Hello everybody,
Last night I was watching some TV, switching between the
Celtics vs. Kings game and the Miami vs. Brooklyn game, when all of a sudden… I
got really bored of watching basketball. I don’t particularly like the Nets, I
despise the Heat, and the Celtics were blowing out the lowly Sacramento Kings
and without Rondo the Celtics just aren’t that fun to watch anymore. My third
option whenever I’m watching TV is always Comedy Central, so I turned to that
to see what was on, and low-and-behold South Park is on. South Park just
happens to be one of my favorite shows of all time, so of course I switched to
that.
The thing that I really love about South Park is, for one
it’s hilarious, outrageous, offensive, and I totally dig it. What some people
don’t realize is that a lot of the time the episodes are just satirical,
humorous portrayals of our culture. Some will think that South Park is just
idiotic, trash mouth, adolescent humor, which actually it kind of is, but the
show itself has some intelligent humor to go along with it. They don’t just
make random jokes about things that the majority of people won’t understand,
like Family Guy often does, rather they (the writers of the show) pick a topic
out that’s relevant or controversial in popular culture and put a hilarious
twist on it.
Back to the episode last night that I watched… I was excited
because I hadn’t seen this episode before, since I’ve seen the majority of the
episodes, I rarely see ones on TV that I haven’t seen. So I was watching it and
it was hilarious, just South Park at it’s finest.
Cartman gets called fat by Kyle, so he comes to Kyle saying
that he’s going to make a change about his weight and stop being such a slob
and all this stuff. What does Cartman do? He gets an electrical scooter to ride
around, because his insurance will pay for it. He tries to go into Kyle’s
bathroom to take a dump, but his scooter doesn’t fit through the door so he
threatens to sue him. The episode goes on and eventually it gets too Honey Boo
Boo, whom I loathe entirely (if you get that reference, pat on the back).
Basically Kyle is upset because we’re watching fat white trash on TV for our
enjoyment and he wants to do something about it…
I feel like I’m kind of ruining the episode so I’m going to
stop and get back to why I wanted to blog about this. While South Park may seem
like mindless, nonsensical humor that just appeals to teenage boys, or stoners
or any unintelligent person for that matter, it is actually quite the opposite.
For example, in this episode the
topic the writers chose to base their episode around was about the growing
issue of obesity in America. So what they do is just apply the issues and
controversies surrounding that topic in our society, think of ways to make it
funny, and of course a bit controversial, and apply it in an episode.
So, Cartman gets a scooter for free from his insurance, he
gets to cut lines at amusement parks, park in the handicap spots, board
airplanes first, and it’s all because he’s obese. In terms of the Honey Boo Boo
references, while the writers are obviously making fun of the Honey Boo Boo
show itself, it’s more like they’re making fun of US… the people, the
consumers, the ones that sit and watch this fat, spoiled, white trash, wanna-be
beauty queen little girl for our personal amusement.
People actually make money off of Honey Boo Boo, which is
the scary thing, and they point this out in the episode as well. Kyle tries to
make a documentary to raise awareness about obesity by following Cartman around
with a camera and Token said he would edit the footage Kyle got, make it into a
good documentary, and finance it to get on the air. Instead, Token makes the
footage of Cartman funny, rather than serious, because he knows he can make
money off of it. He knows it’s wrong to exploit Cartman like this, but he does
it anyways. Why can he make money off the footage of Cartman? Because the bar
has been lowered so far to the point where our society actually watches and enjoys
shows like Honey Boo Boo.
It’s really a sad portrayal of our society…We’re the fattest
country in the world, our education system is failing, we’re in a 16 trillion
dollar debt which is always growing, and the ratings of TV shows like Honey Boo
Boo are soaring. Honestly, I worry about what our world will be like in the future.
We are really not going in a positive direction in any way right now. In terms
of the actual planet Earth that we call home, we fucked this place up excuse my
language. The planet is way beyond over capacitated, there is in fact a weight
limit for earth and recently America just put it way over that limit. That was
a joke, but seriously the earth is way too overpopulated and we don’t have the
resources to support all these people anymore. The ice in the North Pole is
melting, which means Santa has to find a new address along with all the elves,
like c’mon man where are they going to make all the toys for Christmas now?
Seriously though, there’s a reason that it’s been a bit warmer lately, with not
as much snow fall, and more severe storms… Its called global warming people,
why is that all of a sudden a non-issue with the people and our politicians?
See this is what happens when I start talking about the
problems of our society, one thing leads to another and somehow I go from Honey
Boo Boo to global warming… So right now in the interest of time because I have
to do an essay that’s about a week overdue, I will make a list of all the
problems with our world in order of significance…
1.
Illuminati
2.
Global Warming
3.
Cancer
4.
Overpopulation
5.
Aids
6.
Honey Boo Boo
7.
World hunger
8.
Poverty
9.
Obesity
10. McDonalds
11. Kim,
Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian
12. Murder
13. Gang
Violence
14. Justin
Beiber
15. Kids
with iPhones
16. Racism
17. Roger
Goodell
18. David
Stern
19. When
a coach gets fired for discipline… (Happens everywhere nowadays, not just NA)
20. New
NFL rule changes
21. Mass
Mental Softness
22. Mass
Ignorance (is bliss, for everyone…)
23. Mass
Stupidity
24. Mass
Laziness
25. Greed
among the few, rich and powerful (see #1)
26. The
US government
27. The
debt our country is in
28. George
Bush (see 24, 26)
29. Black
Friday
30. Biggest
Loser (watching people on TV lose weight… America)
31. Alex
Rodriguez
32. The
New York Yankees
33. The
New York Jets/ Giants
34. The
Vancouver Canucks
35. The
Montreal Canadiens
36. The
fact that the Super Bowl is in New York next year
37. New
York
Ok, that’s all I got for today. That was good to get off my
chest though; people need to realize that New York is a huge problem for the
world, not just Boston. But seriously, all the things I named above are just
things that I just hate… Now go watch South Park and notice the humor as it
relates to our culture.
God Bless America.
Thanks for reading
-RB
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