Recurrent themes in South Park

The series animated South Park uses frequently different Thème S, such as the Politique, the Racisme, the rights of the homosexual , the Environnement, the Censure and the Religion.

Policy

Stone and Parker spend much time on the current events. Although many criticisms find the series politically incorrect, the standpoint of the series reflects the convictions of the creators and they even described time with other as Libertarien S. the politically active celebrities are ridiculed in the series, just as the ideas, the stereotypes and the actions Démocrate S and preserving. Bill Clinton was ridiculed twice in the series as George W. Bush which appears or to which one refers eight times (it seems a tool of Satan in an episode, and in the episode on the conspiracy of 11-September in 2006, it is described like the brain hiding behind the conspiracies). The democrats are depicted as being arrogant intellectuals snobs, hippies and sore S anxious, and the conservatives like obsessed Bible, of the idiots coleric and businessmen avid. The two sides are described like wanting at all costs to impose their points of view on the others and having generally many influences.

In general, Stone and Parker are extremely scornful of all those which are too sermoneux on their political and religious opinions. The series itself is, ironically, rather sermonizing on these subjects, often ending in an implicit morals or even directly explained. This can be taken as a méta - critical, making fun of the series itself, and these morals at the end are often destroyed by a Reductio AD absurdum .

The episode which was diffused the week following the presidential elections of 2000 used an election of deputy of nursery school to make fun of the incapacity of the Florida to determine one gaining, and of the dispute of the results by Al Gore. This episode also reveals a furious Rosie O'Donnell coming to South Park in order to defend the loser and who is finally killed in a horrible way, constituting another example of the criticism of the series about the activism of the celebrities.

The term “Républicain South Park” was invented after Stone and Parker claimed to be republican whereas they received a reward of a democratic group, People For the American Way in 2001. At the same time they declared with the producer TV Norman Lear, the founder of the PFAW, which it was one of their hero, and Lear with thereafter worked on South Park . More recently, an small group appeared, called the preserving South Park, which have extreme ideas. In an interview in the Time Magazine, the March 13rd 2006, Stone and Parker declared that the only reason for which they could be regarded as conservatives it is because he make fun of the laws anti-tobacco and the hippies. They as added as the series could easily be regarded as supporting the democratic ideas. The interview finished with the declaration of Trey: “We always think that everyone is born bad and becomes good thanks to the company, rather than the opposite” to which Matt added “makes some, I think that it is on this point that we are preserving”.

Parker and Stone are apparently critical towards the politically correct one and parody it by contrasting the reactions of the children and the adults of South Park. All the times where a delicate question is explored or that a crisis produce, the adults are accustomed to inordinately reacting whereas the children calm and are reflected, for example in removals of children, it is not funny , Smug Alert and Two days before the day after tomorrow .

Rights of the homosexual ones

The series supports the rights of the homosexual while criticizing the opposition in the pure style South Park . In the episode Follow this egg! , the Homosexual marriage is considered to be “too offensive” by the inhabitants with the religious values, which suggest that it should be indicated by another name. However, at the end of this episode, the homosexual ones are able to raise a child and the homosexual marriage is legalized at South Park. the very new Vagina of Mr. Garrison is a criticism of the individuals Transgenre S, attacked not to have kept the body which nature their gave. At the end of the episode, all the people having undergone an operation decide to turn over in their natural state, except Mr. Garrison who is unable to become again a man because its testicles were exploded by Kyle at the time of a match of basketball. In Combat of disabled person , the creators express the opinion that the Boy Scouts off America should not be forced to authorize the homosexual ones to be scouts chiefs, while making fun of the Servant boy Scouts to try to exclude the homosexual ones from their organization. They use the example of a Pédophile heterosexual and married to suggest that sexuality is not related to the ill-treatments on minor. Moreover, in a preceding episode, a completely insane walk with Al Super Gay , the Homophobie is criticized when Mr. Garrison (which did not know whereas it was homosexual) known as “the homosexual ones, it is the evil, an evil enraciné in their black core and cold, which does not pump blood like the tien or mine, but a kind of oily vomit which circulates in their rotted veins and irrigates their tiny brain, which on their premises causes crises of cannibalism and a violent behavior”. Stan declares there also “gay It is okay to Be” and the episode was named to receive a reward on behalf of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.

