Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s film South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut has some important fans. The US Army’s 4th Infantry Division and the marines guarding Saddam Hussein during his imprisonment. One of the entertainments the marines arranged for Saddam was a viewing of Parker and Stone’s South Park film, where Saddam is portrayed as gay, in hell, and living in an abusive relationship with Satan. Stone says, “I have it on pretty good information from the marines on detail in Iraq that they showed Saddam the movie. Over and over again – which is a pretty funny thought. That’s really adding insult to injury.”
The 4th Infantry Division were such huge South Park fans that they gave Matt Stone and Trey Parker a valuable memento – an autographed picture of Saddam. It is unknown if Saddam signed the photo for the soldiers, or it was a signed photo the soldiers just got their hands on. It’s sort of cool that they gave it to Parker and Stone – it must have meant a lot to the South Park creators.
Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the creators of South Park, were given a signed photo of Saddam Hussein by US marines after the former Iraqi leader was shown their movie in prison.
During his captivity, US marines forced Saddam, who was executed in 2006, to repeatedly watch the move South Park: Bigger, Longer And Uncut, which shows him as gay, as well as the boyfriend of Satan. He was also regularly depicted in a similar manner during the TV series.
The admission comes with the show’s 13th season already running in the US. It will celebrate its 12th anniversary later this year.
The show, which satirises a wide range of topics, including religion, sexuality and mental illness, has won a number of awards including three Emmys for Outstanding Animated Programme.
Recent episodes have seen Barack Obama using his Presidential victory as a way to steal jewels from Washington in an Oceans 11-style heist.
It also recently depicted the United States Treasury as deciding economic measures by cutting the head off a chicken and letting it run on a game show style board, landing on a decision.
Stone, 37, said both he and Parker, 39, were most proud of the signed Saddam photo, given to them by the US Army’s 4th Infantry Division.
He said: “We’re very proud of our signed Saddam picture and what it means. Its one of our biggest highlights.”
“I have it on pretty good information from the marines on detail in Iraq that they showed Saddam the movie. Over and over again – which is a pretty funny thought. That’s really adding insult to injury.”
[From The Telegraph]
Before Saddam was executed, Time or Newsweek ran a story about what Saddam’s life was like in prison. According to the article, it actually wasn’t that bad. The marines treated him well, and Saddam loved any and all American food he got. He spent a lot of time gardening in a little garden within the compound and he really enjoyed meeting and talking to the young American marines. If I remember correctly, he even had a favorite marine, one that Saddam often spoke to about his family. I actually doubt that the marines would “force” Saddam to watch South Park multiple times, but I’d bet they made him sit through it once. He might have even gotten the joke.
I hope they didn’t force him to sit through it over and over again. Obviously I’m not in sympathy with the man, but that sort of needling of condemned prisoners makes the soldiers and by extension the whole american army look like idiot frat boys.
of course he got along great with the Marines he was an x-c.i.a. man himself.
Seeing as our soldiers put their lives on the line for us everyday and sacrifice so much for our country, I think that they are entitled to have a sense of humor.
Hey Ling…have you been in the Army or around most Army guys? lol It is pretty much a frat, good or bad. I was in the Army for 8 years. Esp when deployed…a frat is exactly what it is, actually a polite way to say it. Really, do you care how Saddam Hussein is being treated? It’s a movie (and a hysterical one of that). He wasn’t being tortured, loosen up a bit.
Sheeeeyit, I hope he was buried with that DVD.
Seeing our government hired Saddam, craddled him and even sold him the chemical weapons (google it, its a fact), I think its beyond disgusting. Anyone with an ounce of education knows every weapon Saddam used was American made. To censor that is to censor accurate history.
@yae, why not make it easy and you google it and supply links to back your comment?
I know that we aided him in Iraq’s war with Iran, such as intelligence, spy satellites, guaranteed loans for oil pipelines,funneled funds for arms, etc.
I found this 1994 US Senate report interesting;
“Billions of dollars worth of raw materials, machinery and equipment, missile technology and other “dual-use” items were also supplied by West German, French, Italian, British, Swiss and Austrian corporations, with the approval of their governments (German firms even sold Iraq entire factories capable of mass-producing poison gas).
US exports to Iraq included the precursors to chemical warfare agents, plans for chemical and biological warfare facilities and chemical warhead filling equipment. ”
Guess that’s why it was thought he had WMD’s? The US was not the only country in bed with Iraq. You lie down with dogs, you get fleas, it goes both ways.
Good article man
you got tolove south park
Yes I agree with you totally since there actually is not a better way to express that.