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windchymes -> RE: When you quit your job? (3/15/2006 3:55:08 PM)
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The beauty about South Park (and there really is some!) is that most of the fun-poking they do has lessons behind it. For example, in a recent episode, one of the regular character's on the show is named Mr. Garrison and he's openly gay. He has a sex-change operation and becomes "a woman", and begins prancing around, joyfully crowing about how he was always a woman trapped inside a man's body, and it's all good.
Kyle, a short white kid, is star basketball player at his predominantly white school. He auditions for a county-wide team where all the other players are tall black kids. They play circles around him. Dejectedly, he realizes the he'll never make the cut....but he FEELS like a basketball player....he concludes he's a tall black kid trapped in a short white kid's body. He has a "Negro-otomy" to change his body into that of a tall black kid. As the plastic surgeon said, "Like Michael Jackson's Caucasian-otomy, only in reverse". (Not sure if those are the exact words, but they're close)
Cut to Kyle's father, who is horrified at what his son has "become".....but then has a revelation that he's always wanted to be a dolphin. Kyle's surgeon is only happy to assure him that he's a dolphin trapped in a man's body, and he transforms Kyle's dad into a hideous humanoid form of a dolphin....or dolphinoid form of a human, whichever way you want to look at it. Ane he cackles all the way to the bank.
Of course, disastrous results all around....except for Mr., uh, Mrs. Garrison, who is still happy to be female-appearing.
The lesson? Learn to be happy with, and accept yourself for who you are. Also, it's a potshot toward unscrupulous plastic surgeons who will perform any operation if the price is right.
And yes, I agree that Isaac Hayes is a hypocrite. It only took him eight years worth of royalties to have his epiphany.
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