South Park's new season continues to poke the sleeping bear of political correctness while also skewering Donald Trump in only the most South Park of ways. The second episode of this year's 19th season of South Park entitled "Where My Country Gone?" continued the plot line of South Park being overtaken by politically correct bullies and the running gag that Caitlyn Jenner is considered a "stunning woman and hero" regardless of anyone's personal opinion or Caitlyn's own actions. The episode opens with Kyle Broflovski accepting an award for giving a speech supporting Caitlyn Jenner and then Caitlyn showing up and whisking Kyle away in a car only to run someone down with the car. South Park's less than flattering depiction of Caitlyn Jenner coupled with having him run over pedestrians overtime he's in a car was just the icing on the cake; the cake itself was all about Trump. …show more content…
Garrison, decides he's sick of seeing illegal immigrants all over 'his' country. The immigrants in this instance being Canadian. Mr. Garrison then begins to go on a speaking tour about his hatred for immigrants and his plan to "F**k them all to death" is applauded by like-minded racists. When Garrison suggests a giant wall be built to keep Canadians out of America, he is dismayed to learn that Canada has already erected a border wall to keep Americans out of Canada. When Garrison goes to visit the wall he and his followers are greeted by a lone Canadian man sitting atop the wall teasing them about how Canada has a bunch of cool stuff that the Americans just cannot
Summary – It can be very useful when things do not tend to fall your way by then switching things up on your opponent and using their most positive words in order to make it look negative. Every argument needs facts and if that does not work for you, you should probably redefine the issue being made. The importance and relevance of the argument should be taken into consideration. Remember that manipulating the definition of things in your favor is the way to go.
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These days, people think that cursing and making fun of people of other races is funny and that is just what The Chapelle Show does. The show comes on every Wednesday night at nine-thirty central time on comedy central with other discriminating shows such as South Park. South Park is a good example of racial discrimination because the only black character on there is a cook for a school. Boy that is one hell of a job. Chapelle tops them all though with skits such as The Racial Draft. In this skit he makes fun of every race there is.
South Park is an animated TV series created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, which first aired on Comedy Central in 1997. The show features four boys Eric Cartman, Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, and Kenny McCormick. South Park has been seen as one of the most controversial shows due to its raunchy humor and obscene depiction of characters in the show. South Park deals with many current issues in the news surrounding anything from in politics to religion. In dealing with these issues South Park involves adult comedy that parodies current issues going on in the United States and around the world. South Park also uses many other rhetorical deceives, such as
Bernie Mac’s second Def Comedy Jam special, “I Ain’t Scared of You Motherfuckers” is a comedic work that has always made me laugh uncontrollably. Even when I was too young to fully understand most of the jokes in that particular standup routine, his physical motions, use of curses and taboo sex phrases, as well as his urban Chicago colloquialisms were enough to have tears dripping from my eyes and a boisterous sound of laughter coming from my mouth, loud enough that it would cause my mother to come into my room and investigate what all the fuss was about. Despite the obvious comedic subject matter of works of comedy done by comedians such as Bernie Mac, there are numerous underlying reasons that attribute to the humor that is expressed through our laugher and enjoyment. Through his lively stage presences and sociological motifs, Bernie Mac was able to enlighten the world on the various cultural aspects of urban life by his use of social and psychological cues that capture our attention, giving us directions on how to react, providing us with an increased social awareness though satirical methods, and making light of taboo topics regarding the themes of sex and gender roles.
The main characters are Kenny, Kyle, Stan, and Eric. Kenny speaks in a muffled and indiscernible voice, he is from a poor family and is usually killed in every episode, which is always followed by Stan saying, “Oh my God! They killed Kenny”. Stan is considered “a normal, average, American, mixed-up kid”. Kyle is considered the most intelligent with the highest morals and is Jewish. Eric is aggressive, prejudiced, and emotionally unstable usually complaining when he does not get what he wants. South Park uses humor and satire to show social problems and issues in society. For example in a recent episode a police officer shoots a six year old Latino boy in the arm and results in the town not wanting the police’s assistance. In the show Randy the father of Stan says, “We’ve only had a Whole Foods for a month, and we already no longer need cops.” Then when the public requires the assistance the police deny them it since they are going to a luau and too busy to do any real police work. He also reminds the town of their constant harassment of the police. Dan Caffrey a writer for A.V Club says, “It’s not until Officer Barbrady’s (police officer who is considered unintelligent) mistake that everyone develops a real problem with the cops, and even then, it’s not because of genuine concern for the little boy or potential (albeit nonexistent) racist motivations of the act; it’s just another case of them jumping on a bandwagon that has PC Principal (principal who takes political correctness to an extreme) at the yoke.” Caffrey means that no one in the town cares about the child or even the racist cops but rather join the charade because of PC Principal. Much like how society is today with people hoping onto the bandwagon just because for some reason they cannot think for themselves. Which is a common trend in South Park. South Park uses it setting and characters
Kyle Broflovski, Stan Marsh, and Kenny McCormick, who attend South Park Elementary School in South Park, Colorado. While much of the humor in South Park is scatological in nature, the show is well known for its political satire. That is, “no matter how nasty and scatological [South Park] gets, it’s never just dumb and dumber. Besides all the bathroom humor, the show is built on clever, equal-opportunity satire” (Johnson-Woods 25).
