In light of the recent controversy surrounding South Park, I feel it's only right to recognise two of the greatest minds to ever exist in the realms of comedy, Mr. Trey Parker and Mr. Matt Stone.My words will not come close to doing justice to the body of work that these two have put together over the years, or indeed my admiration of said body of work. I feel like everything they've put out (apart from BASEketball, which was cack) is a direct manifestation of my sense of humour on screen, which is probably a bit worrying. Thinking about it they've only really done South Park and Team America...but that's more than enough for me.
As far as the recent "Muslim Death Threat" bollocks that surrounded episode 201, here is a note I wrote the day after it aired:
In light of the whole debacle regarding the latest episode of South Park, I feel compelled to offer my two cents on the matter. For anyone not in the know, basically their latest plot centre's around the hoo-ha caused by showing an image of the muslim prophet Muhammad. Ironic really because almost as soon as it aired, reality reflected exactly the same reaction. Thus they were forced to censor some images and "the network" added additional audio bleeps.
Now, and stop me if I'm wrong here, I'm getting pretty sick of these moral-majority types coming in and sucking the fun out of everything. I get it, you're religious, you're one step closer to divinity than me, you exist on a higher plain because you are devout etc. I just don't understand why people can't just have a relationship with god and shut the **** up. Now, I am not a quote unquote religious type. However I do consider myself spiritual and I do believe in something...as to what that something actually is, I'm not sure quite yet. My problem is that I have trouble following someone (or entity, or whatever) who is apparently is a judgemental, humorless, dictator.
Because that's what these people believe - that God (in any religion) is just sitting up there, never smiling, keeping order by eternal damnation, deceiving people left and right and generally behaving like a prize twat. It's like god is a used car salesman, and I'm not sure I'm comfortable with that notion. I'd like to think that as an all-knowing, all-powerful, benevolent force, my god could have a little laugh at himself every now and then. I'd like to think that he had the power to think rationally and reason with every single different human's plight...except Simon Cowell, obviously. I mean, watching this latest South Park (which depicts Buddha snorting coke and Jesus watching Porn etc), you can see it's meant to provoke and it's meant, on some level, to offend for offence's sake but the one thing that is abundantly clear to me is that all these depictions are so obviously JOKES.
If your life is based entirely around a faith that it so flimsy it can be torn apart by someone else poking fun at it, it might be time to re-evaluate your situation instead of threatening murder and hell-fire to anyone that dare challenge your ideal. Personally, I am unwavering in my belief that Catherine Zeta Jones is hot. I was sold since The Darling Buds of May. People often say she's too old, she's too Welsh etc. However I don't mind in the slightest if people disagree with me because I am 100% confident in my belief and little could change that...Michael Douglas came close but I still hung in there. That's how I feel about religion. If you believe, your belief should be enough. What everyone else thinks or indeed says or does shouldn't threaten your beliefs...it's their business, just as your thoughts are yours.
So Matt and Trey, keep doing your thing and don't bow to the joyless freaks that try and make life just as miserable for everyone else. I salute you, sirs.
Top 10 Episodes of South Park:
1) Scott Tenorman Must Die - Season 5
2) Asspen - Season 6
3) Make Love, Not Warcraft - Season 10
4) Red Hot Catholic Love - Season 6
5) Towelie - Season 5
6) Quest For Ratings - Season 8
7) With Apologies to Jessie Jackson - Season 11
8) Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society - Season 6
9) Cat Orgy - Season 3
10) Guitar Queer-O - Season 11
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