South Park

The television series I chose to write this blog about is South Park.  It may be vulgar and could be considered immature as it is a cartoon about 4 grade school aged classmates who curse like drunken sailors.  Stan, Kyle, Kenny, and Eric (better known as Cartman) get involved in all sorts of themes mostly pertaining to current events and usually dealing with the political, moral, and cultural implications of said current event.  Yes there are some great episodes that are meant to be nothing more than funny, but more often than not the show is used as a way to bring more coverage and several different points of view (which come from the different characters) to very important social issues.

South Park is another television series that has been nominated for and awarded several different Emmy Awards.  This is very interesting considering that there is no real acting going on (that doesn’t mean the creative process used to produce this show is simple).  As a matter of fact I think it would be more difficult to be nominated for, and awarded Emmy’s when the show is a cartoon and contains copious amounts of vulgar language and filthy behavior exhibited by the 4 main characters.

I feel that there are certain groups of people who refuse to watch South Park because of its inherent vulgarity, but the bottom line is that South Park addresses some serious social issues and it should definitely not be written off as a dirty cartoon for children to sneak around and watch.  I think that the creators of South Park (when they choose the topics for episodes) are very interested in opening people’s eyes to things they may not have been paying attention too, and it is interesting to see several different points of view about the same situation in a show that is about 22 minutes long before commercials.