This is the prepared text of a speech I gave Friday to the Radio Scholarly Interest Group at the 2016 Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference in Atlanta. I’ve lightly edited it for readability ...

One of Buzz’s favorite episodes of the TV show South Park introduced characters called “underpants gnomes.” They’re dim, vulgar pixies who steal little boys’ underpants as part of a grand business ...

Background check supporters are now pinning their hopes on the “Underpants Gnomes Profit Plan” to get their stalled initiative implemented. The plan comes from a “South Park” episode in which the ...

"If somebody had told me I'd be on stage singing 'Take the Skinheads Bowling' 30 years from now at a sold-out show somewhere, I would have said you're totally high," says singer David Lowery. Yet that ...

The boys are partnered with Tweek to write a current events papers and he suggests they write about “Underpants Gnomes.” Meanwhile, Tweek’s parents’ coffee shop is being threatened by a big corporate ...