Sexual abuses and ill-treatments on children

The sexual abuses and the ill-treatments on minors are recurring sets of themes in South Park . For example, Butters is frequently victim of Maltraitance S psychological and physical. Cartman is often the prey of sex maniac and Pédophile S, as when it entered NAMBLA ( Cartman is registered in Nambla ). In Simpson already did it , Cartman seeks seed for its Peuple of the Seas and, after having been in a Banque of sperm, it finds the remainder of its seed thanks to a man who just asks him “to close the eyes and to aspire in a pipe”. This scene was censured partially on several chains. In the episode the calf, it is funny , Cartman shouts during its sleep “Not, uncle Jesse! Not! ”, but that resembles more one reference to a popular character of the Festival to the house . Indeed, Matt Stone and Trey Parker are very good friends of John Stamos, the actor who played the character of Uncle Jesse. The episode Large bottom and draft suggests an sex act between Ben Affleck and the hand of Cartman, animated by a personality independent and resembling Jennifer Lopez. In the episode the cathos, it is hot , the Maximum Père, priest at South Park, is scandalized because all the catholic priests of the world (and even besides) misuse sexually their children of heart, in reference to many real businesses. In a recent episode ( the hell on ground 2006 ), the authors represent there catholic priests with young held naked boys leaves some.

This topic is as well treated on a realistic tone as on a humorous tone. For example, the treatment whose the character suffered from Butters on behalf of his parents had many repercussions: it is incontinent (in Brilliant-O , Cartman must put a suppository in the rectum to him), it has a weak regard of oneself and does not cease twisting the hands (although curiously, Butters is an incredibly optimistic character and one of the only people really nice in all the city, which makes of him a constant target for his/her comrades). However, emotional handling that his/her parents make him undergo is very oversize, so much so that they even tried to sell it with Paris Hilton. Butters revealed that his/her uncle made him a Anulingus when detectives question the children to know if Chief misused them, and in the Episode of Butters , his/her mother tried to kill it when it became temporarily insane after having discovered that her husband attended gay saunas. Butters of course survived without having any idea of what it occurred until his/her parents admit their acts in public (crushing once more the hopes of Butters of living in a normal family).

Whereas the personal experiences of Cartman and those of Butters with its family were largely revealed, sometimes on a humorous tone, Kenny, Stan and Kyle they were also maltreated on a more subtle level.

Kenny comes from a poor family and, consequently, him, his/her brother and his sister suffer from malnutrition. Its father is with unemployment, often drunk and, when he does not maltreat Kenny, does not cease disputing with its wife or is made beat by this one.

Stan suffers from a more subtle type of ill-treatment. Its father likes to have fun the festival (after him and Sharon broke, it leaves to dredge with the garçonnière of Cartman) and it rather often drinks, although it does not arrive at the level of Stuart McCormick and that it is able to provide the needs of his family. The big sister of Stan, Shelley, is in extreme cases to be a Sociopathe which maltreats it physically and very frequently and regards it as a subman. Its relation with his/her mother is also tended since she acknowledged to him that the happiness of Stan came after his in the episode Garçonnière . Randy and it are completely blind with the violence of Shelley towards Stan.

Kyle suffers enormously from the racist jokes of Cartman. The mother of Kyle is surprotectrice, trying to censure what could shock his/her son and his comrades. Its own vision of morals is scrambled enough because she does not hesitate to make the war in Canada because of film of Terrance and Philippe, the Bottoms of fire .

Religion

Many episodes attacked the Culte S, the religious leaders who exploit the believers for money, and in general those which follow the religions to the letter. Thus God resembles a strange hybrid between several animals and proclaims Bouddhiste. The series as suggested, on a humorous tone, as the Paradis is filled only of Mormons which passes eternity by singing songs merrily and by making sets of trades (this implies whereas the Mormonisme is the only good religion, thing confirmed in Probablement ). This assertion is ironic because in another episode, All on the Mormons , the series presents the mormonism like an enormous hoax made by a liar. Other episodes discuss on the Jewish Antisémitisme and jokes . The family of the Jewish character, Kyle Broflovski, watch of many Jewish stereotypes, like the fact that his/her mother is strict and very preserving and that his/her father is a lawyer equipped in Jewish hassidic.

