Be honest
Has there ever been a time where you felt South Park crossed a line?
A time where even you had to say "no. That's too far"
Be honest. Has there ever been a time where you felt South Park crossed a line?
Be honest
Has there ever been a time where you felt South Park crossed a line?
A time where even you had to say "no. That's too far"
No. But there have been times when they pussied out, see Muhammad. That's when I lost all respect for them.
nope, never, not once.
they didn't "pussy out" with muhammad though. comedy central did.
kek, nice pasta
My respect was gained back when they snuck super best friends back in the 2017 blu ray for season 5
That was Comedy Central, Matt and Trey weren't happy about the censorship.
The Garrison trump seasons were just too much imo.
I've been watching the show for about 18 years, I've laughed at most of their work. But this just felt low and mean spirited.
It genuinely hurt me when I saw this shit. Who the frick did they think they were? Worse is that it spanned multiple seasons just tarnishing our presidents name.
I stopped watching entirely after that
This
I believe in freedom of speech but I honestly believe there should be limits when it comes to trump bashing
Pussies
its biggest offense was not being original in any way
Trump is trash. If anything they went too soft on him.
Memes aside, the Garrison Trump thing was dangerously boring.
I just can't believe they made President Garrison boring. He was always the best character, they hit what could have been a goldmine but abandoned it because they wanted to stick true to real life politics
Your pic reminded me, the mother putting her baby on that atrocity crossed a line even if it was offscreen
funny you post that image, because that's the only episode of the entire series where the actual donald trump is mentioned or seen. he doesn't even have a speaking role.
He says something like "Thats true" or "Yeah" when they all agree It's better than flying.
didn't even realize that, lmao. I just picked it because it's one of my favourite garrison-episodes
This.
Should have just had Garrison actually be Garrison instead of him being Trump.
The real Garrison would have been a based president
this was more an unfortunate side effect of the american media than anything. everyone thought that clinton was going to win, so they ran the most similar to trump character that they had against her as a joke. the season was mostly thought out ahead assuming clinton would win but she didn't and they had to very quickly rewrite almost half of the season.
then they had to commit to keeping him president since in universe that's what happened. they could have just ignored a president character altogether after that, but south park has been a political show for a very long time now so that would be killing a lot of potential material. it was a case of shooting themselves in the foot.
For me it was when the boys started a boy band like N'sync. It wasn't offensive or anything, just lame. South Park got lame and I stopped watching. This was 20ish years ago.
>I stopped watching south park after season 4, I'm still just as cool and mature as I was way back when I was 7 years old
Let's see:
>Showing literal sex reassignment surgery (I think they replaced it with bull castration later on)
>Equating the homeless to the undead
>Hippies being treated like literal pest animals to the point of mowing them down as an obstacle
>Essentially saying Cartman always deserves a terrible fate, even if the episode itself proves he can improve and was even willing to sacrifice everything for the greater good.
>Declaring circumcision to be "snip it so it looks bigger"
Though to be fair, most of these are the initial reaction and I don't think they're that bad upon rewatching. I mean, there is usually a more subtle point to these than "haha, frick the homeless and the hippies for being gross".
But the surgery will always be disgusting to look at regardless of how legitimate the point is, and the Cartman thing is a bit irritating because it's just tone deaf to treat him as irredeemable in an episode that proves he's not.
And the thing about circumcision comes across like cope, which is of course cringe.
>for the greater good.
>Declaring circumcision to be "snip it so it looks bigger"
That's literally he same kind of bullshit doctors tell parents so the hospital can get more stem cell face cream money.
Mine was botched and I'm still angry. ;(
>Mine was botched and I'm still angry. ;(
In what way?
>Declaring circumcision to be "snip it so it looks bigger"
This was the only time they really fricked up. It wasn't even as a joke, the moral of the episode was just 'circumcision good'.
it's not a big deal.
Certainly you wouldn't mind being strapped in and cut some more then? Put your dick where your mouth is buddy, I'll get the clamp and the straps.
