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I love Trey and Matt but the feud is so enormously stupid.
Family guys stupid gags are dumb and lazy writing, but also quite often fucking hilarious. I'm a guy sitting on my couch watching adult cartoons, I'm not exploring the depth of good writing I'm covered in Dorito crumbs and looking for a good laugh.
I'm not even sure it's a real feud. It's two comedy shows making fun of each other. That's hardly a fight.
When they put a Starbucks across the street from a Dunkin Donuts, they both perform better
But the independent cafe is fucked...
I hope they all get baked together and laugh at the flame wars.
Oh at one point it definitely had some real feelings behind it.
That sounds more like a joke to me than them being serious. Like, I'm sure they do have those feelings at some level, but not enough to vent in an interview. But I'm pretty clueless with the behind the scenes of these shows, maybe that is all they think of Family Guy?
We need the new version of this gif!
With his cousin the orange tumor?
Stealing this for my Tinder profile.
90% of the stuff on South Park is also dumb and stupid. It's just they occasionally get a chance to make political commentary that their audience won't hate them for, so they go whole hog on it.
If you have never been pissed about a episode of south park then you haven't watched it enough. They are pretty good about hitting everyone right in their bias.
remember that episode that made fun of people for taking global warming too seriously? not a bad episode, but a bad message.
I've seen a lot of things they got wrong. Doesn't mean they don't get it right most of the time.
well yea, i am not raging on southpark. just saying you watch it long enough and it will s find some way to offend anyone.
And they realised it and in later seasons came around.
Didn't lighten up on Gore any, but they did acknowledge man bear pig is real
well yea, i’m not totally knocking on southpark. but just that they will offend anyone at some point
I was offended right from the start. That's just NOT how an anal probe is installed! And the satellite dish was the wrong size completely.
Sounds like one of the pitfalls of personal experience when watching fiction.
Occasionally? I'd argue they've been making social and political commentary since the shows inception tbh.
Yes, they've been making commentary, but most of the time it's "Isn't this person dumb? What a dumb person. We should make fun of this dumb person." Occasionally it's people like Trump. Occasionally it's people like Al Gore, and then climate change becomes a joke for twenty years until they make a quiet retraction no one pays attention to. Or it's Paris Hilton or Ben Affleck and it's little more than petty celebrity gossip.
Eh, they did do an episode taking on scientology. That takes guts, because those guys are litigious as fuck. I haven't seen any other show attempt to take them on and I imagine South Park's episode about them provided a lot of insight for people who didn't know just how bizarre their beliefs are.
On the other hand, you're not wrong about them straight-up calling some people "dumb." Their episode explaining Mormons literally sings, "Dumb, dumb, dumb" throughout the story. Yet even that episode was honest - Joseph Smith did claim to use a seerstone in his hat to read off golden plates. (Apparently there was a treasure-hunting fad going on at the time, where people used "seerstones" to try to find hidden things. Joseph Smith already had experience with that, and he scryed for treasure the same way he "read" the golden plates - by putting the stones in his hat and attempting to see through them.) They were also right about Lucy Harris and how Joseph Smith reacted to her. Athough Matt and Trey inserted their opinions through a voiceover song, they told a pretty accurate, educational story.
They do occasionally miss the target terribly (those earlier global warming denials frickin' hurt), but they mock a lot of celebrities for more than being "a dumb person." Kanye's mocked for his massive ego. Bono's mocked because the creators think he's a hypocrite. George Lucas and Steven Spielburg were portrayed raping a storm trooper, as a clear metaphor for how Matt and Trey thought they were violating and destroying their own work.
I don't agree with some of their accessments and choices, but they do tend to attack a lot of other characteristics than just "dumbness."
I think you’re missing the forest for the trees, pal.