South Park cartoon's creators don't want to make more jokes at Donald Trump's expense
Vanity Fair (via Breitbart) reports an interesting development's come up with the South Park cartoon, as its creators don't want to satirize Donald Trump anymore:
All that aside, maybe it's time already for South Park to be retired from production, based on how in the past, they really did succumb to PC, recalling their failure to convincingly deal with the issue of the Danish Muhammed cartoons, and HBO later refused to broadcast the episodes in reruns regardless. No doubt, it wasn't the only time they caved to PC; there's bound to be plenty more. In any event, it's the kind of program that's been running too long, just like the Simpsons, which has gone on for far longer, and become an exercise in futility. Why have we gotten to the point where some TV producers don't get that sometimes, it pays to write up a conclusion to some series? It's just like how the serial fiction format of comic books led to a situation where the publishers don't know when to quit. That's something that has to change sooner or later.
In most ways, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are trying to look forward, nearly 27 seasons in. Take Donald Trump, now running for president for a third consecutive cycle and a subject (via series stalwart Mr. Garrison) in the long-running animated series. The pair tell Vanity Fair that they’re about done with satirizing the Republican candidate. “We’ve tried to do South Park through four or five presidential elections, and it is such a hard thing to—it’s such a mind scramble, and it seems like it takes outsized importance,” Stone says. “Obviously, it’s fucking important, but it kind of takes over everything and we just have less fun.” Parker adds, “I don’t know what more we could possibly say about Trump.”One can wonder if this means they realize Trump's far from the worst thing wrong with America at the moment, considering all the massive damage that's taken place practically worldwide under Joe Biden, and in the USA, they have a crisis of illegal immigrants committing horrific crimes, along with pro-Hamas mobs who're also anti-American, and the list goes way on. If South Park's producers really want to prove they're serious, maybe they'd be willing to comment more on these real life issues on their cartoon program?
The creators, also known for their Tony-winning musical, The Book of Mormon, reveal in our interview that South Park will not return until 2025, bypassing the November election. Part of this has to do with “waiting for Paramount to figure all their shit out,” Parker says. But skipping Trump? “Honestly, it’s on purpose,” Stone tells me.
All that aside, maybe it's time already for South Park to be retired from production, based on how in the past, they really did succumb to PC, recalling their failure to convincingly deal with the issue of the Danish Muhammed cartoons, and HBO later refused to broadcast the episodes in reruns regardless. No doubt, it wasn't the only time they caved to PC; there's bound to be plenty more. In any event, it's the kind of program that's been running too long, just like the Simpsons, which has gone on for far longer, and become an exercise in futility. Why have we gotten to the point where some TV producers don't get that sometimes, it pays to write up a conclusion to some series? It's just like how the serial fiction format of comic books led to a situation where the publishers don't know when to quit. That's something that has to change sooner or later.
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