Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride

South Park as Parody of Society South Park began airing in 1997. The commercials that preceded it gave the impression of it being another stupid cartoon; however, when I began watching, I realized important issues were being covered through the repeated behaviors and actions of its characters, through the influences these actions could have on the viewers, through the reinforcement and rejections of certain stereotypes, through the long-term effects that could result from watching the program

is portrayed as “good” because it comes under the guise of acceptance of gay culture, but in reality, the multi-dimensional gay identity is being recreated into one dimensional stereotype that create an “in” crowd that, ironically, excludes actual gay people. In the eighth episode of the seventh season of South Park, “South Park Is Gay!”, the hip metro-sexual fashion craze, born from the appropriation and stereotyping of gay culture, is satirized. In the episode, the fad has recently exploded in

through use of mainstream media. South Park is about four boys and their wild adventures, as they go through elementary school. The main characters are Stan Marsh, Kenny McCormick, Eric Cartman and Kyle Broflovski. In an episode called ‘Big Gay Al’s Big Gay Boat Ride’ South Park is explaining to the audience that we should accept homosexuality and that it is ok to be a homosexual. We should accept homosexuality & homosexuals. Same as we accept heterosexuals, we need to dispel of old convictions. Old