Circuit-breaker '84, this is Megatron's rubber duck. We've got ourselves a Rodimus Convoy. Do you copy? Over.

I'm not going to sit here and bicker with you. I've made my point very clear and have nothing more to say on the issue.

I can't do anything to prevent hurricanes either but it'd be absurd to suggest I therefore shouldn't talk about them.

Basically neither you nor I even like South Park anyways so the best you can do is leave it alone rather than suggest it is corrupting hearts and minds.

In that case I'm... not sure what the point is?

Nobody should be taking their morals from South Park. You can't prevent people from doing it. It's an artistic work with fans. I don't think I'm off-track.

As far as I can tell you just of course'd the thing you were poopooing...

Also, this is starting to get a bit too serious for the shoutbox (though it already was)

"It's that they're internalizing the overall attitude that the writers display through the show's writing." Of course, that's South Park's "artistic" style. It's what South Park's audience wants, and that's okay.

You can probably finish the sentence "I got 50% of my sense of humor from" with the name of some fictional work.

And it still wouldn't be S.W.A.T.'ss or Grey's Anatomy's or South Park's fault.

The idea isn't that people are taking South Park's in-universe parody moral lessons seriously (though as Nevermore points out, you can't safely assume that isn't also happening). It's that they're internalizing the overall attitude that the writers display through the show's writing.

"People say" those people are right, and you should listen to them. We can't protect people from themselves, but you can advise them well.

So many medical disasters because someone took what they saw on a hospital show at face value.

So many people who think police and court procedure works like it does in Hollywood, and act accordingly. Sometimes to their own disadvantage, sometimes just to the frustration of well-meaning authorities.

People say "you shouldn't take your morals from a TV show" all the time, but regardless of how these people want things to work doesn't mean other people aren't doing it anyways.

And I mean, if you're looking for a 1950s conservative position on something, it's certainly that a TV show is rotting children's minds.

Conservatives are not hiding under the bed waiting to ruin... uh... Family Guy of all things? And like, nobody should be taking their morals from South Park. Expecting such things is impractical.

It was just the cartoon with those foul mouthed kids in the UK until that bubble burst after the movie. Reviewers joked the movies target audience would be unable to see it for the rating.

see also: "South Park." the show that poisoned a generation by teaching them "it's stupid to feel for other people."

'Take that! People who care about things!'

With Brian, he stopped being the voice of reason and started to be the right wing notion of a liberal, someone who's lazy, pretentious, doesn't work at anything, is every bit as abusive as the rest of the cast and only wins arguments with strawmen.

Of course, I stopped enjoying Family Guy around that time, so my bias is clear. XP

Is it because they changed or we changed?  Stuff that was charming, or at least, funny at first can get really annoying the longer you know a person... and I find that can go for fictional characters as well.

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One example is Family Guy where around season 8 Brian is suddenly reviled by everyone and has acted way out of character since.

My least favorite thing in fiction is when it changes hands so you get a author, writer or showrunner who hates a character or messes with a arc/layout.

You'll shoot yer eye out, kid.

I shot the sheriff.

han wasn't even in the movie until later

the stormtroopers shot first

Maclunkey

the correct answwer to "who shot first" will always be "Harrison Ford if he ever hears that hugging question again."

Han shot first. Plain and simple.

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"Here's a little---whatever. A little thing. A disclosure. An insight. Revisionism---I've always been fascinated by it. By the idea of a writer going back and altering things. Make no mistake: an edit is a profoundly aggressive act. As Froid once said, we grieve for the murdered word. If you want to get the measure of an author, don't look at what they've left on the page.... look at what they've taken away." -- Rung (MTMTE #28)

2021:

Perfection.

My plans:    2020: 

Our plans for 2020 were as amazing as Optimus Prime. But then 2020 came like Hot Rod.

Indeed....

"He who dies with the most toys wins."

Hey you, get moving, it's not too far, you're looking good so come as you are. Hey you, you never know what you'll see, when it's through that door with the 73.

Hey you, get ready, get on your feet. Get into gear and hit the street.

I recall number 73 (old british show) discussing the Transformers movie and had the presenters trying to transform a few figures, one argued his deflated beach ball was a Transformer too.

And he's a big ball, but he's not the biggest ball of them all. (That'll be Pulse Unicron.)

Trypticon so scared my Primus figure he turned into a ball.

King Nine, however, will not return.

Bass_X0 will return after these messages ^^^

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