Is it wrong for South Park to ignore politics next season?
Is it wrong for South Park to ignore politics next season?
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This is a strange question to me. How can the content of a cartoon be "wrong" as long as the network and advertisers are ok with it? It's what the creators want, who case?
No, especially considering this show can barely handle politics with either tact or sophistication; it's always pretty obvious jokes and ultimately uncritical analysis considering how often they do the "both sides suck" shit. The best episodes of this show are all one off stories.
Not really, but they're not ignoring politics. They're ignoring Trump. There's only a handful of Obama things and Bush things. They didn't make their mark off it.
Trump is also just incredibly low-hanging fruit. Any joke can write itself half the time. Literally every comedy show or late-night monologue just recycles the same content. They can easily find more things to create content on that won't feel as instantly worn out.
We need to mock Trump as Mich as possible. Every day that passes with him in office is lives lost.
I think it's a great idea honestly, that man doesn't need anymore media attention.
No. Pop political satire is the lowest form of comedy.
He needs to be impeached
do you retards forget trump has been a joke since the 80's?
Just make a fucking show about trump fucking up everything, based on what he is actually doing, it's not that difficult, because he is fucking up big.
>USA is paying Mexican workers(less than minimum salary) to build the wall
>trump fucks up nature by passing a law to make companies don't take responsibility for ruining ecosystems
See, two fucking episodes, and only took me 30 secs to think about it.
All of the good comedians agree that comedy has gotten shitty since Trump becsuse hacks make the same jokes over and over and only talk about Trump
Comedy is at its best when sacred cows are attacked, and most people know trump is a clown
*drumpf
No, we don't. We need comedy to be good, not forced.
A good use of serialization would be like that three parter in season 17 that was sort of a tie in to Stick of Truth. If they did something like that with Fractured but Whole, that would be the best
He'd have to actually break a law for that
Killing millions of Americans by taking away health insurance isn't a crime?
it didn't mean anything for obama
That's what happens when "intellectuals" have an enemy, they repeat the same insults over and over laughing like a group of hyenas thinking they are being progressive.
What i find strange is all this effort put into protesting could be time used volunteering.
Don't know how many times I've been called the problem by "progressives with higher education" who have never worked a day in their life.
I cant believe people honestly think you cant change the world for the better just because Trump is president.
>That's what happens when "intellectuals" have an enemy, they repeat the same insults over and over laughing like a group of hyenas thinking they are being progressive.
and the conservatives with obama were different?
No, that's not wrong at all. As others in this thread have said, Trump is already a joke and the jokes they will use have already been beaten to a pulp.
I'll also say this, fuck politics, I'm sick of hearing about it everywhere. The creators of South Park should go back and create a show about four young boys having surreal adventures in their shitty town and them dealing with their odd neighbors. If they want to bring politics in, that's fine, but don't make half a season devoted to it.
Trump is a low hanging dead horse and progressive overraction and cheap jokes do nothing but embolden his supporters
No, but it progresses the trend of South Park losing its bite and not really being willing to take on controversial topics as much anymore.
I don't think Matt and Trey would even give much of a shit if you told them the show was shutting down at this point, so they probably just can't be bothered to tackle the Trump White House and deal with all the media attention and outcry from his fans/critics that'll pour in whenever they mention him.
Well they're not saying they'll ignore politics altogether, just ignoring Trump, and thank fuck for that. I'd be even happier if they said they'd be ignoring politics in general, but it's a step. So much entertainment now is saturated with politics, and it's fucking exhausting. You can't pick up a comic book without stumbling over social commentary, and forget the wasteland that mainstream media. Things only got this bad because a bunch of moral crusaders decided to read sociopolitical bullshit into EVERYTHING, and it needed to fucking stop long before now.
Very, a tiny fraction of people complained about Obama compared to Trump
Ask anyone who isn't an american, as an Australian I honestly thought you yanks would stick up for your President regardless of the situation before Trump, then i realised the special snowflakes that hate Trump get their news from the same sources and have a very vocal approach to the internet and how they feel about Trump (more than one blog +facebook +twitter +reddit +Sup Forums)
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South Park was always ahead of its time. And DESU like most celebrity's, they don't care about trump one way or the other but they have the self respect to not use the current popularity of hating him for their own gain.
Illegal? Nope. Wrong? Yeah.
>"Is there a difference between killing someone with a club and killing someone with a knife?"
>"No"
>"Is there a difference between killing someone with a knife and killing someone with misrule?"
>"No"
t. Mencius
That's because he ensured about 22 million more than he started with senpai. You can take some time to try to post a clever response and waste both our times, or you can go ahead and fuck off and stay fucked.
Feel free to grandstand and create some generic response that broadly paints liberals as belligerent assholes, if that's your thing. It'll probably be easier than defending the current republican healthcare bill.
Not according to the law
Trump supporter here. Ask me anything.
