The Mormons have always been a perennial punch line, from Donnie and Marie’s teeth to the fucking tabernacle choir. Parker and Stone have a long and intimate relationship with the Mormons that led to the Broadway smash musical The Book of Mormon, now playing but good luck getting tickets. “All About The Mormons” was not as ballsy as attacking the Scientologists, but that’s only because of the threat of litigation. “All About Mormons” (Season 7, Episode 12) “Oh the tears of unfathomable sadness, yummy. After that scene, Cartman’s wickedness passed into the realm of legend. It is at this moment that Stan, Kyle, and every viewer at home realized the levels of evil and malevolence that resides behind the eyes of this little chubby kid in a red coat. This would be like Bart Simpson killing a kid in class. He then preciously slaved over cooking their bodies into scrumptious chili and handed it to the unsuspecting bully. Yet he actually did… but only after he lured Scott’s parents off-screen to a violent murder at the hands of a gun nut farmer. Coyote and Road Runner, Tom and Jerry, or Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny relationship. After all, the brunt of the humor seemed to be about how much power this little brat held over Eric Cartman. He puts his mother (and more significantly, his father) through hell here, and it’s a disturbing yang to the rest of the episode’s upsetting yin.ĭespite the title promising bad mojo coming Scott’s way, few actually believed that “Scott Tenorman Must Die” would end with anyone’s death (save for Kenny’s). If all of the pedophilia wasn’t enough, Kenny’s B-story sees him repeatedly try to ensure that his mother miscarries her child so he doesn’t become the second child. The centerpiece is essentially an attempted rape sequence where a horde of naked pedophiles chase our heroes as the entire thing transforms into an ode to slapstick. This whole episode is a twisted wormhole into the uncomfortable as the rest of the children in South Park naturally get jealous of Cartman and try to get their own older friends from NAMBLA, too. It’s a real glimpse into a group of actual crazies, which is something South Park would get increasingly good at. What’s just as messed up here is not necessarily these men’s preoccupation with wanting to have sex with little boys, but the other aspects that NAMBLA is invested in with them, such as ballroom dancing, and enjoying a four-course meal. unless, perhaps, they've seen "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset.Like a lot of great South Park episodes, the beauty here isn’t in embellishing NAMBLA at all (which is a real thing), but they can do the most damage just by plainly presenting the facts of this nutso organization.
Today, hardly anyone under 30 has any idea who Paris Hilton is. In certain cases, these "South Park" parodies brought a 16th minute to their window of fame, and it is the aftertaste that still lingers.įor instance, there's an episode from 2004 called "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset," mocking Paris Hilton. But if you look at it a different way, such episodes provide valuable insight into things pop culture once found important, and now are mostly asterisks and footnotes. So naturally, some episodes will feel dated.
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"South Park" has served as a more comprehensive record of the cultural zeitgeist than pretty much any other fiction-based TV series over the last quarter century. It didn't experience the perceived lapses in quality that has faded the legacy of "The Simpsons," and never got lost in the shuffle of too many Seth MacFarlane shows like "Family Guy." While "South Park" has produced its fair share of episodes that have not aged well, that can be largely attributed to creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone's penchant for timely social commentary. Approaching its 25th year on television, " South Park" stands as an utterly unique institution, even among the small crowd of animated comedies that have endured since the '90s.
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