When the bar is bought by a bald, earring-clad Turkish mafioso who turns out to be a woman, Garrison ends up scissoring her ’til the cows come home.“South Park” has been wading into transphobic waters since as early as 2005, when the boys’ teacher Mr. Garrison transitions.
Again using Garrison as their avatar into queer spaces, “D-Yikes” is a Season 11 episode that deals with the shuttering a local women’s bar. With Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Mona Marshall, Eliza Schneider. Mr. Garrison introduces IT to the world. “You made me into a freak.”Parker’s pandering plea that his viewers not see him as a bigot for writing such a lazy, charged, and dangerous script is so ridiculous it’s almost laughable. (Here’s a tip: It’s never scissoring. Mr. Twig was killed by Mr. Hat, in Garrison’s screwed up little world, as a plan to get Garrison back to himself. "The Entity," Season 5 - After Mr. Garrison gets fed up with long lines at the airport, he invents his own form of unusual transportation. This episode marks the beginning of the end of the gay-tastic relationship between Mr. Slave and Mr. Garrison. Two seasons later, Stone and Parker delve back into communities they know nothing about to take aim at lesbians. It will eventually come to a head later this season in "Follow That Egg" , when Mr. Slave and Big Gay Al get married. Directed by Trey Parker. I’m just a guy with a mutilated penis,” Garrison says. Eric Cartman: 'A bunch of fat old skanks on their periods?' Season 9 e1 Mr. Garrison's Fancy New Vagina e2 Die Hippie, Die e3 Wing e4 Best Friends Forever e5 The Losing Edge The first episode in the show’s ninth season, “Mr. Students that Garrison rarely taught, and weren't regulars in his classes.Odds are that you are in a position of authority, but maybe you shouldn’t be. The first episode in the show’s ninth season, “Mr. Garrison’s Fancy New Vagina” is a landmine of insensitive, triggering, invalidating, and hateful assumptions about transgender people. Mr. Garrison in South Park, Season 7 Episode 5 The camera cuts out of its animated world to show real surgical footage, gawking under a literal microscope at a process that is for many a joyous, affirming, and life-saving surgery.But the most offensive lines (and this is where trans people might want to stop reading) in the episode come from Garrison herself, when she becomes incensed that she can’t get her period or get pregnant. Meanwhile, Mr. Garrison, annoyed and fed up with the inefficient and incompetent airline check-ins since 9/11, decides to invent his own vehicle. The doctor calls the surgery a “negroplasty,” and later performs a “dolphinoplasty” on Kyle’s father, turning him into a dolphin. Garrison’s Fancy New Vagina” is a landmine of insensitive, triggering, invalidating, and hateful assumptions about transgender people. "Well, spank my ass and call me Charlie." Here the show is espousing the age-old transphobic argument that gender is as immutable a trait as race or even species.The finale scene of “Board Girls,” also written by Parker, contains a half-measured attempt at nuance, or at least a statement of intention for a nuanced take that never arrives. Comedy Central.Other than his imaginary friends and ex-lovers, Garrison doesn't seem to be very close with many people.He gets along very well with his running mate, usually gossiping or insulting people with her.©2019 South Park Digital Studios LLC.Students that Garrison regularly taught exclusively in the 3rd Grade. To his surprise, they greet him lovingly.But nobody seemed particularly surprised.Nearly 15 years later, and “South Park” is trotting out the same tired old transphobic, homophobic, intentionally offensive gobbledygook. From Season 11 Episode 06, D-Yikes!. From Season 05 Episode 11, The Entity. People with Herbert Garrison DNA have bright futures – provided their actions don’t blow up in everyone’s faces.Herbert Garrison is voiced by series co-creator Trey Parker.South Park ©2019 Comedy Partners.Students that Garrison regularly taught in the 3rd and 4th Grade, or exclusively in the 4th Grade.Garrison has taught many students over the years.Alter egos that have appeared numberous times in-show and/or other official media.Students that Garrison regularly taught in Kindergarten.Here's Garrison's biggest design changes throughout the show's run.South Park and all related titles, logos and characters are trademarks of Comedy Partners.All Rights Reserved. They must see the nuance to this situation,” he says, talking out to the audience. After he has beat up Heather on national TV, PC Principal is nervous his PC Babies won’t love him anymore. “This would mean I’m not really a woman. This latest example is only a continuation of a pattern that has long served to alienate viewers and reflect poorly on a show that has, in the past, demonstrated nuanced humor around hot button topics.Interviews with leading film and TV creators about their process and craft.Listen to these IndieWire podcasts.“They don’t care.