south park uses n word over 40 times

alieNDN

spectacular episode. Token's parts were on point.ps: NSFW if you arent familiar with south park...they actually use the n-word uncensored in this episode. http://www.tv-links.co.uk/player2/flvpla.../2013529387.flv

jaymack

amazing episode.
these guys handle topics and current events with such style, it blows me away.

twoply

That sums up most of the race discussions on soulstrut, anyway.

Black person: "I'm offended by your speech/actions"

White person: "But that's not fair! I don't want you to be offended, so now I'm the victim!"

mannybolone

That sums up most of the race discussions on soulstrut, anyway.

Black person: "I'm offended by your speech/actions"

White person: "But that's not fair! I don't want you to be offended, so now I'm the victim!"

Seriously.

The money shot is at the end of the spoken word bit: *pounds chest* "respect!"

Guzzo

I'm surprisd this only got 3 responses considering the event that sparked this episode got something like 10 pages of comments from soulstrutters

kind of curious as to what the SS atitude to this episode was

jaymack

I'm surprisd this only got 3 responses considering the event that sparked this episode got something like 10 pages of comments from soulstrutters

this speaks more than words.

street_muzik

Fucking hilarious episode. So on point.

day

I'm surprisd this only got 3 responses considering the event that sparked this episode got something like 10 pages of comments from soulstrutters

this speaks more than words.

Not really.

I think:

A. People are sick of talking about race in general (for now)

B. South Park intentionally promoted and used the word in that episode (which I did not see) for ratings which makes a discussion kind of pointless.


A cartoon that's known to have no boundries vs. a famous person spewing racist hate out of nowhere. Hopefully you can see the difference.

hogginthefogg

I'm surprisd this only got 3 responses considering the event that sparked this episode got something like 10 pages of comments from soulstrutters

this speaks more than words.

Not really.

I think:

A. People are sick of talking about race in general (for now)

B. South Park intentionally promoted and used the word in that episode (which I did not see) for ratings which makes a discussion kind of pointless.


A cartoon that's known to have no boundries vs. a famous person spewing racist hate out of nowhere. Hopefully you can see the difference.

FUGG THAT, DAY. I AM ASS-HURT OVER A KARTOON.

SoulOnIce

Fucking hilarious episode. So on point.

deej

its a well done episode but i agree w/ day's cynicism over their motivations

jaymack

this speaks more than words.

Not really.

I think:

A. People are sick of talking about race in general (for now)

B. South Park intentionally promoted and used the word in that episode (which I did not see) for ratings which makes a discussion kind of pointless.


A cartoon that's known to have no boundaries vs. a famous person spewing racist hate out of nowhere. Hopefully you can see the difference.
60 minutes cares about ratings, too. all of the media is concerned about ratings. but south park is more honest and real than a lot of news outlets. it gives you both sides of the topic, good and bad, though with humor and exaggeration.
if you were asking me if i know the difference between comedy and racism, i do.

deej

south park is often suspect as fuck.
check out Ebert's review of Team America, which applies just as readily to South Park on plenty of occasions

Team America: World Police


Roger Ebert / October 15, 2004


"What are you rebelling against, Johnny?"

"Whaddya got?"

--Marlon Brando in "The Wild One"

If this dialogue is not inscribed over the doors of Trey Parker and Matt Stone, it should be. Their "Team America: World Police" is an equal opportunity offender, and waves of unease will flow over first one segment of their audience, and then another. Like a cocky teenager who's had a couple of drinks before the party, they don't have a plan for who they want to offend, only an intention to be as offensive as possible.

Their strategy extends even to their decision to use puppets for all of their characters, a choice that will not be universally applauded. Their characters, one-third lifesize, are clearly artificial, and yet there's something going on around the mouths and lips that looks halfway real, as if they were inhabited by the big faces with moving mouths from the Conan O'Brien show. There are times when the characters risk falling into the Uncanny Valley, that rift used by robot designers to describe robots that alarm us by looking too humanoid.

The plot seems like a collision at the screenplay factory between several half-baked world-in-crisis movies. Team America, a group not unlike the Thunderbirds, bases its rockets, jets and helicopters inside Mount Rushmore, which is hollow, and race off to battle terrorism wherever it is suspected. In the opening sequence, they swoop down on Paris and fire on caricatures of Middle East desperadoes, missing most of them but managing to destroy the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe and the Louvre.

