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percent of the United States population is considered to be obese. With such a large number like this its no wonder that South Park has made at least one episode shining their satirical light on this issue. The episode Raising the Bar, created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, does exactly that. Like that South Park episode Radley Balko focuses on the issue of obesity in the article What You Eat Is Your Business, where he takes a point opposite of his title. South Park supports and proves Balko argument

The difference between the intended meaning of media texts and what the audience actually perceives can be shockingly different. Producers of media can do everything possible to force audiences to experience their work in the way they want them to, but in the end they still take away many different meanings even within the same audience. Stuart Hall outlines this in his encoding and decoding model. One of the most apparent examples of this is the television show South Park. The television show South

business that they boys shop at is closed because of the loss of business that occurs when Wal-Mart comes to their town. After reflecting on their friend’s plight Stan says “See, that sucks dude” and Cartman replies “What, that’s called progress Kyle” (Parker and Stone, 2004). This is just one example where Cartman shows his selfish nature. All he cares about is the fact that a huge new store is open and he can get his mother to buy him all the best new toys, while Stan and

tackling censorship boundaries with brilliant wordplay every episode and implementing freedom of speech. For me, the program serves as a weekly litmus test of censorship and freedom of expression. South Park is the brainchild of college friends Trey Parker and Matt Stone. This TV show, on the Comedy Central Network, is a cartoon but not for children. On August 13, 1997, the first airing, South Park became the first major cable program to get the “TV-MA” rating (for mature audiences only). The main

PARK Racial Stereotyping, racism, gender stereotyping and sexism are some of the strengths of South Park. This TV show was created with a purpose to make racism and sexism funny and acceptable. South Park is a television show that was created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone. It circumvents the lives of 4 boys namely Eric Cartmen, Kenny McCormick, Stan Marsh and Kyle Broflovski around the town of Colorado. This show mainly aims at picking up various stereotypes in different societies and making fun of

Everything you need to know about in this weekly: All the best trailers that came out of SDCC 2016, watch the first South Park game like a movie, a mysterious purple orb is found underwater off the California coast, and No Man 's Sky shows gamers how to survive in one of the biggest games ever released. At Social Underground we go beyond the mainstream stuff and see what’s underneath the surface. What should we get into, listen to, read, eat or watch? If there is something in our culture that needs

As a teenager I watched the South Park in the early 2000s. The creators of the show wrote an episode called “The super-best friends” (a parody to the “Super-Friends”), Matt Stone and Trey Parker included the illustration of Muhammad, at the time the image was not censored. Flash forward to 2006, when they wrote another episode called “Cartoon-wars II” a huge controversy broke-out. Before the South Park episode was aired, a Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published a set of editorial-cartoons with

obvious reference to Caitlyn Jenner's portrayal in the media as an undisputed hero and champion of human rights. As a life-long fanatic of South Park and it's creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, I feel an intimate connection with the show and the beautifully inscribed subtext in each episode. I would never presume to know what Matt and Trey had in mind while writing this episode (that's for the DVD commentary to tell) I feel a special insight into it that can only come from growing up with South Park

Controversy Behind South Park's Ethics South Park, the animated TV series aired on Comedy Central was created by Matt Stone and Trey Parker and is one of the many new shows that involve animation with high-level adult comedy that parodies current events going on across the United States and throughout the world. South Park is just one of many new shows that involve this sort of high end entertainment and they are taking the television ratings by storm. This show, along with others of its nature

So I watched an episode of South Park recently and that got me thinking, how is something as offensive as this be all right to be put onto national television without angering hundreds and thousands of people? For those of you that don’t know what South Park is, it’s basically an animated sitcom series that has attracted huge hordes of followers ever since it first aired in 1997. It’s quite famous along side shows such as Family Guy, American Dad and Futurama which all seem to focus along the lines