Friday, September 14, 2012
South Park.
I recently watched an episode of South Park on netflix. I usually do not enjoy the show on comedy central mainly because I find it difficult to get into the show due to censors and commerical. However on netflix there are neither of the too. The particular episode I watched started off with a commercial about crack babies. The commercial was similar the ones about abused dogs so collection a video in slow motion with extremely hard breaking music in the background. However this commercial featured crack babies. A whole later in the show Stan a character in the show was so affected by this commercial that he could not resist going down to the local hospital and volunteering in the crack baby unit. Only to find Cartman another character leaving the unit. Cartman is known throughout the show for being a asshole for lack of a better word so seeing him volunteer was completely out of character for him, no pun intended. Later on in the show you find out Cartman was using the crack babies for a illegitimate basketball league in which he collected all proceeds. How horrible I thought to myself, until Cartman appeared at an educational institutional in which he showed interests in the schools basketball players and asked if he could use them for his basketball leauge. Cartman was turned away because of the inhumane he was suggesting. Until I sat back and analyzed the episode. Cartmans "business" was no different than what high schools and colleges do to their players. Granted the players are not addicted to crack and are babies but they are making money of the talents of players and paying them for rules they installed in the first play. I will continue to watch South Park for the way it makes me analyze not only the episode I am watching but the world I live in.
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