Regrouping, the team's leader, Spottswoode (voice by Daran Norris) recruits a Broadway actor named Gary to go undercover for them. When first seen, Gary (voice by Parker) is starring in the musical "Lease," and singing "Everyone has AIDS." Ho, ho. Spottswoode tells Gary: "You're an actor with a double major in theater and world languages! Hell, you're the perfect weapon!" There's a big laugh when Gary is told that, if captured, he may want to kill himself and is supplied with a suicide device I will not reveal.

Spottswoode's plan: Terrorists are known to be planning to meet at "a bar in Cairo." The Team America helicopter will land in Cairo, and four uniformed team members will escort Gary, his face crudely altered to look "Middle Eastern," to the bar, where he will go inside and ask whazzup. As a satire on our inability to infiltrate other cultures, this will do, I suppose. It leads to an ill-advised adventure where in the name of fighting terrorism, Team America destroys the Pyramids and the Sphinx. But it turns out the real threat comes from North Korea and its leader Kim Jong Il (voice also by Parker), who plans to unleash "9/11 times 2,356."

Opposing Team America is the Film Actors' Guild, or F.A.G., ho, ho,
with puppets representing Alec Baldwin, Tim Robbins, Matt Damon, Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn (who has written an angry letter to Parker and Stone about their comments, in Rolling Stone, that there is ???no shame??? in not voting). No real point is made about the actors' activism; they exist in the movie essentially to be ridiculed for existing at all, I guess. Hans Blix, the U.N. chief weapons inspector, also turns up, and has a fruitless encounter with the North Korean dictator. Some of the scenes are set to music, including such tunes as "Pearl Harbor Sucked and I Miss You" and "America -- F***, Yeah!"

If I were asked to extract a political position from the movie, I'd be baffled. It is neither for nor against the war on terrorism, just dedicated to ridiculing those who wage it and those who oppose it. The White House gets a free pass, since the movie seems to think Team America makes its own policies without political direction.

I wasn't offended by the movie's content so much as by its nihilism. At a time when the world is in crisis and the country faces an important election, the response of Parker, Stone and company is to sneer at both sides -- indeed, at anyone who takes the current world situation seriously. They may be right that some of us are puppets, but they're wrong that all of us are fools, and dead wrong that it doesn't matter. [/b]

i don't think this episode does this, per se; it seems to take a pretty strong stance. but i remain suspicious of any justification they have for, you know, repeatedly using the word - its clearly a ratings draw, and i can see how for some folks the way they dealt with it isn't enough to balance out cyncism that one holds about the use of the word 40-odd times an episode as a tool to increase ratings.

SoulOnIce

check out Ebert's review of Team America, which applies just as readily to South Park on plenty of occasions

He's mad because they don't "choose sides" - yet that's
where the strength of South Park is, in their willingness
to mock any and everything, therefore avoiding the superior
attitude and hypocrisy of any partisan humor/satire.

I don't watch it regularly anymore, but the "n-word" episode
was hilarious and completely on-point, including one very
important lesson that it seems a good many people on here
really need to learn.

deej

He's mad because they don't "choose sides"

he isn't mad cuz they don't 'choose sides,' he's mad because they don't take the situation seriously. There is no subtlety, nuance to their criticisms - like he says, they criticize people simply for having opinions, not for the actual quality of those opinions.

day

this speaks more than words.

Not really.

I think:

A. People are sick of talking about race in general (for now)

B. South Park intentionally promoted and used the word in that episode (which I did not see) for ratings which makes a discussion kind of pointless.


A cartoon that's known to have no boundaries vs. a famous person spewing racist hate out of nowhere. Hopefully you can see the difference.

60 minutes cares about ratings, too. all of the media is concerned about ratings. but south park is more honest and real than a lot of news outlets. it gives you both sides of the topic, good and bad, though with humor and exaggeration.
if you were asking me if i know the difference between comedy and racism, i do.

My comment wasn't directed to anyone in particular. I was just answering the question of "why isn't this 10 pages?!"

And while I didn't watch it and I don't watch South Park in general, comparing that shit to 60 Minutes is more than a stretch.

Bsides

I thought it was a pretty funny episode. thats all i really wanna say about it. lol!
(no 10 pages!)

alieNDN

new race thread graemlin :

jaymack

comparing that shit to 60 Minutes is more than a stretch.

i'm not comparing the two, i'm merely saying that all programming on tv is geared for ratings.

LaserWolf

Friken genius. It's like an episode of Soulstrut.

HAZ

I wish this thread was about The South Park Coalition