South Park Episode 12 - Harley Hatin'
Life imitates art or is it the other way round? It turns out the “inconsiderate douche bag’s on Harley’s” are creating noise as they ride up and down the street wrecking everyone’s quite time on South Park.
It’s a protest movement in Season 13, episode 1312, where Cartman calls out a pack of bikers whose loud Harleys prove most irritating for the height challenged, truth-blurting, foul-mouthed characters. As the motorcycle noise escalates, the so-called “kids” take the matter into their own hands with graffiti and lobbying to have the dictionary definition of the term “f*g” changed to “annoying, inconsiderate Harley riders.”
There’s been plenty of Harley hatin’ on this blog comments section about raucous exhausts and loud bikes. And regardless of your stance on the noise debate as to whether or not loud pipes do anything for safety, you’ll likely find humor (or irritation) in this episode that’s become rather controversial. So much controversy in fact, that the New York Times has reported a gay advocacy group is protesting the episode.
Watch the 22-minute show here. The show adds a new dimension to the anti H-D stance and I’m sure someone in the motor company is reevaluating advertisement placements.
UPDATE: 12.18.09 — Viacom has pulled down the YouTube versions of the episode under copyright issues and now the South Park site states “Due to pre-existing contractual obligations, we cannot stream this episode until 12.05.09″… It’s all about $$. If you can’t wait then do a Google search as there are versions of it out on the internet.
Photo courtesy of Comedy Central/South Park.
![Tanya [AKA T-Angel], Backing Up Her Toy [a freshly, custom painted Harley-Davidson Sportster] at the UMF of America, Catholic School Girl Poker Run, Northern Colorado, June 27, 2009 - Copyright Don Bailey, 2009](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2524/4163579332_5ee3968492_t.jpg "Tanya [AKA T-Angel], Backing Up Her Toy [a freshly, custom painted Harley-Davidson Sportster] at the UMF of America, Catholic School Girl Poker Run, Northern Colorado, June 27, 2009 - Copyright Don Bailey, 2009")
First of all, I do watch SouthPark & did see this episode. It DOES stir controversy AND did stick with me for a couple of days. I don’t know if they MEAN it, or are just stirring the pot. BUT (this is an example), we were at a ‘Toy Run’ last week and I almost stepped out in front of a bike trying to pass thru; I could NOT hear his pipes & didn’t realize he was approaching! No offense, to each his/her own, but it made me think if he would have had LOUDER pipes, I would have known he was there. SO…… I approve of LOUD pipes whether you like it or not…& I’m not a F*G! (LOL)
I wonder, in spite of whether or not this episode makes you laugh or get pi**ed, do the writers of “Bikers are F*gs” understand the real possibility of some punk getting his “a** kicked” by someone who may not get the “joke”. I must admit I first considered this possibility after reading a “Tweet” from Kurt Sutter (creator and writer of Sons of Anarchy) who posed the question seriously on Twitter.
Is this South Park episode… funny, stupid or dangerous? Can someone who is popular because of an edgy animation say “say anything” they want and claim free speech?
BTW I laughed… and mostly at myself for the times I may have over done the leather vest and headband look. I am after all a grown man and it’s not Halloween all the time. So next time I fire up the Fatboy I think I’ll low-key the look.
I laughed and laughed. I couldnt wait to call the 1st biker I saw a fag. I absolutely love the fat midle age dweebs that by these obnoxious machines, shave their heads, get all tatted up, and grow a goatee, so that they can appear tough. Let me tell you you what you all appear like to the rest of us…you are sad over the hill fags trying to recapture a little bit of coolness. You werent cool in the 80’s in your parachute pants, and mullets and your not cool now. Grow old gracefully get rid of the bike and goback to buying vettes when you turn 40. A warning to all you hog fags, the same warning givin to 3 of my neighbors and thier freinds, youride by my house and wake me up with your effin loud pipes one more time, I will come to your home put a .50 cal round right thru your mighty V twin,put the gun down and beat the shit out of you and all your biker bad ass freinds. Don believe, ask my neighbors as they now walk their bikes past my house. To James54, it wont always be some young punk callin you out as a fag, and I look forward to the 1st fag that doesnt get the joke. I suggest quieter pipes. Peace, fags.
Wow, you’re the punk I was talking about… I had to pause so I could stop laughing at you, no longer with you.
It seem that you take yourself way too seriously. I’m confident that your self identity with Cartman is humorously similar to the mocking you do of Harley riders in leather. Do you wear a little blue Cartman hat and a bulky Cartman sweater while farting and swearing your way through life?
As to your threat, to shoot me with a .50 cal round, and then “beat the sh*t out of you” that I take seriously and demands an appropriate response, I’ll leave that up to Mac.
BTW… learn to use spell check.
@ David: It’s good to laugh. Given the melt down in Vegas you need to laugh more than most of us, but your angst quickly turned to the same old I’m “tougher-than-you” hatin’ motorcycles story. The “calling out” makes YOU the stereotype.
Please send a photo of your neighbors walking their bikes… -mac
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Don’t expect David to post any pics of his neighbors walking their scooters. Nothing he said is true. I’m sure David’s comment is meant as a parody just like the South Park episode, (I laughed at David’s comment as much as the South Park show).
If David’s comment was even partially true he would post his home address, (I’d love to ride by and say “hi”). It’s real easy to sound tough from the sanctity of your mom’s basement.
I would be unable to walk my bike past his house. It’s too heavy..