Why is this a big story to me?
I don't have cable anymore. I didn't watch South Park much when I did. But, the fact that the show got a Peabody is fascinating to me.
We live in a nation that on its face is so puritanical (grossly so) that we can't see Janet Jackson's bare boob without freaking out and a presidential cabinet member has a statue of Justice covered up because one of hers is hanging out even though most of us fed off of one when we were babies.
We live in a nation where any explicit excretory or sex talk is banned from the radio and TV even though everyone poops and everyone has sex or we wouldn't be here.
So, what does it say that one of the most taste boundary-pushing shows on TV gets a Peabody?
I think it says that there are the enlightened few and then there's Joe six-pack, who can't bear the thought of someone else seeing or hearing sex or other "dirty talk," and sadly, seems to be running the show these days.
We live in a nation that on its face is so puritanical (grossly so) that we can't see Janet Jackson's bare boob without freaking out and a presidential cabinet member has a statue of Justice covered up because one of hers is hanging out even though most of us fed off of one when we were babies.
We live in a nation where any explicit excretory or sex talk is banned from the radio and TV even though everyone poops and everyone has sex or we wouldn't be here.
So, what does it say that one of the most taste boundary-pushing shows on TV gets a Peabody?
I think it says that there are the enlightened few and then there's Joe six-pack, who can't bear the thought of someone else seeing or hearing sex or other "dirty talk," and sadly, seems to be running the show these days.
posted by thesunwolf at 7:45 AM
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"The judges felt that it was a bold program that probably offends just about everybody at some point and in doing so reminds us that we need to be tolerant"
Yummy, couldn't have said it better myself. I think it's about time they get recognized for what they do. Satire is a valid form of dialoug. I'm sure Jonathan Swift and Upton Sinclair weren't popular in their time, but we see their pieces now as works of art.
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