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"South Park" the cultural criticism of our day

“South Park” is probably the best show on television. Obviously a lot of people agree with me because the show is in its 11th season.

What makes the show so great is not that it’s hilarious, but it is also culturally relevant with its surprising stances on many controversial issues in today’s society.

In many episodes from recent seasons, the show depicts the fictional town as being divided between the “red-neck conservative” and “hippie liberal” factions, or the adults drastically overreact when something bad happens.

Every time it’s up to the kids, mainly Stan and Kyle (who are based off of the show’s creators), to provide the level-headedness and logical thinking to fix the situation.

Take, for example, the episode “Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow,” made in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

In this episode, a large beaver dam breaks and floods the town of Beaverton, leaving the citizens of Beaverton stranded.

Much like what happened with Katrina, the people of South Park were too preoccupied with trying to figure out who to blame for the flood instead of going in to help save people.
There are more episodes like this one that focus on issues such as gay marriage, hate crimes and religious and racial tolerance to name a few.

They all have the same basic message: people today are ridiculous.
We are too busy fighting each other, trying to reveal each other as idiots instead of doing what really matters and working together to fix our problems.

If anything, this show teaches us to laugh at ourselves and brings us down to earth by helping us realize how ridiculous we can be.

The show has taken a lot of heat in the past because of the way they make fun of people, such as liberals, conservatives, gays, Catholics, Jews, Mormons, blacks, whites and Hispanics.
The way they lampoon everybody and anything just reminds us that no one is perfect.

So next time you’re sitting at home on a Wednesday evening and you find yourself with nothing to do, sit back, relax, grab an ice cold can of Dr. Pepper and flip your television to channel 56.
I promise you won’t regret it.


This source says that this show is the best show on TV, the show is loved so much because of its comedy, but his is not the only reason as the show is culturally relevant with its surprising stances on many controversial issues in today's society. They all have the same basic message which is that ‘people today are ridiculous’. The shows teaches people to laugh at themselves and brings us down to earth by helping us realize how ridiculous people can be.

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