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Trey Parker Says South Park Didn't Get Political, But "Politics Became Pop Culture" (consequence.net)
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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 55 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Famously non-political South Park episodes:

  • Black people who complain about racism are the real racists (Chef Goes Nanners, S04E7)

  • Asking a doctor to do a gender reinforcng operation is the same as asking a doctor to make you black or a dolphin (Mr. Garrison's Fancy New Vagina, S09E1)

  • Global warming was made up by Al Gore (Multiple, starting with ManBearPig, S10E9)

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

They also joined in on the War on Christmas narrative with "Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo", S01S09.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no8RJpC0nn4

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Also

  • The Iraq War proves we need to have a balance between pro-war and anti-war (I'm a Little Bit Country, S07E04)

  • Rainforests should not be preserved and they are the reason developing countries have shantytowns and prostitutes (?????) (Rainforest Shmainforest, S03E01). Before you say that's clearly satire, a quote from wikipedia

Parker and his girlfriend went to Costa Rica and hated the country, and that everything Cartman says about the rainforests and Costa Rica during the episode is how he (Parker) personally feels.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Parker and his girlfriend went to Costa Rica and hated the country

My god, could he be any more American?

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

There was an episode where they praised the arrival of Starbucks, as the mom and pop coffee shops all served shit.

Also one episode with a hippie Woodstock kinda thing where Cartman breaks the whole thing with a giant "Journey to the center of the earth" type of drill