So, this story is kind of my opinion. Don't flame me for having an opinion. Seriously.

Also, I expect at least one person to tell me their thoughts on this stuff...I mean, it's got to have crossed the mind of at least one person in this place.

Disclaimer: I wrote it. It's MY opinion. Don't like reading about anyone's opinions but your own? THEN GO AWAY. I don't want close-minded people reading my works.

Wow, it kind of sounds close-minded of ME to say what I just said lol. Haha I didn't mean it to come out that way.

There are a LOT of people out there who hate the show South Park. And I understand why they would. They see the show as silly, pointless junk that deforms minds because of the cussing and drug references and sexual innuendos. And they're right about that. South Park does have a LOT of cussing, definitely talks about getting high a lot, and makes more sex jokes than your all of your perverted friends put together.

But, in my opinion, South Park is a better show morally than any of the cartoons on Cartoon Network that all the little kids watch today.

I was babysitting my cousins one day last Christmas. It was an early Sunday morning, so we were all sitting around watching cartoons. A show called The Grim Adventures of Billy and Maddy was what we were watching. This show has always been full of immature fart jokes and toilet humor, and is really not a good model for little kids. But this episode went a little too far in what it said. Billy, who is basically retarded, needs advice for what he should do about his fear of clowns. So, in his head, he finds his "inner frat boy". The inner frat boy sounds like he's giving good advice at first. He says, "You shouldn't be afraid of people different than you, Billy!" when talking about the clown. And that's true, right? But then he says, "You should be angry at them, and hurt them! What, is my way of life not good enough for you?"

See, I'm nineteen years old, so when I see something like that Billy and Mandy episode, I probably will laugh. I mean, I understand that it's a cartoon, and that's NOT what you do to someone different than you. But my cousins are only ages five and seven, like many other kids who watch the show. When you're this young, you don't realize that things like that are wrong and completely untrue yet. In fact, I'm sure that a lot of kids who watched that episode are going to remember that and think that it's okay to beat up someone different than them!

Now, you're probably thinking that South Park does the same thing. Yeah, South Park does talk about beating people up sometimes. South Park makes horribly mean jokes about people of different colors, and people's way of life. But you want to know something? Not only do little kids never even watch South Park anyway, but every episode of South Park teaches you something. Every South Park has a moral! At some point in the episode, one of the boys will say, "I've learned something today," and then go on to say what they've learned. For example, in the episode Chef Goes Nanners, Chef wants to get a new flag because the one they have is racist, portraying a black man being hanged while four white men stand holding hands behind the gallows. Chef and some other towns people debate whether or not they should get a new flag. The adults, being as completely imcompetent as they are however, have the 3rd grade debate team figure it out for them. And the kids don't even SEE the racism. Instead of seeing four white men and a black man, all they see is FIVE PEOPLE, and think the reason that Chef wants the flag down is because of the violence, because a man is getting hanged, not because the man who is getting hanged is black. In the end, the flag is changed to a black man being hanged by one white guy, one black guy, and two other guys of different colors. So, maybe it was still a violent flag. But the moral to the story wasn't to not be violent, but to not be racist. And it worked, didn't it? Because, to tell the truth, since I saw that episode, I've been seeing less colors and more people.

It's not just the episode Chef Goes Nanners that the boys realize something and learn something. They ALWAYS learn an important life lesson that really, everyone else should be living by too. The show basically is completely hilarious, and while you watch it to laugh, you finish it thinking about something that's going on in this world, politically or just morally. I can't think of one cartoon on Cartoon Network that makes you think about your worth as a human being. In Codename: Kids Next Door, the kids are shooting people with their fake guns and fighting all the time. The main character of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends is a conceited little imaginary friend who doesn't care about anyone but himself. My mom won't let my little brother watch the show Robot Boy because someone called someone else a fart-knocker in the episode. And even if there are shows that don't teach you bad morals on Cartoon Network, they're certainly not teaching any good morals.

People hate the show South Park, and other adult cartoons like the Simpsons or King of the Hill, because they think that these shows are bad influences. But these shows certainly mean more than kid's cartoons. All three shows have a strong family vibe to them. Have you ever noticed how in the Simpsons and South Park, there's always town meetings? The town actually gets together and works together to try and solve their problems, even if the solutions are a little crazy. In King of the Hill, Hank always goes all out for Peggy and Bobby. But take the show Codename: Kids Next Door, for example: the kids united - against their parents. We should be teaching the children to love and cherish their parents, not fight them! Our parents want the best for us, and shows like Kids Next Door make children not believe that. In all three of the adult cartoons cited above, family is just as important of an issue as friendship; sometimes Cartoon Network makes you forget about that.

Now, I know that South Park, in reality, is really messed up. I know that South Park has shooting, violence, language, adults doing acid, 9 year old kids doing acid, boys putting their little brothers on trains to Nebraska, teachers calling their students retards, and Satan being a pushover who wants sensitivity out of his relationships with other men. And I'm NOT saying I want all our little kids watching South Park. But, the amount of stuff adults find funny, or crazy, or messed up on South Park is about the equivelent to what kids find funny, crazy, or messed up on the Cartoon Network shows they watch. The difference is that adults know how to take a joke (well, except for Tom Cruise of course ha ha), but kids don't even realize that what they're watching is supposed to be a joke.

Again, I'm NOT saying I want kids watching South Park. That would probably warp their minds forever. I'm just scared. Scared of what this world is coming to be. Scared that a show that is constantly making sex jokes, showing people doing drugs, has a character that dies and comes back to life in every episode, and has 9 year old little boys (and girls) joining boy bands, has more morals and honest-to-goodness family and life values than the stuff that kids like my little brother or my cousins watch EVERY DAY. South Park is an adult show. If you can't take the adult jokes, don't watch it. But it doesn't work that way with kids' shows! They don't know that what they're being taught is WRONG! That's why I think something needs to be done about Cartoon Network and all the cartoons kids watch every day that teach them to beat up people different than them, AND that have no moral value whatsoever. Cartoon Network is just as bad of an influence as South Park, in fact, even more so. Kids are influenced so much more by the TV they watch than adults, and when the channels that their parents don't block are teaching them to want to hurt everyone different than them, then something in this world is completely messed up. Something in this world is wrong.

When a show like South Park makes more of an effort to teach you something than shows that five year old children watch every day do, you know that something needs to be DONE.

Please review, even if just to tell me that you think my opinion is wrong!

I don't mind people telling me I'mn wrong.

I just would appreciate if you backed YOUR opinion up with a statement.