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.
Muslums got the super friends episode taken down but that was a long long time ago. And ya know, we cant have antisemetism!
True. Admittedly I haven’t seen this episode yet, but I’d say going after Bibi is a bit different than offending Muslims by insulting their religion. I’d seriously hope they don’t pull the antisemitism b.s just because they make fun of Bibi.
That’s one of the things that has been so infuriating in the US lately. Can’t criticize a state for their actions because Jewish people live there and so somehow a criticism of the actions of the state means you hate Jewish people… :/
Thats antisemetism in a nut shell. It really has lost all meaning
The Super friends episode parodied/insulted Mohammed who is a religious figure. Netanyahu is a politician and not a religious figure so he’s fair game.
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I didn’t see the insulted part.
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Is that like how they have to take down all the Jesus ones?
You might need to rewatch that episode understanding that recreating any living being’s image is a violation of the prohibition against graven images in Judaism/Islam.
TIL the south park drawers are Muslim
Im not suggesting they are. Im explaining why Muslims see making an image of their prophet so offensive.
It’s #3 on most versions of the 10 Commandments so in theory it shouldn’t be done by any Abrahamic faith but Rome really liked graven imagery so Christians have statues and paintings of their religious figures.
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I think there were threats of violence involved in the super friends one.
No, there was no violence, it was just because they made muhammed (the god) a character and muslums find it offebsive to depict their ‘god’
I said threats of violence, not actual violence.
You mean threata of violence against South Park by muslums, correct?
Yes, they were threatened by a group called Revolution Muslim.
Ok, I miss read your comment lmao Yeah, religious groups tend to have extreme radicals
I think maybe them prosecuting a genocide with active funding and political support from the US government already shows that?
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.
Mother fucking goddammit son of a bitch
I fucking knew it, too. God dammit
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.
You could just tell they mixed in the Brendan Carr stuff later and that this episode was supposed to be about children betting and Gaza. They did a really good job again though, the FCC stuff was very tongue-in-cheek.
Does the episode humanise the Palestinians and validate their struggle or does it go for some both sides bullshit
It says nothing about them. It’s all about Jews Vs Israel.
Thats anti semetic!!
Isn’t it time for your nap, Trump?
Do they haunt him with the ghosts of Buchenwald past?
Let me guess, not a peep from them about Charlie Kirk? Nerds love to label these guys as bastions of free speech, but they got real quiet all of a sudden.
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.
Have Butters punch him in the neck.
Uh huh, just a coincidence they had to delay their episode after Kirk got murked…
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.
This didn’t feel like a 3 week episode.
They pulled the Kirk episode.
Comedy Central only pulled it from airing reruns, but it’s still available to watch on Paramount+
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.
