# The "South Park" movie on Comedy Central **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 5, 2003, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-south-park-movie-on-comedy-central/186356 "2003-07-05T06:16:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-south-park-movie-on-comedy-central/186356/1 "2003-07-05T06:16:26Z")
Wow. They really did show it. Uncensored. Take that, Canada! ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-south-park-movie-on-comedy-central/186356/2 "2003-07-05T06:46:43Z")
“Kyle’s mom is a big fat bitch, oh, yes, she’s a big fat bitch!” My favorite part of the movie, bar none. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-south-park-movie-on-comedy-central/186356/3 "2003-07-05T07:45:10Z")
It was pretty trippy watching the whole “Uncle Fucker” segment on basic cable :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-south-park-movie-on-comedy-central/186356/4 "2003-07-05T07:48:39Z")
Ahh poop! I forgot about it! ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-south-park-movie-on-comedy-central/186356/5 "2003-07-05T08:12:10Z")
You don’t eat or sleep or mow the lawn, You just fuck your uncle all day long! ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-south-park-movie-on-comedy-central/186356/6 "2003-07-05T09:29:42Z")
Well, CC did it. Wow. First shit and now everything else. At once. Now how did they do this? ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-south-park-movie-on-comedy-central/186356/7 "2003-07-05T09:55:23Z")
They’re going to play it again tomorrow. Or rather today. It’s pretty cool since here it’s going to play at 10pm. ---
**Author:** ![Murcielago](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Murcielago](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Murcielago)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-south-park-movie-on-comedy-central/186356/8 "2003-07-05T09:56:00Z")
They can do it because cable channels never have been under the same FCC regulatory burden as the broadcast outlets. Cable channels chose to play by the same rules to gain credibility and avoid controversy. The broadcast rules remain arbitrary. For example _NYPD Blue_ actors are allowed to say “bullshit,” but they cannot say “shit” by itself. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-south-park-movie-on-comedy-central/186356/9 "2003-07-05T11:13:00Z")
Ah. You know that makes me angry at Trio and their so called “uncensored” bits. They did some bit about art and over each and every nipple and genital seen they covered with a bright orange Trio circle. Now this, this was uncensored. I wasn’t thinking about it but they probably said all 7 of Carlin’s words and had topless catoon women. Nipples and all. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-south-park-movie-on-comedy-central/186356/10 "2003-07-05T12:46:07Z")
So, what’s so big about this, really? Comedy Central isn’t a broadcast network, it sure as hell ain’t one of the Big Three, and the FCC wasn’t having a shit haemorrage over the issue. Am I missing something? If I am, please elucidate. Please tell me what’s so different between South Park: The Movie and South Park. If I’m not, _yawn_. Wake me when a Real Network plays the Uncle Fucker song in its full, unedited glory. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-south-park-movie-on-comedy-central/186356/11 "2003-07-05T12:49:41Z")
Comedy Central may not be a broadcast network, but it’s also not a pay network, like HBO is. Wherever there are commercials, there’s restraint in how far the envelope can be pushed, because the networks dont’ want to piss off the sponsors. That’s why it’s big news when a network does this, even if it’s “just” Comedy Central. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-south-park-movie-on-comedy-central/186356/12 "2003-07-05T12:52:49Z")
The “big deal” is that they took a fairly large and ballsy risk in showing it. That’s all. It was surprising. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-south-park-movie-on-comedy-central/186356/13 "2003-07-05T13:00:49Z")
**dan** : Ah, but this would be (was, actually) a huge _draw_ for sponsors: Everyone and his uncle tuned in to hear how much of a bitch Kyle’s mom is (she’s a big fat bitch, apparently), and _that_ is Advertising Gold. I’d be surprised if Trojan didn’t attempt to appeal to the incestuous demographic, for example. (OK, enough bad jokes. :D) So, fighting The Sponsors is often a completely different battle from fighting Los Federales. For example, no matter how much NBC wants to run Carlin’s unedited `Seven Exciting Words’ schtick for all of the ad revenue the controversy would bring in, the FCC would stomp that sucker flat, nip it in the bud, and force that dog to not only not hunt, but to take up vegetarianism. Completely different battle. (Edited to add: Hi, **Opal**! I think my argument applies to your point, as well.) ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-south-park-movie-on-comedy-central/186356/14 "2003-07-05T13:06:37Z")
You know, I haven’t been watching the network lately - really, very little TV in general lately - so I missed the big buildup. Did they promote it as the “uncensored” movie, i.e. the one that was in the theater? ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-south-park-movie-on-comedy-central/186356/15 "2003-07-05T20:23:13Z")
I actually didn’t see any big buildup–I first heard about it earlier the same day. But yes, they promoted it as the movie that was shown in the theaters–which is exactly what they played. Derleth: Yes, I agree in this case that it probably was a hit for sponsors… but it could just as easily have gone the other way. There could also still be a huge public outcry (not that I think there will be). You just never know and it’s always risky to do something that has always been “not done” in the past. And it seems to me like most big businesses avoid “risky” most of the time… thus it was surprising. And refreshing. ---
**Author:** ![Jake4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@Jake4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake4)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-south-park-movie-on-comedy-central/186356/16 "2003-07-05T20:27:05Z")
Think of what this means for the Osbornes. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-south-park-movie-on-comedy-central/186356/17 "2003-07-05T22:38:12Z")
Back in the 80s, a local NBC affiliate broadcast Straw Dogs uncut once, late at night, nudity and all. ---
**Author:** ![Murcielago](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Murcielago](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Murcielago)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-south-park-movie-on-comedy-central/186356/18 "2003-07-05T23:12:43Z")
There has been some debate on whether censored material is actually funnier than uncensored. IMO _South Park_ is funnier uncensored because it is still surprising to see those words coming from cartoon children. I’ve seen some of _The Osbournes_ uncensored, to me that show seems less funny and more sad without the bleeps. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-south-park-movie-on-comedy-central/186356/19 "2003-07-05T23:15:08Z")
That’s a good point. What if, twenty years from now, profanity - at least those words that we currently consider to be profane - is in the majority of broadcast television shows? SP won’t seem as funny, then. It’ll seem “groundbreaking,” but in a nostalgic way, not in a humor way. ---
**Author:** ![BabaBooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@BabaBooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BabaBooey)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-south-park-movie-on-comedy-central/186356/20 "2003-07-05T23:19:48Z")
Anyone recall any of the sponsors? Not that I’m going to run out and buy something I don’t want because the company took a risk, but it may sway my opinion if their product was an option… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-south-park-movie-on-comedy-central/186356.md?page=2)