>austrailian
>knowing shit about american politics
are all of you this stupid or just you
They ignored Obama for 8 years what's new?
he fucked people out of healthcare just like trumpcare is gonna do.
Thank god we had that FUCKING FINE FOR NOT HAVING HEALTH INSURANCE WHAT THE FUCK
or that number might have been lower
What brand of earplugs do you buy to block out the daily kvetching from anyone and everyone?
Man, I totally agree with you that Trump should be impeached, but you're about to dive into an argument over it on the same board where a thread about Star vs. The Forces of Evil has 200+ replies.
You're not going to change any minds here. This is not going to be a fruitful debate. Manage your time and energy into something constructive
>if i call people stupid it will get people on my side
You stupid cunt, honestly. When american politics isn't forced into every form of media then you can talk.
now no one can have insurance instead except congress
American liberals are the worst ones, Canadian and Britsh ones know how behave and help things to work even the the opposition is in power while murican redditors fuck the own sistem to avenge their wonded pride
I take it to the chin and act smug. That makes them even more mad than actually debating them.
now I am serious. you know nothing about the situation besides what you read and see from biased sources online. I have never been to australia so I am curious is everyone there is aas much of a dumb cunt as you or if you are just special
do you ever regret voting for him or does lording it over those with different politics make up for any regrets
>e murican redditors fuck the own sistem to avenge their wonded pride
you talking dems or reps?
The show was better when it was just the boys doing fun things, all the political shit ruined it.
Does Trump do anything that puts you off?
Do you think his behavior in general is something to aspire to, as a good leader should inspire?
What does he do for you?
>you know nothing about the situation besides what you read and see from biased sources online
So because it doesn't support you're particular world view its biased? Pro tip cuntface, you don't even know my sources so how the fuck would you know?
This is what people are talking about when they tell you that you are disillusion and arrogant.
I'm a republican shitface
your sources are australian bullshit, your country is a joke and that's the one thing I agree with trump on
>What does he do for you?
piss of liberals
There has never been a group of people so sure of themselves as the Trump haters.
>trump fucks up nature by passing a law to make companies don't take responsibility for ruining ecosystems
Have you been to china? India? Maybe I don't know FUCKING ANYTHING BELOW AMERICA!?
We do a good job but EVERYONE else needs to pull their own weight! Fucks sake leave the ocean alone for a year and I can bet good money shit would help the environment.
You want to save the earth get 3rd world countries to pick up there slack or kill poachers sink some boats that are whale hunting.
>your sources are australian bullshit
What the actual fuck are you talking about you burger eating retard.
My vote didn't matter considering I live in a blue state.
The butthurt and memes has made it worth while though.
Makes liberals mad. His actions haven't effected me personally yet.
I am saying austrailian sources for american politics don't know jack shit
I hope you die a horrible slow death for letting memes be greater than reality
has mocking ever stopped anyone?
ever?
What has Trump done to be impeached?
>Trump is also just incredibly low-hanging fruit. Any joke can write itself half the time
Yeah they said a while back when he won they didn't really wanna focus on him because nothing that they do can be as weird as some of the shit he does
They could probably write some good Trump jokes here and there but honestly now I'm so fucking tired of politics I'm willing to give the new season a shot after the shit show that was 20 just for the fact that it's going out of it's way to ignore Trump for the sake of comedy. Based choice that took guts to make and I respect it.
Also let's be honest any Trump, pro-Trump or anti-Trump joke has been done to death already, this will help the season be less of a slog and keep shitposting outside of the threads.
Memes are reality. You should've realized that on election night.
Do you not consider that a shallow goal for picking ones leaders?
Again, wouldn't it be better for the president to be somebody with even the shallowest veneer of respectability, rather than the complete lack and even perhaps disdain for such an attitude?
I just realized a lot of dumb shit like you like memes and pissing off those who disagree with you than anything else. I fucking hate what trump has done to my party and how they are bending over to take it in the ass rather than standing up to him
>if you live in Australia obviously you only have access to Australian news
You are stupid as fuck user. We are talking on the internet RIGHT NOW and you think i somehow don't have access to the exact same information you do? Do you talk to leaders of industry personal and know something i don't? or are you acting like i said earlier, delusional and arrogant.
Also live action news was made for easily manipulated retards, I read all my news and check sources.
>but honestly now I'm so fucking tired of politics
I'm with you on that one. Hell, this thread was about South Park removing some politics from the show/giving it less focus, and now this thread is filled with it.
Fuck I'm sick of it.
nope. he pisses off special snowflakes
yeah you get your facts from breitbart and fox news, I get it.
You must get yours from CNN
You are forever cucked until you give into the memes
nope. I get mine from local papers and news
you simply cloaked yourself in the memes, I was born in them, molded by them
That arrogance user, stop trying proving me right.
