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South Park
"I’m goin' down to South Park, gonna have myself a time…"
Genre: Animated sitcom
Dark comedy
Satire
Drama
Running Time: 22 minutes
Country: United States
Release Date: August 13, 1997 - present (Overall)
August 13, 1997 - December 9, 2015, September 13, 2017 - present (seasons 1-19, 21-present)
Network(s): Comedy Central
Created by: Trey Parker
Matt Stone
Distributed by: Paramount Media Networks (original broadcasts)
CBS Media Ventures (syndication)
Starring: Trey Parker
Matt Stone
Mary Kay Bergman (1997-1999)
Isaac Hayes (1997-2006)
Eliza Schneider (1999-2004)
April Stewart (2004-present)
Mona Marshall
Jessica Makinson
Jennifer Howell
Seasons: 26
Episodes: 325


South Park is an American animated sitcom that aired on Comedy Central in 1997 and is currently ongoing. It is the second longest-running animated series to date, the third is Arthur and the first is The Simpsons.

Development

Parker and Stone met in film class at the University of Colorado in 1992 and discovered a shared love of Monty Python, which they often cite as one of their primary inspirations. They created an animated short entitled The Spirit of Christmas. The film was created by animating construction paper cutouts with stop motion and features prototypes of the main characters of South Park, including a character resembling Cartman but named "Kenny", an unnamed character resembling what is today Kenny, and two near-identical unnamed characters who resemble Stan and Kyle. Fox Broadcasting Company executive and mutual friend Brian Graden commissioned Parker and Stone to create a second short film as a video Christmas card. Created in 1995, the second The Spirit of Christmas short resembled the style of the later series more closely. To differentiate between the two homonymous shorts, the first short is often referred to as Jesus vs. Frosty, and the second short is Jesus vs. Santa. Graden sent copies of the video to several of his friends, and from there, it was copied and distributed, including on the internet, where it became one of the first viral videos.

As Jesus vs. Santa became more popular, Parker and Stone began talks of developing the short into a television series about four children residing in the fictional Colorado town of South Park. Fox eagerly agreed to meet with the duo about the show's premise, having prided itself on edgier products such as Cops, The Simpsons, and The X-Files. However, during the meeting at the Fox office in Century City, disagreements between the two creators and the network began to arise, mainly over the latter's refusal to air a show that included a supporting talking stool character named Mr. Hankey. Some executives at 20th Century Fox Television (which was to produce the series) agreed with its then-sister network's stance on Mr. Hankey and repeatedly requested Parker and Stone to remove the character for the show to proceed. Refusing to meet their demands, the duo cut ties with Fox and its sister companies altogether and began shopping the series somewhere else.

The two then entered negotiations with both MTV and Comedy Central. Parker preferred the show be produced by Comedy Central, fearing that MTV would turn it into a kids' show. When Comedy Central executive Doug Herzog watched the short, he commissioned it to be developed into a series. Parker and Stone assembled a small staff and spent three months creating the pilot episode "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe". South Park was in danger of being canceled before it even aired when the show fared poorly with test audiences, particularly with women. However, the shorts were still gaining more popularity over the Internet, and Comedy Central ordered a run of six episodes. South Park debuted with "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe" on August 13, 1997.

Plot

The series focuses on 4 foul-mouthed children: Eric Cartman, Kyle Broflovski, Stan Marsh, and Kenny McCormick. They get into many weird mishaps while learning a valuable lesson at the end.

