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The New ‘South Park’ Special ‘Not Suitable for Children’ Exposes How Everything About Social Media Intentionally Manipulates Minors

Trey Parker and Matt Stone are possibly the only people on the internet who can put out a disclaimer saying their content is unfit for underaged consumption that doesn’t read like there’s a silent wink at the end of it.

The newest South Park special, Not Suitable for Children, begins with a different warning card from the iconic one the series has used for the past quarter century. Instead of insisting that all the characters on the show are entirely fictional and that all celebrity voices are impersonated (...poorly), the Paramount+ special, released today with minimal promotion, warns us of “graphic sexual content” in the opening frame, cautioning, “Due to its extreme erotic nature this program is NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN.” In case anyone takes such alerts lightly, let me lightly spoil something for you – seven minutes into Not Suitable for Children, Randy Marsh takes out his entire dick and balls and doesn’t put them away for the following half hour.

Is ‘Rick And Morty’ Even Better Now That The Toxic Fans Hate It?

The best part of Rick and Morty Season Seven wasn’t any one of its ten episodes – it was the exodus of so much cringe from the fandom.

January 12th will mark the one-year anniversary of the bombshell report that revealed how Rick and Morty co-creator and former star Justin Roiland faced felony domestic violence charges. Though the case against Roiland would not move forward due to a lack of evidence, the arrest and ensuing fallout, in which stories and screenshots of Roiland’s alleged misbehavior painted the picture of a predator who used his position on the popular show to lure in young-to-underage fans, erased any possibility that the already intractable creative could return to Adult Swim’s flagship franchise.

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