Missing The Point: South Park Edition

MSNBC: A U.S. Muslim group has issued a dire Internet “warning” to creators of the satirical animated TV show “South Park” over a depiction of the Prophet Muhammad in a bear outfit.

For those of you that missed the 200th episode, there two major themes: Tom Cruise deciding to sue the town of South Park for being called a fudgepacker while working at a packing facility that was shipping fudge to people and the fact that the boys couldn’t show the Prophet Muhammad to anyone without getting the town blown up by Islamic militants, even though Kyle and Stan point out that the prophet was depicted in a past episode… but that past episode was before Theo Van Gogh was killed in 2004 for including Muhammad in a bit of film… obviously the 200th pretty classic episode because they took a bunch of old bits from the last 199 episodes and rehashed them into one funny 30 minute gig yet still managed to get a blurb of “warning” and push back about it.

Of course, Revolution Muslim misses the point and proves yet again that South Park is more than a collection of low brow humor: they continue to pump out satire and social commentary on a regular basis in a way that is entertaining and uncomfortably pointed.


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