| We hope you enjoy your visit. You're currently viewing our forum as a guest. This means you are limited to certain areas of the board and there are some features you can't use. If you join our community, you'll be able to access member-only sections, and use many member-only features such as customizing your profile, sending personal messages, and voting in polls. Registration is simple, fast, and completely free. Join our community! If you're already a member please log in to your account to access all of our features: |
- Pages:
- 1
- 2
| Bye, Chef! | |
|---|---|
| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 14 2006, 06:34 PM (345 Views) | |
| 8247 | Mar 14 2006, 06:34 PM Post #1 |
|
Apparently we look like this now
|
http://today.reuters.com/news/NewsArticle....umber=1&summit=
Cry me a river, Issac. I hope they get a celebrity impersonator to do Chef and make all sorts of crazy things happen to him. |
| Offline | Profile | | Quote | ^ |
| Fesarius | Mar 14 2006, 07:08 PM Post #2 |
|
Admiral
|
Scientology is in every one of my cult books. I have studied their beliefs somewhat, and know it's not for me. L. Ron Hubbard is still publishing BTW--years after he passed away. Not bad, eh?
|
| Offline | Profile | | Quote | ^ |
| captain_proton_au | Mar 14 2006, 11:14 PM Post #3 |
![]()
A Robot in Disguise
![]()
|
Satire needs to be funny to get us thinking. I saw the scientology episode, it was pretty weak |
| Offline | Profile | | Quote | ^ |
| somerled | Mar 15 2006, 08:00 AM Post #4 |
|
Admiral MacDonald RN
|
My sons really like that show, my daughter can take it or leave it, and my wife really hates the voices, and refuses to be in the same room when it is on. Personally, I don't think much of it and don't watch it often. And I think there is something very unfunny about it and about the Chef character. If he has left because he didn't like his "religion" being paid off, good ridence. |
| Offline | Profile | | Quote | ^ |
| HistoryDude | Mar 15 2006, 10:52 AM Post #5 |
![]()
Shaken, not stirred...
|
That show is disgusting, crass, crude, rude, over-the-top, bigoted, profane, gratuitous, filthy, and obscene. Bathroom humor and sex jokes are the amazing and wonderful extent of Stone and Parker's talent. Not that I think Hayes is a saint for leaving the show on such "ideolgical grounds." :rolleyes: You can be satirical and make fun of all kinds people in funny, fair, mild ways without being gross and still making poignant retrospections about society and the human condition (and still be just plain silly in the process, too). I'll point out Blazing Saddles, Dr. Strangelove, and Monty Python as classic examples (but there are dozens both older and more recent). 8-year olds throwing the F-bomb around doesn't cut it. |
| Offline | Profile | | Quote | ^ |
| Fesarius | Mar 15 2006, 10:54 AM Post #6 |
|
Admiral
|
Well, I've never seen it. I'm going to reserve judgement until I do.
|
| Offline | Profile | | Quote | ^ |
| Swidden | Mar 15 2006, 11:10 AM Post #7 |
|
Adm. Gadfly-at-large; Provisional wRench-fly at large
|
Southpark in its early years had some funny moments. I do think it is way past its prime however. Fesarius, If you really have never seen it, there is one episode you should watch for. The Southpark Mirror Universe episode. You could tell someone was from the Mirror Universe by virtue of the fact that they had a goatee. |
| Offline | Profile | | Quote | ^ |
| Fesarius | Mar 15 2006, 01:02 PM Post #8 |
|
Admiral
|
^^^ Really? I may look for that. Are there Trek references in it? |
| Offline | Profile | | Quote | ^ |
| somerled | Mar 15 2006, 02:31 PM Post #9 |
|
Admiral MacDonald RN
|
I think there have been , no one , and nothing , is safe when it comes to that show. They rip everyone and everything off eventually. |
| Offline | Profile | | Quote | ^ |
| HistoryDude | Mar 15 2006, 03:16 PM Post #10 |
![]()
Shaken, not stirred...
|
From what I know of your views and tastes, you don't have to. Trust me. |
| Offline | Profile | | Quote | ^ |
| Deleted User | Mar 15 2006, 04:26 PM Post #11 |
|
Deleted User
|
About time. South Park was shite after the initial novelty wore off. It's unfunny crap. |
| | Quote | ^ | |
| captain_proton_au | Mar 15 2006, 05:23 PM Post #12 |
![]()
A Robot in Disguise
![]()
|
Geez, Southpark has been going for 9 years! About 7 years too long |
| Offline | Profile | | Quote | ^ |
| Data's Cat's Sister | Mar 15 2006, 05:25 PM Post #13 |
|
Commodore
|
I think South Park is great. Great satire, and some of the most fairly balanced you'll see, not many people have the strength to make fun of the right and the left. I think it is such a shame that the Chef voice actor left on those grounds. I mean, he'd been in it for nine years, did he really not notice that they made fun of religion till then! :lol: |
| Offline | Profile | | Quote | ^ |
| 8247 | Mar 15 2006, 05:29 PM Post #14 |
|
Apparently we look like this now
|
Yeah. How dare they not exclude scientology? Don't Parker and Stone know that scientology is the only religion that gets a pass? :lol: |
| Offline | Profile | | Quote | ^ |
| Swidden | Mar 15 2006, 06:14 PM Post #15 |
|
Adm. Gadfly-at-large; Provisional wRench-fly at large
|
Bear in mind it tends to be a very crude show in a lot of ways. Definitely not a cartoon for children. However, there are times when there have been Trek references especially that Mirror Universe episode. The show draws on a wide variety of political and cultural sources to lampoon. |
| Offline | Profile | | Quote | ^ |
| Go to Next Page | |
| « Previous Topic · Ten Forward · Next Topic » |
- Pages:
- 1
- 2






2:00 PM Jul 11