Go God Go Themes

The twelfth and thirteenth episodes of South Park’s tenth season, “Go God Go” and “Go God Go XII”, work as pieces of comedy because they effectively use humorous triangular formats. Both episodes satirize fanaticism, especially in regards to religion and atheism. The majority of the humor in these episodes, as well as other South Park episodes, results from a triangular relationship. The three parties involved in this relationship are the audience, the show’s writers and creators, and the characters. Each of the characters is not aware that they are characters in a television show and they do not usually find humor in the predicaments they become involved in. Usually the creators will place the characters in certain situations in order to make fun of the characters as well as some sort of characteristic. When audience members find something amusing in South Park it is because they …show more content…
He paces in front of the video game store once again and he cannot even manage to fall asleep later that night. Unable to endure the wait any longer, Cartman begs his friends Stan, Kyle, and Kenny to help him freeze himself. In this interaction Cartman is deadly serious and the boys are horrified because they know that Cartman’s plan would result in his death. Despite the boys’ warnings, Cartman is so fixated on the Wii he feels that his idea is the only logical conclusion. Cartman’s fanaticism with the Wii is what the creators are making fun of. His obsession with the Wii becomes so ridiculous that he is willing to freeze himself, an act that would end with his death, in order to acquire the console sooner. After Cartman’s body gets lost in an avalanche, he wakes up five hundred years in the future. Despite this new piece of information, Cartman is still fixated on obtaining a Wii and he does not even bat an eye when he finds out that everyone he knew is