They’re such wusses.
During W’s reign they used kid gloves. Always been like that with conservatives.
They "make fun of everything(tm)" except their own lofty smug privileged white libertarian bullshit.
I have watched it off and on since it first aired and I can’t remember ever seeing Trump. In fairness I haven’t watched much the last couple years.
Mr. Garrison isn’t Trump, no matter how much they nod and wink.
Obama wasn’t portrayed by another character and neither was Bush and neither was Clinton.
Did they ever actually show Trump? Or was it bs Garrison as Trump?
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Looked out of curiosity and seems the answer is no. Also, they literally said they were scared to make fun of him.
https://www.looper.com/966218/the-real-reason-south-park-laid-off-the-donald-trump-jokes/
"It's tricky now because satire has become reality," he said. "We were really trying to make fun of what was going on but we couldn't keep up, and what was actually happening was much funnier than anything we could come up with.
That is true though. Especially during his first candidacy when most outside the US never heard of him yet he seemed to have jumped right out of a caricature. We only stopped laughing when he actually won.
what was actually happening was much funnier than anything we could come up with.
When they punch down at disadvantaged people or make smug caricatures of people performing the cardinal white dudebro libertarian sin of caring too much, that shit isn't funny to me and they've been doing that for three decades anyway.
Ok, so it was Garrison in orange makeup, blond hair, Trump like voice and happened to be an asshole president. There is no winking and nodding, they are shoving it right in your face. You are just being pedantic, saying it wasn't. It was a stand in, to 100% without a doubt, represent Trump.
They didn't use "actual" Trump because that would require some weird plot devices to use on a constant basis when it's easier to use an existing character who has a history of being different people. It was done this way because it was funnier. Obama and Clinton and everyone else are used so sparingly that they could be the actual people because it made sense.
In regards to them being scared, have you seen how nutty the ultra MAGA right are? I'd be nervous portraying Trump too due to him being a giant crybaby and risk lawsuits, lawsuits that could risk my paycheck. They were never afraid of anyone else getting up in arms because everyone else knows how to take a joke, or at least knows enough not to piss off the public by going after the show. At the end of the day, they weren't scared enough to not do it. They felt that they had run the gag long enough and decided to move on.
Guess you missed the dozens of Trump bashing episodes.
Guess you're blissfully ignorant of the basically infinite capacity that Matt Stone and Trey Parker have for beating their favorite dead horses instead.
Such a pathetic thing to say. Even if what they were saying was true, why does the show need to be about the election? Isn't it, like, a political comedy show? Aren't there other political issues to talk about? idk, I hate South Park anyway, but it seems like a remarkably stupid thing to say.
They're cowards and they want to have their "topical episode" cake and eat it too.
They could make fun of him more if they had backbones and actually cared, considering how they endlessly made fun of their favorite targets: people that care too much about anything.
You know what they should do (besides shut down)? Ask the questions I asked myself before, that since Trump is going to be this bad, then why isn't the government revoking his citizenship; they could do an episode where they go into the future envisioned by liberals (cause imma be real, I don't actually think he's going to throw every minority into concentration camps) of what Trump is going to do, and then go back in time and try to revoke his citizenship only to be chided by liberals saying that it would be fascist to do that.
The US government is as ineffectual and cowardly as Matt Stone and Trey Parker are regarding Trump.
What are they gonna do if Trump gets a second term? Just cancel themselves?
They'll do what they did last time: wash their hands of it and ignore it like the cowards they are, "making fun of everything" but what they're afraid of.
Honestly after the treatment they gave Julian Assange and wikileaks I noped out; like honestly, criticizing wikileaks for exposing war crimes? Are they really this idiotic and vile?
They are US libertarians. They should be anti war and anti government but they really aren’t.
I looked it up and the episode is called 'bass to mouth'; they didn't directly insult assange, but the rat antagonist in it was called wikileaks.
I would love nothing more than these two schmucks to never produce another episode again.
Read the room. Unless everyone that doesn't like your decades-stale slop is also Barbara Stresand, find a new joke or just accept that your treat is being criticized.
You're sufficiently boring and tedious that you dug up another stale le epic South Park reference.
That only further emphasizes how stale it's gotten. It makes you sound stale... and old in a not-good and not-wise way.
I hope you find the courage one day to look for something under all your layers of irony poisoning and emotional constipation.
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If you're trying to win a last word game, could you dig deep down and find a single thought, idea, or even joke that wasn't regurgitated from some aging libertarian dudebros that apparently donated a personality to you?
The Barbara Streisand thing was from Season 1, long before anyone could have considered the libertarian dudebros "aging".
The Barbara Streisand thing was from Season 1, long before anyone could have considered the libertarian dudebros "aging".
Not a surprise that you missed the point by that far.
Yeah, it's from season 1, and you're still using it now. That's the entire point: your treat dispensers are tedious aging dudebros and you're no different considering you still dug that up again, decades later.
You're the worst kind of edgelord: a stale, boring, old one. Does the bacon narwhal at midnight for you too? Is your cake a lie?
Please go on. I need an hero like you to tell me about all my failures. Will you be an hero for me?
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If you're still giggling about that, you're a lower tier of pathetic than I previously thought.
I don't understand your joke. When did South Park do a Barbara Streisand episode and what did they pick on her for?
Lol go back to playing disc golf and leave these cultured gentlemen alone.
Fucking white people...
I just cackled at a quiet soccer practice. Thank you for that. Everyone's staring at me now.
Its okay because we make fun of everyone. But only once
and actually they will make fun of anyone they can punch down at repeatedly
I mean, they literally turned Garrison into a Trump parody and have run with it since 2016. Say what you will about their enlightened centrism in general, or their attitudes infecting a pretty large portion of Gen X and millennial men, it's been a lot more than once.
Contextually speaking, it would be an insanely boring show if they kept going back and making fun of the same people over and over again
it would be an insanely boring show if they kept going back and making fun of the same people over and over again
It is a boring show because they keep making fun of the same people over and over again: the disadvantaged, the marginalized, and above all else, anyone that cares too much about anything.
They're apparently tired of doing that, but have an endless capacity to punch down at disadvantaged people and to smirk and sneer at anyone they perceive as caring too much about something.
I might come out looking like a trump supporter and I am not and I'm also not an American. But I heard the show is a political satire so do they also make fun of biden every now and then? I saw some funny clips of the show about AI and thats it.
I know I'm gonna get downvoted but I want to clarify I'm just asking this cause they can have some content with that too. It's not like America has only 1 problem to make fun of. I read the article and it seems like it's more about "paramount" and their statement may just be for funsies. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
They make an episode in a weeks time, there are random episodes, but if they take something out of the news it's news, not history. They are not a political satire series, they pointed out what is wrong in society in general. First time trump was that dumb, it was hard to believe he would really be a serious candidate. They made fun of that, they took it to the top, so, they thought, but the top of their imagination lacks behind the reality we are in now. Biden is old news, trump is the only thing in the media, you can't make satire of trump, there is nothing more to point out.
Interesting insight. I also feel content is stale rn compared to the beginning of the year.
well you can check my comment history, im not baiting, I just noticed that people get downvoted for being critical of biden on lemmy. I can understand because it's election season for US and there are too many "both sides" people. So i just pointed it out.
