Still Sick, Still Wrong: For ten years, "South Park" has been the crudest...

Rolling Stone ^ | March 8, 2007 | Vanessa Grigoriadis

[EveningStar]

>> This is an excerpt from the new issue of Rolling Stone, on newsstands until March 22nd.

Deep in a maze of adobe-colored huts at the Hyatt Grand Champions Resort conference center in Indian Wells, California, men in polo shirts are striding to 8:30 a.m. meetings. Most are gathering to debate recent advances in re-wetting drops for contact lenses -- "I have superior lens technology to Bob, I know that," one man jabbers, croissant in hand -- but beyond the golf course, in a hut with a majestic plaque reading villa capri, six Viacom employees huddle over coffee on polka-dotted chairs. This is the secret corporate retreat for Comedy Central's most popular, antinomian and flat-out awesomest show: South Park...

[EveningStar]

And funny as hell. :)

[BallyBill]

"I get it!"

[Brad from Tennessee]

If these South Park writers reflect the thinking of their age group then "political correctness" may be doomed.

[JHBowden]

"I wish I could quote the last page of it, but I can't!"

The last two paragraphs are priceless!

[Cicero]

I thought from the headline that Rolling Stone was about to go all moral on us--their version of moral, of course. I'm glad to see they didn't.

[HairOfTheDog]

Yes, they are... and still unquotable... folk will have to go read for themselves. :~)

[EQAndyBuzz]

"The NAMBLA episode is a classic and one of my all time favorites!"

Wasn't this the episode about the North American Marlon Brando Lookalikes?

Butters looks nothing like Marlon Brando.

[Tanniker Smith]

"I know I'm a total pussy living a privileged life on the west side of Los Angeles while soldiers and policemen protect me so I can say things like 'fudge-packing faggot' on my television show,

Oh, sure, he says it and gets a 10th season. Ann Coulter says it and 90 newspapers cancel her column. What's up with that??

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[CalvaryJohn]

Yes, it is. And I love it!!!

[Richard Kimball]

South Park is the highest rated show on Comedy Central. Parker and Stone almost always get their way, and when they don't they embarrass Comedy Central so badly (Mohammad episode) that Comedy Central wishes they hadn't started anything.

CC knows that there are about six dozen other networks chomping at the bit for South Park. Spike, Bravo, Cartoon Network, HBO, Starz, and several others would jump at the chance to get the show if CC gets too invasive.

[ReignOfError]

I find the timing curious that Rolling Stone magazine has this feature article on South Park, and Youtube just recently pulled most of their original South Park content.

The eleventh season started this week. That explains both.

[Richard Kimball]

Different audience.

[dr_who_2]

It sounds like the author of the article kind of understands them but still is offended by them. He's like one of those constipated Nixon-loving types back in the 60's who didn't "get it".

[Michael.SF.]

it is sick and offensive.

And you probably watch every episode.

[griswold3]

NRA forever!

[rbosque]

No, I've watched maybe three. I found all of them to be in bad taste.

[SRU308]

Love those guys.

[Tanniker Smith]

Different audience.

True. Most thinking people don't read newspapers.
Or run them.

[Paradox]

It is an offensive show, hilarious at times. It is not my favorite show, but more often than not, when I catch it on TV, I enjoy it quite a bit.

It is rude, crude, obnoxious, and gross. It "feels" like a liberal show, but it is an anti-PC Trojan Horse. It is LOADED with anti-liberal messages. Much more so than anti-conservative ones, though it does skewer the Social Right as well. I'll take it for the former, even if I have to endure the latter.