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There was a Futurama gag about that. I think in the episode with the mermaids... they pass by the Washington Monument, and then the Clinton Monument, which is the same design, but twice the size.
In the commentary, nobody said anything during that moment, and then one of them goes "That was a penis joke, by the way..."
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Too crude. And the episode where Cartman "pretends" to have tourette's is just plain rude and has taken from me the will to EVER watch that show again.
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If you can stand rape jokes on Family Guy, you can stand Tourette's jokes on South Park.
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*tsk* No SubGenius are you, Sean.
I love Futurama. So many geeky jokes! Family Guy isn't really my thing though. It can be funny but usually I can watch an entire episode without cracking a smile.
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"If you can stand rape jokes on Family Guy, you can stand Tourette's jokes on South Park."
Not to mention that Cartman's pretending to have Tourette's ends up biting him in the ass. And the fact that they took time in the episode to explain how the popular portrayal of Tourette's as nothing but a tendency to yell swears all the time is inaccurate. Of all the things on "South Park" by which one could be offended, I would think the Tourette's episode would be pretty far down the list.
And, to return to the previous topic, it seems important to point out that, for obvious reasons, penises and vaginas are the same shape, just inverted. So, if the outside of every skyscraper is supposedly a giant cock, doesn't that make the inside of every skyscraper a huge cunt? Just saying.
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Wouldn't it have to be the other way around? Otherwise, fucking would take some serious acrobatics. And Fred Phelps would have a coronary just imagining it.
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Eh...no, I think he's got it right...
Speaking of South Park. What other episode could feature "I made you eat your parents!" as a line by a character who actually in fact made someone eat their parents...and make it funny as hell instead of just sick? Somewhere deep in South Park is actual artistic genius, I'm sure of it...it's just buried beneath social commentary buried beneath faux-sophistication buried beneath sophomoric humor. (Which makes me laugh a lot.)
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My family is 90% catholic, and almost 100% homophobic, ( which is why I dispise almost every member of my father's family) so I was told that sex is something gay people do. So, naturally, I had to ask my aunt and her girlfriend.
My school's sex ed is plain disgusting. The teacher passed around a condom, and a diafragm, and asked for volunteers to have spermicide squirted on their hands. Gross.
It is not the episode that pissed me off, it IS the portrayal of Tourett's in popular culture that pisses me the fuck off.
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