South park, should we laugh?

I don't know about you guys. But I think South Park is funny. But if you actually think about some of the stuff they do and say, its all racist, crude and some is just down right vomit inducing. So why do we laugh, and should we?

Does it make us racists if we laugh at Cartmans "Shut up you glassy-eyed Jew!" insults, or are we innocent of it all. I love a good philisophical debate, gets my brain working and I want to see what you all think. Come on Britain, pull your heads together and lets see what we can squeaze out of it!

 

I don't think South Park is racist. It takes the piss out of racist views. It then takes the piss out of people who take the piss out of racist views. It then shits all over both of them and has a great big wank. Ahem, I went off on a bit of a tangent there, but I reckon that's a pretty apt metaphor for seeing South Park's nihilistic take on society and politics. It's not wrong to laugh, just so long as, when it counts, you know what you really believe....

 

I find racism hilarious!



South Park is actually a VERY moral TV show. They have some really good messages on there that Family Guy and The Simpsons fail miserably to convey.

 

South Park is brilliant! it is an ironic humour that is usually threaded with a lot of poignant messages on society and specifically American culture. I've watched it since the day it started.

Definately should not be something you feel guilty about laughing at while you're watching.

 

So do the league of gentlemen

 

Yea, it has its moments.

 

The moral message of the episode about Jackovasaurus's was totally lost on me. It felt more self indulgent than anything.

The episode that parody's "the day after tomorrow".. as a parody alone it's funny, but as for a moral message? Or the Hippie one.. OK there's a moral in a manner of speakiing, but it's going to make a whole generation of impressionable kids think that what we do is useless and that what we stand for counts for nothing.

Not that I don't find it funny, I just have quibbles with the whole 'subtle pushing of certain ideologies' thing.

 

South Park always has a moral to it. And they make fun of everyone and everything, maybe I'm weird but I think that's good.
I love the one where their making fun of goths and the kids like. I figure I must have it good because at least I know when things are bad. Something like that, it's good tho. Trust me. ^_^

 

I loved the episode where they took the piss out of Family Guy, specifically when Cartman found out about them talking about Muslims. For those who haven't seen it, they're watching an episode of Family Guy where Mohammed is shown. Cartman starts ranting about how unfair it is to Muslims that their religion is being made fun of...Kyle asks him how he can justify saying that when he makes fun of people all the time, and Cartman comes out with this:

"That's different! I'm just a little boy! That's a cartoon! Millions of people watch it! How would you feel, Kyle, if there was a cartoon on television that made fun of Jews all the time?!"


Blew my mind

 

That was the point, and he addresses this when he says how he's just a little boy, whereas Family Guy is an internationally watched cartoon.

 

Um...yes. Yes indeed. That's the point I was making. By referring to himself as just a little boy and condemning Family Guy as an international cartoon that makes fun of things that shouldn't be made fun of, the writers made a gag based on self-satire and fourth-wall-breaking irony.

Um. I think you misunderstood me somewhere along the way. Maybe the "it blew my mind" comment? Not only was it pretty funny, it was also somehow deeper than anything I'd seen on South Park, or indeed any other humour cartoon, before. Then again, the writers have done that before...in the movie, when the kids can't get into the Terence & Phillip Movie, and Cartman comments that the animation is crappy anyway...followed by about five seconds of the piss-poor walking effect always used in South Park. Same thing.

And now you've made me explain the joke, I won't find it funny anymore! Thanks a lot

 

The funniest thing for me with that episode is how life imitates art. The network censoring the image of Muhammad that South Park showed gave them more comedy ammunition than they could have hoped for I think. Strange, seeing as South Park has shown Muhammad several times without them ever getting in trouble - until they explicitly make a point about censorship....

 

There's only one joke in the world that gets funnier the more you have to explain it:

Two women walking down the street talking about cardigans. One of them points into a shop window and says "look...there's the one I'd get!". The a cyclops comes out and chases her.

 

Ok then, explain away....

 

Well, you know...one I'd get...one eyed get...hehehehee

See?

 

Hahahaha! That is quite funny. Though it was actually funnier before you explained it. I just laughed at the sheer random absurdity of it. And thus you are wrong....