Thumbs

Thumbs up to the West Wing for ending its 7 year run on NBC, but not before giving us a democratic president for the next 4 years. Sometimes, when you want to drown out the George W. Bullshit happening around you, its best to live in a television fantasy world where the Democrats are in power and the Republicans don't walk around eating people's brains.

Thumbs down to Southpark. Southpark has officially bottomed out. Once upon a time it used to be funny, intelligent, crass comedy, you know, hilarity for the sake of being hilarious. Now we have Trey and Matt the creators of Southpark, taking on the role of political commentators. In their attempt to make the show relevant and a "commentary on our times", they have begun to destroy the wholesome raunchy nature of Southpark which uptil now used to consist of nothing but fart jokes and redneck bashing, by infecting it with the virus of reality.

This tactic, in my opinion, has failed. Let's say you go to a doctor 'cause you have genital herpes. When you inform him that your balls are itching like crazy and it hurts like hell when you urinate, the doctor, instead of prescribing you some anti-itching and anti-urination-pain drugs, takes out a couple of sock puppets out of his desk drawer and uses them to graphically demonstrate the dangers of unsafe sex. That's how one feels when one watches Southpark nowadays. A feeling of being patronized, followed by acute ball-itch.

Is it really necessary for everybody in the whole wide fucking world to try and make a statement about every burning issue of the day? Am I asking for too much if I just want someone to make me snicker without trying to cram a rolled up life-lesson up my butt during the process? This attempt at increasing its own self-importance in the scheme of things has taken all the humor out of the show. Southpark is no more a bunch of cute kids with deliciously filthy mouths. Now it's a bunch of adults making an educational cartoon and imposing their so-called "politically incorrect" (or as it's colloquially known, indefensible) worldview on you with a supercilious condescension.

Gah Southpark, you shouldn't have tried to all grow up n shit. You were goddamn hilarious when you were a little kid who used to die a horrible death every week and get eaten by rats. Now you're just a fuckin' preachy-ass pain in the sphincter who's just not funny anymore.

Thumbs down to Lost. Fuck you for even daring to raise the possibility of the entire show being nothing but a lunatic's daydream. I haven't spent 48 hours of my life and more than 50 bucks in dvd rentals just to be told that there are no Others and that the Island is a giant psychiatric ward. And I'm not too sold on the entire thing turning out to be a reality show either. Get more creative, people, surprise me. In return I promise not to fast forward through the commercials.