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'South Park' Creators in Web Deal
wunderhorn1 writes "Trey Parker and Matt Stone, creators of South Park, have agreed to do "39 short cartoons" for Macromedia, Inc.'s Shockwave.com. According the the New York Times article, Parker and Stone will "receive equity of less than 10 percent in Shockwave.com," which will apparently be run as a subsidiary of Macromedia. "
This deal has the potential to break Hollywood's grip on what gets seen on TV. How's that, you ask? Read the frickin' article I tell you...
This is not South Park on Shockwave.com. That has been done already. This is a new Parker/Stone series, done in 2-5 minute bursts, created with Flash. Shockwave.com is willing to give these two pretty much total creative control in return for their names with an option to sell.
Something new from Trey and Matt, with a guarantee of more vulgarity than South Park, is a way to pull in thousands if not millions of viewers to Shockwave.com. They can pretty much count on getting everyone who has watched South Park at Shockwave.com to check out the new series. South Park viewers have always been very net savvy. Remember South Park on Realplayer? Hell, a lot of you are probably still watching South Park that way. People who are willing to watch a 'pirate' copy of South Park in grainy Realplayer quality are probably going to be willing to watch this new series at least once.
And what if people keep coming back? Shockwave.com serves up more ads and makes more 'money'. The real cash here comes from Shockwave.com's option to sell the series to Hollywood if it takes off. Hollywood gets a proven series with a quantifiable following. Shockwave gets Hollywood Dollars. Trey and Matt get to swear as much as they want. Win-Win-Win
but if we were going to start cracking down on some of the garbage that passes as "entertainment" these days
Exactly who is "we," and why are we cracking down? And at exactly what point in your life did you decide that religion precludes humor? I mean, noone in the world is allowed to make jokes about your personal religion?
What is it about so many religious people that makes them so completely self-righteous?
And really, what exactly is it about Jesus that is supposed to relate to this pagan festival? It certainly has absolutely nothing to do with his birthday. Christmas is a hell of a lot older than Jesus, and his real birthday is a lot closer to Easter than it is to Christmas.
See, the joke with Jesus battling Satan is that it's a parable. You've studied the bible, you understand those. Christmas is an ancient pagan ritual which the Christians adopted in an effort to convert the pagans -- they came into northern Europe saying, "You have a spring festival and a winter festival? What luck, they happen to fall exactly on the days of the birth and death of the deity we worship. How convenient."
What exactly do eggs have to do with Easter? Nothing. They're symbols of fertility, the symbols of the pagan spring festival. What exactly do pine trees and gifts and Santa Claus have to do with Jesus? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
So the next time you're going on about, or listening to someone going on about, how the fetivities and commercialization are ruining Jesus' birthday, remember that the festivities were there first. Jesus was tacked on later.
It's also one of the best meditations on the nature of evil I've ever seen - "I'm going to bet on Satan, 'cause evil's stronger than good! (Time passes.) Hey, Satan ripped me off! That's, uh, like, evil..."
Fine, and we pity you as a brainwashed dupe of organized religion. Shall we throw a pity party for each other?Tom Swiss | the infamous tms | my blog
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