Wit & Attitude Quote by Trey Parker

Parker’s jab lands because it flips the usual panic script: the “dirty” cartoon becomes the responsible choice, while the saccharine sitcom is the real threat. It’s provocation with a parent’s logic underneath. By singling out Full House, he’s not just mocking a specific show; he’s skewering an entire genre of pre-chewed morality where problems are solved in 22 minutes, feelings are neatly labeled, and the audience is rewarded for passive agreement. “Make them stupid” is hyperbole, but it’s aimed at a recognizable cultural product: TV that trains you to confuse comfort with insight.

The intent is defensive and aggressive at once. Parker is preempting criticism of his own work (South Park’s crude reputation) by reframing the debate: obscenity isn’t the danger; intellectual sedation is. The subtext is that kids can handle complexity, contradiction, and even ugliness if the material is honest about it. A show that satirizes hypocrisy and forces you to argue with it might, in Parker’s view, build media literacy. A show that packages virtue as a laugh track and a hug teaches obedience to cliché.

Context matters: Parker came up in the 1990s culture-war churn, when “family values” TV was treated as wholesome by default and edgy comedy as corrosive. His line exposes that moral hierarchy as branding. It’s also a creative manifesto: he’d rather be accused of bad taste than of numbing the audience’s critical faculties.