becomes the leader of the all the red haired kids.

Having said that, who cares? It's just a cartoon.

[skids]

10. He did blither a little with the crab people/queer eye...

...but yeah, they haven't really hit Bush much at all. Probably because it wouldn't be controversial. (Their business model, of course, is wealth through controversy.)

Oh hey -- maybe their plan is to get on liberal's nerves for a season, long enough to get enough freepers watching to cause a scene, and then they'll do it. Who knows?

[zbdent]

19. When they caved to Bush with "That's my Bush!", they showed their

true calling . . . they were going to portray the ADULT (18+) Bush twins (Jenna & Babs) as lipstick lesbians and they caved to the pressure from the White House (presumably from the group that trashed Chelsea when she was 13) to "leave the kids alone" . . .

[Initech]

8. Come on, guys, Al Gore has a sense of humor...

Anyone remember the Futurama episode where he went on and completely mocked himself Adam West style?

[ruggerson]

9. I don't mind Al Gore being mocked

I mind it when the mocking is totally devoid of wit.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

11. Politics aside, the show (IMO) is past its prime, and not very funny now.

Like the Simpsons, they still occasionally have a good one, but the overall level of humor is much worse than in the early seasons.

And I agree with the DUers who feel that South Park puts a lot more energy and time into bashing liberals than Repubs. Again, my opinion.

For both the "not funny" and the "wingnut bias" reasons, I no longer watch the show. And I used to.

[U4ikLefty]

12. ...but their WalMart episode kicked ass!!! n/t

[The Revolution]

13. I stopped watching South Park

After the "Critter Christmas" episode. :scared:

[skids]

17. rofl n/t

[Warren DeMontague]

14. One word: Overrated.

Where's Mike Judge when you need him?

[Guaranteed]

15. South Park has run its course. It's no longer a clever show.

It's stupid. That's it.

Parker & Stone's schtick is "We think we're smart, so we're going to put some kind of a moral in every story and take pot shots mostly at decent people, and not nearly enough at people who actually deserve it, meanwhile taking the 'mob mentality' tool occassionally used in the Simpsons and put it in EVERY SINGLE SHOW in order to distort people's perception of the way the world works. Besides, we can't think of any other way to make our point."

The truth is, they're not smart. They have a very narrow perspective on the world. Anyone in the eighth grade with an ounce of critical thinking skill could come up with their "ideas."

It's the PREACHING that really gets to me, though. It gets REAL tired- especially when they're not saying anything worth hearing.

[Neil Lisst]

18. they're tedious at times, offensive at others, but it can't all be gold

they put out some good work, enough that watching them is sometimes worthwhile