I love South Park and Team America, but a friend of mine suggests that the creators use reverse psicology and other techniques to enforce certain values in the audience, like nationalism and love for the army, while disguising it all like total profanity... In other words, he says that they work for the goverment. It sounds a little paranoid to me but.... What do you think about that?
2006-08-31 18:52:49 · 6 answers · asked by juamps 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Television
OMG, YES!
I was at Barnes & Noble almost a year ago and saw a book displayed in the front that was about EXACTLY THIS. It wasn't just about South Park but about different things in the media that people think are clever "leftist" programs, but are ACTUALLY right-wing angled!
Before I saw this book I always just took SP as a super-hilarious show, but ever since then I see how conservative they actually are! They only give the impression of being more liberal because you don't normally associate potty-mouthed cartoon kids with conservativism!
But just as a previous answerer mentioned the episode where people in San Francisco were smelling their own farts --making fun of "green" liberalism is EXACTLY what tey were doing!!!
There is another episode where (maybe it was) Stan crashes a speed boat into a damn of a neighboring town ... and the moral was that they were just looking for someone to blame when it was really nobody's fault. That was a total jibe at everyone who blames Bush for the levey thing during Katrina!
Take it as you wish, but I've never looked at South Park the same. I still love it for for their genius wit --did you see the Dog Whisperer episode or the one when Cartman was pretending his hand was Jennifer Lopez?-- but i now get the distict impression that Matt & Trey would rather have dinner with Rush Limbaugh than with Larry King.
2006-08-31 20:01:08 · answer #1 · answered by mamabunny 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's just a satyrical pilot for their beliefs/opinions. It has nothing to do with "serving" the government.
2006-08-31 18:54:36 · answer #2 · answered by Aloofly Goofy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I take it at face value, of course I agree with their views at face value, and you have to just cheer for Cartman!
"Damn hippies!!! Respect my authoritay!!!!"
2006-08-31 18:56:17 · answer #3 · answered by whiteknight3273 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I doubt it. If anything, they work against the government.
2006-08-31 18:55:55 · answer #4 · answered by hpotter4ever2000 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
so ... what do you think they were "suggesting " in the episode where everyone had to sniff each others farts bcuz they hurt the ozone ?
2006-08-31 18:58:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe
2006-08-31 18:58:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anry 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