In "The Simpsons, Hyper-Irony, and the Meaning of Life," Carl Matheson writes, "[T]oday's comedies tend to be highly quotational; many of today's comedies essentially depend on the device of referring to or quoting other works of popular culture. Second, they are hyper-ironic; the flavor of humor offered by today's comedies is colder, based less on a shared sense of humanity than on a sense of world-weary cleverer-than-thou-ness" (109). Do you see South Park as being similar to The Simpsons in this way, or different? How? Think of examples, and explain!

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