Cartman, Kyle, Stan and Kenny in the gleefully offensive South Park !
US cartoon comedy South Park has started its new series in typically offensive style – by showing Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett and Patrick Swayze in purgatory.
“I See Dead Celebrities” is the first episode of the long-running show’s 13th season.
Its creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker are no strangers to controversy – one episode, “Trapped In The Closet”, which hinted that Tom Cruise was gay, was pulled by the studio, reportedly after complaints from the actor.
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Similarly, an episode from the 12th series which showed Steven Spielberg and George Lucas raping Indiana Jones – Stone and Parker’s way of saying they were unimpressed with Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull – caused uproar in Hollywood.
Nonetheless, some commentators are saying that the new episode is a “new low”.
“It's not only tasteless but this episode just adds to the sadness currently experienced by all the mourning relatives,” says Sue Bergerstein, an arts and celebrity writer on Examiner, a US magazine.
The show depicts many of the celebrities who died over the summer – Jackson, Fawcett, and Swayze, as well as Billy Mays, David Carradine, Walter Cronkite and others – trapped outside heaven.
The characters Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny have to help them after the ghost of Jackson possesses Kyle’s little brother Ike and forces them to take him to a child beauty pageant.
Not everyone is as shocked as Miss Bergerstein. Blogger Ken Tucker at Entertainment Weekly's Watching TV says the show is not mocking the dead, but “the endlessly haunting media coverage of them; excessive piety; and crass exploitation.”
“Am I a bad person for finding it so funny?” he asks.
Its creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker are no strangers to controversy – one episode, “Trapped In The Closet”, which hinted that Tom Cruise was gay, was pulled by the studio, reportedly after complaints from the actor.
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South Park in rape row
Similarly, an episode from the 12th series which showed Steven Spielberg and George Lucas raping Indiana Jones – Stone and Parker’s way of saying they were unimpressed with Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull – caused uproar in Hollywood.
Nonetheless, some commentators are saying that the new episode is a “new low”.
“It's not only tasteless but this episode just adds to the sadness currently experienced by all the mourning relatives,” says Sue Bergerstein, an arts and celebrity writer on Examiner, a US magazine.
The show depicts many of the celebrities who died over the summer – Jackson, Fawcett, and Swayze, as well as Billy Mays, David Carradine, Walter Cronkite and others – trapped outside heaven.
The characters Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny have to help them after the ghost of Jackson possesses Kyle’s little brother Ike and forces them to take him to a child beauty pageant.
Not everyone is as shocked as Miss Bergerstein. Blogger Ken Tucker at Entertainment Weekly's Watching TV says the show is not mocking the dead, but “the endlessly haunting media coverage of them; excessive piety; and crass exploitation.”
“Am I a bad person for finding it so funny?” he asks.
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