South Park making fun of Al Gore now (comedy central)

[ecstatic]

Still trying to see where they are going with this...

[Rex]

1. Rerun and it goes nowhere, like 50% of their episodes.

Weak stab at his movie and the environment. What happens to Cartman, however, is very funny.

[Botany]

2. Saw it .... it was great

The Pig Bear Monster's face looked just like bush's.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. new or repeat?

"Manbearpig" is episode 1006 (#145) of Comedy Central's South Park which originally aired on April 26, 2006. It revolves around the hunt for an elusive "ManBearPig" as a spoof of Al Gore's fight for global warming awareness.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manbearpig

Is that the one?

[SammyBlue]

8. That episode sucked donkey testicles.

[tuvor]

4. The only thing more devisive on DU than the current ME situation.

South Park making fun of people we admire.

[AX10]

5. Libertarians are the extremly extreme branch of the extremist....

Republican party.

[NoSheep]

7. That's the truth! I have an old acquaintance who is a libertarian and he

gets weirder by the minute! They're all the same, no? (seriously, he is!)

[Warren DeMontague]

15. If I had to choose between living in a country run by James Dobson

or Pat Robertson (which is essentially what we have now) and one run by would-be "libertarians"- I'd take the latter. In a fucking heartbeat.

Look at who is running the GOP. It's not "libertarians".

libertarians don't deny rape victims emergency contraception.

libertarians don't want to give rights under the 14th amendment to stem cells.

libertarians understand that $40 Billion a year to wage war on pot smoking cancer grannies is a travesty.

Now, one should distinguish-always- between philosophical types of "libertarianism". There is the Ayn Rand nutjob stripe, the people who don't believe in environmental regulation or government funded roads, and there is social or left-libertarianism, which I somewhat identify with. And there is the big-L Libertarian party, which I obviously don't support.

Sorry, man. Parker and Stone are idiots- I'm not sure they can even spell "libertarian"- but Control Freaks frighten me a lot more than "libertarians".

[MADem]

19. I thought they were just republican bastards who wanted to

smoke pot....

[Warren DeMontague]

22. Well, whatever they are, they're preferable to the theocrats, in my book.

If I was forced to choose between people who want to let corporations run rampant and also think individuals should be free to make up their own damn minds about their own lives and bodies--

or fascists who think corporations should run rampant while they simultaneously micro-manage individuals' personal, reproductive, sexual, end-of-life and other decisions, I'll take door number one, thanks.

[MADem]

23. I'll take neither...

A choice between a bunch of bums who will control every aspect of your life and another bunch of bums who won't care for the poor, sick, or needy through their taxes and investment in the common good, well, that isn't a choice, really.

[Warren DeMontague]

25. That's why I said "forced to choose".

Trouble is, right now we've got the people who not only want to control every aspect of your life, they ALSO won't care for the poor, sick, or needy through their taxes.

Kind of the worst of all worlds IMHO.

Actually, the folks running the GOP are willing to extend exactly the same amount of help to the poor that these extremist "Libertarians" want to (i.e. none), but at the same time they're ripping us off to the tune of trillions for ill-advised military adventures. The new "era of big government": lining the pockets of Halliburton. Bechtel. Etc. etc. Rather than paying taxes for the common good, or paying no taxes for no common good, we're actually paying taxes to make shit WORSE.

And you know what? The hard core libertarians are right about some things IMHO- they're right about the drug war, they're right about keeping the government out of people's bloodstreams and bedrooms and personal lives.. Frankly, I think there are millions of small-l libertarian and socially minded libertarian voters in this country who our party ought to be doing a better job of communicating with. Doing a better job of standing up for bedrock principles like the idea that people's bodies don't belong to the state, or the church, they belong to themselves. I think we've got a better chance of winning them over than we do of capturing these "values voters" by trying to out-Jesus the GOP and trying to "finesse" (cough) our commitments to things like the first amendment, reproductive choice and gay rights.

The "L" word gets tossed around here alot, like its a big insult. Frankly, it's tiresome, if only because folks don't bother to define terms or make distinctions between various types or stripes of "libertarianism". I certainly don't agree with the big-L libertarian party (I think individuals need more rights, not corporations, for one) but I do consider myself left libertarian or socially libertarian.

[redqueen]

31. What about between bush and saddam?

:wtf: kind of line of reasoning is this?

[Warren DeMontague]

35. What?

Did you read ANYTHING that I wrote in that post?

When it comes to screwing the poor and dismantling any government that is working for the common good, I don't think the GOP could get any more extreme than it is right now. AND they're working overtime to wedge the big, intrusive boot of theocratic government into everyone's bedrooms, bodies, reproductive systems, etc etc.

Sort of the worst of all worlds.

[NoSheep]

6. Great. When are they going to fucking GROW UP??? lol

:rofl:

[ecstatic]

9. Does Al Gore pronounce 'serious' as 'serial'

lol. I'm just trying to figure out where that is coming from? lol

[progdonkey]

18. same here...

I'm a rather huge fan of South Park, though their absolutely worst episodes are when they let their Libertarian BS in, and unfortunately 9 of 10 episodes last season had some Libertarian ideological point. (The episodes aren't shit because I don't agree with them politically, mind you, but because they spend so much time trying to make sure you understand their ideological argument that the episodes never go anywhere, or the arguments are very amateurish: though that's just par for the course for Libertarians!)

