It's about offense. I've been a big South Park fan since series 1, so I was chatting two guys from work about one of the episodes and I was saying how astonishing some of the lines that Trey Parker comes out with are. They asked for an example, so I quoted the line where Butters says, 'Aren't you worried about... going to "Heck"?' [meaning Hell], to which Cartman replies in a really blase fashion, 'I'm not going to Heck, Butters - I'm not black'.
Of course, the room turned silent at this moment, and no-one laughed. At first I thought it's because they don't share my sense of humour, but then someone said, 'I can't believe you find that funny.' What he didn't get is that I find it funny because of the nerve that TP has to say things like that - things that people don't really say on a day-to-day basis. The same guy then said, 'People choose to watch SP if they like it - they don't have a choice when they're listening to you.' I think this is interesting, if silly. Any thoughts?
2006-11-09
21:52:09
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PETER G
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