Why These Seasons Will Make You Want to Meet Some Friends o' Theirs

  1. Kenny's deaths in the earlier episodes are always hilarious and creative.
  2. Numerous of clever cultural references.
  3. Has countered numerous attacks on entertainment by moral guardians with episodes dealing with censorship and was one of the main focuses of the film.
  4. Eric Cartman and his crazy (and at times, downright evil) schemes.
  5. Tons of amazing and likable characters, such as:
  6. Season 19 attacked both political and outraged cultures with a season-long story arc. South Park is one of the few shows on TV that attacks political culture and people who are too mentally outraged by everything they see.
    • This does not mean the show doesn’t attack the right wing; indeed, there are too many episodes to count where racism, homophobia, and religious fundamentalism were mocked and ridiculed. This earns South Park the lofty honor of being one of the few shows centered around political humor to promote rationalism and healthy skepticism.
  7. Many episodes focus on current events due to the fact episodes take a week to make. Case-in-point: the 20th season episode "The Very First Gentleman" was changed to "Oh, Jeez" after Donald Trump's unexpected victory in the presidential election, as the episode (and indeed, the rest of the season) had been made with the expectation that Hillary Clinton would win; as the election was on Tuesday and new episodes air on Wednesdays, they animated and voiced the new stuff in under 24 hours.
  8. The voice acting is great, considering that it is mostly done by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, a roasting cast of female voice actors, and some members of the South Park team like storyboarder Adrien Beard (who voices Tolkien).
  9. A lot of valuable life lessons and morals for adults and teenagers to learn such as:
    • "Free speech is important" ("Cartoon Wars 1 & 2")
    • "Intolerance is ugly" ("Chef Goes Nanners")
    • "Perseverance pays off" ("Make Love Not Warcraft")
    • "Even your close friends have limits" ("SHOTS!")
    • "Parents will snap eventually" ("SHOTS!")
    • "Discussions about sex are healthy" ("Proper Condom Use")
    • "Life moves on" ("4th Grade")
    • "We can all change" ("Covid Special Part 1")
    • "Looks aren't everything" ("The List")
    • "Respect other religions" ("All About Mormons")
    • "Fire isn't as fun as you think" ("Butt Out" and "Preschool")
    • "It's OK to feel sad" ("Raisins")
    • "Forgiveness is important no matter what you have done" (Post Covid specials)
    • "Friends come first" ("Guitar Queer-O")
    • "Being independent for a while is good" ("Do The Handicapped Go To Hell?")
    • "Boastfulness can bite you back" ("Breast Cancer Show Ever")
    • "Swearing is meaningless" ("It Hits The Fan")
    • "Moderation is everything" (various episodes)
    • "Psychos come from the least obvious place" ("Cripple Fight")
    • "Reward yourself when you have accomplished your goals" ("A Million Little Fibers")
    • "If your dream is to be famous, prepare to be ridiculed" ("Fishsticks")
    • "Patience is a virtue" ("Go God Go")
    • "Native people are not as welcoming as you think" ("Rainforest Shmainforest")
    • "Breakups aren’t the end of the world" ("Raisins")
    • "Parents are a vital part of life" ("The Wacky Molestation Adventure")
    • "Big business’s hurt small shops" ("Something Walmart This Way Comes" & "Bike Parade")
    • "Family Isn’t About Blood" ("Ike’s Wee Wee")
    • "Money can't buy you happiness" ("Cartmanland")
    • "Even your enemies can help you" ("You Have 0 Friends")
    • "Big brands aren't as innocent as you think" ("Chinpokomon")
