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Your evening longread: How shows like The Simpsons and South Park changed culture

It’s a coronavirus-free zone as we bring you an interesting longread each evening to take your mind off today’s news events.

LAST UPDATE | 11 Nov 2020

EVERY WEEK, WE bring you a round-up of the best longreads of the past seven days in Sitdown Sunday.

And now, every weeknight, we bring you an evening longread to enjoy which will help you to escape the news cycle.

We’ll be keeping an eye on new longreads and digging back into the archives for some classics.

Cartoon comedies

The Simpsons and South Park had a major influence on popular culture in the US and beyond – let’s take a look at how. 

(Vice, approximately 16 minutes reading time)

Though not the longest-running on this list, South Park has somehow remained consistent over its two decades on the air, adapting its humor and philosophy with the times. A profane show from day one, South Park was the first-ever regular program dubbed TV-MA in the US and blazed a trail for the future of television by normalizing unbleeped swearing on cable. Creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s “both sides suck” approach to issues helped to create a generation of “South Park Republicans” who (often incorrectly) assumed Parker and Stone to be on their team.

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    Oct 13th 2014, 5:25 PM

    Nice one…

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    Oct 13th 2014, 5:53 PM

    Socialists and SF driving them out. More to follow.

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    Oct 13th 2014, 5:25 PM

    Me thinks maybe low tax rate helped

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    Oct 13th 2014, 7:20 PM

    You obviously don’t understand the low tax rate.

    This company are buying the rights to this technology. They couldn’t give a rats ass where it is based.

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    Oct 14th 2014, 12:28 AM

    This is just one tiny example why Ireland will never be able to develop enough of its own large industrial companies to compete on the world stage but will just continue to depend on sweetners like low corporation tax to attract FDI into the country, without a strong local base of native companies this alone will never be be enough to end emmigration.

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    Oct 14th 2014, 10:28 AM

    I agree Richard. We have to do more to realise long-term Irish successes in the technology sector. We have fantastic expertise here but we are selling out too quickly. Of course it’s hard to judge someone who cashes in an idea in the face of big big money.

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    Oct 14th 2014, 8:26 AM

    Almost accepted a job here a few months back. Wonder how it affects the employees… they’re all on 12 month rolling contract.

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