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.
Northwest Harley Blog 
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)
First of all, why don’t you look both ways before stepping into the street? That’s just common sense. If you weren’t in a place where it would be necessary to looks both ways, then the rider was being a douche anyway, riding where he shouldn’t have been. Your one experiential example holds no merit.
Are you legally blind or just stupid? Even 4 year old children know to look before they cross.
Here is an idea: donate the toy without dressing up as a flaming homosexual. No one needs to hear your stupid 50 horsepower.
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
You mouth is going to get you shot long before anything else is happening.
ps I suspect you aren’t all that cool yourself. If you come in my yard, with or without your .50 cal., you wouldn’t walk out.
Damn, what a punk you must be.
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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..
everybody knows that a Harley rider is insecure and their life didn’t work out the way they expected it to. 🙂
ya. i think harleys are totally annoying. david maybe took it a little over bored, but his point stands.
the bikes are absurdly loud, and disrupt everything untill they leave.
seriously guys, you need to know the truth, everyone hates you. they may not say it, but your really irritating them.
whenever i see a harley, i usually think “rich obnoxious asshole who wants attention.”
(those bikes arent cheap)
or ” they never had an identity so they simply bought one, not much different than a punk rocker, an emo kid, or a wigger” the only difference is that harley riders are much older so it cant “go out of style”.
sorry, but thats the truth.
Does “c note” stand for Cartman wanna be? Do you wear the outfit? Do you walk the walk? You forgot to swear and fart in support of your critique. Laughing at you not with you.
Such terrible written, and poorly thought out responses. James54, Harleys with loud pipes are obnoxious, and if you cannot understand that, then you truly have proven the point of that episode. We do not care if you like it or not. We just want you to realize, that the majority of people out there really dislike your bikes. We cannot wait till you’re gone, and wish those things did not exist.
oh, and since you people also arent really good with computers…here is the show. southpark lets you watch thier shows for free online.
http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/251889
the episode is called ‘the f word’
If loud pipes provide safety then is it acceptable for me to blare a portable air horn when I’m riding my bicycle? Should there be any line drawn for rude behavior?
Being the son of an autobody repairman, I grew up around loud machines boasting oh-so-sexy horsepower. Though I never owned a Harley, my father did, and my father’s best friend (whom I idolized even at age ten) was a rare “true biker.”
I’m a traveler at heart – I’ve visited and lived in thirteen countries – so I understand the freedom of Biker Legend, the ability to move whenever you want, wherever you want, unfettered by social norms or what is “responsible” and “proper.” The United States were founded by adventurers (hell, even our chairs were made to let us move while sitting), and so it is in keeping with the spirit of our country that we proceed freely and proudly into the unknown.
But there is a line.
Don’t think me some crazy hippie liberal punk who spent his life in a college classroom – I’ve served in combat, I can out-run and out-lift a lot of people, I like hunting and camping and fishing, and in every possible way I am what people would call a “manly man”. But I also love to read, I play the viola, listen to classical music, enjoy nature, and like to talk about my “feelings” with girlfriends… and a bunch of other faggy shit.
What I’m saying is that moderation is the key. South Park creators Matt and Trey (though endlessly brilliant) have a tendency to paint with a wide brush, meaning that they generalize a group of people based on the majority and not the whole. Is this right? No.
Shame on you, Stone and Parker! Shame on you for generalizing!
There, now that that’s out of the way…
There are plenty of bikers who break the mold by being some of the nicest, most assured, most wise people out there. They’re intrepid, unafraid, and they want nothing else than to see things they have never seen before. Whether or not they choose to do it on a bike is irrelevant. I plan on taking a bike trip across Japan soon, and I’m completely fine doing it. I’m not going to try and start a fight with every person I come across, nor am I going to be loud for the sake of being loud while riding through a quiet residential neighborhood. I can ride a bike, and I can be polite. How ’bout that shit?
