Trivia

Mr. Garrison's first name is Herbert. Ms. Garrison's first name is Janet.

The character of Mr. Hankey was inspired by something from Trey Parker's childhood. When Trey was a kid, he had the habit of not flushing the toilet. Because of this, Trey's dad told him that if he didn't flush the toilet "Mr. Hankey" would come out and eat him.

The character of Butters was based on Eric Stough, the show's animation director.

Eric Cartman's middle name is Theodore.

During the opening credits for the first two seasons, Kenny said something extremely crude. Trey Parker and Matt Stone were able to get away with this because his voice was muffled and very few people could make out what he was saying.

The character of Chef is based on an actual dining hall worker at the University of Colorado, the college Trey Parker and Matt Stone attended.

This is a compilation of all the ways Kenny is killed, sorted from 1997 to 2010. For more details, please visit each individual episodes' FAQ page. Season 1 1: Alien ship laser, heard of cows, police car, rats take his corpse. 2: Shot by Mr. Garrison, impaled through head on flag pole. 3: Lava, shot my Ned, rats take his corpse. 4: Arms and head pulled off at football game, rats take his corpse. 5: Stan's evil clone knocks him into the microwave. 6: Kenny kill Death in his dream. Later Death kills Kenny, rats take his corpse. 7: Dies multiple times, Mir Space Station lands on him, turned into a zombie, gets chain sawed in half, angel statue land on him, airplane crashes on him. 8: Wild turkey plucks out his eye. 9: For Christmas Kenny doesn't die. 10: Turned into duckbilled platypus, shot by Jimbo, rats take his corpse. 11: Scimitar through head. 12: Hanged on tetherball rope. 13: Dragged by a go cart, hit by train. Season 2 1: April Fools joke episode which does not include the main characters. 2: Electrocuted by the hospital's emergency generator, rats freeze to him. 3: A Christmas tree falls on him. 4: Falls into grave, headstone falls on him. 5: Gets hit with dodge ball. 6: Pulled him apart on "Jesus and Pals," rats take his corpse. 7: Dies twice, monster eats him, in a flashback The Fonz hits him with his bike. 8: Dies twice, blown up by M-80, crushed by giant snake firework. 9: Run over by a crowd. 10: Chicken pox. 11: Head explodes, rats take his corpse. 12: Trampled in mosh pit, rats take his corpse. 13: Thrown off a bull. 14: Ozzy Osbourne bites his head off. 15: Evil goldfish eats him. 16: Police shoot him. 17: Mining cart falls on him. 18: Pulled under an escalator. Season 3 1: Struck by lightening, comes back to life when girlfriend performs CPR. 2: Spontaneous combustion. 3: Killed by succubus. 4: Killed by bear while dressed as deer. 5: Circular saw, box of rusty nails. SP: B, L and U: Lights his fart and catches on fire, heart replaced with baked potato. 6: Gets pulled into a giant fan while holding a magnet. 7: Not in this episode. 8: Not in this episode. 9: Cracks his head open on conch shell. 10: Snow-speeders from Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back shoot him while he is wearing an ED-209 costume from RoboCop. 11: video game induced seizure, rats explode out of his body. 12: phonics monkey. 13: Laminated. 14: Shot by National Guard flare gun. 15: A chandelier falls on him. 16: Tampon in butt. 17: The Brown Noise. 4 1: Thrown in river with cement shoes. 2: Sledding accident. 3: Frying pan to the head. 4: Shot by Romanian Police. 5: In dream, killed by new born brother. Run over by Ambulance. 6: Piano falls on him. 7: Eats antacids tablets and explodes. 8: Crushed under elevator. 9: Run over by a tour bus. 10: Still dead from previous episode. 11: Dragged to death. 12: Attacked by the Trapper Keeper. 13: Stage light falls on him. 14: not in this episode. 15: Arrested for prostitution. Kenny look-a-like dies in bus driver's uterus. 16: Sacrificed at Carousel. 17: Run over by car. Season 5 1: Pukes to death. 2: Taken by Eagle. 3: Participates in mass suicide. 4: Dies laughing. 5: Arms and Legs chopped off throughout the episode. 6: Faulty roller coaster. 7: Boomerang in the face. 8: Falls into vat of molten lead. 9: Shot by military plane. 10: Run over by motorcycle. 11: Shot by airport security. 12: Already dead. 13: Terminal illness kills Kenny for real. Season 6 12: Cartman drinks Kenny's ashes. 15: Kenny's spirit is exorcised out of Cartman and into a pot roast. Pot roast get eaten by Rob Schneider. Rob/Kenny is impaled through head on flag pole. 16: Shows up mysteriously at the end of the episode with no explanation. Season 7 15: Laser blows him up. Season 8 6: Michael Jackson throws him into the ceiling. Season 9 3: Shot to death. 4: Run over by a truck, and then, after being resurrected to a vegetable-like state, dies in a hospital. Season 11 14: Gunshot in the back of the head. Season 13 1: Dies from syphilis. 10: Explodes with a fireworks rocket. 14: Drowns in pee. Season 14 Episode 1: Kenny is strangled with a belt around his neck while wearing a Batman costume.

