Reply #51: All 10 of them?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

Seriously, I liked South Park for the first two years when it came out, when it was a big thing. I was in college and entire dorms would congregate and throw South Park parties for new episodes. It was the big to-do.

But then the movie came out, and the shock value began to wear off. So Matt and Trey had to compensate by making the episodes more issue oriented. They'd throw out whatever the issue du jour was, then ridicule everyone involved in the issue, and in the end, the Stan character comes out and makes a big long preachy speech basically telling us whatever Matt and Trey think, for better or worse. Yes, it is social satire, but I don't call it very good social satire. Basically, it's a "devil may care" attitude where they encourage people to not take strong positions on anything, because if you do, you're just setting yourself up for ridicule, and the worst thing is to be a target of ridicule. In other words, it encourages apathy.

Matt and Trey to me are like the class clowns you had at your school. They sat at the back of the class, and they happened to crack a joke at the teacher or somebody else's expense, and the entire class would break into laughter. But then they would continue making the same joke until it got less and less funny. Or maybe they'd try making some other jokes, but they wouldn't be nearly as funny. Pretty soon, you just want to smack the crap out of them for being so annoying and cynical. Their humor is short lived.

But this "South Park" voter stuff? It's nonsense. Anyone who lives and dies by the words of South Park probably isn't interested in voting anyways. They'd rather sit outside the polling place and make fun of the people in line.