The twelfth and thirteenth episodes of South Park’s tenth season, “Go God Go” and “Go God Go XII”, work as pieces of comedy because they effectively uses humorous triangular formats. Both episodes satirize extremist behavior involving religion and atheism. The episodes usually show situations that involve the audience watching a humorous exchange between two parties. On occasion, the audience watches one character being made fun of, but overall the jokes involve the audience observing an exchange between two parties. The creator’s also use the characters to demonstrate their own beliefs and criticisms.
The strange life and death of Christopher McCandless is an enigma. After disappearing for 2 years, McCandless was found dead at age twenty-four in the Alaskan wilderness, the world stunned on why an affluent young man with a bright future would give it all up to live in seclusion in the wilderness. In his book Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer theorizes the motivations of McCandless and why a seemingly sane person would take such dangerous risks. Krakauer’s major theories of why McCandless did what he did revolve around a singular idea: freedom. Krakauer uses McCandless’s change of identity and wilderness adventures to symbolize freedom and self-expression.
The author of “Shopping at J-Mart with the Williams”, Lindsay Coleman, discusses race, ethnicity, and belonging in South Park. She talks about how South Park joins the “long tradition of decidedly impolite, racially charged comedy” (Coleman 131) through rhetoric. Coleman goes on to give specific examples of racially based actions in different episodes to show the commonality of this rhetoric in South Park. She explains how typical black stereotypes are portrayed in some episodes to help highlight South Park’s use of racial comedy. She also explores the role reversal of race through “social condition” (Coleman 131). In America, most people associate wealth with white men/women, but in South Park, the black men and women are the wealthy people.
According to Merriam Webster, the term “ethical” can be defined as “rules of behavior based on ideas about what is morally good and bad.” Being able to differentiate between what is good, and what is bad is key when it comes to many things. One of these things includes persuasion. There are many concepts that can explain why certain principles of persuasion can be more ethical than others, and many that are critical to being an ethical communicator. Said concepts are explained in Rothwell’s text, In the Company of Others, Robert Cialdini and Steve Martins video, Science of Persuasion, and Stephen Carter’s text, Integrity.
According to McClennen however, all mirror images of satire might not be beneficial. She believes that shows such as South Park and The Simpsons, which are not afraid to attack anything, do not lead to any kind of positive political discourse. This is because they provide negative critique that does not offer the elements required from an effective public pedagogy (McClennen 74). Theodore Gournelos, the author of The Tao of South Park: Dissonant Visual Culture and the Future of Politics refutes McClennen´s claim by arguing that eventhough South Park does not directly intervene with policy making or legislative initiatives, it forms a social landscape in which we challenge the status quo. He continues by saying that ”conflict-oriented cultural productions like South Park suggest an arra...
Like many satirical writings, Everybody Hates Chris shows an exaggerated form of racial stereotypes to reaffirm their political stance against stereotypes. If an issue is made to be so ridiculous as to be a joke, one may see it's ridiculousness in normal functioning society. These satirical tactics are used as tools to solidify the show’s stance of the difference in class and the continuing stereotypes. Chris’s experiences are fictional and over exaggerated, but are used in the show as light hearted comedic issues that are actually being used address topics otherwise taboo to reach a large audience, such as the mistreatment and stereotyping of black Americans.
Every day in our life's we are persuaded to make choices. Persuasion is a very
Finally, the liking principle is one that will often be used in the art of persuasion. This can be used effectively, where a product can be seen as “likable” if for example it has been endorsed by someone perceived to be physically attractive or perhaps someone that demonstratives the behaviors of a friend, such as showing similar traits or someone that can be related to.