    • "Sometimes, other people have come up with an idea you have thought of" ("Simpsons Already Did It")
    • "Don't treat people like objects" ("Butters Bottom Bitch")
    • "The grass isn't always greener on the other side" ("Cartman Joins NAMBLA")
    • "It's OK to be gay" ("Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride")
    • "How people can scam you" ("Cash for Gold")
    • "The ownership of content" ("Free Hat")
    • "Learn to love yourself" ("Do the Handicapped Go to Hell?")
    • "Voting is important" ("Douche And Turd")
    • "Some words are not as innocent as you might think" ("With Apologies to Jesse Jackson")
    • "Cults are dangerous organizations" ("Super Best Friends")
    • "Open your eyes to a new way of doing things" ("Helen Keller the Musical")
    • "Even the sweetest people can give bad advice" ("Not Funny")
    • "Even adults can't always be trusted" (Season 20)
    • "People shouldn't ignore school shootings" ("Dead Kids")
  10. When people criticized the show for poor animation and fart jokes, the creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker responded by creating the characters of Terrance and Philip.
  11. It spawned great and hilarious video games, especially the two RPG games, South Park: The Stick of Truth and South Park: The Fractured but Whole, which were well received, or the first three South Park games that aren't that good, but they still are hilarious.
  12. Though the animation isn’t the best, it has a certain charm and parodies paper cutout animation very well, also the animation even back then can be very good such as in the Cartmanland" episode for season 5, and the animation now is even better.
    • The original pilot was done in cutout animation, keeping continuity in art style over the years.
    • The animation is very easy to make, taking about 6_7 days, as a result, some episodes are made quickly to catch up with modern topics and media, therefore making it more relevant.
    • The character designs are amazing too, as while they are simple, they still are good and some characters even look cute.
  13. The celebrity parodies are hysterical, especially Mel Gibson, Tom Cruise, and Kanye West.
  14. A great vanity logo that is memorable to fans at the end of each South Park episode from season 1 to season 10 episode 2: "BRANIFF!! BELIEVE IT!"
  15. The show has lots of continuity, with many seasons having continuous story threads, especially in season 18-onward.
  16. They ridicule everything and everyone on the planet, especially those who are widely disliked or who deserve it.
  17. The show doesn’t choose either side of the political spectrum, as both left and right-wingers are ridiculously mocked.
  18. It’s one of the first American shows that challenged the stereotype that animation is only for children.
  19. The famous quote: "Oh my God! They killed Kenny! You bastards!"
  20. The animation quality has greatly improved in later seasons, with characters showing more movements.
  21. Hilarious and unforgettable moments like Mr. Mackey’s failed drug education class and Cartman singing "Kyle's Mom's a Bitch" in "Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo" and in South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut.
  22. Clever writing that mocks other animated shows like The Simpsons and Family Guy.
  23. Good dubs such as Cantonese, Japanese, Italian, and French dubs.
  24. Great pacing for a lot of episodes.
  25. Hilarious villains such as Mecha-Streisand, Saddam Hussein, the Woodland Critters, and Mel Gibson.
  26. Overall, this show does an amazing job at showcasing that animation isn’t just for children - it also acts as a sort of ongoing and long-running experiment by Matt Stone and Trey Parker to see what they could get away with on TV.

