| Jan 7 | Introduction | |
| Jan 9 | King of the Hill: “Pilot” (1-1)
South Park: “The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs” (14-2) | |
| Jan 14 | Gender
King of the Hill: “Peggy’s Turtle Song” (2-22)
Simpsons: “Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy” (5-14)
Reading: Frye, “The Nature of Satire” | |
| Jan 16 | Gender
Simpsons: “Brother from the Same Planet” (4-14)
Simpsons: “Girls Just Want to Have Sums” (17-19)
South Park: “The List” (11-14) | |
| Jan 21 | Gender
South Park: “More Crap” (11-9)
South Park: “Eat, Pray, Queef” (13-4)
Rick and Morty: “Raising Gazorpazorp” (1-7) | |
| Jan 23 | Sex
Simpsons: “Natural Born Kissers” (9-25)
South Park: “Are You There God? It’s Me, Jesus” (3-16)
Reading: Auden, “Satire”
Reading: Elliott, “The Satirist and Society” | |
| Jan 28 | Sex
South Park: “The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers” (6-13)
South Park: “Over Logging” (12-6)
Reading: Frye, “The Mythos of Winter: Irony and Satire” | |
| Jan 30 | Religion
King of the Hill: “Hilloween” (2-4)
Simpsons: “The Father, the Son, and the Holy Guest Star” (16-21)
South Park: “Red Hot Catholic Love” (6-8) | |
| Feb 4 | Religion
Simpsons: “The Joy of Sect” (9-13)
South Park: “The Passion of the Jew” (8-3)
Bob’s Burgers: “Aquaticism” (7-14)
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| Feb 6 | Religion
South Park: “All About Mormons” (7-12)
South Park: “Trapped in the Closet” (9-12)
Reading: Kernan, “A Theory of Satire” | |
| Feb 11 | Religion
Simpsons: “Faith Off” (11-11)
Simpsons: “She of Little Faith” (13-6)
Simpsons: “Pray Anything” (14-10) | |
| Feb 13 | Mid-term test: re-scheduled | |
| Feb 25 | Music industry
Simpsons: “New Kids on the Blecch” (12-14)
South Park: “Fat Butt and Pancake Head” (7-5)
South Park: “Christian Rock Hard” (7-9) | |
| Feb 27 | Mid-term test
Terrorism: removed
Simpsons: “MyPods and Boomsticks” (20-7)
Simpsons: “Homerland” (25-1)
South Park: “The Snuke” (11-4) | |
| Mar 4 | Privacy
SD: Simpsons: “To Surveil with Love” (21-20)
South Park: “Reverse Cowgirl” (16-1)
Reading: Feinberg, “Effects" and “Limitations” | |
| Mar 6 | Race
South Park: “Chef Goes Nanners” (4-7)
Boondocks: “Return of the King” (1-9)
Boondocks: “The Passion of Reverend Ruckus” (1-15) | |
| Mar 11 | Television
Futurama: “Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV” (4-6)
Simpsons: “Bart Gets Famous” (5-12)
Reading: Paulson, “Rhetoric and Representation” | |
| Mar 13 | Television
Simpsons: “The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show” (8-14)
SD: Simpsons: “Behind the Laughter” (11-22)
South Park: “Cancelled” (7-1) | |
| Mar 18 | Environment
Futurama: “A Big Piece of Garbage” (1-8)
Simpsons: “The Old Man and the Lisa” (8-21)
Reading: Sturm, “‘Omigod, It’s Russell Crow!’: South Park’s Assault on Celebrity” | |
| Mar 20 | Environment
Simpsons: “Lisa the Tree Hugger” (12-4)
SD: South Park: “Rainforest Shmainforest” (3-1)
South Park: “Smug Alert!” (10-2) | |
| Mar 25 | Homosexuality
Simpsons: “Homer’s Phobia” (8-15)
Simpsons: “There’s Something About Marrying” (16-10)
SD: Simpsons: “The Burns Cage” (27-17) | term essay |
| Mar 27 | Homosexuality
South Park: “Big Gay Al’s Big Gay Boat Ride” (1-4)
SD: South Park: “The Death Camp of Tolerance” (6-14)
South Park: “Cartman Sucks” (11-2) | |
| Apr 1 | Pop art
SD: Bob’s Burgers: “Art Crawl” (1-8)
King of the Hill: “Ceci N’est Pas Une King of the Hill” (8-9)
Simpsons: “Mom and Pop Art” (10-19) | |
| Apr 3 | Review | |