This is a scene from south park season 6, the episode "Child Abduction is not funny". Although this episode does not relate to The Odyssey as a whole, this clips certainly does. It's a play on the famous story of the Trojan Horse that Meneleus reveals the story of in book 4. It is a great clip because for one it's just really funny, but it also shows how a story like this one has stayed so famous over time. This clip implies that the story of the Trojan horse is so very well known, and even if you haven't read the Odyssey the story is something you've heard. That's where the true humor comes from is taking the story of the Trojan Horse and making it's outcome unexpected and not what you are used to.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Example 15: South Park, season 6
This is a scene from south park season 6, the episode "Child Abduction is not funny". Although this episode does not relate to The Odyssey as a whole, this clips certainly does. It's a play on the famous story of the Trojan Horse that Meneleus reveals the story of in book 4. It is a great clip because for one it's just really funny, but it also shows how a story like this one has stayed so famous over time. This clip implies that the story of the Trojan horse is so very well known, and even if you haven't read the Odyssey the story is something you've heard. That's where the true humor comes from is taking the story of the Trojan Horse and making it's outcome unexpected and not what you are used to.
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I agree, but more than this episode is similar to the Iliad, it takes place between two groups of people who passionately disliked one another, and Tuong Lu Kim (the city wok guy) boasts throughout the episode of his impenetrable wall. My favorite scene is at the end when the parents try to re-introduce their kids to life in southpark JMACKAY
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