The Wire vs. South Park

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Despite still haven't watched it yet, I'm quite comfortable voting for The Wire in this one.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

The Wire is amazing of course but you're way too hard on South Park man.

It's such an annoying and irritating pile of horsesh!t. Nothing but "HAHA CELEBRITY REFERENCE OMG HOW FUNNY!" "OMG SHOCK VALUE HAR HAR, WE'RE BEING "EDGY" AND "OFFENSIVE"!" and "HAR HAR RIGHT WING HAR HAR LIBERALS SUCK!" over and over and over...

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

The Wire is amazing of course but you're way too hard on South Park man.

It's such an annoying and irritating pile of horsesh!t. Nothing but "HAHA CELEBRITY REFERENCE OMG HOW FUNNY!" "OMG SHOCK VALUE HAR HAR, WE'RE BEING "EDGY" AND "OFFENSIVE"!" and "HAR HAR RIGHT WING HAR HAR LIBERALS SUCK!" over and over and over...

And yet Sneakers O' Toole is the pinnacle of comedic achievement?

Yes. It has so many levels of meaning to it and is a brilliant subversion of the expectations of the show. As I've pointed out before, note this in depth analysis: http://theconvictor.livejournal.com/76961.html

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

A pointless cutaway that one can read more or less however one likes by virtue of how devoid it is of any contextual meaning or significance is not a 'subversion of the expectations of' Family Guy. It is, rather, itself among the expectations of Family Guy.

The main joke, as someone else pointed out once, is that Brian, normally the calm and rational voice of reason, is introducing such an absurd, ridiculous and out of nowhere character. And in such a calm deadpan manner at that.

I haven't watched The Wire and don't really have any interest in doing so, so South Park by default.

lolz lolz lolz dumb teenager.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

The main joke, as someone else pointed out once, is that Brian, normally the calm and rational voice of reason, is introducing such an absurd, ridiculous and out of nowhere character. And in such a calm deadpan manner at that.

I guess I could conceivably be wrong about this, but I highly doubt that that is the only time that Brian has been the lead-in to one of the cutaways.

He actually quite rarely does, and when he does it's almost never something as absurd and out of nowhere as that was, or in a deadpan way.

I haven't watched The Wire and don't really have any interest in doing so, so South Park by default.

lolz lolz lolz dumb teenager.

You are 30 years old.

Yes. That's why I watch intelligent, intellectual and critically acclaimed TV shows like The Wire, not poorly animated garbage that relies on stupid pop culture references and "OMG SO EDGY" shock value, while promoting right wing filth some of the time.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I pointed out to dead0man that even if South Park is right wing 51% of the time and left wing 49% of the tine that still makes it right wing on balance. And since Hollywood is full of liberal hacks why should I bother with any show that's ever right wing? I prefer my entertainment all liberal all the time.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

The main joke, as someone else pointed out once, is that Brian, normally the calm and rational voice of reason, is introducing such an absurd, ridiculous and out of nowhere character. And in such a calm deadpan manner at that.

I guess I could conceivably be wrong about this, but I highly doubt that that is the only time that Brian has been the lead-in to one of the cutaways.

He actually quite rarely does, and when he does it's almost never something as absurd and out of nowhere as that was, or in a deadpan way.

I haven't watched The Wire and don't really have any interest in doing so, so South Park by default.

lolz lolz lolz dumb teenager.

You are 30 years old.

Yes. That's why I watch intelligent, intellectual and critically acclaimed TV shows like The Wire, not poorly animated garbage that relies on stupid pop culture references and "OMG SO EDGY" shock value, while promoting right wing filth some of the time.

Despite still haven't watched it yet, I'm quite comfortable voting for The Wire in this one.

My emphasis.

I have the complete series DVD set coming in the mail.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

South Park is Nickelback. I like that.

You are 30 years old and wrote an analysis of a single character on a cartoon show, you're in NO place to judge... none.

If you mean Sneakers O'Toole no I have not. I have linked to such an analysis written by someone else yes. Not the same thing.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

The first four episodes of The Wire have far more in quality than South Park's entire output.