Satirical Discourse Episodes

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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.
At the very beginning of the episode, there is already a humorous situation involving the audience’s observation of Cartman. Cartman paces in front of a video game store, desperately waiting for the Nintendo Wii, which will not come out for another three weeks. Eventually Cartman’s mother appears and tells her son that he needs to go to school. The relationship changes when …show more content…

Cartman begs his friends Stan, Kyle, and Kenny to help him freeze himself so he does not have to endure waiting for the Wii to come out. In this interaction Cartman is deadly serious and the boys are horrified because they know that Cartman’s plan would result in his death. None of the boys find the situation funny. However, it is funny to the audience; even though Cartman is absolutely serious about his plan, the audience recognizes how ridiculous his idea is. The same applies to the scene involving Cartman and Butters. As Butters helps Cartman follow through with his plan, the audience would find the situation funny. Cartman believes that his plan makes absolute sense and Butters is only trying to help, unaware of how idiotic the plan is. This is what makes the scene funny. If either Cartman or Butters were to find humor in the situation, it would not be amusing to the

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