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Parents Guide for
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Since the beliefs that parents want to instill in their children can vary greatly, we ask that, instead of adding your personal opinions about what is right or wrong in a film, you use this feature to help parents make informed viewing decisions by describing the facts of relevant scenes in the title for each one of the different categories: Sex and Nudity, Violence and Gore, Profanity, Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking, and Frightening/Intense Scenes.
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Sex & Nudity

Sex & Nudity : 10

NOTE: The children are aged 8-10.

Most episodes contain strong sexual references and dialogue, including discussions and episodes based around sex, oral sex, anal sex, flatulence, BDSM, orgies, homosexuality, adultery, pedophilia, rape, condoms, incest, STD's, abortions, bestiality, and necrophilia. Some references and content can be very graphic and most are spoken by or involve children.

However, note that most of these are used in context and are for comedic effect. While there is very heavy discussion of sex, the actual content is not as graphic.

Some moderate sex scenes, however these are not frequent. Some episodes have nudity; breasts are occasionally shown, buttocks are shown fairly often, and sometimes penises can be seen (including scenes when the children are naked) They are very understated, however, and the scenes are brief. You can hardly see any nudity unless you look very hard or use freeze-frame. Sex scenes are generally very comical and over the top.

One episode contains several graphic scenes in which George Lucas and Steven Spielberg rape Indiana Jones. These scenes contain nudity and can be fairly disturbing. A few episodes also contain scenes in which several animals rape characters, however these scenes are very comical.

Ms. Choksondick has enormous breasts and she does not wear a bra. Her nipples are shown very briefly. However, she inexplicably dies in an episode and is never seen in the show again. Note that her name is pronounced chokes-on-dick, this is for comedic effect.

An episode features men using their giant testicles to "jump" around town. It is more comical than explicit however.

Sexual content differs between episodes.

Any actual nudity seen in the show is censored for the most part, as it happens off-screen. However, the episode "Major Boobage" is particularly explicit.episode features

If you listen very closely, in the theme song, Kenny says, "I like girls with big fat titties, I like girls with big vaginas."

Theres some episodes with sex in it and when a house gets doystored you see folk having sex but its got frequnt very strong sex refrnces the sex is strong but not in alot only 2 eposdes its in

Violence & Gore

Violence & Gore: 8

Violence can be very gory and graphic however its always comical, and usually over the top.

Kenny dies in every episode in the first five seasons and sometimes in very graphic ways.

Murder and suicide is often discussed.

Cartman is a sociopath and commits very violent acts such as: beating a man to death in a dream; killing a boys parents and making them into chili, which he feeds to the boy; and attempting to start a new holocaust.

There is at least one scene of violence in every episode, which ranges from mild to graphic.

All of the violence shown is portrayed as "real" rather than it being cartoon. Family Guy is cartoon violence/gore for example, and South Park is more towards "real."

Profanity

Profanity: 10/10

The show mocks religion in many episodes, most of the time in an over the top comical way, but in some cases, like the Scientology episode, it mercilessly mocks the religion based on actual opinions of Matt and Trey. Most of such episodes contain valid opinions.

Language is frequent in every episode. Most episodes contain at least one use of Fuck, Shit, bitch, bastard, whore, asshole and dick. However, the strong profanities such as "fuck, or cunt" is censored. (Though the language on the DVD sets, from season 11 onward, is completely uncensored).

In one episode, Jimmy tries to say the word 'continuing' but due to his stutter it sounds as if he calls a girl a cunt six times. Cunt is said in one or two other episodes and is referenced a few times.

In one episode, the word shit is said 162 times in 23 minutes. This is meant as a satire to the over-censorship of television

In many cases the show uses profanity to mock the opinions that certain people have of it, in a hilarious way.

Small children will not understand the context of the profanity and so for this alone the show is not for such ages.

"Goddammit" is used countless times (mostly by Eric Cartman).

The f word is using in all eposdes and the show has very strong languge and frequnt strong

The strong languge is this fuck shit mother fucker bitch asshole dickhead dick fat fuck.

The very strong is said like 6 or7 or 8 times i havent seen them all but when jimmy tries to say to wendy that stan loves her he tried to say contuing source of inspertion to him but he said this cause he has a talking problem and says stan says ur a cunt 6 times

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: 10

Alcohol is consumed often, including by kids. Characters are often shown very drunk.

Drugs are used fairly often, including marijuana, cocaine, LSD,MDMA and inhalants. Kids sometimes use drugs. One episode shows men getting testicular cancer just to buy marijuana.

Smoking is seen fairly often. One episode is based around the boys smoking. The goth kids are constantly shown smoking.

Theres emos who smoke at 9

Theres lots of drinking and drunk people after drinking

Frightening/Intense Scenes: 10

Many episodes are very offensive.

Some scenes can be disturbing due to their content.

One character is frequently killed off graphically, but appears healthy in the next episode.

Minor and main characters are killed on a regular basis. Violence can be disturbing and overly gory.

Kids often graphically talk about sex and some even engage in sex acts, which may disturb some people.

Kids are shown drinking, smoking and using drugs on occasion.

Some episodes mock white people, black people, Mexicans, Asians, Jews, gingers, mentally and physically handicapped people, and other minorities, so much that it can't be taken seriously.



The series is said to contain on average 128 instances of violence, sex, profanity and drugs per episode.

Total: 47/50 -THIS SHOW IS NOT RECOMMEND FOR ANYONE UNDER 15

The amount of offense caused by this show is dependant completely upon the viewer's moral compass.

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Canada:18A (DVD rating) (season 3) / Japan:R / Portugal:M/12 / Finland:K-15 (2006) (TV rating) (self applied) / Finland:K-3 (1999) (DVD) / South Korea:18 / Philippines:R-18 / Singapore:(Banned) / Chile:18 / Canada:18+ (tv rating) / Canada:14A (DVD rating) (seasons 1, 2, 4 - 14) / UK:18 (two episodes) / USA:TV-14 (syndicated episodes) / UK:PG (some episodes) / France:U (DVD rating) / Italy:VM14 (tv rating) / New Zealand:M (seasons 1-3) / New Zealand:R13 (season 4) / New Zealand:R16 (seasons 5+) / Chile:TE (some epiosodes) / Argentina:16 / Australia:MA (some episodes) / Australia:M (some episodes) / Brazil:18 (some episodes) / Canada:13+ (Quebec) / Germany:16 / Ireland:15 / Netherlands:MG6 / Spain:18 / Sweden:15 / UK:12 (some episodes) / USA:TV-MA / Brazil:14 / Malaysia:(Banned) / UK:15

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