Chapter 14
Occult, Paganism and Mythology, Oh My!
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One of South Park’s greatest satirical techniques is its creation of extreme and unreal situations to demonstrate its points, and concomitant to this technique is the inclusion of numerous fictional creatures that appear on South Park like aliens, gnomes, succubi, and Skuzzlebutt (a Bigfoot-like creature with celery for an arm and Patrick Duffy as a leg). This chapter seeks to understand the creation of mythology, South Park’s own mythology, the place of paganism in modern society, and the relevance of magic and the occult. The Imaginationland trilogy, for which South Park won an Emmy, is explored in this chapter to understand how the imagined is still real and perhaps more important than the tangible. Isn’t South Park simply a part of our modern American mythology and just as important to some people’s since of morality and ethics as the Bible is for other people?
Chapter Sections: Mythology, From the Greek Word Mythology; Paganism - Accepted Everywhere God Isn’t Answering Your Prayers; Magic and the Occult: I Wish, I Wish I Hadn’t Squished that Fish; Imaginationland.
