Current Events > We really don't need to hear from South Park right now. (Pandemic special)

(+) Yeah! (+)

Later this month, Comedy Central will air a South Park "one-hour pandemic special" -- the first of its kind since nobody in 1918 bothered to invent cable television.

But do we really need the South Park guys' take on anything that's happening right now? Historically, the show's conspicuous moralizing hasn't always stood the test of time. Several of South Park's pointed satirical arguments have tactlessly bungled some of today's most pressing issues.

Take police brutality. In 2015, the episode "Naughty Ninjas" tackled police violence following the protests in Ferguson, but mostly side-stepped the issue of race altogether for a story in which the town abolishes cops after Officer Barbrady accidentally shoots a child in the arm.

Then there were the episodes that have been criticized for being transphobic; last year's "Board Girls" and before that "Mr. Garrison's Fancy New Vagina," which equated gender confirmation surgery with a Dr. Moreau-like "dolphinoplasty" operation, which is, um ... horrifying?

Their 2006 episode "ManBearPig" preached that the biggest problem with climate change was not the devastating environmental catastrophe, but former Vice President Al Gore's whiny alarmism. It was a take so bad they devoted an entire episode to recanting that thesis 12 years later.

So when the show has historically shit the two-dimensional bed covering subjects that are of such dire importance, why would we trust Parker and Stone to apply the same misguided, self-righteous filter to matters concerning the goddamn pandemic?

In these particularly volatile times, when potentially life-saving scientific truths are being questioned (often loudly in the aisles of Costco), South Park's brand ofsardonic centrism could conceivably make things worse. We don't need, for example, mandatory masking laws, or lockdown initiatives, becoming the fodder for some reductive tale of ManBearPig-like hysteria.

Besides, the best thing the South Park guys ever did was pioneer the great sport of Baseketball.

https://www.cracked.com/article_28595_maybe-we-donE28099t-need-to-hear-from-south-park-right-now.html


The Altright is all giddy for more of their offensive type of humor.

---

They already had an episode called Pandemic.

---

Wow, this is a really fucking stupid article.

---

iPhone_7 posted...

The Altright is all giddy for more of their offensive type of humor.

South Park will probably have a decent take on it, since they don't ever usually take the alt-right approach to something. Its always either like, the left approach or a stupid "enlightened centrist take" but SP never really takes the explicitly alt-right approach

Besides, SP is the "offensive" type of humour that seems to be okay, since they're so over the top and obvious with the fact that its trying to be edgy humour. At least they aren't doing "its only a joke because I was being super ****ing racist and you didn't laugh"

Oh. Are all South Park fans "far right" now too? That's a stupid take.

---

But what if its offensive! Omg!

---

MabusIncarnate posted...

Oh. Are all South Park fans "far right" now too? That's a stupid take.

Yeah, Matt and Trey even took back their stupid climate change denial views.

A) Imagine thinking South Park is alt-right

B) Imagine being offended by South Park in 2020

C) Imagine linking to modern Cracked

D) All of the above

---

Cant wait to see it.

---