Circumcision is one of the most non-issue things to be on a moral crusade about, and yet it seems to be such an obsession for a weird subset of people on the internet
>Circumcision is one of the most non-issue things
I don't think that's a proper definition of what Circumcision actually is. I want to personally hold you down and snip something off you, I don't care what. It isn't an issue so you should thank me afterwards, and then we can all get on with our lives. Sound like a deal?
See what I mean?
No, you failed to make any point you pointless dunce.
>mutilating babies after they're born is a non-issue
shalom
>unnecessarily mutilating an infant’s genitals is not that big a deal
I get it, a lot of people are circumcised and love their parents and don’t want to believe they did anything wrong, and they almost certainly didn’t do it maliciously but it should be obvious to any civilised person that it’s fricking barbaric. I don’t understand why people can’t view it like lobotomies, obviously doctors of the time thought they were helping people but it’s obvious now that it was just horrific, totally unnecessary and should not be perpetuated.
This, lots of American men are circumcised shortly after birth and think nothing of it, but it's just so the hospital can charge you or your insurance an extra hundred dollars or so. I'm circ'd so I have no personal experience, but I doubt my dick is that much cleaner than anyone else's
If you hated the sex reassignment surgery scene, they were originally going to show the entire procedure but the tv producers didn't let them
saying Cartman always deserves a terrible fate, even if the episode itself proves he can improve and was even willing to sacrifice everything for the greater good.
I just thought that was the humor in it. Cartman actually becomes a good man and suffers horribly for it.
I still say he was faking it all.
>Essentially saying Cartman always deserves a terrible fate, even if the episode itself proves he can improve and was even willing to sacrifice everything for the greater good.
It still seems suspect. I think kyle was right when he said that he totally believed cartman would turn his life around and become a rabbi just to frick with kyle. Especially since the little baby says "frick you uncle kyle". He learned that from somewhere.
being treated like literal pest animals to the point of mowing them down as an obstacle
This is good though
Crossed the line? Yeah they crossed the line. Of the minimum writing and humor quality required for me to watch it.
That zinger needed a little more time in the oven
>Crossed the line? Yeah they crossed the line. Of the minimum writing and humor quality required for me to watch it.
>I don't think they crossed the line with this one
>Oh yeah, which line?
>The punchline!
>DOH HOHOHOHO!
I don't think they've ever gone "too far", I generally believe that anything can be joked about if you do it tactfully and respectfully which they usually tend to do, but I think they've been needlessly preachy and up their asses.
For example, I think the South Park guys are the last motherfrickers on Earth who should have jumped on the "leave Britney alone" bandwagon. The early seasons were a nearly constant barrage of pop-culture sensationalism, up to the point of accusing people whose child was kidnapped and murdered of being the murderers of their child. Yet they wanted to do the "leave Britney alone" shit when it got popular. Frick them for that. They also supported the Iraq War, or at least were against people who spoke against it, that's less of a "frick you" problem but that's one of my biggest personal disagreements with them. They also made the Asperger's episode, which I don't find offensive but knowing how stupid some audiences are there's a real chance that some people don't believe autism exists because of South Park.
>They also supported the Iraq War, or at least were against people who spoke against it
are you confusing the post-9/11 episode with the Iraq War episode? the Iraq War episode didn't take a side. the post-9/11 episode did though, but that was about the war in Afghanistan, not Iraq.
I'm going on both the Iraq War Episode and Team America: World Police. Both of these depicted anti-war people as hollow virtue-signalers at best and actively treasonous at worst. The worst thing they said about the pre-war side was that some of them were kind of dumb. I think that's at least a tacit support for the pro-war camp. It's also a binary issue that you can't get all centrist about, it was either we invade the country or we don't. You can't do the "both sides are le bad" thing because those two sides are legitimately the only sides, if you were apathetic to it you simply wouldn't mention it.
I do support Afghanistan though, Al Qaeda attacked us so we had to attack them. Simple as.
They portrayed the pro-war people as a bunch of rednecks and the anti-war people as bleeding hearts.
Team America was more about how actors and celebrities are pussies and homosexuals for trying to act like they have any moral authority or authority at all when it comes to foreign policy issues.