Bad Qualities That Killed Kenny

  1. Although this may be a nitpick, there have been many times where the show has gone so far that it has become outright offensive as this show was made with the sole purpose of being the most offensive thing to ever air on television. Some examples of the show’s vulgarities going too far for some include:
    • Kenny McCormick is being arrested for giving Howard Stern a "Hummer" in "Fat Camp".
    • An imposter of Kenny crawling up Ms. Crabtree's vagina… and then coming back out, covered in her bodily fluids and completely crushed in the same episode.
    • Cartman drinking a cup of semen.
    • Cartman sticking Butters's penis in his mouth, taking a picture of it, showing it in class, and later attempting to trick a prank, the problem is that it was outright sexual assault.
    • Cartman "milking" a dog by using the red rocket technique.
    • Cartman's hand puppet (Mitch Conner) giving Ben Affleck a handjob in "Fat Butt and Pancake Head".
    • Randy Marsh masturbates to very disgusting forms of porn and eventually covers his entire body in semen in "Over Logging". This is, however, one of the funniest scenes in the show.
    • Naked adults chasing young boys attempting to assault them in "Cartman Joins NAMBLA".
    • Chef being brainwashed into joining a Scientology-esque club of child molesters in "The Return of Chef". In the same episode, he is seen getting stabbed by a large stick and torn apart by a cougar and a large brown bear while being shot multiple times… and then defecates in his pants before he dies.
      • Ironically, Chef's voice actor, the late Isaac Hayes was a Scientologist in real life and quit the show over disagreements over his organization's portrayal in the show. The episode itself was made as a Take That! to Isaac Hayes quitting the show.
    • The multiple scenes of the Woodland Critters performing satanic rituals and raping and killing people in "Woodland Critter Christmas".
    • Randy unintentionally said the N-word in "With Apologies to Jesse Jackson".
    • Mr. Slave shoving Paris Hilton up his rectum in "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playlist", and also a rodent (Lemmiwinks) in "The Death Camp of Tolerance".
    • The episode "Crack Baby Athletic Association" revolves around crack-addicted babies fighting each other.
    • The scenes in "China Problem" where Steven Spielberg and George Lucas rape Indiana Jones multiple times, which are arguably the most disturbing scenes ever.
    • The majority of "Britney's New Look" literally being nothing but full-blown, infuriating Britney Spears torture.
    • Butters having the whole world drink his fluids (referred to as his "Creamy Goo") in "Sarcastaball" can be hard to watch.
    • When the school gets shot up multiple times in "Dead Kids" is disturbing and the fact that no one seems to care makes it even worse.
    • The episode, "The Wacky Molestation Adventure" includes scenes where children turn into antagonists due to false accusations of parents getting molested by children, resulting in many plot holes in real life, and the show itself. Thus, making it a non-canon episode rather than a legit one, despite being a cult in making a Children of the Corn reference.
  2. From seasons 18-20, you have to watch every single episode to see what’s going on. When season 21 rolled around, there was still continuity, but it was much looser to the point that each episode can be enjoyed individually (one episode bashing the opioid epidemic and guest-starring Josh Gad is completely standalone).
  3. A somewhat excessive amount of toilet/gross-out humor at times, to the point most of the critics of the show point at the excessive cursing and gross-out scenes as the major flaw of the show. For example, Mr. Hankey (a sentient piece of fecal matter) can be a disgusting character to some people. Thankfully, later seasons dialed down the toilet humor to a reasonable amount.
  4. Despite having some awesome seasons, this show has had its share of either okay or mediocre seasons. Thus, this show has become a cash cow for Comedy Central:
    • The first two seasons, while decent, aren’t as good as the show was after season 3 and how it is now, mostly due to the writing being a little bit tamer in a few episodes with some of it having bad animation, tons of flatulence jokes mostly in the first episode, and bad facial expressions.
    • Season 4, while amazing, was filled with a lot of mediocre to terrible episodes with some being some of the worst episodes of the entire series, the most notable example being the "Pip" episode that is by a lot of fans considered the absolute worst episode of the entire show.
    • Season 20 was the most controversial mainly due to the unaired "The Very First Gentleman" having to be reworked into "Oh, Jeez" after Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, forcing Matt Stone and Trey Parker to scrap their plans for the entire season.
    • Season 23, while not as controversial as Season 20, begins focusing too much on Stan's father (Randy Marsh). However, there are some enjoyable specials, most notably "The Pandemic Special" and "The Vaccination Special". Although Season 26 had little to no mention of Tegridy Weed, these seasons are very divisive due to having fewer episodes and there are several more mediocre episodes.
    • Like Arthur, they keep decreasing the episode count into VERY LOW EPISODE NUMBERS!
  5. Some unlikable and mean-spirited characters such as:
