estefan wrote: I don't want to start a South Park vs Family Guy debate, but with SP, when Parker and Stone use crude humour, there's a point and meaning behind it that not only plays an importance in the story, but there's an under-lying reason why they go for shock humour or to push the envelope.
The episode where Park took on Guy was
supposed to be a headline-satire on the Dutch Mohammed-cartoon flap, adding that if FG ever tried to use Mohammed for shock value, they'd just....throw it in with all their other pop-culture non-sequitirs for no reason, and it STILL wouldn't make any danged sense.
(And I repeat--Why is it that there is nothing funnier in the world than
deliberately writing unfunny jokes?:
"Captain Kirk?"
"I'll be the Captain, you be Tenille: "
"
Love will keep us together..." )
eddievalient wrote:A few years later, we saw The Goobacks and the message was "Mexicans suck, they're taking all our jobs". Disgusting. I stopped watching after that.
No, the message (as Edgy Un-PC has turn all cuddly and say, hey, we're all nice guys in the end), was "Try working to make your OWN country better, and there'll be no need to jump fences." (Also the townsfolk's idea to prevent the future by turning gay became a neat satire on the Arizona patrols, before the fact.)
The higher aspirations of Un-PC (which even Stoneparker can't always live up to, but manage a better average than most) is to say what's on the populist mind, that conventional wisdom or courtesy don't "allow" you to say in public, or in the fair-and-balanced protocol of news programs. Like, for example, "But we don't
want to learn the languages of Lazy People".
Which, as "Drawn Together" notably sour-graped on their latest attempt, was what gave South Park its hook:
After a while, the predatory-comic "thrill" of a show setting out to throw around references to give the censors heart attacks begins to look egotistic a while, then robotically going through a shopping list of "What We Haven't Done Yet", and then just....pointless and thrown together. If some cartoons whine "What does South Park got that we ain't got, we shocked the censors, too!", the answer is what the wannabes Ain't Got is a POINT.
(Least of all FG, who can't keep their jittery lil' ADD mosquito brains on one idea for a whole two minutes without jumping up and doing an 80's reference...)
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