South Park: Classic or Dud?

We can avoid that. What if we were to discuss the political implications of Butters, instead?

Say, have they used Pip since Butters appeared? (aside from their Charles Dickens/Monty Python ep?) I'm trying to think of another character they both torture and celebrate so much as Butters. Pip they just tortured.

It's such an extrodinary show which will be seen in the future as a key satirical work, more so than the Simpsons, I believe.

you're also really getting at something. To me, Butters has always been a statement that reads something like: "Even if the world is post-modern, not all of it's inhabitants are"

1) wanted the whales nuked, or
2) were completely oblivious to how subsequent events had changed the way other people would view that bumper sticker.

Look, Sean Penn may be kind of an asshat, but no way is Stone & Parker's obvious, disproportionate focus on the asshattery of the Sean Penns of the world "apolitical" in 2005.

The internet is rotting my brain.

I had forgotten about the whole "Butters' dad is closeted and his mom tried to kill him" ep.

also, i hadn't heard about the bit when Comedy Central didn't want Butters to be abused on screen anymore, or the not-running the "Jared Has Aides" ep.

"Oh Geez he's started with the gun again!"

"And I'ma cap this bitch unless Tom Cruise and John Travolta come out the closet..."

though it isn't quite such a critique, let's not forget that officer barbrady swore off reading b/c he thought that atlas shrugged was a worthless piece of shit.

then again, that could just be sectarian bickering :-)

Tom Cruise kills South Park episode

By Lester Haines
Published Thursday 19th January 2006 12:01 GMT

UK TV viewers will not get to see an episode of South Park which shows Nicole Kidman and fellow Scientologist John Travolta attempting to coax a fictional Tom Cruise character out of a closet, with Kidman saying: "Don't you think this has gone on long enough? It's time for you to come out of the closet. You're not fooling anyone."

Naturally, the robustly heterosexual Top Gun star took exception to this when Trapped in the Closet aired in the US. The episode also showed Stan - believed by the Cruise character to be the reincarnation of Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard - having a pop at Cruise's acting abilities, and Cruise reportedly waved the legal big stick at Paramount and threatened to sue if the offending programme was ever shown again.

An insider said: "Tom is famously very litigious and will go to great lengths to protect his reputation. Tom was said not to like the episode and Paramount just didn't dare risk showing it again. It's a shame that UK audiences will never see it because it's very funny." ®

Hot Buttered Soul is still an amazing album.

Absolutely.

WHEN YOU TAKE TURNS MAKING FUN OF EVERYBODY, EVERYBODY WINS.

Hooray!

I find this all a little suspicious given that there was that hilarious South Park bit done for the MTV movie awards back in 2000 (I'm pretty sure) where they trashed Travolta and Scientology. Hayes wasn't involved but how could he not know about that?

-catholicism (the vatican ep, the bleeding statue ep)
-evangelical american protestants (the 2nd starvin' marvin ep)
-mormonism (dum dum dum dum dum ep)
-judaism (constantly, esp with kyle at jew camp)
-tom cruism (inna closet ep)
-Xianity(at least once a season)
-icons as the legion of superfriends

etc

This aired on syndication tonight! (I had never seen it)

Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha, Krishna, Sea Man vs the Blaine-tologists.

It would be great to live in a world were you could just call Shenanigans any time you thought some fucker was ripping you off and a nearby lynch mob would reach for their brooms.

Oh, and Scientologist in fucked up double standards shocker.

If they're on Letterman on Wednesday, I'm TOTALLY watching.

Damnit. Isaac Hayes was the man. Now he's just another fallen icon who is subject to the weirdness.

IIRC, they've never had one.

the closest thing to this was the "chicken fucker" episode, with the following being officer barbrady's reaction to reading atlas shrugged:

"Yes, at first I was happy to be learning how to read. It seemed exciting and magical, but then I read this: "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand. I read every last word of this garbage, and because of this piece of shit, I am never reading again."

then again, this may be just a case of "the narcissism of small differences."