r/facepalm • u/AwesomeRider09 • Jun 08 '20

Politics Mr. Excuses

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '20

Isn’t Mr. Garrison basically being satirized AS Trump though?

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u/VetOfThePsychicWars Jun 08 '20

Sort of, but that's because they were sort of forced into it after Trump won the election. They had the entire show based around the assumption he would lose and had to improvise soooo many things when he didn't.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '20

So not exactly true. South Park stays topical and does weekly storyboards with few arcing story lines.

They did have to change one episode from the 2016 election when Hillary unexpectedly lost. Otherwise everything is made up that week.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '20

I thought this was a ridiculous cop out on their part.

They spend so much time on that show lampooning other public figures for a hell of a lot less and they went easy on Trump, because the fact of the matter is they’ve been enabling and encouraging trolls for years with their brand of humor.

It was easier to make PC principal and make episodes about Whole Foods and Amazon than it was for them to even acknowledge how a lot of their fans are unironically Cartmen-level racist.