South Park
One could not imagine that a show that started out with fart jokes and toilet humor would wind up becoming that ultimate social and political commentary of our time. Trey Parker and Matt Stone have thrown some of the crude jokes aside to point out idiocy that occurs daily in our society. They have had the courage to do this on Comedy Central, home of the Daily Show, who’s host makes no bones about being super liberal. I would not go so far as to say that South Park has become a conservative outlet, but that it merely spews raw rational common sense to those who would listen. If you have never seen this show now is the time to start watching. The first three episodes of this new season have been social commentary episodes. I don’t expect every episode of the season to be a commentary one, but there is an ever increasing ratio.
A few of the episodes that I reccomend one watch are: “Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow” from season 9. From this new season (10) the first three episodes: “The Return of Chef”, “Smug Alert” and “Cartoon Wars”. If you are one of the unfortunate souls that does not TIVO the show, a program called BitTorrent (forget iTunes) might be of some use to you. If you are not familiar with BitTorrent there is a lot of information about it at Wikipedia.