"The moral in South Park is that the truth is always in the middle"

Sredni Vashtar

Yeah, South Park is occasionally sincere, but it's always in the same tone and it kind of kills it.

Anonus

I recently looked up the Wikipedia entry on "Chef Goes Nanners" and Matt Stone said it was kind of half-baked

I remember not knowing what the hell point that episode was trying to make, and I'm glad it wasn't just young me being dense

Hexartes

Chef Goes Nanners strikes me as one of the more thematically honest episodes of South Park

The scenes where the townsfolk are talking about their opinions and revealing that they don't really have any are pretty spot on, as is the amended flag (which I maintain is one of South Park's best jokes)

Anonus

i was a dumb autistic kid who didn't know what to make of satire :n

Hexartes

Oh, don't call yourself dumb. You just didn't see something in it that I did. It's freakin' South Park, I think "not getting it" is an entirely reasonable response because so often there really *isn't* a thematic backbone

One-Winged Eagle

South Park is an insult to the Middle Path.

Aliroz

One-Winged Eagle said:

South Park is an insult to the Middle Path.

It is an insult to the path of the righteous and the purpose of creation.

Salix Babylonika

mostly it's just not very good

Bee

So, just for giggles, compare and contrast:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaVWRetR4jg#t=0m7s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0BuPgrBwHU#t=0m35s

Odradek

And as we all realized, George W. Bush was exactly as bad as John Kerry

Anonus

I hated "Douche and Turd", though less for the message and mostly because I hated the scene where they rip off pieces of Stan's clothing and spit on him >_>