Posted on 03/03/2010 7:08:56 PM PST by Mr. Blonde
News broke this week that a Blackwater subsidiary was arming violent drug users in Afghanistan. They took hundreds of weapons intended for the Afghan National Police and at least one of them (probably more) signed for the shipments with the name "Eric Cartman."
When I asked "South Parks"'s creators what they thought of these men co-opting their character they were completely unfazed. "It makes perfect sense. It's the name I would use," Trey Parker said. "Our first reaction to any story is 'How do we put this into the show?' and the second reaction is 'Did Cartman do that?' because he's so real to us it's like 'I bet Cartman did that.'"
"I saw that and thought, 'Wow, Cartman did that? That's pretty cool. Sounds like something he would do,'" Matt Stone agreed.
Eric Cartman, the trash-talking, anti-Semitic, youngster who is one of the four main characters of their show, is the "shitty part" of Matt and Trey according to them. "There's a big part of me that's Eric Cartman. He's both of our dark sides, [he says] the things we'd never say," Parker told me.
It's hard to believe there's anything these men don't say. They've taken on everything from abortion to molestation to cat orgies over the past 13 years and have not been delicate about it. They've only been censored once and that was during the Muhammad cartoon uproar last year, when they tried to insert a picture of the Islamic holy figure into their show.
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South Park Ping
You do realize that this article was reprinted from HuffPo, right?
I saw the article and thought it was interesting. Is that bad?
...actually, we aren’t as uptight as liberals, we don’t mind equal opportunity offenders. They are brilliant at reflecting what is going on. They may not be political allies, but they quite possibly are philosophical allies.
I’m just saying.
Yeah, but I can understand them wanting to avoid being solely associated with one group, especially when that label doesn’t work.
It’s an ok article.
They are what they are.
p.s.
The brazilian rainforest episode was one of the best things I ever saw on TV, it kills me just to think of it
So???
Even if it is originally from HuffPo no one has to go there and it isn’t like it is something from the typical HuffPo viewpoint.
I can’t wait for them to do a Tiger episode.
So people are always trying to pigeonhole Matt and Trey. Hearing them talk about it is probably of interest to some.
That is my thinking..
Hopefully it will be the premiere on March 17. I’m sure sex addiction will be hit pretty hard in an episode about him.
Maybe religious conservatives, but IF some of the statements they've made in their writing reflect their personal views, they may be in at least part, socially 'right'. (ie, Abortion is the ultimate cheating, cheating nature of life..- paraphrased)
They are what they are.
And that’s right more often than not :~)
Family Guy completely sucks. I think it is written in a big tank by Manatees pushing around idea balls.
Family Guy has seriously devolved into only trying to needle conservatives. It used to be pretty funny, but no more.
And McFarlane is pretty unliked generally as far as I know.
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