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The response gave South Park its highest ratings in years and garnered attention from a variety of news outlets, but it also divided the fandom, with right-wing fans seeing it as a betrayal of the show's typical middle-ground approach to attacking extremism and hypocrisy on both sides. Meanwhile, many other fans felt this is exactly what South Park needed to be in an era where the White House is pressuring voices in the media to tow the line or pay the price with fines and/or cancellation.

Until the day I die, I’ll never forget waking up in the middle of the night as a kid to see From Dusk Till Dawn flickering on the living room TV. I came to right as the Fuller family was being kidnapped by Seth (George Clooney) and Richie Gecko (Quentin Tarantino), two fugitives racing toward the Mexican border in the family’s motor home. I knew instantly I was watching something I probably shouldn’t have been at that age — between the nonstop cursing, sexual undertones, and sudden bursts of violence — but I was completely hooked. A few scenes later, the movie pulled the rug out from under me.