Did anyone else notice that when Cartman was going on his V-chip enhanced foul mouthed barage, that it looked like a battle scene from many of the Japanimation martial arts shows. Especially one in particular Dragonball Z.
I mean of course it also had resemblances to the final scene between the Emperor, Luke, and Vader in Jedi. But, the part that really made it look like dragonball Z was on especially Cartman's final shot when the camera was in front and then it swong around behind him when he released his blast. Also, the saying longer sentences to get more powerful blasts was like how in Dragonball Z the characters have longer names for their more powerful attacks. Also, when Cartman would be "powered up" his hair would get all spikey. Just like in Dragonball Z.
What the hell are you talking about? There is only the correlation between the two questioning the method of fixing a problem superficially. In South Park, they chose to implant a V-chip into the most foul-mouthed individual child to teach a lesson to all of the other kids, it shocked him when he cursed. Being an implanted figure that would shock at the moment he felt the excitement of cursing, just cursing. In Clockwork Orange, Alex was 'treated' by a Pavlovian chamber of horrors. He was sit down in a theatre where the only thing he could see was the screen, his eyes were clamped open and eyedrops of liquid were dropped into his sockets after receiving a shot of TH-165 (?, something like that). He then was forced to watch rapes, assaults, murders, and Nazis. Now whatever came with that, such as Beethoven's Symphony Number 9, was also an added bonus to make him sick at the mere idea of these.
So if you wish to draw the distinction that South Park and Clockwork Orange are on the same levels of answering the question of superficially fixing an unwanted problem, then yeah. But there are a lot of books and many pyschological-sociological discussions upon these that Trey Parker could have drawn from. And there is still a differing point of view for the resolution, Alex was on the brink of insanity thus throwing himself out of a window and attempting suicide, the papers learned of who he was and what had happened and everything worked in his favor, his and only his. The author, the husband of the lady he raped, was put away behind bars, the doctors that appropriated the 'treatment' were behind bars and he could enter society again, more vengeful and hateful. Cartmen destroyed Saddam Hussein, this helped everybody in the town, on earth, and even helped Satan himself.
Pretty thin, don't you think?
I mean, by that measure South Park could equated with Bananas or Sleeper due to Stan and Wendy's love story, with 1984 due to Kyle and his Big Mother's relationship, and with Scatman Crother's role in The Shining due to Kenny sacrificing himself for the betterment of all the other characters within the story.
I think that the Dragonball Z reference was pretty obvious. I was jazzed by it because I'd only recently been watching that show, dragged into it by my roommate. Gotta give Matt & Trey props for a somewhat obscure riff.