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Last Night Gay Me and My Gay Husband...

Dan Savage
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1
Ah, South Park. Making liberals feel good about laughing about lynchings and cripple jokes for 13 years.
on March 10, 2010 at 12:10 PM Report this
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home baked cookies?
on March 10, 2010 at 12:10 PM Report this
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ah, i just watched that one last week. fabulous way to treat Harely riders. they nail it.
onion on March 10, 2010 at 12:32 PM Report this
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That wasn't a lynching. That was a dragging (not quite to death, in the cartoon's case) via chain attached to a speeding car. It didn't work out as well for James Byr…

I was willing to give the episode a chance, but things halted completely for me at that point and never got back on track.
MaryL on March 10, 2010 at 12:34 PM Report this
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I'll try that James Byrd link again:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_J….
MaryL on March 10, 2010 at 12:37 PM Report this
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Don't sweat it, Dan-
surely the kid is used to the laughing/crapping thing-
part of the whole gay dad schtick
on March 10, 2010 at 12:37 PM Report this
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Pretty funny--entertaining, with a couple of LOL moments--typical of most of the gay-related SP stuff I've seen. (I don't remember any South Park lesbian-themed shows. Have there been any? I've hardly seen any new episodes since season 8.)
Timmytee on March 10, 2010 at 1:31 PM Report this
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Re: lesbians in South Park. Oh GOD! Ms. Garrison and Xerxes scissoring! I thought I had managed to scrub that image from my brain, and now you've brought it back up! Excuse me, I'm off to get some brain bleach.
Towanda on March 10, 2010 at 1:45 PM Report this
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Takes some balls for Libertarians to make fun of bikers. I admire their complete disregard for their comfort zones.
Dougsf on March 10, 2010 at 1:48 PM Report this
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Oh yay-ah! Scissor me Xerxes! SCISSOR ME TIMBERS!
UNPAID COMMENTER on March 10, 2010 at 2:09 PM Report this
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@1:

Are you kidding me? The one thing you can say about Parker & Stone is that they're equal opportunity offenders; they'll go after liberals just as viciously as they do conservatives.

Or did you not see "Team America"?
COMTE on March 10, 2010 at 2:52 PM Report this
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@11: But conservatives already felt comfortable laughing at cripple jokes, rape jokes and lynchings. The true breakthrough of South Park was passing this off as some kind of "meta-humor" that provided liberals with the cover they require to enjoy laughing at traditionally off-limits targets.
on March 10, 2010 at 3:05 PM Report this
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@7- They did that really early episode where the boys have a crush on the lesbian substitute teacher and they keep trying new ways to become lesbians (licking carpet, chowing on box...).
dwight moody on March 10, 2010 at 3:06 PM Report this
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@9 I doubt they're libtards. The episode where Officer Barbrady learned how to read showed their contempt for libtard god Ayn Rand.
The Amazing Jim on March 10, 2010 at 3:14 PM Report this
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@ 13, 8, 9: I'm going to be looking up those episodes in a few minutes--thank you.

@ 11: As for that fucking "Team America"--what a piece of shit. Worst big-budget movie I've seen in years, and biggest waste of $22 ever. One laugh and about two chuckles in the whole goddamned thing.
Timmytee on March 10, 2010 at 3:27 PM Report this
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@14 They're not libtards, they're leotards. At some point they figured "Hey, we're on Comedy Central, where most people get their news! We want a piece of that political relevance pie, too!" and the show's been utter horseshit ever since.
MythicFox on March 10, 2010 at 3:31 PM Report this
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gosh Dan we thought FAG was one of your favorite words.
on March 10, 2010 at 3:35 PM Report this
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Wow,that was really unfunny, and I used to like the show.
ian on March 10, 2010 at 3:35 PM Report this
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@15:

Well, yeah, I suppose, if you were foolish enough to PAY to see it...
COMTE on March 10, 2010 at 4:40 PM Report this
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I don't get it: What's the difference between "gay" and "gay fag"? I really am confused, and I'm not sure that I would get decent results from a web search.
on March 10, 2010 at 8:35 PM Report this
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@20: WATSH TEH FOCKING EPISOAD.
venomlash on March 10, 2010 at 9:57 PM Report this
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#14, there are lots of libertarians who can't stand Rand. Just like there are lots of Democrats who don't like Marx. People are different!
LJM on March 10, 2010 at 11:36 PM Report this
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@22: Will you morons quit equating Democrats with socialists already? I actually am a socialist (anarcho-communist, specifically) and it's fucking annoying to be constantly lumped in with the barely-left-of-center milquetoast nothings that make up today's Democratic party.
Reverend Tap on March 11, 2010 at 3:17 AM Report this
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this episode was complete and utter horseshit. i was already unduly offended by what the episode was suggesting before the lynching of emmanuel lewis - which, as someone mentioned, paralleled James Byrd's death far too sharply for me to be comfortable whatsoever.

it's good (i guess) that most people can take this shit with a grain of salt, but considering that i'd wager to say that South Park's audience is, by and large, twelve year old boys who get a kick out of the tastelessness of it all. and now they've been affirmed in their use of fag as a slur. /great/.
on March 11, 2010 at 11:17 AM Report this

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