    • Butters' parents often punish their son with physical abuse (such as beating him at the end of "Jared Has Aides" believing he cussed them out on the phone earlier when it was Cartman and chaining him in the basement at the end of "Marjorine" while feeding him a dead person.
    • Wendy Testaburger, during seasons 7-10 and 13-17 has been flanderized as she went from a kind-hearted girlfriend who is having an adorable date with her boyfriend Stan to an irredeemable feminist who's mean towards girls and boys (mostly Stan, her boyfriend) which makes her very unlikable and worse from the new season. She did, however, regain her major status in season 17, redeemed herself in the video game South Park: The Fractured But Whole, and has regained her lovable self since season 18.
    • Shelly Marsh during seasons 1-7 is unlikable for self-explanatory reasons, as she beats up her brother repeatedly and even dated a 22-year old despite being 13.
    • Some characters are underutilized. The most notable example is Brimmy, who has only spoken once!
  6. A handful of bad and/or mediocre episodes aside from season 20, such as:
    • "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe", while funny, was a pretty weak way to start the series.
    • "Cartman's Mom Is Still a Dirty Slut" is an unfortunate conclusion to "Cartman's Mom Is a Dirty Slut".
    • "Pip" is easily the absolute worst episode of the entire series as it is extremely boring to watch to the point that you would want to fall asleep, and the episode itself feels nothing like it's coming from South Park.
    • "The Wacky Molestation Adventure" is a terrible and pointless episode due to the children getting away with falsely claiming that their parents sexually assaulted them and getting away with it.
    • "Toilet Paper"
    • "Stanley's Cup" is an extremely mean-spirited episode, especially considering the ending.
    • "The China Probrem" is a poor episode that portrays Stephen Spielberg and George Lucas as evil sociopaths who like raping their characters.
    • "Pandemic" and "Pandemic 2: The Starling"
    • "Marjorine"
    • "Britney's New Look" is not bad, it's very depressing and infuriating and it'll make you hate the media even more for the way they treated Britney Spears.
    • "Mr. Garrison's Fancy New Vagina" is one of the absolute worst episodes of the entire series as there is live-action footage of a sex change and the subplot with Kyle wanting to become tall and black is extremely offensive.
    • "Tonsil Trouble" (which started season 12 on a sour note)
    • "HumancentiPad" is also considered to be one of the worst episodes of the entire series as it shows Cartman at his worst and most manipulative self and it's nothing but a Kyle torture episode. It also infamously mocked The Human Centipede.
    • "Dead Kids"
    • "Jakovasaurs"
    • "Funnybot"
    • "Douche and Turd" is a huge Stan torture fest due him not wanting to vote and getting exiled just because of it.
    • "Pinewood Derby"
    • "Ginger Cow"
    • "Splatty Tomato" is not bad either, but it was a pretty weak way to end Season 21 and brings back a lot of bad memories from Season 20.
    • "A Million Little Fibers" is also one of the worst episodes of the series and the lowest-rated episode on IMDb.
    • "Pajama Day"
    • "Board Girls" is the second worst episode of the entire series as it is extremely transphobic, and not in a good way like "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride" was; it's nothing but a torture episode for PC Principal.
    • "Chef Goes Nanners" had Chef at his absolute worst and is also a bit offensive, but it is saved from being completely bad because the relationship of Cartman and Wendy is at its best in the series.
    • "Credigree Weed St. Patrick's Day Special"
    • "Here Comes the Neighborhood" is a torture episode for Tolkien and extremely offensive to rich people.
    • "SkankHunt" is easily the absolute worst episode of Season 20 and the fourth worst episode of the entire series since Gerald trolls the internet, leading to the girls breaking up with their boyfriends and Cartman having his stuff destroyed by the boys due to them thinking that it was him, hence making it an extremely painful episode to watch and the absolute worst episode of Season 20.
    • "The Hobbit" is a huge torture episode for Wendy and was an overall horrible way to end season 17.
  7. As mentioned in BQTKK#3, ever since Tegridy Farms was introduced in Season 22, Cartman, Kenny, and Kyle don't seem to get as much focus as before, with more of it going to Stan, Randy, and Tegridy Farms.
  8. Despite being a fan-favorite character and one of the main members of the group, Kenny is VERY underused in several episodes.
  9. Plenty of jokes in the series can be quite offensive to plenty of people, especially towards Jewish people.
  10. The Latin dub, which is done in Miami, has been getting worse. The cast is very small, and all the voices except for Patricia Azan, the voice of Kyle and Cartman, are terrible. The transition is also bad, such as in the Spanish version of "Do What You Wanna Do".
    • The Mexican dub, which covered Seasons 1 and 2, is also badly received due to the use of Mexican idioms to soften the rudeness.
  11. Unfortunately, due to his actor not being able to speak anymore due to him suffering a stroke and due to someone making Isaac quit the show without his consent, Chef left South Park in 2006, making the end of him very sad and he probably will never appear again in the show.

