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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Sounds like: Same shit, different location to me. I don't fault P&T for not calling attention to every location.
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Fair 'nough, but they didn't pick the location that would have created the greatest shock for their audience. Everyone basically expects the urban poor to suffer outrageously in India.
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Maybe. But we weren't talking about you.
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Sorry, without Our Lady of the Variety Pack around to remind me, I thought it was all about me.
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The people who grant holier-than-thou status to the icons P&T were using in this episode are the ones the argument was aimed at. And using someone's own standards against them (or pointing out how they pick and choose which standards to apply to suit their needs) was very effective.
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Well, (i) I though it was effective, but I wouldn't rate it as "very," (ii) given that their audience is more you and me than people fond of admiring the holier-than-thous of the world, I think the segment could have been better aimed for their actual audience, and (iii) I thought including Ghandi (horndog with a school girl/enema fetish) and the Dalai Lama (basically a later-day deposed Shah in an orange sheet) underplayed by association the extent to which Mother Theresa was, not just not-holier-than-thou, but a real monster who not only caused but openly rejoyced in the suffering and death of multitudes.
I love the show, mind you, I just thought that one was weaker than most of the others. The circumcision season opener, for example, totally kicked ass. The old dude hanging dumbells from his dork was a complete riot.
