r/southpark • u/renisac4t • 1d ago

Discussion [SO5E02] I didn't realize Sheila and Gerald were in a church

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u/Toothless-In-Wapping 1d ago

This is for a funeral

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u/MortgageOdd5028 1d ago

It's not, this is from Cripple Fight, and is seemingly just a regular church service. It's just a goof on the animators part, probably because the two were used in a similar crowd shot in Spontaneous Combustion.

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u/MikeDubbz 1d ago

Wasn't it for a funeral? Very normal thing for Jewish people and others from other religions to attend such things for those they cared about. 

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u/pigtracks 1d ago

What what WHAT?!!!

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u/turtlemanfrog 1d ago

Poisoning the holy water well

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u/Comfortable-Fuel6343 1d ago

They're Jewish not vampires.

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u/C_IsForCookie Washington Redskins, Go Fuck Yourself 17h ago

It’s not like they’re playing basketball

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u/TaroPuzzleheaded3999 1d ago

I’m told that every episode that season had a character deliberately out of place like when butters was tagging a building

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u/krazykieffer 1d ago

This is for a funeral so doesn't really matter.

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u/SubterraneanAlien08 1d ago

They had to be close by in case of a cripple fight. can’t miss it

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u/DigBickThe1Trick 1d ago

They’re networking.

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u/RegrettingFM 20h ago

When I saw them I assumed they were there partially to socialize. I mean the priest ended a mass with a call and response "Let's Go!" "Let's Go" "Broncos" "Broncos" "Let's Go Broncos" "LETS GO!"

Originally South Park was a tiny town where the cows outnumbered the people, although it's a full town by now. I would think that the Jewish family might occasionally go to a service just to hang out with friends.

It doesn't explain the parents but as a kid my parents would let me go to whatever religious service the family of girl I slept over with went to as long as I didn't mind going. (I also know they wouldn't have allowed it if it was directly against their beliefs like the IBLP or something).

I went to temple once with a friend. My (devotedly Catholic dad thought it was neat.)

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u/ThePurityPixel 1d ago

I know this shot was a funeral and isn't weird. But I'm gonna go off on a tangent and say it's always so strange to me (as a Jewish Christian) when people think it's strange for Jews to believe in Y'Shua.

Jews having a Jewish Messiah = weird? How so?

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u/MikeDubbz 1d ago

I understand it to an extent. I think many Christians are confused that Jews respect and see Jesus as a very holy Jewish man but not the son of God that he claimed to be. The thought being, if you reject the whole major thing that defined him, how do you still respect him as one of your own? Don't get me wrong, I get it, but I can see how many would inherently think that many jews view him as as a fraud and potentially outright disown him as one of their own.  

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u/ThePurityPixel 3h ago

My comment was about people who think it weird how many Jews do believe in Y'shua, not how many don't.

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u/HeyItsBruin 1d ago

Noticed it recently too, crazy stuff lmao