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azurelunatic) wrote2001-09-02 07:38 am
azurelunatic) wrote2001-09-02 07:38 am
moral lessons up a cartoon character's ass
Seriously, if I said I watched this cartoon last night, four episodes of it, and the lessons in it were:
Parents should teach their children about sex, it's not the schools' job
Some people will take revenge way too far
Money does not buy happiness
Children should not bear false witness against their parents
...honestly, you'd look at me and want to know what the hell I was watching that moralistic crap for, and didn't I have anything better to do with my time.
Last night I watched South Park. It's sick, it's twisted, it takes little everyday events in the lives of kids and blows them up out of proportion, but everyone's going to remember to never piss off Cartman again, not after what he did to Scott Tenneman.
And, good gods, "Red rocket, doggy, red rocket!" School sex education lessons stuff kids' brains with facts, but leave out important parts and in the end give the kids no more real understanding of the situation than they had to begin with.
Inflamed hemorrhoid or not, the episode where Cartman gets a million dollars teaches that money may buy temporary happiness, but nothing permanent, and teaches some sound lessons in economics on the way.
Lord of the Flies, South Park style... a lot of the child abuse out there is real, but there are some kids who are going to pull the old "my parents 'molestered' me" line without even really understanding what it means, and the people looking at the situation may not be as concerned for the good of the children as they are for their pet cause.
...that's enough of my mutterings. I may have just wrecked the innocent trashtalk of South Park for some of you, but so be it. I could give more examples, but what's the point? South Park is just plain cool, and that's a reason for it to be cooler. It's got intellectual depth, and I like that.
Parents should teach their children about sex, it's not the schools' job
Some people will take revenge way too far
Money does not buy happiness
Children should not bear false witness against their parents
...honestly, you'd look at me and want to know what the hell I was watching that moralistic crap for, and didn't I have anything better to do with my time.
Last night I watched South Park. It's sick, it's twisted, it takes little everyday events in the lives of kids and blows them up out of proportion, but everyone's going to remember to never piss off Cartman again, not after what he did to Scott Tenneman.
And, good gods, "Red rocket, doggy, red rocket!" School sex education lessons stuff kids' brains with facts, but leave out important parts and in the end give the kids no more real understanding of the situation than they had to begin with.
Inflamed hemorrhoid or not, the episode where Cartman gets a million dollars teaches that money may buy temporary happiness, but nothing permanent, and teaches some sound lessons in economics on the way.
Lord of the Flies, South Park style... a lot of the child abuse out there is real, but there are some kids who are going to pull the old "my parents 'molestered' me" line without even really understanding what it means, and the people looking at the situation may not be as concerned for the good of the children as they are for their pet cause.
...that's enough of my mutterings. I may have just wrecked the innocent trashtalk of South Park for some of you, but so be it. I could give more examples, but what's the point? South Park is just plain cool, and that's a reason for it to be cooler. It's got intellectual depth, and I like that.