But they don’t mock everyone equally. Some of their mocking is on-target and pertinent; some is just outright ignorance and bigotry. It’s as if they said, “Republicans are anti-gay! Muslims get offended too easily! Oh, and niggers are stupid.”
Hey! How can black people be offended? They mock everyone equally, right?
a) I would submit it was more Catholic-mocking than anything else
b) Is there some Rule of Comedy that they can only hit a given group/issue once?
I actually tend to agree with this; but I also note that people rarely identify on-target and pertinent satire of themselves and/or ignorant and bigoted satire of other groups. Instead it’s usually the mocking of “other people” that’s okay, but the line is crossed when it’s my group that gets it.
The depiction of anti-evolutionary thought in that episode, for example, was by no means fair or accurate (though funny as hell). And yet, nobody on the SDMB would criticize that. Wonder why?
Dude, it had plenty of atheism mocking too. That whole subplot about eating with your butt and crapping out your mouth. And no, there’s no rule, but why would they say they were going to do an episode about atheism when they already did?
Actually, I’d say it was about as fair and accurate a depiction as you can get on South Park (where things are exaggerated for comedic effect, with things like “had butt sex with this other retarded fish” and having him actually fling feces at Dawkins instead of just complaining verbally) of a large percentage of anti-evolutionists – the kind who don’t really know anything about evolution but who object because they don’t like the idea of being related to monkeys, and who think that if evolution is true it means people have a license to do whatever they want.
Guess they forgot that they already had “a big atheism show.” What a shock.
Yeah, I’d say “Red Hot Catholic Love” was more atheist mocking then Catholic mocking. The things going on with the giant spider was more like critiques of the church, not jokes at its expense.
Kinda like how the “they’re taking our jorbs” episode was mocking red-neck americans.
And apparently Garrison’s zealot conversion is what led to the all-atheist world of the 25th Century. Presumably she’ll convert back in the conclusion, which will put a stop to all that. Maybe.
My first instinct was to respond and say “they’re attacking straw men on the other side too, by implying that anti-evolutionists portray evolution as retarded fish-squirrels buttfucking monkies”, but then I thought - how much of a straw man is that? There doesn’t seem to be a rational anti-evolutionary view, so an irrational, anger-fueled attack portrayed by Ms Garrison might not be much of a straw man.
In the interest of accuracy, it is worth pointing out that Richard Dawkins is behind an effort to eliminate religion all together.
Know this Time Child. I will crush your head on my tummy!
whWHAT?!!
Sea otters use a rock to crush and break open clams.
And, apparently, heads… Here’s a link (note: the video won’t play in Firefox, but works fine in IE).
Sorry for the double post, but on reflection I think I have to clarify: that link does NOT show any heads being crushed by sea otters. Just so you know…
I thought I would bump this for part two starting NOW!
D-U-M-B Dumb.
The sequel wasn’t good. They shoulda had a Terrance and Philip episode again. That would have made me giggle with glee.
It wasn’t BAD…it just wasn’t grand. It’s still solid, though.
It had its moments
I know this is late, but I just saw both episodes last night, so I just came to this thread. What is FSM & IPU?