Goodbye to a popular South Park character
December 30th, 2006
This is pretty #@%*ed up right here. Think of him what you will, but Saddam Hussein was featured in several episodes of South Park as well as the South Park feature film. With the recent news of his execution, I thought his animation connection had to be mentioned.
Before you get too down on Parker and Stone for showing Saddam in their cartoons, keep in mind that this is nothing new.
This image is from the 1942 Disney cartoon “Der Fuehrer’s Face”. It was directed by Jack Kinney and released on January 1, 1943 as an anti-Nazi propaganda piece for the American war effort. It won the 1943 Academy Award for Animated Short Film and was voted #22 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field in 1994.
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