Why I Love - Hate South Park

You might be thinking South Park has just done an episode poking fun at my favorite pastime or my particular foible, but it's just not true. This Love/Hate relationship goes all the way back to the beginning: The very first episode that I saw. It was truly horrible. Jerky movement. Bad lip-sync. Nearly unintelligible voices. And yet, it was funny. It communicated.

I realized that if South Park was acceptable, that the bar was finally so low I could produce my own show. What was there to stop me? Apparently there is no actual minimum quality anymore. So I started looking into the practical side of it. I started looking at different editing and animation programs.  That was easy, being the crack PC & Mac user that I am. (Not a crack user... a crack PC user). In about a week, I was ready.

There I sat staring into my computer screen, but nothing happened. Nothing. I couldn't even pull a blank sheet of paper out, crumple it up, and toss it into the waste basket. I had nothing. And then I realized something truly significant. I was a talentless hack. No... Well, that's true but that's not what I learned on that day.

It's all about story. Without a story, you have nothing to say. With a good story, the medium is nearly irrelevant. So forgetting what any particular episode of South Park is about, the series in general is about laughing at all of us and reminding us that story is king. That there are no real limitations if you have creativity.
(Insert closing theme for the original Willy Wonka movie here)