15 Important Life Lessons We Learned From South Park
9. Swearing Is Meaningless
If theres something that South Park is known for, its the little beep interspliced into the 8-year-olds speech. Yep, thats a curse word. Parker and Stone hate censorship with a passion. It mutes comedy. But put that with the antithesis of moderation and you have It Hits The Fan. The town is excited as a television show is going to break grounds and say sh*t just once. It sparks a sensation and from the beginning of the episode the censors are lifted and the sh*ts are counted totalling 162 instances of the word in the end, which is 8 times a minute. Naturally, the word loses all meaning by the end, and the allure that was previously attractive now seems, well, sh*tty. Not only that but as a clear satire on censorship in general, the people of the world start to become sicker and sicker as the curse words are revealed to be, surely, cursed. Like a word can corrupt a society so much. See their movie South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, which directly hits the smut of swearing and the overblown reaction to simple four letter words which sparks a world of violence. Swearing is truly meaningless in the world of entertainment, as theres much bigger problems.
Recently graduated from University of Hertfordshire with a Film & Television Production degree. Usually found watching films, listening to music, writing for whatculture and writing reviews for awardscircuit.com and my blog.
