South Park: Libertarian TV: A truly unique (if foul-mouthed) voice on national television.

FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | Wednesday, April 16, 2003 | By Eli Lehrer

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Wednesday, April 16, 2003

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[dts32041]

My favorite Episode Red sleigh down.

[Brett66]

[Drammach]

Generally speaking, not much offends me, especially if it's comedy or sarcastic humor.
I really enjoy South Park, and it's commentary on today's society.

But for the life of me, I still can't find anything funny about "Mr. Hanky".

[TheAngryClam]

"I'm packing!" - Jesus, before killing two Iraqis.

My favorite episode is still "Child Abduction is not Funny" with the Mongolians tearing down the great wall that the guy from City Wok builds.

[longtermmemmory]

I like episode 617 regarding revisionist history, the civil war. These writers are suprising in how much they actually get. (the line where algore tells clinton "I'm glad I don't have your job" is even funnier today.)

[dfwgator]

I just hope that hiring Norman Lear as a writer won't ruin the show.

[Odyssey-x]

The Mr. Hanky joke is that almost anything can, via media manipulation and sympathetic portrayal can be made "cute" and loveable. Think PETA telling us that even insects are sympathetic creatures that we should feel a loving caring bond with. Mr. Hanky is of course revolting to everyone except for that small percentage of the population who can be manipulated into feeling sympathy towards anything. For instance, I have seen people wearing Mr. Hanky t-shirts. They obviously didn't get the joke.

[Cold Heat]

:-)

[jagrmeister]

South Park is one of the only shows that has rivaled Fox News programming among top rated cable shows. Thankfully, it too is honest in at least representing the conservative/libertarian viewpoint. Entertainment is one of the best mediums to change people's minds since it is subliminal. News channels are more difficult because perceived bias is more direct.

[fporretto]

Trey Parker and Matt Stone are highly underappreciated as purveyors of the messasge of freedom and individual responsibility. The South Park movie was all about putting blame where it really belongs, and as vulgar as it was in many places, it was thrilling to see for that reason alone.

We need more like these two. And more deathmatch battles between Robert Smith and Barbra Streisand!

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[philman_36]

South Park: Libertarian TV
The "South Park Republicans" of FR might differ...
The Inherent Conservatism Of "South Park"
I'm so confused...
Do I see a merger via South Park, of all things?

[philman_36]

And I've got to admit that I crack up when I hear "Kyle's Mom is a Stupid Bitch...in D minor".

[LibertarianInExile]

Anyone who appreciates South Park can't be all bad. I just wish we all could appreciate Orgazmo, too.

[bucephalus]

Two episodes I absolutely love are the one where Cartman gets an anal probe and is constantly flatulating fire and has huge antenna coming out of nether office. Second is Johnny Cochran using the "Chewbacca defense" to prosecute and then exonerate Chef. Also like fact they show true split-faced nature of Canadians.

[TroutStalker]

While most television shows feature a token African-American characters South Park takes this a bit further by naming its only black regular Token.

Hmmm. Must not have seen any of the ones with Chef in it.

[winodog]

I thought mr hanky was made up to be Tom Hanks who ripped south park when it first came out. In otherwords, a turd.

[Billthedrill]

I think to categorize the show as "libertarian" also tends to ignore certain non-libertarian tendencies - I offer for an example the Christopher Reeve episode, showing that character ripping the head off a foetus and drinking its blood for therapy. Edgy, very edgy.

Similarly edgy was the now-infamous "Red Sleigh Down," in which the boys enlist Jesus and they raid Santa Claus's Iraqi captors...it was fun and mildly sacrilegious until the stunning punchline "the important thing to remember is that He died for us." It went by so fast that it was nearly unnoticed, but not unnoticable.

Why the boys hired Lear is a mystery to me - of all of the comedy writers on television he strikes me as being close to the most incapable of appreciating the biting of his own sacred cows. If it turns into an animated West Wing the roar you hear will be the collective clicking of an entire audience's "off" buttons.

[TheAngryClam]

My favorite part of that one is Bill Clinton coming in for a moralizing, "a very special episode," ending, which the kids cut off by yelling at him "Don't touch me!."