{"id":1411,"date":"2014-12-29T16:17:28","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T16:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/cher-on-south-park\/"},"modified":"2023-02-20T08:20:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T15:20:55","slug":"cher-on-south-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/2014\/12\/cher-on-south-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Cher on South Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sonnycher\"<\/a><\/strong>Mr. Cher Scholar has just gotten into South Park <\/em>so we\u2019ve been watching rerun episodes so he can catch up on ten years of pop culture.<\/p>\n

I hadn’t watched the show in years but I remember the Cher satire: South Park police playing \u201cBelieve\u201d in a Waco-like attempt to drive the holed-up cult members insane. They call “Believe” really bad music and insist, “Nobody can stand this much Cher.” But hilariously, the closeted Mr. Garrison loves the song: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4t3tB9o5TqY<\/a><\/p>\n

Before Christmas I saw that South Park<\/em> also did a breakout riff on The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour<\/em> in a very funny mash-up with Terrance & Phillip on the episode \u201cTerrance & Phillip: Behind the Blow\u201d from 2001.<\/p>\n

I captured it on my camera. Higher quality link to .wmv: http:\/\/www.cherscholar.com\/tandpsandc2.wmv<\/a><\/p>\n

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If I were to describe South Park<\/em>, I would say it\u2019s one of the best animated shows ever produced, consistently hilarious and well-written morality tales. The creators have impressively tackled movies and Broadway. It’s easy to appreciate well-rounded characters like Randy Marsh and Shelly (who’s hardly ever on but is one of my favorites), the eternally frustrated Mr. Garrrison, and the goodhearted Butters. And although the show is socially (and verbally) liberal, its creators are decidedly not. Occasionally they go a bit conservative for me. Combined together I’d say they skew overall middle-to-conservative politically. The Huffington Post<\/em> does a good article on trying to determine the political bias of the show and the complications: http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/02\/25\/matt-stone-trey-parker-ar_n_475744.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Speaking of conservative, I came across a conservative blog complaining about Cher\u2019s tweets<\/a>.  The article is called “The Unbearable Whiteness of Cher” and it sits on the Tea Party News Network. So rest assured there’s a gratuitous amount of name calling in the article: Goddess of Botox, Queen of Plastic Surgery, dimwit, tool… My two cents:<\/p>\n