Jesus was seen many times in the series, as an inhabitant of South Park and presenter of talk show, Jesus and its pals , it even fought Satan in the episode Damien (in the universe of South Park , Jesus died in 2002 by saving the Father Christmas of the Iraqis; the Father Christmas then declared that Christmas was to be now a celebration of Jesus, then it was ressucity in 2007 to save the legitimate heir to the papal throne, it is learned whereas it can die and ressuciter at will). In the episode of the third season, Scouts Jews , Moïse appears in the shape of the Master Controls Principal Tron and known as with small the scouts Jewish of a sinister voice, “I want… macaroni drawings”. He also appears in this form in the Super Best Pals and with capacities of video tape recorder. He makes also a short appearance as a judge in Chef Aid .

The criticism of the anti-religion is also present in South Park . In All on the Mormons , Stan ridicules the Mormons because they believe in a history which cannot provide evidence. However, to the last minute, a Mormon named Gary of which Stan made fun during all the episode, provides his version of the history:

Gary : “All that I made, it is to try to be your friend, Stan, but you believe yourself so higher than you did not even know to look in addition to my religion and right to become my friend. And that wants to say that you have still many things to learn. I piss you with the line, Stan. ” (Gary from goes away without being turned over, leaving Stan and his/her friends stops bée)
Cartman : (after a pause) “Whore, what it is cool this guy! ”

South Park often declares that the monks can be illogical and that the atheists can be excessively arrogant. In the cathos, it is hot , a community of recently converted atheists refuses to follow the precepts of the monks and is literally put to shit by the mouth, making their saddles in front of everyone whereas they are speaking about their hatred for the religion or how the religion could harm their children (Cartman had a little earlier found the means of putting food in the rectum and of déféquer by the mouth).

Same manner, worships of the personality of nonmonk but gathering in organizations similar to the religious structures are caricatured, as in the Super Best Pals where a worship by the “Blaintologues is founded” (named according to the magician David Blaine) which derives in Collective suicide in order to obtain an tax exemption. According to the creators, it is a reference to the scientology, first of long series.

The series was attacked by groups of religious conservatives because of his representation of Satan. Indeed, that Ci generally good, nice but is just done a difficult trade. It is also homosexual and had many relations with inhabitants of the hell, including Saddam Hussein, which is dominating it in their couple, maltreating Satan verbally and psychologically. Their relation ended in the death of Saddam and unmarried Satan becoming again - but during little time because Satan was the lover of Chris until it included/understood (after having asked of the councils God the paradise) that Chris was “a lopette”. In a more recent episode, the hell on ground 2006 , Satan organizes one evening of Halloween where everyone wants to take part, including many accompanied priests small children not carrying anything except one leaves.

In the episode of the tenth season, Go ahead, God, Vas-y I , Mrs. Garrison starts to leave with the biologist Richard Dawkins after he convinced it that God did not exist. They prepare a plan to convert the whole world with atheism and, thereafter, they reach that point. Indeed, because it cannot await the Wii Nintendo, Cartman is made cool but it is awaked only 500 years later when the whole world is atheistic. Ironically, this atheistic world is divided by many wars for the choice of the name of their atheistic organization.

Environment

South Park includes many episodes parodying the movement ecologist.

In 1999, in the episode Tropical schtropicale , an ecologist, doubled by Jennifer Aniston, after a horrible voyage in a tropical forest in Costa Rica, ends up admitting that the tropical forest “fears”. This episode seems to parody the fact that many people support causes without knowing all the details of the subject and nothing but do “follow the movement”.

In 2001, the episode Terrance and Philippe: storms in shipwreck parody the Jour of the Earth which comes to South Park where a group of ecologists try to wash the brain of the inhabitants so that they worry for the environment. They will go even until mutilating Kenny because the children did not succeed in making come Terrance and Philippe.

In 2005, Two days before the day after tomorrow made fun of connections between the recent hurricanes and the Climate warming. The title and several gags play on the film the Day according to .

In 2006, the episode Danger Snobfog makes fun of the self-satisfaction and the air snob which the owners of take automobile hybrids. The importance of the hybrid cars and their action on the environment are recognized at the end of the episode, which indicates that they are the hybrid owners of cars which are parodied and not what they use. Another episode in 2006, Homoursporc , made fun of the attention which Al Gore carried to climate warming, finishing on Al Gore stating “… to make a film… a film where I have the main role! … ”, reference to the film a truth which disturbs .

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