>le fox news
Being owned by the right is as bad as being owned by the left you idiot. As much as it may hurt you because you understand the world better than the rest of us you need to read both sides to the story and find the real answers in-between. Everyone has an agenda. All news is lies.
I feel like it's so hard to not care, we are reaching the full first year of Trump's presidency and everything it's still the same in my life, literally nothing has changed and it doesn't look like anything is changing anytime soon, I'm reaching a point where I just want to cut all ties to politics, YT, the news, newspaper, I don't want to care anymore, so much negativity, anger and hate from all fronts, it's annoying. But I can't.
One doesn't need to elect someone who is himself a special snowflake to effectively piss off other special snowflakes.
wise move
trump got made fun of so much before he even won that making fun off him right now just makes you look like an asshole
>le I'm so above is all by not living in the country and dissing both sides
fuck off you stupid cunt and learn some real facts
>I get mine from local papers and news
This somehow makes it immune to the same blind hatred of Trump you personally have? News people are not some infallible source of information just because its your local rag (Australian slang for local news paper)
He;s been being made fun of since the fucking 80's for fucks sake. He has always been a joke. at least the jokes now are more than hair.
Wtf? They write a cartoon. They can make their cartoon about what they want.
I hate trump because he made the grand ol party a fucking joke
>He;s been being made fun of since the fucking 80's
yes, but its been a yer and half of non stop trump this or trump that, everyone is fucking sick of it by this point
I treat all information as though someone is trying to trick me into believing something, because it is. Has nothing to do with dissing both sides and has everything to do with comparing information and not being reliant on someone else to do it for me like yourself.
its like bush all over again, go ahead and show me any parody of bush thats still funny
show me ine that was ever funny in the first place
I go through the information, and both sides are shit, that's why I stick to local news and papers.
>It's a Matt and Trey can never win episode
They're going soft. Where are the guys that took LSD and went to the Oscars in dresses?
NYPA
The problem with that though is the people at the local paper have their view of the world and like most humans will do their best to make the reader side with them and their views.
Is Trump perfect, No.
Is Trump as bad as the news/comedians makes him out, No.
Making fun of Trump would be about as pointless as making a rifftrax for Sharknado
>but it progresses the trend of South Park losing its bite and not really being willing to take on controversial topics as much anymore.
In the same way they didnt exploit Bush in the same way as other comedians did?
Eh, they did a whole show about him.
They just did a whole season about Trump.
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>school shooters
>right wing
I think we should reassess that one buddy. You won't like the stats there if you think they're rightwing
9 times out of 10, the guy saying "both sides suck" is just ignorant of politics
Hahaha Trump is killing south park haha
Well that or they're more aware than you. I don't particularly know what country you're in but most of them are the same team with only slightly different policy.
>red apple v green apple
Rather than
>apple v orange
Remember that one south park episode with the dolphin, large tank and balls that decide how to do a show? And the dolphin shut down whenever someone took a ball out showing someones dislike for said ball?
kinda like that, they are removing the trump ball by themselves and shutting themselves down.
I understand matt and try are the biggest libtards on earth, but they are going full hypocrite mode, I mean its not like they dont have a lot to work with
On the other hand the troll trace thing was pretty weak, and member berries lost their memestatus shortly after the season ended..
yeah nah, id like things to go back to episodic or have small 2-3 episode arcs and stuff
But a green apple is closer to an orange than it is to a red apple. Green and orange are both sour, while red is sweet.
>closer to
In taste perhaps but what about all the other functions and compositions of an orange. There is no close. You can never go from apple to orange on a spectrum. You're trying to be clever when in fact you're just stupid
Thank god. They did everything they can really do with Trump last season. Let it rest for a year or two. Leave Garrison in power and maybe something will come up later where it'll be super funny but otherwise there's no need to beat a dead covfefe.
Difference is that centrists usually say that "both sides suck" without being able to articulate why. Rarely do you have someone who has the ability to say what the strengths and weaknesses of both sides are. Even rarer, someone who actually does something about it.
>Well that or they're more aware than you
Nah, in Americas it's usually just an intellectually lazy argument by the segments of the population (usually white, male, middle to upper class) who are lucky enough that they can avoid the consequences of either parties policy.
>even rarer someone who does something about it
What would YOU propose to do. I don't know about your country but there's basically no way for a third party to meaningfully form in mine. Nor do we have an executive that can be chosen separate from other governing parties.
An entire season of trump jokes? nah
A few episodes where trump is in it like that Obama hope diamond episode? sure
Mr Garrison being trump? eh. how the fuck are they going to introduce the next season with all the backround shit that happened like with Principle Victora, member berries or the entire election thing?
Unless they pull a South Park moment like Stan with a black backround explaining it like Stan would like "Hey um, we fucked up last season and we are just ganna go back to how things used to be, right turns and stuff" with a hard cut to the 4 boys at the bus stop with the southern-ish sound byte in the backround as South Park goes back to being South Park