This was one of those shitty Libertarian ones, where you're just supposed to laugh at Al Gore because he's the Global Warming Chicken Little, according to Libertarian dogma.

And yeah, I don't have a clue, either, where the whole, "I'm serial!" thing comes from. Again, I think it's just "Al Gore's stupid, so we'll give him something stupid and nonsensical to say, and people will laugh because Al Gore's stupid!"

[tritsofme]

26. This is what Wikipedia says:

Al Gore uses the word "serial" (The closed captioner captioned every occurrence of this word in the episode as "cereal") in place of "seriously/serious". This is in reference to his gaffe on The Oprah Winfrey Show when he was asked for his favorite cereal and his answer was "Oprah", mistaking the word "cereal" for serial.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manbearpig

Seems rather obscure...

[sleipnir]

10. That tired old show is still on the air? Huh...

I stopped watching back in the 90's when it stopped being funny and just plain terrible.

I guess Comedy Central is going to flog the dead horse for all the cash they can get.

[MrSlayer]

11. Manbearpig.

Hilarious! I'm Serial!

[hatrack]

12. South Park - a show that hasn't been funny since, oh, 1999 or so?

Blah blah blah blah blah.

[Warren DeMontague]

13. Parker and Stone are idiots. And that show has been overrated for a very

Long time.

I miss Beavis and Butthead, frankly.

[Bill McBlueState]

14. hey, I just got volume 2 on netflix

My wife thinks I'm an idiot, but I spent the evening watching Beavis and Butt-head on DVD. Those guys'll never get old.

[Warren DeMontague]

16. I thought the Beavis and Butthead movie was one of the best films of the

1990s. Hands down. Screw "Titanic!"

[upi402]

17. they rip all -n/t

[Hippo_Tron]

20. Sometimes Matt and Trey are spot on

For example...

The Passion episode and the Terri Schiavo episode

Other times, their message isn't as well thought out. While I don't have a problem with the making fun of Al Gore, the premise is that because Man Bear Pig doesn't really exist, Global Warming doesn't really exist. But the scientific debate on global warming is over and we know that it does exist.

But anyway it's a cartoon. I don't have to agree with the message, I just have to be entertained.

[B0S0X87]

21. If you can't laugh at yourself...

Don't get me wrong, I think Al Gore is a great guy and I'm behind him 100% on his global warming activism. But if you can't find humor in satire or you get riled up whenever someone pokes fun at one of your standard bearers, you should stop taking yourself so seriously.

[Guaranteed]

27. They lack insight. They're not funny.

And they PREACH.

[Lindacooks]

24. Yeah, THAT'S going to solve the world's problems. How helpful.

Not.

[MardiGras Bandit]

28. South Park is great, as is that episode.

This was one of the funniest episodes I have ever seen. The whole "I felt bad, I don't think he has any friends" gag had me rolling on the floor. South Park is one of the best shows on TV, and far and away the best cartoon. It is one of the only shows that manages to be funny and political, largely because of its cartoon medium and the fact it is produced so quickly. They also make fun of people across the board. I'm sure you all laughed at the episode where Bush goes to the UN asking to invade heaven, learn to laugh at yourself once and awhile.

[Lindacooks]

29. Bleh, I don't like it, mainly because the creators are repukes.

And I don't think it's funny.

And what's with the 'I'm sure you all laughed at the episode where Bush...' Doesn't sound much like a progressive to me.

[dysfunctional press]

34. actually, they're libertarians, and the show is usually funny as hell...

i just didn't get this one.

[Touchdown]

30. "South Park Conservative"...one of John Dean's CON categorie

...s from his new book "Conservatives Without Conscience"

They are usually young, hate taxes, hate environmentalists, hate seatbelt and helmet laws, like pot smoking, sex, and nobody telling them what to do. Most other conservatives think they'll grow out of that when they have children.

[readmoreoften]

32. Wow, isn't that accurate.

I wish people would stop defending Parker and Stone. There are certain episodes that I've really enjoyed (Kenny Dies, for example, a stem cell episode) But when Team America roundly criticized every liberal pundit and NO CONSERVATIVE pundits, I saw that they were largely turning into neo-cons. That's why the show absolutely sucks now.

It's interesting to watch children turn into what they become.

[Spinoza]

33. Its probably healthy for ANY

committed political types (like myself and most on DU) to have their beliefs laughed at and made fun of. It prevents us from taking ourselves so damn seriously. I've always admired people who can laugh at themselves.

Its funny and invigorating to be challenged by a couple of dudes who are obviously not conservatives, religious nuts, or right-wing wackos. I love SouthPark. I especially love the shows where they take on right-wing religious nuts like Mel Gibson, but I can take a hit on Gore without apoplexy. Keep it coming, guys. You've got the funniest show on T.V.

[MardiGras Bandit]

36. Amen brother!

To recap:

South Park is the funniest and the most political show on television.

Libertarians are not Republicans.

Team America was the funniest movie I have ever seen.

ManBearPig has been nominated for an Emmy.