8. Memes
Episode: Faith Hilling Love them or hate them, Memes are here to stay. The art of repeating a few bold words over a series of wacky cartoons or an animal's face and calling yourself a comedian. I personally have nothing against Memes as a whole, some are very funny but what is even more amusing then that is their shaky proliferation into popular culture. More and more companies especially online are catching on to this trend and producing woefully outdated imitations of popular Memes. This episode of South Park sees the boys trying to keep up with all the latest internet trends and constantly falling behind, much like the advertising industry. It is done well because it uses the template of Memeing to represent how fast times change and we are forced to grow up. The boys stick willfully to Faith Hilling and although they are tempted by other flashier Memes like Cat Breading or Taylor Swifting, they decide to remain true to themselves and stick with what they know. Faith Hilling also covers the dangers of Memes, with people being hit by trains and being killed. These visual jokes succinctly display the news media's ignorance of the topic and the panic-mongering that is so prevalent in modern society which news networks accomplish by assuming that all people of a certain age take part in these practices. To display just how ridiculous this is, by the end of the episode trains are appearing from seemingly nowhere, summoned by the very act of Memeing and of course the immortal words: Oh Long Johnson.