Why People Like South Park?
South Park as the sharp satirical TV series that it is faced a lot of criticism until the viewers got used to the humor of its “own kind”. This movie holds its irony to the core and answers the critics too through the movie itself. The movie offends a lot of people who need to be offended once in a while. Somewhere though it also goes over the top and thinks it to be cleverer than it actually is. Still, all in all a must watch, genuinely outrageous, nasty, hysterically funny, shocking thought-provoking and close to brilliant. As rightly quoted by Ron Wells, “If, like me you’re sick of every work of art getting judged by your grandmother’s delicate sensibilities and would like to watch some real artists have some fun while flipping off the cultural watchdogs, this film was made for you.”
The show revolves around the adventures of four boys Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman, and Kenny McCormick (often called “the boys” when as a group for easier reference) and their friends living in the fictional small town of South Park, Colorado. The boys were in the third grade but midway through season four they entered the fourth grade where they have stayed ever since. There are many recurring characters on the show, including the boys’families, school staff, and other students. These include Leopold “Butters”Stotch, Chef (who no longer appears in the show), Mr. Hankey, Towelie, Jesus, and Satan. There are also many other minor characters.
South Park was the first weekly program to be assigned the TV-MA rating. And is generally intended for adult audiences. The boys and most other child characters use strong profanity, with only the most taboo words being bleeped by censors during a typical broadcast. The use of such language serves as a means for Parker and Stone to display how they claim young boys really talk when they are alone.
South Park commonly makes use of carnivalesque and absurdist techniques, numerous running gags, violence, sexual content, offhand pop-cultural references, and satirical portrayal of celebrities. The early episodes tended to be shock value-oriented and featured more slapstick-style humor. While social satire had been used on the show occasionally earlier on, it became more prevalent as the series progressed, with the show retaining some of its focus on the boys’fondness of scatological humor in an attempt to remind adult viewers “what it was like to be eight years old”. Parker and Stone also began further developing other characters by giving them larger roles in certain storylines, and began writing plots as parables based around religion, politics, and numerous other topics. This provided the opportunity for the show to spoof both extreme sides of contentious issues, while lampooning both liberal and conservative points of view. Parker and Stone describe themselves as “equal opportunity offenders”, whose main agenda is to “be funny” and “make people laugh”, while stating that no particular topic or group of people be spared the expense of being subject to mockery and satire.



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