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Character Analysis: Big Gay Al
The television series that I will be writing about is South Park, the series is about four white middle class elementary school boys named Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman, and Kenny McCormick and their daily adventures in South Park Colorado. However, the one character that is touched upon quite a bit in the episode I will be writing about is not a main character but one that appears quite a bit in this series and his name is Al or also known as “Big Gay Al”. South Park is trying to make out Al as a stereotypical homosexual: upbeat, happy, optimistic, and flamboyant. In the series Al is very compassionate about the things he loves like saving homosexual animals which I will touch briefly on with the episode that I have chosen to write …show more content…
Stan mentions that Sparky is the “toughest dog in South Park, however Cartman mentions that Sylvester is actually the toughest dog in town. Then he calls over Sylvester so the two dogs can fight and they can really see who is the toughest, the dogs then start to circle each other and prepare to fight however instead of fighting Sparky jumps on top of Sylvester and starts humping him. After that happens Cartman claims that Sparky is a “gay homosexual”. Later on in the day Sparky did this again to another dog after football practice and this really confuses Stan so the net day after class he asks Mr. Garrison what a homosexual is and he replies with, "Gay people are evil. Evil right down to their cold, black hearts, which pump not blood, like yours and mine, but rather a thick, black venomous oil”. Stan did not like hearing that so he sets on a mission to make his dog manly, hoping to turn his dog straight. The first thing that Stan does is he gets a female dog for Sparky and the first thing he does is mounts the dog however he does nothing sexual instead he takes off the dogs bedazzled collar and puts it on himself only adding on to the fact that he is homosexual. Later on in the house frustrated Stan starts ranting about how he wants a butch dog, Sparky overhears him and runs away and he ends up at Big Gat Al’s Gay Animal Sanctuary. Stan notices that Sparky was missing so worried, he goes off looking for him and finds him at the Big Gay Animal Sanctuary. While at the Sanctuary Stan finds out that homosexuality has been around for a long time and he accepts his dog’s homosexuality. He learns that it is okay to be

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