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To: NYer
I knew when they named the only black guy "Token" that they didn't set any limits.

They will eventually go farther than this.

19 posted on 12/09/2005 5:56:58 AM PST by DainBramage
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To: DainBramage

"They will eventually go farther than this."

You mean jump the shark? They have been on TV for something like 10 years. They have already gone farther.


32 posted on 12/09/2005 6:01:16 AM PST by commonguymd (My impatience is far more advanced than any known technology.)
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To: DainBramage
They will eventually go farther than this.

And this illustrates the problem with being "shocking" just for the sake of being "shocking", and calling it entertainment. You can never stop ... once you've done something "edgy", it's no longer on the edge. If your whole stock in trade is "edginess", you have to keep outdoing yourself in the outrageousness department, or you're dead.

South Park isn't purely based on pushing the bounds of decency and civility; that's why they're still around.

Sooner or later, though, they'll jump the shark.

168 posted on 12/09/2005 7:00:11 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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