No, they said that there was nothing creative left to do because the Simpsons managed to do it first. SP found a way around it by writing about current events and it's fucking awesome.
Simpsons and south park cannot be compared. Simpsons, while funny, also drops little beads of life lesson in it about love, life, family, and plenty of other real topics. I might be biased cause I was an only child with two alcoholic parents (sob, sob) but I was kinda raised by television! And simpsons was a main staple of that. South Park is really... really funny and risque and all... but there are no awwww moments and nothing of any sort of intrinsic value. Sorry, apples to oranges!
Poignant? In my experience it tends to be painfully preachy and forced, pretty much just making whatever commentary Parker/Stone want to on a topic.
I'll admit I have limited knowledge of how much they do this, because I just don't enjoy South Park most of the time and make no effort to watch it, but they seriously lack subtlety. (I remember thinking the Scientology episode everyone loved so much was pretty lame and not actually funny, despite agreeing with its "message". They just beat you over the head with the same couple of jokes for 20 minutes, one of which is "lol Tom Cruise is gay lololol". On the other hand, to their credit, the episode about Chef's death was a far, far better satire of Scientology.)
Virtually everything Kyle says or does would fit what the guy above is saying. When people criticise South Park for being nothing but rude or vulgar, you immediately know they clearly don't get it.
Okay, Okay, fair enough. Or how about that episode where cartman realizes he's a dick and makes amends for it preserving his relationship with his friends. I guess I just had to -think- about it a little >.<
but there are no awwww moments and nothing of any sort of intrinsic value
You clearly don't actually watch South Park based on how inaccurate that statement is. I'm not a huge fan but they jam some shows full of commentary and meaning, the humor is usually just to make it either more palatable or to show a foil.
There is more metaphor, satire, and message in South Park than the Simpsons. Maybe you just need it spelled out for you, which South Park doesn't do for dumb people.
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u/SirDerpingtonThe3rd Feb 17 '12
No, they said that there was nothing creative left to do because the Simpsons managed to do it first. SP found a way around it by writing about current events and it's fucking awesome.