I can't say I am a huge South Park fan, but I can't say I am not, either. South Park is so simplistic in its animation but so intricate in its political and social statements. A recent "Black Friday" episode (parts 1 and 2 ) pit the South Park kids against each other in their quest to be the first ones at South Park Mall on Black Friday to get video game systems, where, by the end of the 2nd episode. they are 96% off. All of the kids agree that they should team up to be the first ones to get a gaming system where they can all play together. The problem arises when they realize that half the kids want Xbox while the others want PlayStation.
Now let me add in that this was all done with a "Game of Thrones" theme. I have not read all of "GOT" yet, but even I got many of the jokes and references,especially the end sequence with George Martin saying the pizzas are coming (meaning the next book is coming, its coming, really.......... years later....really).
As as aspiring writer, I can't help but admire Parker and Stone. They are irreverent. They look at the world and say exactly what they feel about it, whether popular or not. They are inspired, clever, funny,goofy, silly and simply brilliant.
The theater kid in me is going bananas right now. I'm a big South Park fan myself, but I love The Book of Mormon even more. I'm sure you know about this musical (who hasn't?), but if anybody reading this falls into the category in the parentheses, it's a musical written by Parker and Stone about a pair of Mormon missionaries who go to Uganda. It's been praised almost universally for Parker and Stone's humor. If you don't believe me, take this: the main antagonist (I love antagonists in general) is a warlord known as General Butt F**king Naked (without the **'s) who is a big-time enforcer of female circumcision because he is afraid that all the you-know-whats will power up and destroy him. Hopefully, I'm not the only one who finds that sidesplittingly funny. But I have yet to encounter anybody who's seen The Book of Mormon who doesn't have anything positive to say about it.
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