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The royal family

Harry & Meghan savaged by South Park

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sydneysunset · 17/02/2023 10:30

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/south-park-mocks-meghan-and-harry-and-their-high-profile-pleas-for-privacy-btkq9g2mg

Their standing in the US is at an all-time low. US audiences seem to hold them in the same contempt as people in the UK

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notanotheroneagain · 17/02/2023 18:53

@StormzyinaTCup

At least you didn't call me all sorts of names out of the blue😄

BMW6 · 17/02/2023 19:01

notanotheroneagain · 17/02/2023 18:40

Since when does anyone ever look at someone's mouth to see that they are an empty shell?
Even previous posters saw this as opening her head and finding nothing - an airhead. That is what they presented it as.

Have heard of someone looking into your eyes for what is inside, never in your mouth. Ever.

What a ridiculous excuse !

You can do anything in cartoons, because they are NOT REAL, so your observations are, frankly, ridiculous!

I watched it today and thought it was spot on. I also really enjoyed the Wedding of W&K as Canadian royalty, great lampoonery of Traditional Royal etiquette!

Also love how they rip the piss out of gender changing, Politics, Racism etc etc.

When DH cooks he can be "Randy" - creme fraishe........ and I got him to watch it and laugh at himself.

IcedPurple · 17/02/2023 19:13

notanotheroneagain · 17/02/2023 18:40

Since when does anyone ever look at someone's mouth to see that they are an empty shell?
Even previous posters saw this as opening her head and finding nothing - an airhead. That is what they presented it as.

Have heard of someone looking into your eyes for what is inside, never in your mouth. Ever.

What a ridiculous excuse !

Next you'll be complaining that real people don't have bright yellow skin and don't stay exactly the same age for decades like they do in "The Simpsons".

Tontostitis · 17/02/2023 19:19

I particularly liked H rubbing his frozen blue todger on the window whilst demanding privacy, excellent satire.

InstagramLovingBitchWife · 17/02/2023 19:20

The running theme in the episode is the "brand" mentality adopted not only by
The Prince and His Wife, but also by those onlookers to their shenanigans - in this case, Kyle. He realised he was losing his friends with his obsession. And that "branding" essentially limits you, such that you take your brand to stupid extremes, until people completely switch off from you. And then you have to rebrand again to get attention. The more you rebrand, the more you become an empty vessel (hence The Prince looking to see what was inside the Wife, who had been rebranded many times, and realising there was nothing inside). In contrast just being yourself and having real friends and real interactions is a winning formula, because you can't emulate what is genuine. Kyle learned the lesson that he could be annoyed with the Prince without having to completely change who he is, lose his rational mind and become a victim. The Prince learned that he didn't need to brand himself to get privacy, he just had to live the life he was asking for and get on with being himself. It's such clever writing.

The looking down The Wife's throat thing is a visual metaphor for looking inside someone to see if they have any substance and soul. It is not a depiction of decapitation or any other sort of violence. But the fact that it has been stated to be such proves the writers' point about branding most admirably. If your brand is to interpret everything said or done as a potential act of aggression towards a person or group of people, then the natural end point is completely misinterpreting a cartoon that has run for 26 years - throughout which Canadians are portrayed as having a hinged mouth (in order to differentiate them from Americans) - and saying it depicts a violent image when that cartoon Canadian is a black princess.

wishingyouwell · 17/02/2023 19:25

Seemed to have backfired though as a very unflattering hashtag was trending for Prince William yesterday.
Seems the creators of SP knew of William's wandering eye a long while back.

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 17/02/2023 19:26

SirChenjins · 17/02/2023 18:44

Oh ffs - it’s a cartoon, it’s not meant to be taken literally. He does not literally search her mouth to see what’s inside, he does not literally decapitate her and they aren’t literally going on a world tour.

Satire's really wasted on some people, isn't it?

wishingyouwell · 17/02/2023 19:26

The episode on W and K's wedding was also making the rounds again. An own goal for W and K's PR team.
Wonder what Rose Hanbury makes of it all.

StormzyinaTCup · 17/02/2023 19:28

Wonder what Rose Hanbury makes of it all.
🥱

notanotheroneagain · 17/02/2023 19:29

What?

Now MNers understand metaphor/figurative/satire?
Where have you been hiding it all along when it come to H&M? 😃

MarshaMelrose · 17/02/2023 19:30

wishingyouwell · 17/02/2023 19:26

The episode on W and K's wedding was also making the rounds again. An own goal for W and K's PR team.
Wonder what Rose Hanbury makes of it all.

