XPost: rec.arts.tv, alt.tv.south-park   
   From: pazuzu@1973.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 21 Sep 2024 20:05:45 -0700, Pluted Pup wrote:   
      
   > On Thu, 19 Sep 2024 09:06:42 -0700, Ubiquitous wrote:   
   >   
   >> With South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker recently revealing   
   >> the show's plans to skip the 2024 presidential election, the writing   
   >> was on the wall for their Donald Trump stand-in version of Mr.   
   >> Garrison. The beloved teacher-turned-presidential candidate first   
   >> appeared back in 2016, and he has made appearances here and there since   
   >> then. Nowadays, he splits time between his teacher persona and his   
   >> Trump persona, but it doesn't seem like that's going to be the case any   
   >> longer.   
   >>   
   >> The creators confirmed to Variety that they decided to push the next   
   >> season until after the election.   
   >>   
   >> Matt Stone: "We´ve tried to do `South Park´ through four or five   
   >> presidential elections, and it is such a hard thing to - it´s such a   
   >> mind scramble, and it seems like it takes outsized importance."   
   >>   
   >> Trey Parker: "Obviously, it´s f---ing important, but it kind of takes   
   >> over everything and we just have less fun. I don´t know what more we   
   >> could possibly say about Trump."   
   >   
   > South Park has poorly handled politics from beginning to the present.   
   > Their consistent policy is that politics must be cliches ONLY, no fresh   
   > takes, nor any spirit of irreverence.   
   > It'd be great if Current Events were removed from South Park, as cliche   
   > cascades become boring.   
   >   
   >   
   >> The decision to move on from Trump - as evidenced by South Park not   
   >> returning until 2025 - leaves Garrison's character up in the air. It   
   >> was hinted in the Season 26 finale that a return to playing Trump was   
   >> back in the cards, but that doesn't appear to be the case anymore.   
   >   
   > Maybe they're making a threat to bring back Garrison/Trump if Trump is   
   > elected.   
      
   It is very funny to read this thread at the end of 2025.   
      
   South Park has been the best main stream criticism of the Trump regime in   
   this first year of his return to office. Trey and Matt seem to be the only   
   ones trying to stand up to Trump's tyranny by mocking his vanity and   
   pointing to his blatant corruption and his obvious cronies who are really   
   running things in the executive branch.   
      
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