― JD from CDepot, Thursday, 17 November 2005 15:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 17 November 2005 17:44 (eighteen years ago) link
but yeah, these guys are libertarian types.
On the other hand, I think the Suck.com folks in particular weren't nec. so much libertarians as just straight hipster contrarian asshole/nihilist-types. Remember that they were active during the Clinton years, so they had to go against that. Snarky for no particular reason, other than just being so. Wonkette never changed her tone, even after Suck went down. The Pose is all that matters, etc.
― kingfish hobo juckie (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 17 November 2005 17:51 (eighteen years ago) link
which is precisely what south park isn't. you can't create a character like butters and be this.
― JD from CDepot, Thursday, 17 November 2005 17:55 (eighteen years ago) link
this is gonna be the team america thread all over again isn't it?
― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 17 November 2005 18:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 17 November 2005 18:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― JD from CDepot, Thursday, 17 November 2005 18:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 17 November 2005 18:04 (eighteen years ago) link
We can avoid that. What if we were to discuss the political implications of Butters, instead?
Say, have they used Pip since Butters appeared? (aside from their Charles Dickens/Monty Python ep?) I'm trying to think of another character they both torture and celebrate so much as Butters. Pip they just tortured.
― kingfish hobo juckie (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 17 November 2005 18:12 (eighteen years ago) link
It's such an extrodinary show which will be seen in the future as a key satirical work, more so than the Simpsons, I believe.
― chap who would dare to tell uninteresting celeb spotting stories (chap), Thursday, 17 November 2005 18:18 (eighteen years ago) link
you're also really getting at something. To me, Butters has always been a statement that reads something like: "Even if the world is post-modern, not all of it's inhabitants are"
― JD from CDepot, Thursday, 17 November 2005 18:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to tell uninteresting celeb spotting stories (chap), Thursday, 17 November 2005 18:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 17 November 2005 19:25 (eighteen years ago) link
1) wanted the whales nuked, or2) were completely oblivious to how subsequent events had changed the way other people would view that bumper sticker.
Look, Sean Penn may be kind of an asshat, but no way is Stone & Parker's obvious, disproportionate focus on the asshattery of the Sean Penns of the world "apolitical" in 2005.
― M. V. (M.V.), Thursday, 17 November 2005 20:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 17 November 2005 20:20 (eighteen years ago) link
The internet is rotting my brain.
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 17 November 2005 20:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― moley, Thursday, 17 November 2005 20:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to tell uninteresting celeb spotting stories (chap), Thursday, 17 November 2005 20:30 (eighteen years ago) link
I had forgotten about the whole "Butters' dad is closeted and his mom tried to kill him" ep.
also, i hadn't heard about the bit when Comedy Central didn't want Butters to be abused on screen anymore, or the not-running the "Jared Has Aides" ep.
― kingfish hobo juckie (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 17 November 2005 20:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― howell huser (chaki), Monday, 21 November 2005 00:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer: Do I have a large frog in my hair? (latebloomer), Monday, 21 November 2005 04:16 (eighteen years ago) link
"Oh Geez he's started with the gun again!"
"And I'ma cap this bitch unless Tom Cruise and John Travolta come out the closet..."
― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Monday, 21 November 2005 11:27 (eighteen years ago) link
though it isn't quite such a critique, let's not forget that officer barbrady swore off reading b/c he thought that atlas shrugged was a worthless piece of shit.
then again, that could just be sectarian bickering :-)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 10:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― kingfish hobo juckie (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:57 (eighteen years ago) link
Tom Cruise kills South Park episodeBy Lester HainesPublished Thursday 19th January 2006 12:01 GMTUK TV viewers will not get to see an episode of South Park which shows Nicole Kidman and fellow Scientologist John Travolta attempting to coax a fictional Tom Cruise character out of a closet, with Kidman saying: "Don't you think this has gone on long enough? It's time for you to come out of the closet. You're not fooling anyone."Naturally, the robustly heterosexual Top Gun star took exception to this when Trapped in the Closet aired in the US. The episode also showed Stan - believed by the Cruise character to be the reincarnation of Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard - having a pop at Cruise's acting abilities, and Cruise reportedly waved the legal big stick at Paramount and threatened to sue if the offending programme was ever shown again.An insider said: "Tom is famously very litigious and will go to great lengths to protect his reputation. Tom was said not to like the episode and Paramount just didn't dare risk showing it again. It's a shame that UK audiences will never see it because it's very funny." ®
By Lester HainesPublished Thursday 19th January 2006 12:01 GMT
UK TV viewers will not get to see an episode of South Park which shows Nicole Kidman and fellow Scientologist John Travolta attempting to coax a fictional Tom Cruise character out of a closet, with Kidman saying: "Don't you think this has gone on long enough? It's time for you to come out of the closet. You're not fooling anyone."
Naturally, the robustly heterosexual Top Gun star took exception to this when Trapped in the Closet aired in the US. The episode also showed Stan - believed by the Cruise character to be the reincarnation of Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard - having a pop at Cruise's acting abilities, and Cruise reportedly waved the legal big stick at Paramount and threatened to sue if the offending programme was ever shown again.
An insider said: "Tom is famously very litigious and will go to great lengths to protect his reputation. Tom was said not to like the episode and Paramount just didn't dare risk showing it again. It's a shame that UK audiences will never see it because it's very funny." ®
― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 20 January 2006 16:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 20 January 2006 16:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Black Arkestra (Black Arkestra), Friday, 20 January 2006 21:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to no longer work for the man (chap), Friday, 20 January 2006 21:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Michael A Neuman (Ferg), Friday, 20 January 2006 21:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 20 January 2006 21:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 20 January 2006 21:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Sunday, 22 January 2006 15:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 02:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 02:26 (eighteen years ago) link
Hot Buttered Soul is still an amazing album.
― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 02:30 (eighteen years ago) link
Absolutely.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 02:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer aka rembrandt, the fifth ninja turtle (latebloomer), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 02:37 (eighteen years ago) link
WHEN YOU TAKE TURNS MAKING FUN OF EVERYBODY, EVERYBODY WINS.
― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 02:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 02:45 (eighteen years ago) link
Hooray!
I find this all a little suspicious given that there was that hilarious South Park bit done for the MTV movie awards back in 2000 (I'm pretty sure) where they trashed Travolta and Scientology. Hayes wasn't involved but how could he not know about that?
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 02:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 03:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 03:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 04:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 04:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 04:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 04:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rebekkah (burntbrat), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 04:33 (eighteen years ago) link
-catholicism (the vatican ep, the bleeding statue ep)-evangelical american protestants (the 2nd starvin' marvin ep)-mormonism (dum dum dum dum dum ep)-judaism (constantly, esp with kyle at jew camp)-tom cruism (inna closet ep)-Xianity(at least once a season)-icons as the legion of superfriends
etc
― kingfish da notorious teletabby (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 06:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― kingfish da notorious teletabby (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 06:49 (eighteen years ago) link
This aired on syndication tonight! (I had never seen it)
Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha, Krishna, Sea Man vs the Blaine-tologists.
― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 07:12 (eighteen years ago) link