To some degree, South Park has a simple formula that came from the very first episode [“The Spirit of Christmas,” which featured Jesus and Santa fighting over who owned the holiday]. There was Jesus on this side and there was Santa on this side, there’s Christianity here and there’s Christmas commercialism here, and they’re duking it out. And there are these four boys in the middle going, “Dude, chill out.” It’s really what Team America is as well: taking an extremist on this side and an extremist on that side. Michael Moore being an extremist is just as bad, you know, as Donald Rumsfeld. It’s like they’re the same person. It takes a fourth-grade kid to go, “You both remind me of each other.” The show is saying that there is a middle ground, that most of us actually live in this middle ground, and that all you extremists are the ones who have the microphones because you’re the most interesting to listen to, but actually this group isn’t evil, that group isn’t evil, and there’s something to be worked out here.
Except when it comes to Scientologists. They’re all fucked up.
A fentieket Trey Parker mondta a Reason Magazine exkluzív cikkében, ami a legjobb ilyesfajta interjú, amit valaha olvastam. Ott van ez a két lelazult arc, és ott egy riporter, aki nem kérdez sokat, de azt jól, és hagyja őket beszélni. Nem csak South Park fanatikusoknak kötelező elolvasni, hanem annak is, aki kicsit bele szeretne látni az amerikai kultúrába, vagy mibe. A srácok cenzúra nélkül sztoriznak a kicenzúrázott Mohamed-részekről, a szcientológusok, keresztények, és az átlag amerikai hülyeségéről. Élvezet olvasni.