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    When I discovered South Park studios, I legit stopped pirating south park. It was great. Good (enough) quality, access to every episode afaik, and easy to use. Then they switched to Hulu for sps and it went to shit: ads, videos failing to load, ads failing to load in the middle of the video causing it to reset from the beginning, only a few seasons available at any particular time, etc.

    Fuck all that shit.

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      It’s especially funny given what Trey Parker and Matt Stone said when they started the South Park Studios site in 2008. From the press release announcing the launch:

      When asked about the launch of the new site, Stone and Parker said, “We got really sick of having to download our own show illegally all the time so we gave ourselves a legal alternative.”

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      I remember that. Deleted all the seasons I had to free up hard drive space, since their website was so good. Ended up being another valuable lesson on why I need to self host my own stuff even if convenient alternatives are available.

      Nowadays I never trust a company not to pull the rug out from under me.

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    So dumb, the episodes exist and can be watched without much hassle. Why even ban them? It’s not changing the fact they exist and some of the best episodes.

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      Because most people people are stupid, emotional animals that couldn’t critically think their way out of a paper bag.

      It’s the answer to SO many questions.

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    The audio on Ghosts (UK) still doesn’t work on the app, and I have to watch it on the web. Only that show, too.

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    The stupidest censorship I’ve seen like this is Community’s first DnD episode. Chang dresses up as a drow and that is considered “blackface” even though they address it in the episode that he isn’t black but a drow. So goodbye episode on streaming.

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      Do you think this isn’t an obvious reference to blackface? The joke doesn’t make sense if blackface had never been a thing, so it’s a joke about blackface. And that’s bad.

      Community is my favorite show and this episode is fantastic. But pretending it’s not blackface just because “he’s actually a drow!!!” is so stupid.

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        It is a setup to a joke about how anything vaguely similar to a terrible thing is assumed to be the terrible thing, and that Change is too clueless to catch on.

        The drow makeup is not blackface any more than black face camo is blackface.

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        Haven’t seen the episode, but it seems clear they’re making fun of blackface.

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          You’re right but it seems like most people still missed that as the majority of comments think the joke is that it isn’t blackface (rather than very clearly too close to blackface and Chang, somehow, not registering that).

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      they could have avoided this crap by just choosing grey. drows and variants come in various shades. it’s so fucking stupid

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        The joke wouldn’t work as well if they did that. They joke about blackface, so you need black. This doesn’t look like a black person does anyway, so I don’t see how gray would make it better.

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          They joke about blackface, so you need black.

          Yeah, making a racist, bad take joke was so worth it. It surely wouldn’t have made Shirley look out of touch that way, making a different joke that wasn’t as SUPER EDGY.

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              I guess I’m out of touch with the race politics jokes of 1890s, so the parody seems out of time for me.

              EDIT : Maybe if they threw in a tin pan alley, player piano or travelling curio joke, I’d have gotten it a bit better.

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                Well, the first problem is that you think the Drow makeup is blackface or that Shirley being out of touch is a bad thing. Shirley’s character was out of touch initially and she developed over time as part of her character arc. Yvette Nicole Brown knew it wasn’t blackface and that the joke went over some people’s heads.

                Cast member Yvette Nicole Brown mentioned that it did not seem the joke was understood by those criticizing it, as there was context that in her view made it different from blackface.

                The joke was that it was a passing resemblance, Shirley makes an assumption, and everyone else moves on because it isn’t actually blackface. This is very different from the other shows like 30 rock and always sunny where the characters were in actual blackface while mocking blackface. I still think those shouldn’t have been removed since they were mocking blackface, but this is completely different.

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                  OK. Let’s break it all the way down explicitly.

                  The joke is that Chang’s character is in Drow makeup, and because Shirley is out of touch with games, she thinks that the Drow make up is blackface.

                  The depiction of the Drow makeup has chosen an “ambigious” shade of black/grey that made it seem to some viewers or people who want to see it that way , as blackface, in real life, not as a character in the show. This caused problems.

                  The suggestion, is that if they chose grey or some other ashy shade , and or gone more elaborate with the make up, like red contacts, or pointy ears, they could have done EXACT joke, but made it not “ambigious” and avoided the heat that the episode has actually gotten.

