In the exciting conclusion to this two-part blockbuster celebrating South Park's 200th episode, angry celebrities, violent ginger kids, and Mecha Streisand face off against the Super Best Friends and the South Park faithful. It is the second part of the 200th episode. But since then there had been protests, violence and threats over the depiction of Muhammad in cartoons in Europe. '201' is the sixth episode of Season Fourteen, and the 201st overall episode of South Park. The show had aired an episode including the prophet in 2001 without incident. In 2010, Comedy Central bleeped a South Park episode, “201,” that included a depiction of Muhammad. But unless all of us reject the kowtowing and the playing-it-safe, it absolutely has worked and will work again.
That’s not the inspiring, uplifting thing I want to say right now. In the episode titled 201, the second-longest-running animation series in the States and one of the most inventive, fearless and funny TV shows in the world hit the limits of free speech. (Already, one thriller about North Korea has been cancelled in advance.) It’s all aimed at any media corporation that looks at the headlines of shootings and hacking, thinks of the danger, however remote-not to mention the potential legal liability-and decides, you know what, not worth the trouble.Īnd it works.
The Sony hack was aimed at anyone considering another movie that might offend radicals. It’s aimed at anyone who reports the next story like this. The slaughter in Paris was aimed at every news organization that now has to decide whether to show the cartoons. Episodes: '200' and '201' This has to top the list because it is, as far as we know, the only episode of South Park to actually lead to (thinly veiled) death threats. Terrorism, by definition, is never just aimed at its direct victims. If speech rights only protected polite comments that everyone could agree with, we wouldn’t need them.Īnd no matter who you are or what you like, these attacks are also attacks on you.
In the 14 years weve been doing South Park we have never done a show that. Summary: The you-know-what hits the fan a 162 times when the citizens of South Park hear the word 'Sht' on the popular show, 'Cop Drama.' Boffo ratings have the executives at HBC plotting further. The uncensored ending speech of the episode 201 that was heavily censored by. But if you care about freedom, you don’t always have the luxury of defending monumental art. Starring: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Isaac Hayes, Eliza Schneider, Mona Marshall.