- BexGu
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Stan, Butters, Jimmy, and Kenny being amazing at Death Metal out of no where was funny as hell.
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- BexGu
- Jan 9, 2004
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South Park always get screwed with Matt and Trey try to do special episodes. The hate voice mailed CC played on the air after the April Fools Episodes was amazing.
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Oct 7, 2019 14:02
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- BexGu
- Jan 9, 2004
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Annnnnnnnnnnnnddddddddddddddddddddddd South Park has been banned in China
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South Park' Scrubbed From Chinese Internet After Critical Episode
After the "Band in China" episode mocked Hollywood for shaping its content to please the Chinese government, Beijing has responded by deleting all clips, episodes and discussions of the Comedy Central show.
South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone probably saw this coming, and to their credit, simply didn't care.
The most recent episode of South Park, "Band in China," has been generating loads of media attention for its sharp critique of the way Hollywood tends to shape its content to avoid offending Chinese government censors in any way whatsoever.
Now, those very same government censors, in the real world, have lashed back at South Park by deleting virtually every clip, episode and online discussion of the show from Chinese streaming services, social media and even fan pages.
A cursory perusal through China's highly regulated Internet landscape shows the show conspicuously absent everywhere it recently had a presence. A search of the Twitter-like social media service Weibo turns up not a single mention of South Park among the billions of past posts. On streaming service Youku, owned by Internet giant Alibaba, all links to clips, episodes and even full seasons of the show are now dead.
And on Baidu's Tieba, China's largest online discussions platform, the threads and sub-threads related to South Park are nonfunctional. If users manually type in the URL for what was formerly the South Park thread, a message appears saying that, "According to the relevant law and regulation, this section is temporarily not open."
The draconian response is par for the course for China's authoritarian government, which has even been known to aggressively censor Winnie the Pooh, because some local Internet users had affectionately taken to comparing Chinese president Xi Jinping to the character.
South Park's "Band in China" episode featured a pair of storylines critical of China. One involves Randy getting caught attempting to sell weed in China and getting sent to a work camp similar to those Beijing has been using in Xinjiang Provence to hold as many as a million Chinese Muslims for political indoctrination. (While he's at the work camp, Randy runs into an imprisoned Winnie the Pooh)
A second plot follows Stan, Jimmy, Kenny and Butters forming a metal band, which becomes popular and attracts the attention of a manager who wants to make a film about them. But then the script keeps changing so that the film can safely be distributed in China.
"Now I know how Hollywood writers feel," Stan says at one point while a Chinese guard watches over him and alters his work while he writes the script. Several shots also are taken at Disney, including a scene where Mickey Mouse shows up to make sure all his employees (other Marvel and Disney cartoon characters) play ball with the Chinese authorities.
The episode's critique has proved especially timely, in light of the controversy now swirling around the NBA. On Sunday, Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey issued a tweet expressing his solidarity with Hong Kong's pro-democracy protestors.
Although just a single tweet, from just one among thousands of NBA figures, the message sparked a deluge of criticism in China, where the Hong Kong protests have become a hot button political issue, with Beijing's propaganda apparatus going into overdrive to shape local opinion of the movement as anarchistic and untethered to legitimate political grievances. Chinese broadcasters announced they would stop airing Rockets games, and local sponsors pulled their funds from the team.
Fearing financial implications, the Rockets and the NBA have since retreated and disavowed Morey's comments — in precisely the same way South Park satirized.
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Oct 7, 2019 15:22
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- BexGu
- Jan 9, 2004
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The US government didn't ban those episodes. I think it was all Comedy Central.
Now I'm wondering how cool the FCC would be with Kyle's ending speech basically being "Political violence works!"
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Oct 7, 2019 20:13
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- BexGu
- Jan 9, 2004
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TBH I thought they would have already been banned in China for something. The fact that they weren't and are now because of specifically targeting China is amazing.
In the episode (one of em) they even started to mention the whole "harvesting prisoners for organs" thing but quickly (comedically) stopped.
They wen't aired but it was easy enough to find South Park online. The Chinese government now went through and block all mention of South Park any where on the Chinese internet. Like you can't type in "South Park" on a web search/store/whatever and get anything back.
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- BexGu
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I just can't believe they are not selling Randys "Taste like poo poo/ You won't care" shirt yet
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