South Park Me

South Park Me

While the Simpsons will always be the measuring stick against which every family oriented alive show will be measured there have been very few shows which have been capable to hold their own like Matt Stone’s and Trey Parker’s creation South Park in the recent years.

South Park can be funny to anyone because its jokes are on all sorts of unlike topics and, since they make fun of everyone, you’re typically not pained if they make fun of something you like. The downside to this is that often people ar not capable to understand a particular joke and, sadly, get offended. Another very cool thing about the show is that if you pay attention to the story of the episode, you can almost always learn a very good moral message from it (and if you can’t, they usually spell it out for you at the end with the “You see, I learned something today…” speech”), unlike Family Guy, where most jokes are unrelated to the plot line.

But, what makes South Park especially good, is its cast of characters. South Park has many fun characters such as Timmy, Jimmy, and (my personal favorite) Butters; but the main characters of the show ar Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman, and Kenny McCormick. Cartman is fat, insensible and very discriminatory. He always makes fun of Kyle for being Jewish and is constantly making rude remarks about everyone, while always getting pained himself when helium is called a “fat ass.” Kenny is usually there for comic relief. You can only understand what he is saying from reactions of the other three boys and the context of the episode, and he gets killed in almost every episode in the most random way. Stan and Kyle share a similar role in the story. They ar usually the cooler heads in the town and are the only ones who care when Kenny dies, expressing this by always locution “Oh my g-d, they killed Kenny! You Bastards!” (which I find hilarious). They ar also the ones who always sum the episode up in the end by telling the lesson of the story.

However there are a lot of people who do not like South Park because it’s always making fun of religions, celebrities, government policy, etc… But, to me, this is exactly what’s so cool about it because the show makes fun of absolutely everyone and everything.