The Deep End of South Park: Critical Essays on Television's Shocking Cartoon Series

Leslie Stratyner · James R. Keller

Jan 2014 · McFarland

About this ebook

No American television show of the past decade has been vilified as has Comedy Central's South Park. This is the show that has featured, in turn, a nine-year-old boy enmeshed in an affair with Ben Affleck, a maniacal Mel Gibson smearing feces everywhere, and the misadventures of Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo, a talking, bouncing, singing piece of poop. While it's not always an exercise in good taste, South Park is a socially significant satire that has also devoted entire episodes to interpretations of Great Expectations, Ken Burns' Civil War, and Hamlet. This volume explores the popularity and cultural relevance of South Park and its place as an artistically and politically worthy satire.

Ratings and reviews

I like south Park if I can't buy it and I like all of the characters pip is so cute and small and Damien he is a bit fat yk and cute at the same time cartman is fat but bad but funny all of the characters are funny sometimes btw it's nice

South park is so fun i can make the voice of Kenny

Anything associated with *South Park*...is pure awesomeness!

About the author

Leslie Stratyner, a professor of English at Mississippi University for Women, lives in Columbus, Mississippi. James R. Keller is a professor and chair of the English and Theatre department at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Kentucky. The author or editor of numerous works about popular culture, he lives in Lexington, Kentucky.