[TV] South Park - Page 118

On September 26 2013 17:22 OrchidThief wrote:
I might've missed it, but what was the Baldwin homophobia thing a reference to? Did he make a twitter booboo of some kind?

On September 26 2013 20:21 Conti wrote:
I kind of miss the good old days when they were actually trying to make a point with their episode, instead of parodying every aspect of some current issue. But it was still a pretty funny episode. Couldn't stop laughing at that last minute.

On September 26 2013 20:58 SixStrings wrote:
What is Alec Baldwin famous for, btw? I only know him from 30 Rock, where he plays a Republican industrialist. Is he like that in real life at all?

On September 26 2013 21:14 Mikau wrote:

You mean this didn't have a point? The point wasn't "people should stop complaing about being spied on by the NSA and about how they have no privacy anymore while also putting pretty much every thought they have on the internet through social media (not to mention the public phone call bit)"? I really don't know how you could've missed that

Not to mention the notion of how ridiculous it is that the NSA is keeping track of everybody's email, twitter, etc.

On September 26 2013 21:14 Mikau wrote:

You mean this didn't have a point? The point wasn't "people should stop complaing about being spied on by the NSA and about how they have no privacy anymore while also putting pretty much every thought they have on the internet through social media (not to mention the public phone call bit)"? I really don't know how you could've missed that

Not to mention the notion of how ridiculous it is that the NSA is keeping track of everybody's email, twitter, etc.

On September 26 2013 20:21 Conti wrote:
I kind of miss the good old days when they were actually trying to make a point with their episode, instead of parodying every aspect of some current issue. But it was still a pretty funny episode. Couldn't stop laughing at that last minute.

On September 27 2013 00:23 sc4k wrote:


Huh? In the actual good old days in SP they were just a comedy show, they made barely any points. They were just funny as fuck. Like weight fain 4000 or chickenlover...they're just funny.

On September 27 2013 00:28 Conti wrote:

Of course it's up for discussion when exactly the "good old days" were, but surely you know about those seasons that had a moral-of-the-story kind of ending in pretty much every episode? Or episodes like the Butters special, the Scientology episode, the Mormon episode.. there's so many examples of them making a very specific point about a particular topic in an episode, I really don't see how you could have missed that.

On September 27 2013 00:43 AmorVincitOmnia wrote:


No offense but if you can't see the moral of this episode then that's on you.

On September 27 2013 00:45 Conti wrote:

I'll bite. What's the moral of this episode?

On September 27 2013 01:18 TheOneWhoKnocks wrote:

I wouldn't call them morals, just points they were making. One point was simply to lampoon the sort of people who put everything in their lives on the internet and then demand privacy. One is that 99.999% of the stuff on the internet the NSA has no interest in at all. Another is that government has become the modern religion. Instead of looking to God to solve every problem we face, we look to government. Instead of relying on an all seeing God to make us feel safe and secure, we rely on all seeing government agencies like the NSA. Yet another point is that anywhere you have this sort of power and public dependence on an institution it will inevitably abuse that power and trust; the priest molestation scandal was just the vehicle for this point.

Matt and Trey are really brilliant writers, and most of their episodes have incredible depth and a dozen different points buried within them, some obvious and some not so obvious. Unfortunately most people don't comprehend half of them, especially when considering they are the only libertarian writers in hollywood and most of their audience are the statists they are critiquing.

On September 27 2013 01:18 TheOneWhoKnocks wrote:

I wouldn't call them morals, just points they were making. One point was simply to lampoon the sort of people who put everything in their lives on the internet and then demand privacy. One is that 99.999% of the stuff on the internet the NSA has no interest in at all. Another is that government has become the modern religion. Instead of looking to God to solve every problem we face, we look to government. Instead of relying on an all seeing God to make us feel safe and secure, we rely on all seeing government agencies like the NSA. Yet another point is that anywhere you have this sort of power and public dependence on an institution it will inevitably abuse that power and trust; the priest molestation scandal was just the vehicle for this point.

Matt and Trey are really brilliant writers, and most of their episodes have incredible depth and a dozen different points buried within them, some obvious and some not so obvious. Unfortunately most people don't comprehend half of them, especially when considering they are the only libertarian writers in hollywood and most of their audience are the statists they are critiquing.

On September 27 2013 01:34 Conti wrote:

Scroll a few posts up, I summarized pretty much exactly the same points a few posts ago. And my point was that Matt and Trey are now simply parodying everyone/everything involved in an issue, instead of making a singular point that they feel is most important about an issue. Maybe I just didn't get that across as well as I hoped.