Enlightenment from the South Park gang faster than youcan say, "Screw you guys, I'm going home"!The Ultimate South Park and Philosophy: Respect MyPhilosophah! presents a compilation of serious philosophicalreflections on the twisted insights voiced by characters inTV's most irreverent animated series.* Offers readers a philosophically smart and candid approach toone of television's most subversive and controversial showsas it enters its 17th season* Draws sharp parallels between the irreverent nature of SouthPark and the inquiring and skeptical approach of Westernphilosophy* Journeys deep beyond the surface of the show'sscatological humor to address the perennial questions raised inSouth Park and the contemporary social and political issuesthat inspire each episode* Utilizes familiar characters and episodes to illustrate suchphilosophical topics as moral relativism, freedom of expression,gay marriage, blasphemy, democracy, feminism, animal ethics,existential questions, and much more* It's a Bigger, Longer & Uncut version of the highlyacclaimed South Park and Philosophy: You Know, I LearnedSomething Today--and is guaranteed to be much funnier thankilling Kenny

Introduction: "Well, I'm Afraid It's About toHappen Again" 1Robert Arp and Kevin S. DeckerPart I Doing Philosophical Things with South Park 51 Flatulence and Philosophy: A Lot of Hot Air, or the Corruption ofYouth? 7Willie Young2 You Know, I Learned Something Today: Stan Marsh and the Ethicsof Belief 19Henry Jacoby3 "Imaginationland," Terrorism, and the DifferenceBetween Real and Imaginary 29Christopher C. Kirby4 Dude, Listen to Reason! Logic Lessons Inside and Outside SouthPark 41Robert ArpPart II South Park and ... Religion 535 Science, Religion, South Park, and God 55David Kyle Johnson6 "Your Magic Is No Match for Our PowersCombined!"--Religious Pluralism and the Search for Truth71Jeffrey Dueck7 Cartmanland and the Problem of Evil 83David Kyle JohnsonPart III South Park versus ... Religion 958 "Respect My Religiositah!"--South Park andBlasphemy 97David Koepsell9 Mary's Menses and Morality: Blasphemy in South Park108Kevin J. Murtagh10 South Park, The Book of Mormon, and How ReligiousFundamentalists Always Find a Way to Be Naive and Arrogant at theSame Time 119Roberto Sirvent and Neil BakerPart IV Respecting My Authoritah! in South Park 13111 Juvenile Hijinks With Serious Subtext: Dissent and Democracyin South Park 133David Valleau Curtis and Gerald J. Erion12 Of Marx and Mantequilla: Labor and Immigration in "TheLast of the Meheecans" 143Jeffrey Ewing13 "Vote or Die, Bitch"--Does Every Vote Countin a Two-Party System? 153John Scott Gray14 Socioeconomic Darwinism from a South Park Perspective164Dale JacquettePart V Liber-arianism in South Park 17515 Cartman Shrugged: South Park and Libertarian Philosophy177Paul A. Cantor16 Sitting Downtown at Kentucky Fried Chicken: One Toke Over theLine 194Kevin S. Decker17 Cat Urine, Medicinal Fried Chicken, and Smoking: SouthPark's Anti-Paternalistic Libertarianism 208Shane D. CourtlandPart VI There's a Time and a Place for Everything,Children 22118 You (Still) Can't Get Married, You're Faggots:Mrs. Garrison and the Gay Marriage Debate 223Jacob M. Held19 Cute and Cuddly Animals versus Yummy Animals 236Cynthia Jones20 Aesthetic Value, Ethos, and Phil Collins: The Power of Musicin South Park 247Per F. BromanContributors 260Index 265