“An animated sitcom featuring a crew of four potty-mouthed kids” (Jones 8) becomes the controversy on NPR:
Matt Stone and Trey Parker wrote and directed a black comedy called Cannibal! The Musical. A Fox executive saw the film and commissioned the duo to create an animated short.Finding a way to sneak black-market arms trading into a cartoon about fourth-graders from Colorado wasn't exactly a challenge: For Eric Cartman-South Park's resident racist, anti-semitic, power-hungrey sociopath- gun running is a more likely after-school job than a paper route. Sure enough, a promo for South Park's 14th season showed Cartman signing for a shipment of 500 AK-47's. Playing off topical events, explains Parker, is something that South Park writers try to do on a weekly basis.
This Audio Clip discusses Matt Stone and Try Parkers’ use of characters/kids to get their points across. The question is; are they able to get away with more if a cartoon says something rather than if a real person or adult?So here is my question, do you (Dr. Gournelos or any classmates) agree or disagree with this? Do you think they are using these kids as a scapegoat to make ridiculous clams or in doing this they are saying things that need to be said?Although this seems to a big controversy, in my opinion I am not sure that I agree with this.
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