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South Park Responds to Being Banned in China for “Band in China”

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Re: South Park Responds to Being Banned in China for “Band in China”

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Post by i_am_nomad »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #62
artur_makly wrote: post #23

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I grew up watching SNL when Eddie Murphy was playing Buckwheat.. but that’s not the same as a real comedic attempt by a foreign power at satirizing us -;) there must be something online...

Maybe Russia will do it. I heard they have a 1:1 rip off of the Big Bang Theory. You can YouTube it, it looks obscure.

In the name of all that is holy, why would anyone rip off that show? It is literally the worst thing I have ever seen on television, excluding reality TV. And I say that as someone who grew up during TV’s dismal 1980s.

Re: South Park Responds to Being Banned in China for “Band in China”

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Post by AFascistWorld »

anm89 wrote: post #49

Is it fair to assume that this is all of comedy Central giving China the finger as well as just the south park team? I would imagine China would take this up to the producers? And I imagine Comedy Central is directly involved in the production/funding? If so that's a pretty awesome and hold move on their part. I could see this leading to other shows feeling compelled to choose a side as well. I hope it does.

I assume the GM of the Rockets felt he have to do something after he saw his player in this episode.

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Post by nbabitskiy »

anm89 wrote: post #56
c3534l wrote: post #34

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People are used to it and don't care about it anymore.

South Park was pretty nice to Obama overall and he had a decent ability to take a joke so I'm guessing he liked it. I assure you Trump does not like South Park. But at the end of the day it doesn't matter what they think. There would be huge outrage if a President tried to silence a satirical show. They wouldn't be able to get away with it.

I understand that any American president is not like Putin. However, you (as a nation) have a history of character murdering, firing for politically incorrect statements etc.

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Post by rqs »

bartread wrote: post #29
product50 wrote: post #24

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What are you saying? What is your point?

I agree: GP reads like spun/machine-generated content.

"machine-generated" because my English mode still cold. I'm learning English with RNN, it takes awhile.

Re: South Park Responds to Being Banned in China for “Band in China”

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Post by whatshisface »

licebmi__at__ wrote: post #37
bfm1982 wrote: post #28

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"I like the style when it fits my beliefs, but this comedy show is polluting discourse when I disagree with it"

Or this is how you get the creators apologizing through the characters -for almost half an episode- of being so stupid of equating climate change with a half man, half bear, half pig creature.

Hey, it's not like any political movement, pro-climate included, has ever been without some embarrassing missteps and overstatements. You could name anything, no matter how true or virtuous, and I could find you some wayward supporters who are doing more harm than good, and some arguments that only seem right if you focus on their conclusion.

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Post by [deleted] »

viscanti wrote: post #25
Waterluvian wrote: post #16

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I'm not saying they don't have a political leaning, but they often focus their energy and 22 minutes on showing just how wildly absurd a situation is. For me, that's a big ingredient in why they've stayed so entertaining.

They're also a big proponent of bothsideism. For some topics that makes sense (because there are two legitimate or legitimately absurd sides). For other topics it just pollutes discourse by elevating an illegitimate side.

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Post by thrower123 »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #58
anm89 wrote: post #51

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I don't know if I'd go that far. I'd argue South Park was at its peak for the first 10 seasons. This episode was awesome but there has been quite a bit of junk between now and then. Obviously just my opinion though.

Thr 2016 elections season was so darn good. Thats just my opinion as well. It became my favorite. I was never watching South Park like others did as it airs. I think shows like South Park you should have breaks on and then watch an episode or two on Hulu cause over time it does get tiresome. I can binge Family Guy and South Park but a lot gets lost compared to savoring it over time. Watched a lot of classic movies th…

Those are some of the worst episodes. Except maybe the Jakovasaur one...

They had built things up too much assuming a particular outcome, and when reality didn't pan out, they had to scramble to try to salvage something remotely coherent. They mostly did not succeed.

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Post by wei_jok »

If you cannot watch the episode (due to copyright issues with various countries), here is a link to the "Band in China" on facebook (note that it has been subbed in traditional Chinese): https://www.facebook.com/fighterstudiohk/videos/396572967928...

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Post by cm2012 »

product50 wrote: post #24
rqs wrote: post #22

I'm not a South Park fan, but that ban got my interested so I watched the episode (Yeah, that episode is banned in China and few "reposter"s has been warned for posting South Park related contents). Few days ago, a guy been sent to jail for 7 days because he was complaining the National Day military parade, saying something like "A civilized nation turn machine into soldier; a rouge nation turn soldier into machine".…

What are you saying? What is your point?

He appears to be a Chinese person who says China censors people too harshly.
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