Ugh, I thought That's My Bush was one of the worst things ever. Not because it was "my guy", but because it just wasn't funny. I would have thought the same thing if it was Al Gore. Matt & Trey are better than that.
no, it wasn't their best work, but i still get a kick out of the mini-marathons of it comedy central runs every year or so.
actually, the funniest part of it all was when matt and trey were trying to convince interviewers that it was only making fun of the sitcom premise, and had no anti-bush sentiment at all. riiiight.
South Park has come out in support of big business, thinks hippies are useless, constantly berates liberal Hollywood and opposes such measures as hate crime legislation and sexual harassment litigation.
the characters who espouse these beliefs, such as cartman, are obviously charactatures of moronic knee-jerk types. the idea of showing these issues from this perspective is to say that the issue itself is of little or no consequence when they are dealt with by the idiotic right or the hypocritical left.
i would equate it to homer simpson. his antics are not meant to inspire action, but to put into perspective larger issues by handling them with an extreme version of a certain kind of judgement.
the characters who espouse these beliefs, such as cartman, are obviously charactatures of moronic knee-jerk types.
Cartman doesn't espouse these beliefs, the show does. (Well, occasionally Cartman does, but that's not the point.) The show portrays hippies as talking about changing the world but just sit around and get stoned.
I'm not talking about aside comments, I'm talking about the morals of the show. I'm talking about when Stan says "You know, I learned something today..."
They had one episode in which the central idea was that big companies are obviously good, because they got to be big by being better than their competition.
And while they will occasionally poke fun at Republicans, they do so because Republicans aren't being true to their conservative/libertarian ideals.
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
no subject
Date: 2005-07-13 03:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-13 03:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-13 03:35 pm (UTC)Or is it saying that he is just evil and finds heartfelt things laughable?
no subject
Date: 2005-07-13 03:42 pm (UTC)although i'm quite fond of the 'that's my bush!' portrayl of karl rove. the attempted voice of reason for all bush's sitcom-esque wacky antics.
no subject
Date: 2005-07-13 03:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-13 03:51 pm (UTC)actually, the funniest part of it all was when matt and trey were trying to convince interviewers that it was only making fun of the sitcom premise, and had no anti-bush sentiment at all. riiiight.
no subject
Date: 2005-07-13 03:54 pm (UTC)Actually, they're rumored to be Republicans. Given the subject matter of a lot of South Park episodes, they definitely lean to the right on issues.
no subject
Date: 2005-07-13 05:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-13 06:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-13 06:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-15 06:36 pm (UTC)the whole point of south park is that everything is hypocritical and retarded, so doing anything whatsoever within the system is a waste of time.
no subject
Date: 2005-07-16 11:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-17 08:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-17 08:22 am (UTC)How is it not right-wing?
no subject
Date: 2005-07-18 07:37 am (UTC)i would equate it to homer simpson. his antics are not meant to inspire action, but to put into perspective larger issues by handling them with an extreme version of a certain kind of judgement.
no subject
Date: 2005-07-18 07:46 am (UTC)Cartman doesn't espouse these beliefs, the show does. (Well, occasionally Cartman does, but that's not the point.) The show portrays hippies as talking about changing the world but just sit around and get stoned.
I'm not talking about aside comments, I'm talking about the morals of the show. I'm talking about when Stan says "You know, I learned something today..."
They had one episode in which the central idea was that big companies are obviously good, because they got to be big by being better than their competition.
And while they will occasionally poke fun at Republicans, they do so because Republicans aren't being true to their conservative/libertarian ideals.
no subject
Date: 2005-07-18 07:55 am (UTC)like they are saying this is what happens in america, nobody gets any smarter and the system continues on.
no subject
Date: 2005-07-13 08:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-16 11:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-16 05:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-16 11:42 pm (UTC)That said, the premise of the show just wasn't that funny. They were trying to use sitcom cliches for laughs, but it just didn't work.
no subject
Date: 2005-07-21 06:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-13 06:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-13 03:44 pm (UTC)But then again, President Bush's nickname for him IS Turd Blossom.
no subject
Date: 2005-07-14 05:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-13 05:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-13 08:57 pm (UTC)