>See, there are three kinds of people: dicks, pussies, and buttholes. Pussies think everyone can get along, and dicks just want to frick all the time without thinking it through. But then you got your buttholes. And all the buttholes want is to shit all over everything. So pussies may get mad at dicks once in a while, because pussies get fricked by dicks. But dicks also frick buttholes! And if they didn't frick the buttholes, you know what you'd get? You'd get your dick and your pussy all covered in shit!
Exactly. What this is saying is that there are times when international intervention is necessary. Not all the time, but sometimes.
And the context of it within the movie was that pussies = actors, dicks = america, and buttholes = kim jong il. So it wasn't even really talking about the Iraq War. It was making a point about insane genocidal dictators in general.
>We're dicks! We're reckless, arrogant, stupid dicks. And the Film Actors Guild are pussies. And Kim Jong-ll is an butthole. Pussies don't like dicks, because pussies get fricked by dicks. But dicks also frick buttholes — buttholes who just want to shit on everything. Pussies may think they can deal with buttholes their way. But the only thing that can frick an butthole is a dick, with some balls. The problem with dicks is that sometimes they frick too much or frick when it isn't appropriate — and it takes a pussy to show them that. But sometimes, pussies get so full of shit that they become buttholes themselves... because pussies are only an inch and a half away from buttholes. I don't know much in this crazy, crazy world, but I do know that if you don't let us frick this butthole, we're going to have our dicks and pussies all covered in shit!
>up to the point of accusing people whose child was kidnapped and murdered of being the murderers of their child
if you're talking about jonbenet ramsay, at the time everyone legitimately believed that her parents either killed her, or that her brother accidentally killed her and they helped cover it up. there's a lot of convincing evidence for it. that idea wasn't unique to matt and trey.
Yeah, Jared Has Aides. Not the Jared stuff, the part where they pump Butters' stomach, and then later he gets the shit beat out of him.
Also Stanley's Cup. You know why.
Stanley's Cup is actually a genius episode, legit a 10/10
Looking back on it years later, I can see the joke. But boy was it unpleasant to watch.
What is the joke other than deconstructing sports movies where the underdog wins while poking fun at the idea someone's life should be decided by a fricking sports game?
nta but I can understand that the ending of seeing a bunch of small children get the shit beat out of them would be too much for someone. Not me I found it hilarious but I get it
>Also Stanley's Cup. You know why.
No I actually have no idea why. That's a pretty tame episode as far as I remember.
Seeing a kid die, for starters.
the only thing i've ever hated or been disgusted with from south park was the episode where they showed some troony getting botched
Not really crossing a line, but the smoking episode was just mindless contrarianism
Making Snow Day instead of another comfy 2D RPG
oh yeah that was bad.
why the frick did they do that? the RPGs were great
I'm not a fan of South Park, to be honest. It feels too pessimistic in its aim to slander everyone equally and most of the characters are buttholes. Even when the jokes are funny it's ruined by someone being a shitbag for no reason.
you sound like a pussy. you should try watching steven universe, i've heard it's a le heckin optimistic wholesome chungus
Classic seasons (1-3 + movie) chad here
I still don't get what the point of Rainforest Shmainforest was
>I still don't get what the point of Rainforest Shmainforest was
It was just humor derived from taking something known/well-worn and turning it on its head, like the one where a kid wants to be a jock but his butthole dad is forcing him into theater/dance or when Kenny and Cartman were sent to live with crazy fundamentalist agnostics who punished them for believing OR disbelieving in God. In that case they just took the typical "save the rainforest" plot and just reversed it.
>I still don't get what the point of Rainforest Shmainforest was
Mostly just making fun of preachy rainforest advocates and how you know those people would really hate to be in an actual rainforest. It's funny tbh.
Team America
>uhh just shut up and let us bomb Muslims? No way the trillions of dollars we waste here will negatively effect the quality of life in America for generations to come, what are you, a pussy, a gay?
>the problem with america is that the pussies (hollywood liberals) are too close to the buttholes (evil dictators) and wont let us dicks (conservatives) frick those buttholes
>please ignore the dick currently in office who is also similar to the butthole
Team America was made when Bush was president and they mocked Bush all the time.
Not in the movie they don’t.