Kenny's uncovered face has, to date, been shown five times: "Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo" (episode 110, airdate: 7 December 1997) where Kenny is seen singing on the stage at the beginning of the episode; In "Super Best Friends" (episode 504, airdate: 4 July 2001), Stan comes upon a drowned corpse, which he first mistakes for Kyle before saying "Oh my God, they killed Kenny!"; "The Jeffersons" (episode 807 - airdate: 21 April 2004) features an un-jacketed Kenny (wearing an eye-covering masquerade ball masque) posing as Michael Jackson's toddler, Blanket, and - for the first time on the actual series - speaking; "The Losing Edge" (episode 905 - airdate: 6 April 2005) shows Kenny in baseball uniform several times (he's the one with the dark, dirty blonde hair sitting on the right-hand side in Whistlin' Willy's Pizza Gultch); "Lice Capades" (episode 1103, airdate: 21 March 2007) Kenny's face is half shown when he is being sock bathed for a few seconds. He is also shown in the shower with Stan, Kyle and Cartman in the episode Lil Crime Stoppers (episode 706, airdate April 23, 2003)

The famous South Park Holiday Special episode features live-action footage after every commercial break of Trey Parker as a newsreader saying "Fight the frizzies. Film at 11." This references a widely-circulated bootleg video of the infamous The Star Wars Holiday Special which included "pause button delay" sound bites of a real newscaster saying just that.

The creators commented that when the show was first popular, the catch phrase from people on the street had been, "Omigod! They killed Kenny! You bastards!" With the introduction of a wheelchair-bound boy with cerebral palsy, the catch phrase became "TIMMAY!"

The pilot episode was made using paper cutouts of the characters. Every episode thereafter was animated with a computer

The music usually played over the closing credits is just the original opening theme song by Primus, only instrumental and slowed down.

The character Towelie was created to mock the real-life trend where every new South Park character introduced was a new marketing blitz. Towelie represented the absolute dumbest thing possible to create: a talking towel.

Traditionally an animated series takes eight to 12 months to be completed, making it almost impossible to address current event. In the case of "South Park", computer-animating the show has afforded the creators lee-way to put certain episodes together quickly (such as -"Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Slut" - 22 April 1998) and identifiable changes between the episodes and that episode's own promo. Most notable have been what are known as the "11th hour episodes", episodes put together mere days - and sometimes hours - before airtime. These include, but are not limited to:

• "Quintuplets 2000" a.k.a "Janet Reno in a Bunny Suit" (airdate: 26 April 2000). This episode mirrored the removal, by the U.S. government, of Elian Gonzalez from the home of his Miami relatives; an event which occurred three days prior.
• "Trapper Keeper" (airdate: 15 November 2000), which parodied the scandal of the 2000 presidential election, which happened a week earlier.
• "It Hits the Fan" (airdate: 20 April 2001). Numerous story changes kept the episode in production all the way up to the airing. Upon its original airing, the show was notably lacking in numerous completed sound effects. Most obvious was the lack of sound during Kenny's death.
• "Osama bin Laden has Farty Pants" (airdate: 7 November 2001). Airing weeks after the terrorist attacks on the USA of 11 September 2001, it became one of the first fictional series to address the matter.
• "It's Christmas in Canada" (airdate: 17 December 2003) which acknowledged the capture of Saddam Hussein a mere four days after it took place.
• "Best Friends Forever" (airdate: 30 March 2005) which parodied the media coverage of the Terry Schiavo case.
• "Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow" (airdate: 19 October 2005) This episode was inspired by the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, first being that people blamed the government what happened, and also that it took so long for aid to arrive.

The show is animated using Maya, the same program used to animate Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within and Final Flight of the Osiris.

Eliza Schneider took over the voice acting for all the female roles after the suicide of Mary Kay Bergman.

Stan's family (parents Randy and Sharon, sister Shelley) are named after Trey Parker's family. Kyle's parents, Gerald and Sheila, are named after Matt Stone's parents.

Butters' supervillain alter-ego, Professor Chaos, is based on Marvel Comics villain Dr. Doom.

In the late 1990s, a mother in Canada filed a complaint against this series with the CRTC (Canada's equivalent of the FCC). She stated that her young son, named Kenny, was being traumatized by the death of the character Kenny in each episode, this trauma being made worse by classmates teasing him about it. She requested the CRTC pressure Parker and Stone to change Kenny's name to something else. Her request was thrown out.

The character of "Dr. Alphonse Mephesto" spoofs Marlon Brando's character in The Island of Dr. Moreau.

Butters' full name: Leopold Butters Stotch.

Kyle's hair is meant to resemble Matt Stone's haircut during the early years of South Park.

When the school counselor tells Mr Garrison that Mr Hat is an impersonation of his gay side, Mr Hat is replaced by the "hand puppet" Mr Twig, which has a pink triangular patch on its shirt. The same patch was used in Nazi concentration camps to label homosexuals.

Stan's birthday is October 19.