ManBearPig

Character from South Park by Trey Parker & Matt Stone

Half man, half bear, half pig — Al Gore's obsession that everyone dismissed as crazy until it turned out to be terrifyingly real. The show's climate change allegory, delivered with maximum self-awareness.

Also known as: MBP

What They Know

• Originally presented as Al Gore's imaginary obsession, later revealed to be terrifyingly real — the show's most significant self-correction
• Functions as the show's climate change allegory — a threat everyone knows about but refuses to adequately address
• Half man, half bear, half pig — the math doesn't work, which is part of the joke and part of why people didn't take the threat seriously
• The town of South Park made a deal with ManBearPig decades ago for material comfort and has been avoiding the consequences since
• Al Gore's vindication about ManBearPig is the show admitting it was wrong about climate change dismissal, folded into the ongoing satire

Connections

• hunted_by — al_gore
• threatens — south_park_town

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