>dicks (conservatives)
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>>>FRICK YEAH
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>>>(One or two guys out of sync:) Frick yeah.
Everything they do to Butters in this episode, in fact it seems quite out of character to me that Stan and Kyle do this to him, yes, even in Season 6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cS42QlIqXc
Only the Chef thing.
yeah killing him off and making him a pedo because issac got butthurt over the scientology jokes/xenu made him quit was petty.
tbh Isaac getting a bug up his butt about HIS religion getting made fun of when everyone else was fair game was a big b***h move. He can cop some spite.
It wasn't Isaac. Isaac was bedridden and some scientology buttholes wrote South Park a statement in his name. His son revealed the truth some years later and Matt and Trey felt a bit bad about falling for the lie and blaming an innocent man.
Well shit, never knew that it went down like that. Thanks, boys.
>“Isaac Hayes did not quit South Park; someone quit South Park for him,” Hayes III told THR. “What happened was that in January 2006 my dad had a stroke and lost the ability to speak. He really didn’t have that much comprehension, and he had to relearn to play the piano and a lot of different things. He was in no position to resign under his own knowledge. At the time, everybody around my father was involved in Scientology — his assistants, the core group of people. So someone quit South Park on Isaac Hayes’ behalf. We don’t know who.”
>“My father was not that big of a hypocrite to be part of a show that would constantly poke fun at African-American people, israeli people, gay people — and only quit when it comes to Scientology,” continued Hayes III. “He wouldn’t be that hypocritical.”
>Stone, to his knowledge, verified the assertion: “We sort of figured out the whole picture a bit later, but that’s totally what happened…. It really sucked, the whole thing. This statement put out that he was quitting, it kind of called us bigots.”
>Trey Parker, Stone’s creative partner, added, “But we knew in our hearts there was something way more rotten going on.”
no im not a homosexual that takes cartoons that seriously
less in terms of they went too far in terms of being offensive and more they went too far in just making something that was unpleasant to watch with episodes like the one about the lice or the one with Britney Spears
Not really, i just found that the jokes got stale and less and less creative. Closest would probably be Assburgers isn't real making me roll my eyes, i remember it caused a bit more butthurt in general, which is funny since Asbergers isn't a thing anymore (It is all ASD these days) and Autismos cheer about it because they realized the namesake was a Nazi who was advocating for the kids to not get gassed due potentially being useful. He failed for the record.
Mocking Al Gore was just strange. I'm pretty sure by the point the episode aired, there was already evidence for Global warming. What an odd target to go after instead of Bush Jr
They even made an episode specifically making fun of people thinking Bush was involved with 9/11
I think they might've done an episode backpedaling that in one of the more recent seasons.
They did. It was a two parter.
Animal abuse is not funny
While it was still hilarious, the Return of Chef didn't sit right with me.
Granted, I blame the Scientology church for the "press release" they made under Isaac's name.
>I'd just like to MAKE LOVE up your butt
I guess it's kinda similar, but I've never been offended by something in south park, I have however been grossed out by something like cartman using apple juice farts as a torture method or a suitcase nuke being in hillary clinton's vegana. It's not that something disgusting like that can't be funny, but those examples just weren't that funny so all that's left is just that it's disgusting
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Come back to me when they decide to make episodes that mock judaism beliefs
Uh, they do. All the time.
The red cow episode.
No, but I had moments where I thought "these guys are idiots."
The Woodland Critter Christmas episode.
How so?
EAT HIS FLESH! EAT HIS FLESH! DRINK HIS BLOOD! BLOOD ORGY! BLOOD ORGY!
That scene was just wild.
I loved it. That and the screaming gibberish from the Anti Christ.
I thought the Cartoon Wars two-parter was funny, but when it got to Cartman ranting and raving about how angry he was that people suggest he would enough Family Guy, it came across as a, "Oh, so Matt and Trey are treating this like personal attack, huh?".
the school news episode, when you heard the announcer kid being attacked and murdered over the intercom. it wasn't offensive, it was just incredibly tasteless and uncomfortable. they've always had stuff like that, but that one was a bit much
When they stopped being funny