Eric Duncan : Southpark

South Park wins the Peabody Award

Eric A. Duncan — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 06:26:00 GMT

Congrats to the creators of South Park for the aware earlier this year (yeah I just found out). John Stewart here was the person who presented it to the creators, Trey Park and Matt Stone. If this doesn't open people's eyes to the humor they try to portray in today's media events, then I suppose it never will.

South Park was praised as a show that "pushes all the buttons, turns up the heat and shatters every taboo," Peabody Awards Director Horace Newcomb said. "Through that process of offending it reminds us of the need for being tolerant."

Constantly while talking to several people, one out of every two seem to despise South Park for one thing or another. People still don't get the underlying humor. You can read in an earlier post about my stance on South Park of where I go into more detail.

Until they start doing "You'd might be a redneck if..."-type jokes (as one Jeff Foxworthy mentioned has made me a redneck, lol), and one must hit home with me, I welcome their humor. And even if they do hit home, oh well. :)

Make Love Not Warcraft

Eric A. Duncan — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 02:52:00 GMT

7 weeks 5 days 13 hours 20 minutes - That's how long the boys from Southpark must play WoW, allowing 3 hours a night for sleep, in order to level up with their combined forces to have a 90% mortality rate against the ultimate super-player online.

I think what I just said about made some kind of sense to WoW players.

What had me rolling on the floor tonight, laughing my butt off? SouthPark. The 10th season premier was just on, and it had a huge spoof on the World of Warcraft online playing.

Basically, this one player has been online since WoW came out 18 months ago playing it almost 24/7. He's leveled up so high, that he's been killing players without having to accept his challenge - even killing admins off.

The show continues to spoof the "over the average" online player by showing the deterioration of health users go through if they do nothing but sit in front of the computer, 21 hours a day (3 hours to sleep) playing WoW.

Kind of reminds me about the 16 year old boy in Australia that recently was on the news playing WoW, almost 18 hours a day. He's punched holes in the walls, thrown pc components around the room, and more.

Anyhoot, any decent WoW fan (or SouthPark fan) needs to check out this episode titled Make Love not Warcraft.

Death to Free Speech: Prophet Mohamed removed from South Park

Eric A. Duncan — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 19:17:00 GMT

Comedy Central joins an ever growing list of TV and Newspapers censoring the image of the Prophet Mohamed.

Last week South Park started a two-part episode spoofing the Family Guy sitcom (read previous post) titled First Amendment. It was making fun of Fox refusing to show the Prophet. Within the first episode, the SouthPark creators dared Comedy Central to allow SP to allow the Prophet Mohamed to be shown in Episode Two this week. I'm sure there was a lot of talk around the conference rooms there.

In Episode two, aired Wednesday at 10 PM EST, they attempted to show the Prophet. But they cut the footage, saying "Comedy Central has refused to show the Prophet". But yet, they still had the "Voice" on there.

South Park has crossed a number of ethnic and racial lines, but there's always a moral the creators try to convey which seems to get lost by most (of not all) anti-South Park people.

The one for this episode was that if we are forced to use censorship, then the terrorist have won. As where does censorship stop? Free Speech entitles oneself a free voice. Given Comedy Central is FCC monitored, the FCC has not banned the image of Prophet Mohamed. It was Comedy Central itself that refused to show it (scarred?).

Eric Cartman: "If you hate a TV show, all you have to do is to get an episode pulled. Pretty soon the show is compromised and it goes off the air. ...so my plan is to use this whole Mohamed thing as a way to scare the network into pulling tonight's show [of Family Guy].

I'm going to use fear to get them to do what I want."

Bart Simpson's spoofed character: "Isn't that like Terrorism?"

Eric Cartman: "No. It isn't like Terrorism. It IS Terrorism."

We all are given the right to Free Speech by the constitution of the United States of America. Giving-in to Terrorist threatening violence is the same as giving into demands when they kidnap hostages: it lets the terrorist know they can get their way.

Would I censor image from my website if you posted the cartoon in a comment? No. But I myself respect other religions and beliefs: which I know showing the image would be greatly disrespectful. If I wanted to thwart the powers-at-be and go against the “man” to make a crude statement (like I would have in my teens), I would have posted it here.

I have been a big South Park fan since episode one due to their true-to-Earth viewpoints, cunning storylines and willing to say the things we are thinking, on the tube – daring all others. And I will remain a South Park fan.

People I have met that are against South Park tell me what offended them. When talking to these people, out of the 10 seasons (yes, 10!), all of these complaints and boycotts of South Park all have one thing in common: The focus on the graphic, grotesque nature of the cartoons and speech.

If you walk up to me and say, “Eric, I can’t believe you are a South Park fan.” Then I would state the obvious, “You didn't like the movie Fight Club, Secret Window, and other movies with an alternative plot behind the obvious storyline, did you?” South Park on the surface can look highly offensive (to those offended). But there’s always an underlining moral if you look close enough. Over the last two weeks, it was Censorship and how the Prophet Mohamed cartoon issue has taken away our right to Free Speech in America. Or at least, scarred network tv into censorship.

So I say no to censorship. Show the image if you wish. And I will not judge you any differently.

Southpark - Profit Mohamed?

Eric A. Duncan — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 04:31:00 GMT

SouthPark is doing a spoof of the Family Guy saying they were censored to show the Profit Mohamed. It's a two part episode daring Comedy Central to allow SouthPark to show the questionable cartoon of the Profit next week in episode 2.

"Or will Comedy Central wuss out?"

Burn!!!

South Park go too far? (Tom Cruise/Scientology)

Eric A. Duncan — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 17:40:00 GMT

CNN Special about "Did SouthPark go too far?"

http://www.cnn.com/video/player/player.html?url=/video/showbiz/2005/11/18/vargas.south.park.cruise.affl

So did SouthPark go too far this time? I agree that I don't know anything about Scientology, so I can't have an opinion. And that SouthPark is a good parody that's funny to watch.

But, whoa. And make sure to wait until the end. "So sue me!" hehe And notice the names on the credits!

And yes, I did enjoyed the episode. If Tom Cruise decides to sue, well, I still have it on my DVR as the last show aired by SP. hehe