“Some of their criticisms are ones that unite the left and the right. “They hate celebrities when celebrities try to tell us how to run our lives,” Gray says. But Parker and Stone only like to skewer powerful celebs, showing a surprisingly tender side to Brittney Spears, who in an episode has blown off her own head, but the music industry keeps making her perform. One common target is pontificating celebrities, like when Bono of U2 was revealed to be the world’s largest turd. Gray says Parker and Stone fit poorly in either the Democratic or Republic camps and places the pair on the political spectrum as “left-skewing libertarians.” Typically, each episode of the show culminates in a cut-the-crap, commonsense sort of moral - some version of “do the right thing” or let people make their own decisions. When terrorists attacked Imaginationland, our pint-sized heroes had to set things right before the U.S. One highlight was the three-episode 2007 arc that told the story of Imaginationland, a place where Gandalf, Charlie Brown, Count Chocula and all the inventions of human imagination live. Jonathan Gray, a media and cultural studies professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison, whose books include “Watching with The Simpsons: Television, Parody, and Intertextuality.” “As much as I love ‘The Simpsons’ and I think ‘The Simpsons’ is really important, I think ‘South Park’ has definitely done things that ‘The Simpsons’ haven’t,” says Dr.
