No matter how hot the political temperature, Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s show can be counted on to go for the jugular. And with Brendan Carr in a mountain of poo and Israel’s PM in its sights, the latest episode doesn’t pull any punches
If South Park can’t get away with this one after their entire history of shows, even the shit episode where they literally said they were trying to see if they could get kicked off tv, then we know Israel has WAYYYYYYY too much control over society.
Funnily enough, I felt like they skirted the satire line quite well with the Israel portrayal.
It was accurate but not that overly offensive (*except to those who deny a holocaust and hospital bombings). It almost felt like they held back on “attacking Israel”.
They could have at least given Net&yahoo the Plan B treatment.
Let’s see what the future holds!
Bullshit. If they couldn’t say anything a little more prescient about what’s going on in Gaza they shouldn’t have said anything at all. They know God damn well what Israel is doing and I do too, and so does the writer that put the headline on this article originally.
“let’s rip at Benjamin Netanyahu”
Ha! That was the tamest thing I’ve ever seen on South Park. And the scene with Bibi was only for a few seconds at the very end. The headline is such hyperbole.
I read about the episode in the guardian and it did not sound all that risque to justify the title here.
It sounded kind of funny though, did not sound like it touched on the fact that Netanyahu is a fucking Nazi, that the Israelis are Nazis, and openly supporting Nazis in other Western countries. I would consider those issues going there but that’s just because I live in fucking reality.
Just a standard (western?) ‘stern Jewish mother’ joke.
It’s not exactly a comedic achievement.
It was so non-comedic it makes me think they prob just wanted to have their opinion out in public (“now”).
Its south park. They get a few chuckles out of most but isnt too groundbreaking if you are informed.
I’m of your view but I wonder if it’ll cause some public crashouts anyways stemming from persecution fetishes.
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They already did a Kirk episode before he died so it’s trodden ground.
They had Cartman play him so tricky to kill Cartman off but they still might have a crack at it.
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Probably, yes. If Trey and Matt wanted to make fun of Kirk again, they would have just done that. It wouldn’t really be their MO to do 2x episodes about him so close together.
They pulled the Kirk episode.
Comedy Central only pulled it from airing reruns, but it’s still available to watch on Paramount+
This didn’t feel like a 3 week episode.
They are two of the richest guys in Hollywood and don’t really give a damn. I’m pretty sure if there was interference, they’d be raising hell.
Have Butters punch him in the neck.
