Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Changing the Name of South Park to South America

Re:Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Changing the Name of South... by kg on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @05:54PM (#49617672)

I watched the first 13 seasons of South Park as they aired and the post you're replying to feels like at least a sincere and reasonable interpretation of SP's politics.

What season is the Mr. Garrison storyline from?

Why is it insufficient to (assuming the poster isn't lying to us) watch SP for 20 years before drawing a conclusion about it and the creators? They owned up to not having watched recently before asking about whether things have changed. I don't understand the weird hostility in your post when they owned up to the limitations of their PoV.

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Re:Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Changing the Name of South... by Jtsummers on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @05:59PM (#49617739)

> What season is the Mr. Garrison storyline from?

It started about 10 years ago, when the person apparently stopped watching it, during the 2016 presidential campaign.

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Re:Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Changing the Name of South... by kyboren on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @09:58PM (#49619856)

> Why is it insufficient

It's not the voters, the party apparatchiks, (social) media barons, big-dollar donors--no, it's those pesky artists who are responsible for "normalizing and popularizing.. the current situation"!

Besides that, they indeed "owned up" that they hadn't watched it in over a decade. Not only would they plausibly have drawn a different conclusion if they had, but it's just a bit ridiculous to blame some TV series 10+ years ago for "the current situation".

Hence my comparison to Jon Stewart's contemporaneous departure from The Daily Show, which is a "media butterfly effect" I see more frequently blamed in Democrat-leaning circles.

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