It’s the actual Biker Fags that ruin it for the rest of the bikers, though, those insecure little Nancies that like to threaten, insult, and annoy just because they want to make others uncomfortable. They do it for a variety of reasons, but the heart of the matter is the same: they are, in fact, fags. People who infringe upon another’s right to live a comfortable, safe existence are about as useful as dog shit on a sidewalk.
Will people have to put up with a Harley’s noise? Yes. I’m sure, somehow, they’ll live through the experience. Should bikers go out of their way to be dicks when it comes to noise? No, not at all. That’s ignorant. Should people be able to smoke? Yes. Should they smoke around people just to annoy them? No. Moderation, see.
So, that’s my rant, and now I’ll step off my soapbox with these parting words: next time you ride and you’re hitting the throttle on Greenpeace Boulevard, stop and ask yourself this: “Do these people really want to hear my loud-ass bike? Should I just move on making as little noise as possible? Am I actually being a fag?”
Peace.
Good blog, btw.
@youngturk – very well said! Send some pics of your travels through Japan. Would like to hear about your trip. Cheers, -mac
[…] Geez, this group likely thinks Harley-Davidson is responsible for the lapse of security on Northwest Flight 253 where Abdulmutallab failed to explode the PETN?! Maybe they think that H-D motorcycles are responsible for the coercion and torture tactics in Guantanamo Bay. I’ll bet Atwood had a hand in writing the script for the recent South Park “F” episode? […]
And the battle rages on! potato, potato, potato….
Looks like I’m gonna have to put a new patch on my vest, “FAG”
LOL all you bikers are well…………..FAGS
Ironic that Comedy Central re-ran this episode last night considering what happened over the weekend in Manhattan when a group of bikers surrounded the Range Rover Alexian Lien was in with his wife and child.
I’ve been saying this for decades. It’s the same with Caprice’s blaring loud music; your natural tendency as a non-fag is to look in the direction of loud noises, and people making that noise interpret it, in their fag brains, as you looking because they’re cool.
It’s glad to see a show calling them out, finally.
I’ve sat on the side of the road with a police cruiser behind my high-performance car listening to the Officer berate me for my exhaust while a pack of fags rode by on vehicles far noisier than my car and the Officer looked and smiled, because I’m sure he was a fag, also. Did he rush off to ticket the ridiculous and unnecessarily loud fag-ridden bikes? Oh no, of course not. He gave me a ‘fix it’ ticket that cost $450 for a Borla set up.
Every Thursday around the country innocent civilian non-fags are put in danger by neighborhood “bike nights” held at bars and restaurants around the country, which regurgitate these fags back onto the highway, drunk, on their ludicrously loud machines.
We’re supposed to believe that their large beer guts and tattoos somehow magically absorb more alcohol than the average, scientifically-proven rate at which the rest of us non-fags absorb alcohol. And the Police, knowing these fags are driving drunk on motorcycles, smile as they pile out onto the streets, because they, too, are fags.
Ban Harleys! It’s the only way to be sure America isn’t threatened by fags!
I ride a harley and wear a helmet btw if you want to bash your brains out feel free one less person with out smarts in the world, and never once before i rode or now did i notice a bike because its loud and i wouldnt classify just harley riders as the f word id cassify all bike riders being overly loud that way btw now strobing headlights and tail lights yes that works wonders and people dont notice me in a dang car so maybe i need to make it like a dang stock car right then thell notice me and ill never be in a wreck ( real smart thinking hunh) so maybe use your brain like i do and watch for them cause they dont even pay attention to emergancy vehicles and not be a anoying punk disturbing people with extra loud bikes and maybe they wont associate you with the f word
Wholly shit the comment section is almost as good as the South Park episode. Lol
To be truthful, I think it’s about trying desperately to hold on to your youth and also it’s about status. “Sorry you’re poor and can’t get a Harley like us”. It’s very…high schoolish. Still being bullied and not looked at because of your “status”. It makes me sad that people still can’t manage to grow up and be accepting. Just my opinion. Doesn’t mean it’s right.