I don't get what you're saying. Did WAC's PR team write the HAM South Park episode? I can't see that being the case. 🤔

InstagramLovingBitchWife · 17/02/2023 19:31

wishingyouwell · 17/02/2023 19:25

Seemed to have backfired though as a very unflattering hashtag was trending for Prince William yesterday.
Seems the creators of SP knew of William's wandering eye a long while back.

What seems to have backfired? On whom has it backfired? The RF aren't responsible for South Park. The RF haven't commissioned this episode. So how can anything backfire on them? The South Park writers will no doubt lampoon any public figure, as they have a number of times with other members of the RF in the past. They've got the world talking about this episode. Nothing has backfired for the people who have fired this out.

Coxspurplepippin · 17/02/2023 19:31

wishingyouwell · 17/02/2023 19:25

Seemed to have backfired though as a very unflattering hashtag was trending for Prince William yesterday.
Seems the creators of SP knew of William's wandering eye a long while back.

Nah, it was all about Meghan and Harry......but obviously their supporters are trying their hardest to get everyone to look over there Grin

wishingyouwell · 17/02/2023 19:32

No but they have commented on it through their 'endless sources' raising its profile.
In turn William was then trending for reasons he would rather not...

smilesy · 17/02/2023 19:36

wishingyouwell · 17/02/2023 19:32

No but they have commented on it through their 'endless sources' raising its profile.
In turn William was then trending for reasons he would rather not...

Err, it’s being talked about on MSM. Not sure why “sources” as you call them would need to “raise its profile” 🤷‍♀️. The reason the other episode about the Wales’ has resurfaced is because of the Sussexes supporters using it to deflect attention over there as pp said 🙄

Tontostitis · 17/02/2023 19:36

Difference is the W affair and sex nastiness is seen by most people just that, nastiness the vacuous attention seeking duplicity of the Sussexes is perfectly highlighted by South Park

IcedPurple · 17/02/2023 19:37

wishingyouwell · 17/02/2023 19:26

The episode on W and K's wedding was also making the rounds again. An own goal for W and K's PR team.
Wonder what Rose Hanbury makes of it all.

Are you saying that "W and K's PR team" wrote a South Park episode and got it broadcast?

I had no idea they had that sort of reach.

Turtleegg · 17/02/2023 19:39

Have people actually seen the episode with W&K? It's very much mocking the ceremonial and traditional side of all of the pomp- its not personal to the 2 of them at all. They purposefully created the most ridiculous traditions, you're aware what he's showing up his arse in it right?

The M&H episode is brilliant because it's very much aimed at them and their actions, and it's so bloody accurate.

AliceOlive · 17/02/2023 19:41

I just watched clips from the Royal Pudding Episode and wondering who here has actually seen it and understands the premise?

InstagramLovingBitchWife · 17/02/2023 19:42

William trending on Twitter? Versus this episode being discussed all over talking media. I don't think Twitter reaches the audience you think it does. I wouldn't even have known about the William episode if it wasn't for this thread. And I don't really care, South Park can and should lampoon anyone being ridiculous. That William is also being criticised doesn't take anything away from the H&M episode. Actually it's quite a good compare and contrast about an over the top depiction based on rumours (and some posters are positing that it started the rumour), and a depiction that's almost all grounded in actual factual events.

Turtleegg · 17/02/2023 19:42

It was also released in 2011, way before the rumours?

IcedPurple · 17/02/2023 19:43

AliceOlive · 17/02/2023 19:41

I just watched clips from the Royal Pudding Episode and wondering who here has actually seen it and understands the premise?

I think they're just mindlessly cut and pasting desperate Sussex Squad screenshots from Twitter.

AliceOlive · 17/02/2023 19:43

Turtleegg · 17/02/2023 19:39

Have people actually seen the episode with W&K? It's very much mocking the ceremonial and traditional side of all of the pomp- its not personal to the 2 of them at all. They purposefully created the most ridiculous traditions, you're aware what he's showing up his arse in it right?

The M&H episode is brilliant because it's very much aimed at them and their actions, and it's so bloody accurate.

Oops, I cross posted but this was the point.

notanotheroneagain · 17/02/2023 19:43

IcedPurple · 17/02/2023 19:37

Are you saying that "W and K's PR team" wrote a South Park episode and got it broadcast?

I had no idea they had that sort of reach.

No, I think the poster was referring to the fact that RF shrills like Piers, Dan, Richard, Angela etc. have been branding this episode around. Trying to denigrate H&M.

Unfortunately, SM went back and dug up the long forgotten Willy and HMQE episodes and made them trend instead. Surely, the RF would have liked those to be forgotten.

InstagramLovingBitchWife · 17/02/2023 19:44

It's a typical squirrel. "Don't look here, look over there at the squirrel!" That's why it's been posted repeatedly over different threads on this board.