Notable good or decent episodes

Season 1 (1997-1998)

Season 2 (1998-1999)

  • "Chickenlover"
  • "Ike's Wee Wee"
  • "Conjoined Fetus Lady"
  • "The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka"
  • "City on the Edge of Forever (Flashbacks)"
  • "Summer Sucks"
  • "Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls"
  • "Chickenpox"
  • "Roger Ebert Should Lay Off the Fatty Foods"
  • "Clubhouses"
  • "Cow Days"
  • "Chef Aid"
  • "Spookyfish"
  • "Merry Christmas Charlie Manson!"
  • "Gnomes"
  • "Prehistoric Ice Man"

Season 3 (1999-2000)

  • "Rainforest Shmainforest"
  • "Spontaneous Combustion"
  • "The Succubus"
  • "Tweek vs. Craig"
  • "Sexual Harassment Panda"
  • "Cat Orgy"
  • "Two Guys Naked in a Hot Tub"
  • "Jewbilee"
  • "Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery"
  • "Chinpokomon"
  • "Hooked on Monkey Fonics"
  • "Starvin' Marvin in Space"
  • "The Red Badge of Gayness"
  • "Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics"
  • "Are You There God? It's Me, Jesus"
  • "World Wide Recorder Concert"

Season 4 (2000)

  • "The Tooth Fairy's Tats 2000"
  • "Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000"
  • "Timmy 2000"
  • "Quintuplets 2000"
  • "Cartman Joins NAMBLA"
  • "Cherokee Hair Tampons"
  • "Something You Can Do with Your Finger"
  • "Do the Handicapped Go to Hell?"
  • "Probably"
  • "4th Grade"
  • "Trapper Keeper"
  • "Helen Keller! The Musical"
  • "Fat Camp"
  • "A Very Crappy Christmas"

Season 5 (2001)

  • "It Hits the Fan"
  • "Cripple Fight"
  • "Super Best Friends"
  • "Scott Tenorman Must Die"
  • "Terrance and Phillip: Behind the Blow"
  • "Cartmanland"
  • "Proper Condom Use"
  • "Towelie"
  • "Osama bin Laden Has Farty Pants"
  • "How to Eat with Your Butt"
  • "The Entity"
  • "Here Comes the Neighborhood"
  • "Kenny Dies"
  • "Butters' Very Own Episode"

Season 6 (2002)

  • "Jared Has Aides"
  • "Asspen"
  • "Freak Strike"
  • "Fun with Veal"
  • "The New Terrance and Phillip Movie Trailer"
  • "Professor Chaos"
  • "The Simpsons Already Did It"
  • "Red Hot Catholic Love"
  • "Free Hat"
  • "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society"
  • "Child Abduction Is Not Funny"
  • "A Ladder to Heaven"
  • "The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers"
  • "The Death Camp of Tolerance"
  • "The Biggest Douche in the Universe"
  • "My Future Self n' Me"
  • "Red Sleigh Down"

Season 7 (2003)

  • "Cancelled"
  • "Krazy Kripples"
  • "I'm a Little Bit Country"
  • "Fat Butt and Pancake Head"
  • "Lil' Crime Stoppers"
  • "Red Man's Greed"
  • "South Park Is Gay"
  • "Christian Rock Hard"
  • "Grey Dawn"
  • "Casa Bonita"
  • "All About Mormons"
  • "Butt Out"
  • "Raisins"
  • "It's Christmas in Canada"

Season 8 (2004)

  • "Good Times with Weapons"
  • "Up the Down Steroid"
  • "The Passion of the Jew"
  • "You Got F'd in the A"
  • "AWESOM-O"
  • "The Jeffersons"
  • "Goobacks"
  • "Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes"
  • "Pre-School"
  • "Quest for Ratings"
  • "Cartman's Incredible Gift"
  • "Woodland Critter Christmas"

Season 9 (2005)

  • "Die Hippie, Die"
  • "Wing"
  • "Best Friends Forever"
  • "The Losing Edge"
  • "The Death of Eric Cartman"
  • "Erection Day"
  • "Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow"
  • "Follow That Egg"
  • "Ginger Kids"
  • "Trapped in the Closet"
  • "Free Willzyx"
  • "Bloody Mary"

Season 10 (2006)

  • "The Return of Chef"
  • "Smug Alert!"
  • "Cartoon Wars" (parts 1 and 2)
  • "ManBearPig"
  • "Tsst"
  • "Make Love, Not Warcraft"
  • "Mystery of the Urinal Deuce"
  • "Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy"
  • "Hell on Earth 2006"
  • "Go God Go"
  • "Go God Go XII"

Season 11 (2007)

