To be fair, they did’t say it was because of the shooting. The article is just baselessly implying that.
This time, however, the news came with a rare statement from creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone: “Apparently when you do everything at the last minute sometimes you don’t get it done. This one’s on us. We didn’t get it done in time. Thanks to Comedy Central and South Park fans for being so understanding. Tune in next week!”
I only remember one time when they were on comedy central where an episode was missed because they had a massive power outage or something. Wonder what the reason is this time.
Good point, it could just be a coincidence and more importantly if the intensity of the week got to the writers of South Park, well that is a pretty damn valid reason these days.
I just think it is indicative that South Park has found itself in this position in the first place. I think if the criticism of Charlie Kirk was more honest and less cynical it would hold up even after this act of senseless violence. It is the fact that the show didn’t really say much of anything conclusive, to the point that Charlie Kirk himself was hyped about being parodied on the show, that makes it age so poorly in the wake of this exposure of how far rightwing violence has escalated in the US.
A better written takedown of Charlie Kirk would certainly feel uncomfortable right now, but if it had substance it would have also had humanity in a way that I think would have made it way less awkward to rebroadcast the episode in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s murder.
A better written takedown of Charlie Kirk would have pointed directly to the likelihood of the cylicity of violence, of how the snake of rightwing hate is always eating itself in a self-perpetuating and self-annihilating ouroboros. Crucially it would have recognized, at least in passing, the crushing sadness and unnecessary loss for all those involved at the heart of this broken ideology even as it lampooned it (It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia walks this line in a much more successful fashion in my opinion).
This is the criticism that is necessary of rightwing ideology, that it SEEKS out and nourishes hate as an explicit objective, not as merely a means to power or as a vehicle of greed but as a deeply held belief system and South Park clearly doesn’t actually want to grapple with that.
To be fair, they did’t say it was because of the shooting. The article is just baselessly implying that.
I only remember one time when they were on comedy central where an episode was missed because they had a massive power outage or something. Wonder what the reason is this time.
Hint: The son of the owner of Oracle now gets to say just how much South Park can piss off people in power
Good point, it could just be a coincidence and more importantly if the intensity of the week got to the writers of South Park, well that is a pretty damn valid reason these days.
I just think it is indicative that South Park has found itself in this position in the first place. I think if the criticism of Charlie Kirk was more honest and less cynical it would hold up even after this act of senseless violence. It is the fact that the show didn’t really say much of anything conclusive, to the point that Charlie Kirk himself was hyped about being parodied on the show, that makes it age so poorly in the wake of this exposure of how far rightwing violence has escalated in the US.
A better written takedown of Charlie Kirk would certainly feel uncomfortable right now, but if it had substance it would have also had humanity in a way that I think would have made it way less awkward to rebroadcast the episode in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s murder.
A better written takedown of Charlie Kirk would have pointed directly to the likelihood of the cylicity of violence, of how the snake of rightwing hate is always eating itself in a self-perpetuating and self-annihilating ouroboros. Crucially it would have recognized, at least in passing, the crushing sadness and unnecessary loss for all those involved at the heart of this broken ideology even as it lampooned it (It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia walks this line in a much more successful fashion in my opinion).
This is the criticism that is necessary of rightwing ideology, that it SEEKS out and nourishes hate as an explicit objective, not as merely a means to power or as a vehicle of greed but as a deeply held belief system and South Park clearly doesn’t actually want to grapple with that.
Its unfortunate that South Park is increasingly finding itself fighting the exact same battles The Simpsons already won