South Park
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In 1996, riding high off the underground success of their first feature-length effortCannibal!
The Musical, Trey Parker and Matt Stone made like flesh-eating prospector Alferd Packer and headed West.
Until an episode like The Scoots comes along, that is.
To the rest of us, however, the premise and its cultural context take some figuring out.
The Scoots betrays Parker and Stones slightly blinkered vantage point from the SoCal hills.
But you didnt want to listen, and kept on being poor.
(Itsright thereonNetflix; I wonder if Parker and Stone have seen it.)
L.A.s a long way from South Park, after all.
Assorted thoughts and questions
South Parkhas a strange relationship to the basic concept of continuity.
Joecasting call, at once vague and specific.
(Additional note: Good Lord, am I old.)
