It's my understanding that the teacher they all look up to is a gay, transgender person who wears a puppet on his hand and sometimes engages in sexual relations with the puppet.
Big Gay Al is a character the children look up to, they even took up for him when the show went after the Boy Scouts.
I cited an example of the glorification of drunkenness in another post.
Al Gore defeated a monster that is "half man, half bear and half pig" and was apparently some kind of super hero because he used the phrase "Excelsior!"
As for your remark about "ignorance" ... what kind of foolish person would waste time doing research about a television show?
Have you ever considered what better things you could do with your time other than watching cartoons?
They don't look up to him. He's portrayed as a sick, degenerate deviant.
Big Gay Al is a character the children look up to, they even took up for him when the show went after the Boy Scouts.
The show defended the Boy Scouts' right to free association. Big Gay Al himself admits he was wrong at the end of the episode, and that the Scouts shouldn't be forced to allow him to join.
I cited an example of the glorification of drunkenness in another post.
I saw your example, and frankly, it's pretty weak. The portrayal of drinking is not necessarily a glorification of it.
Al Gore defeated a monster that is "half man, half bear and half pig" and was apparently some kind of super hero because he used the phrase "Excelsior!"
The "monster" is a metaphor for global warming, and doesn't really exist outside of Al Gore's delusional mind in the episode. He goes to very dangerous extremes to defeat ManBearpig, nearly getting the kids killed over it. And when he says "Excelsior!", it's to make him look like a dork.
Trust me on this. I've seen that episode many, many times, and the only way it portrays Gore is as a dangerous lunatic and a total dork.
As for your remark about "ignorance" ... what kind of foolish person would waste time doing research about a television show?
The kind of person who wishes to know what he's talking about?
Have you ever considered what better things you could do with your time other than watching cartoons?
It's a half-hour show which I watch once or twice a week. The time involved is minimal. I find it interesting that you equate watching a cartoon as a waste of time, and I might ask what you watch on TV. I find pretty much everything on network TV to be vapid, pedestrian, degenerate, anti-American crap written by idiots, for idiots.
If you don't want to watch SP because you find it offensive, I respect that. It is offensive. But I suspect you're getting your information form some knee-jerker with an axe to grind, as you've obviously never watched an entire episode of the show.
You so OBVIOUSLY have not seen this episode if you think that this portrayal was in any way favorable for Gore. He was portrayed as the biggest kook lunatic on the planet. "I'm thuper therial, guys!"
As for your remark about "ignorance" ... what kind of foolish person would waste time doing research about a television show?
Well, before declaring all the things you have about it, it might be a good idea... Sort of like the people who denounce Rush Limbaugh... Very few actually listen to him, but they've listened to what other people say about him, and then quote things that Rush never said, or simply just get everything wrong. Maybe you might make up your own mind...
Al Gore defeated a monster that is "half man, half bear and half pig" and was apparently some kind of super hero because he used the phrase "Excelsior!"
You can't be for real, can you? THERE IS NO Man-Bear-Pig! It's a "monster" that Algore made up, so he could defeat it and think he's "Super-Cool!" The kids befriend him because they feel sorry for him, because he doesn't have any friends. And then he abandons them to die after staging an attack of the Man-Bear-Pig, and causing a cave-in. He really doesn't come out looking like a superhero, unless you count tying a cape around his neck and running around like a lunatic at the end of the episode showing Gore as a superhero.
And "looking up" to Mr Garrison (the teacher you mentioned). Not exactly... Not at all, in fact. That character is quite a laughingstock actually, though he's sometimes used in interesting ways.
And I seem to recall the "drunkenness" episode you mentioned. IIRC, by giving away the schnapps, Cartman got all the union reenactment soldiers drunk, and nearly got a confederate victory. I'm having trouble figuring out how that "glorifies" drunkenness, unless you think that losing a war because of drunkenness glorifies it.
You're really "OC," aren't you?
Mark
I don't know which is worse, one who spends a little time watching a satiric cartoon or one who apparently spends a lot of time telling everybody else how stupid they are for watching satiric cartoons and then "researching" said cartoon.