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My take is that SP is a show about how everyone is capable of being hypocritical, petty and inflammatory. It touches on uncomfortable subjects because those are what bring people to show the aforementioned traits.

I don't think "dark humor" is the point, it's just there to keep the viewer engaged so they can see social issues from another angle and reconsider their views.

Too many people seem to think that portraying something is the same thing as supporting it, completely missing the point of satire. They lack the media literacy to realize that critiques can be conveyed through characters and stories in a nuanced way.

South Park parodies a lot of things, sometimes by showing something simply as what it is. Some characters are meant to be disliked. For example, when Cartman is a douchebag, but he's not meant to be a "good guy" to model yourself after. He's a caricature of a self-centered bigot, and in being that, is used to lampoon others like him.

The show has had some bad takes. The whole "ManBearPig" scenario comes to mind. Thankfully, the creators came around to admitting they were very, very wrong in that case. In my opinion, such bad episodes are rare, with most providing cultural commentary in a way that turns them into time capsules reflecting various moments in our world.

With that said, it's okay to not like it. Not every show is going to appeal to everybody, especially a show that makes it a point to poke fun at almost everyone. Though one group they don't make fun of is disabled people - they show disabled characters as normal people, getting into their own hijinks the way all the other kids do. Instead, the creators make fun of those who'd rather infantilize disabled people and hide them away, like way back when Timmy was introduced and was in a band. Le Petite Tourette explained Tourette's Syndrome honestly, with Cartman's abuse of the situation being standard Cartman behavior (that backfired on him beautifully.)

Shutting people out who see the nuance is a naive take. I wouldn't go out of my way to sell the show to such people, but if they can't see that the show has far more hits than misses, well, they're the ones missing out.

How dare you like something I don't like?

Either everything is funny or nothing is

"if someone disagrees im muting them" is the cry of someone i dont need to hear anything from

Dark humour aside, what the aim really is, is to hold up a mirror to issues the mass populous takes for granted, after slow drip erosion of societally accepted rights. It's a fight back against the mass media and thier ilk, beating you about the head with "these people are bad because...." so you go along with hunting them down, but really they've found a convenient way to remove YOUR rights, or distract you into not noticing something egregious they've done. We become desensitised to things, and south park rips that bandage off fast and painfully, by design. They show you the things you have become desensitised to, in massively parodied, over the top, over exaggerated version, so you see through your former brain washing or desensitisation. If you don't pay attention, you don't notice the messages always pointing out how egregious the thing actually is. I would suggest, if you have that opinion, you've never actually really watched south park.

And really none of us should talk from a bias, we should employ critical thinking and inform ourselves fully, before making definitive statements. So, go watch... I'll bet you change your mind.

I think the only unifying theme to South Park is that everything can be funny.

I would say that generally the characters with the least power are treated in the most sympathetic way, though, and those with the most power are painted with the worst brush.

They do have a sense of good and evil, but also acknowledge that evil is often given free reign because good people have a hard time organizing and gaining consensus as to what needs to be done about it.

It’s fine if OOP hates South Park. It’s a divisive show. However, dark humor is indeed a valuable thing. Yes, sometimes assholes call sexism, racism, homophobia (etc) “dark humor” in an attempt to excuse what they know is wrong, but that doesn’t mean that the concept of dark humor is flawed.

Dark humor is often used to mock and/or point out hypocrisy. Sometimes it deliberately makes us uncomfortable. We should always reflect on ourselves and our culture as a whole. That’s a vital part of becoming a better person.

If OOP chose to “mute” me for expressing that opinion, I don’t think I’d be missing much.

Ok, so when trying to explain it. You will mute me.. Great start of the convo ;-)

Oh no, please don't mute me, you mirthless twat.

Humour of color

Ftfy

South Park isn't exactly homophobic, it seems to treat homosexual and transexual characters such as Ms. Garrison with more respect than the rest of the cast, tbh.

The jokes kind of stem from this idea that if something is different than the expectation then that makes it funny, including societal expectations like omission of poop or sexuality: like when Tad Mikowski gets distracted by "start the reactor" from the movie Total Recall.

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(It's okay to like a show. Cartman's voice just gives me a headache, you guys.)

It’s pretty dated. It had its moment, but it’s legacy entertainment at this point.

Nice try Trump Administration