The problem with a poop

A person can never really ignore the video of Roseanne Barr, a cigarette stuck in her right hand, screaming that she "thought the bitch was white". The actress's explanation for her blatant racist tweets about former Obama administration advisor, Valerie Jarrett, has only made matters worse, proving without the shadow of a doubt that the woman that America had once considered her blue-collar neighbor blue was actually a ball of hardened hate. No matter what her choice of words, her basic way – the trembling of the body when she cursed between her first and second bellows for "thinking that the bitch was white", the squinting of the eyes, then a full plate, wide-eyed, Gesticulation violent of his hand without a cigarette – is that of a frightening person. A child would not feel comfortable with Roseanne, forget the viewers more and more affected by sitcoms.

Of course, they fired it. She had become what showbiz types call "a responsibility" and everyone calls "mad mad" and keeps her in the limelight. Roseanne That would have been more disturbing than it was worth, so ABC's executives disenchanted her to utter all the insults she loves of her time. In most cases, the sequence of events would not be so shocking. A person does something wrong for herself and her employer, she is punished for it and, to the extent that it involves a dismissal and not a jail sentence, it is under the Constitution. But as we are now living in a permanent state of the opposite day, where evil is good and lawful, it is a violation of the rights we have conferred on God, Roseanne's ouster was to be a blow to freedom of speech and freedom of expression.

Same thing for Brett Kavanaugh, but not at all. He also encountered professional opposition during a major turning point in his career. Only he suffered no consequences, except for a widely televised interview during which he sniffed on his father's lovely calendars before accepting the US's apologies. United to have it almost held responsible. for his actions. This week South Park Everyone loves Christmas, Mr. Hankey, at the test of a dishonored public figure, who tries to join Barr's story with Kavanaugh. Like everyone else living in America, they are concerned about the issue of causality, whether the things we have have ramifications and if they should. Trey Parker and Matt Stone demonstrate simplicity, mingling with SCOTUS's audacious nomination auditions only to make us understand that giving leniency to bad people is detrimental. "If you defend the shit, let's learn, you're stained."

Not worried that we are in mid-October ("Restoration Hardware decorated its decorations two weeks ago!"), Mr. Hankey came to town to spin the wheels of his annual Christmas show. He loves the old hidden, but he is returning to a modest budget and a changing world that expects the Christmas entertainment to give everyone else something to savor. These and other factors – Hankey shares Roseanne's classic excuse for associating his Ambien with social media, a deflection of Twinkie defense if ever there was one – to incite Hankey to launch shocking and offensive tweets during his hours off work, and finally his dismissal from the program.

It is only when Kyle commits to protecting Mr. Hankey's reputation that this episode becomes a statement of its own and is not limited to an overview of recent events. Sarah Silverman, who spoke of the ambivalence she felt when learning this intimate friend, Louis C.K. was revealed to be a serial sexual stalker. Kyle wants to believe the best of his friend in the same way that he wants to believe the best of people, and the lesson he makes of himself a sucker leaves a bitter aftertaste. Any implicit cynicism has amply proven to be justified by real life and, moreover, consistent with the South ParkThe policy of sneering at everyone.

"The problem with a poop" may well be one of the clearest episodes of the season, if not the sequel to the final scene on the play on words in the title. Once Hankey is effectively "canceled" by the people of South Park, he leaves South Park we are also moving towards a new horizon where nobody cares about anyone's offensive. It is finally Springfield, where Mr. Hankey spent some insatiable moments as an intellectual property lawyer with Homer Simpson and his cohorts, the most important being Apu. The program gave the impression of not responding to the caricature-isation of his resident Squishee-slinger earlier this year, and now takes him unprepared at the release of this episode. Everything is quite rich, coming from a series that always has a black character named "Token", but The simpsons committed the cardinal sin of Parker and Stone: take care of him. Responding to criticisms against them, even erasing them, scans a sign of weakness in the ruthless PC world South Park. Breaking jokes means never having to say that you are sorry. Wait, is it possible that these guys could sympathize with Roseanne?

• When Kyle tells his friends that "I want to stand next to my friend" after deciding to help Mr. Hankey's cause, Cartman is the unlikely voice of reason: "Hm. Let's see how it goes for you in 2018. "

• Stone and Parker open up a shot of the local school, with shooting sound effects and panic screams in the background. We do not know exactly if we are relapsing to the chronology of the first episode of this season or if it is simply the last school shoot of an ongoing series. What is probably the point.

• Unless Parker and Stone have a broader game plan for the sub-parcel of the quintuplets born in the marriage of the Principal Woman and Vice Principal of Strong Woman, it's like an albatross around a man's neck. episode with better things to do. While babies who have left the uterus in enveloping hues give a deadly gift that is quite fun for their parentage, the idea that reputable people sometimes do things that are not right is not a big revelation.