                  I would even say that having a LESS blackface looking make up would further accentuate Shirley’s out of touchness, making it funnier, as it would be more ridiculous that A) She would think that make up is blackface and B) Shirley thinks that’s what Chang thinks making himself look like a black person would entail, red eyes and pointy ears and a non human shade of darkness.

                  Furthermore, expanding on my other point which was not adressed in your post :

                  I guess I’m out of touch with the race politics jokes of 1890s, so the parody seems out of time for me.
                  Maybe if they threw in a tin pan alley, player piano or travelling curio joke, I’d have gotten it a bit better.

                  What the fuck are it’s always sunny et al doing making fun of this outdated shit in the first place? Did they get that mad at Spike Lee making Bamboozled and using blackface as an analogy of people acting up to stereotypes to get ahead in life , that they had to address it as a commentary on blackface, an “artform” from the 1890s as a target?

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      I mean, I guess if you’re a drow and see this, you might be offended.

      Not because it’s drowface, but because it’s a human, therefore not drow, and thus is beneath the drow.

      They kind of have an extreme isolationist, and borderline racial superiority thing going on.

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        But they are also praying to a giant spider and kill their own children, so not exactly nice people.

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      Oh, man. A Drow in a long-sleeved Guayabera. That’s an insult to my Cuban heritage. Keep it banned. /s

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        He’s one of those weird seldarine drow that hangs out with the humans.

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      Reminds me of how that musician Michael Jackson did whiteface 😮‍💨 I was beyond offended, we need to address behaviour like this more often, absolutely deplorable.

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        Michael Jackson had a skin condition called vitiligo, which causes patches of skin to lose their pigmentation, resulting in a lighter skin tone. He used makeup and skin-lightening creams to manage the appearance of his skin, which led to public speculation about his changing appearance. He never did “whiteface”, his face was literally white.

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    Imagine going to thrift stores for 15 minutes after work and ending up with all of these on DVD?

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      Imagine going straight home after work and steaming whatever you want instantly because you have Stremio + Torrentio?

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        Imagine pirating all that, not paying for it, AND having Blurays?

        What else are you doing with those 15 minutes, working on world peace?

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          Well with Stremio you don’t need to do that, because it’s laid out like Netflix. That’s why I prefer it over Plex; no downloading, no transferring files over (and if you add a Debrid service to the mix, no waiting on seeds, either). Just pick what you want to watch with your TV remote and enjoy. It’s convenient enough that your Boomer parents could navigate it with ease.

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      Problem is shows like “it’s always sunny” that i wanted to do this with, stopped making physical dvd releases after like season 10. Disney + also removed a bunch of episodes for “being offensive” which if that worries you, why are you watching its always sunny?

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      ¥You sucked it out of a garden hose huh?"

      I mean at this point, why even allow South Park to be streamed at all? The whole point of the show was deeply offensive tomfoolery and the social commentary.

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          And Cartoon Wars, on this list, simply referenced showing Mohammad. They tried to get it on but Comedy Central cut that scene, so the final cut of the episode just had a blank screen during the moment that Mohammad was supposed to be on screen.

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    Never watched this show, but isn’t the point of the show basically to be saturatingly offensive? Why would you remove a shotgun-scatter subset of episodes?

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      They were always riding on the edge of being censored by the network. In some cases the network literally censored them right before airing (the Muhammed episodes) and in others they were just restricted after the airing (like the list above)

      And Paramount also probably has a slightly different “that’s still ok” standard than comedy Central had/has

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            Nothing is wrong with Big Gay Al.

            Most likely there is some misunderstood joke in the episode that is getting the whole episode pulled. The football game announcers have a banter about one saying unacceptable things and it is probably one of those, but instead of censoring the one thing they just pulled the entire episode.

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              I did some googling, apparently its a holocaust joke that most networks are scared will attract litigation.

              Most of the other banned episodes are due to jokes about real life child death or acts of terrorism that the studios are concerned will either attract litigation or copycat killers.

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                Censoring the one joke instead of banning the entire episode including the overall positive message about acceptance would be a far better approach than this bullshit.

                Clearly they don’t understand that the show is mocking the character who says the holocaust joke, but at least they wouldn’t be dragging down everything else that is good with their overreaction.

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          Omg they must’ve felt so good when they got that domain name back when URLs mattered