The animated American sitcom South Park represents all that is taboo. The show has become infamous for its crude (and dark) humor exhibited in portraying world events or topics and tainting with social satire. Furthermore, South Park’s use of humor is able to break boundaries, which restrict the public from the “dominant representations and rhetorical pathways [which] are seen as the only valid (or acceptable) discourse” (Gournelos, 197). For example, how open the show is with Mr. Garrison’s sexuality. Over the course of the show Mr. Garrison has undergone two sex changes, an alias (Mrs. Janet Garrison), and several different alterations to his character. The show has become famous, because of the bold messages encrypted within the story lines, giving viewers the real facts, in a comic light.
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