  • "With Apologies to Jesse Jackson"
  • "Cartman Sucks"
  • "Lice Capades"
  • "The Snuke"
  • "Fantastic Easter Special"
  • "D-Yikes!"
  • "Night of the Living Homeless"
  • "Le Petit Tourette"
  • "Imaginationland Episode I"
  • "Imaginationland Episode II"
  • "Imaginationland Episode III"
  • "Guitar Queer-o"
  • "The List"

Season 12 (2008)

  • "Major Boobage"
  • "Canada on Strike"
  • "Eek, a Penis!"
  • "Over Logging"
  • "Super Fun Time"
  • "Breast Cancer Show Ever"
  • "About Last Night..."
  • "Elementary School Musical"
  • "The Ungroundable"

Season 13 (2009)

  • "The Coon"
  • "Whale Whores"

Season 14 (2010)

  • "200" and "201"

Season 15 (2011)

  • "You're Getting Old"
  • "Ass Burgers"
  • "Broadway Bro Down"

Season 16 (2012)

  • "I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining"
  • "A Nightmare on FaceTime"

Season 17 (2013)

  • "Black Friday"
  • "A Song of Ass and Fire"
  • "Titties and Dragons"

Season 18 (2014)

  • "#HappyHolograms"
  • "PC Principal Final Justice"

Season 19 (2015)

  • "Tweek X Craig"

Season 20 (2016)

  • "Titties and Dragons"

Season 23 (2019)

  • "Mexican Joker"
  • "Band in China"
  • "Basic Cable"

Season 24 (2020-2021)

  • "The Pandemic Special"
  • "South ParQ Vaccination Special"

Season 26 (2023)

  • "Deep Learning"

Specials (2021-2023)

  • "South Park: Post COVID"
  • "South Park: Post COVID: The Return of COVID"
  • "South Park The Streaming Wars"
  • "South Park: Joining the Pandaverse"
  • "South Park (Not Suitable for Children)"

Notable bad or average episodes

Season 1 (1997-1998)

Season 2 (1998-1999)

  • "Terrance and Phillip in Not Without My Anus"
  • "Cartman's Mom Is Still a Dirty Slut"

Season 3 (1999-2000)

Season 4 (2000)

Season 7 (2003)

Season 8 (2004)

Season 9 (2005)

Season 10 (2006)

Season 11 (2007)

Season 12 (2008)


Reception

South Park has received critical acclaim from both the critics and the audience alike and has also been featured on many "Best Shows of All Time" lists by several publications. The show is well known globally and has received numerous accolades, including five Primetime Emmys and a Peabody Award, and is known as one of the most successful Comedy Central shows.

Trivia

  • The episode "Band in China" mentions how the Chinese government banned Winnie-the-Pooh and Disney's version of the character in mid-2017 due to unfavorable comparisons to the Chinese President and General Secretary of the Communist Party Xi Jinping, which subsequently led to the film Christopher Robin not receiving a release there, as well as the country's severe censorship and authoritarianism. Said episode ended up getting the entire series banned… in China. Trey Parker and Matt Stone would respond with a fake apology that mocked the NBA's pandering to the Chinese Government.[citation needed]
  • After the South ParQ Vaccination Special, the show went on hiatus (possibly due to the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike), with only two specials on Paramount+ and only six episodes on seasons 25 and 26.
  • When the show was broadcast into syndication starting in 2005, a special intro was created for these edited episodes. The base intro is the same one for seasons 1-4; however, the audio from the season 7 theme is heard with a cash ring at the start.
    • The boys' faces are redrawn at the start.
    • As the bus leaves, Butters is seen chasing it.
    • A ton of women are seen riding with Chef inside and on the roof of his car as he waves at the viewer (implying that he is either a pimp or promiscuous).
    • Mr. Mackey appears as a balloon when the boys arrive at school and get off the bus, with his head being attached to a balloon string. In the same scene, a morbidly obese version of Cartman is seen changing color and expanding in the background. Death appears behind Kenny shocking him.
    • The singer appears behind a snowy hill at the end, with the hill panning up to reveal the show's then-current title card.

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