I am one of the apparently few who have not watched a minute
of TLC’s Here Comes Honey Boo Boo. After
seeing last night’s South Park, I
intend to do whatever I can to keep it that way.
Seeing resident fatboy Eric Cartman join the Rascal Scooter
brigade made for some big laughs, as well as biting satire on the cultural acceptance
of obesity in this country. But the most stinging barbs were directed at us,
for accepting such exploitative trash as Honey
Boo Boo as entertainment.
Through all the years of the show’s shocking gross-out humor
that would never fly on live-action television, I always just laughed it off as
typical South Park. But this episode
marks a milestone: this was the first time the series elicited a real emotion from
me, specifically despair.
Even in its (I hope) exaggerated cartoon form, the Honey Boo Boo content was horrific. Despite all the laughs (and Cartman gets a
lot of them), the episode still left me with a deep sense of sadness at the
state of America (though seeing the First Lady pound the crap out of Cartman
made me feel a little better; after all the awful things he’s done, it’s always
nice to see Cartman get his).
A clever subplot involved Avatar director James Cameron, who has made a hobby out of exploring the ocean floor, traveling to the depths of the sea searching for “the bar.” By bringing it back up to the surface (“raising the bar,” get it?), he hopes that America’s standards will return to an acceptable level.
If only it were that easy…
A clever subplot involved Avatar director James Cameron, who has made a hobby out of exploring the ocean floor, traveling to the depths of the sea searching for “the bar.” By bringing it back up to the surface (“raising the bar,” get it?), he hopes that America’s standards will return to an acceptable level.
If only it were that easy…
**I'll be back every week with reviews of each new South Park episode. Stay tuned!**
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