South Park: "Unfulfilled"

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South Park: "Unfulfilled." Season 22, episode 9 (5 December 2018).

The "Official Description" on what definitely looks like the South Park wiki website summarizes, "The citizens of South Park are enjoying all the perks of being a company town when the Amazon Fulfillment Center moves in. Everything is just swell until the contradictions inherent in capitalism threaten to bring down the entire system."[1]

The "Full Description" begins,

"South Park fourth grader Butters Stotch looks forward to the town's bike parade, where he hopes to win first prize. He purchases accessories to decorate his bicycle, but his father, Stephen Stotch, who recently began working at the Amazon fulfillment center as a boxer, worries that his family’s frequent purchases on that website are driving it deeper into debt. [...]

Stephen's co-worker  [...] is accidentally grabbed by a sorting robot and compressed into a small package, which Amazon blames on 'human error.'"[2]


Note the kids' bicycles as «toys for boys», parodying motorcycles and cars (and occasionally expensive bicycles) as status symbols and girl attractors for older human males. More significant, viewers with a background in film can see the scenes in the the Amazon Fulfillment Center as a post-modern version of a key factory scene in Charles Chaplin's MODERN TIMES with Chaplin's character Charlie on the assembly line and soon engulfed in the mechanism.