South Park 

Follows the misadventures of four irreverent grade-schoolers in the quiet, dysfunctional town of South Park, Colorado.

Creators:

Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Brian Graden

Stars:

Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Isaac Hayes

Top Rated TV #90 | Won 5 Primetime Emmys. Another 12 wins & 83 nominations.

Cast

Series cast summary:
Trey Parker	...	Stan Marsh / ... 308 episodes, 1997-2019
Matt Stone	...	Kyle Broflovski / ... 308 episodes, 1997-2019
Mona Marshall	...	Sheila Broflovski / ... 208 episodes, 2000-2019
April Stewart	...	Sharon Marsh / ... 188 episodes, 2004-2019
Isaac Hayes	...	Chef 136 episodes, 1997-2006

Storyline

The curious, adventure-seeking, fourth grade group of 10 year old boys, Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny, all join in in buffoonish adventures that sometimes evolve nothing. Sometimes something that was simple at the start, turns out to get out of control. Everything is odd in the small mountain town, South Park, and the boys always find something to do with it.

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Plot Keywords:

elementary school | colorado | religious humor | political humor | profanity | 

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Taglines:

Four boys. One f**ked up town.

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Genres:

Animation | Comedy

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Certificate:

TV-MA

Details

Official Sites:

Official South Park Webpage

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

13 August 1997 (USA)

Also Known As:

South Park

Company Credits

Production Co:

Comedy Central, Braniff, Comedy Partners

Technical Specs

Runtime:

22 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital (season 12-) Dolby Stereo (seasons 1-11)

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

16 : 9

Did You Know?

Trivia

While Matt Stone and Trey Parker have confirmed on the commentary that it is only a few random episodes that aliens make appearances the myth persists that in every episode there is a hidden image of an alien that is on screen for only one shot.

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Goofs

In early seasons, whenever the children enter the cafeteria and Chef greets them with the "Hello there children!" line, notice his name on his apron is spelled in lowercase 'chef', but the next scene when he is speaking with the children, and the focus is on him behind the servery, notice his name is spelled in uppercase 'CHEF'.

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Quotes

Stan: It's always interesting to hear from Famous People.
Wendy: Hitler was famous too.

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Crazy Credits

The tune used for the Braniff logo at the end of the credits is the opening song from Trey Parker and Matt Stone's first film, "Alfred Packer: The Musical" (aka Cannibal: The Musical). Titled "Shpadoinkle Day". "The Sky is blue, and all the leaves are green. The Suns as warm as a baked potato. I think I know exactly what I mean, when I say its a Shpadoinkle day!"

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Alternate Versions

In advertisements for the episode in which Kyle needs a kidney from Cartman, Stan asks Cartman what he'd do with ten million dollars, and Cartman replies, "I'd make Britney Spears my love slave!" The Britney Spears line does not appear in the actual episode.

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Connections

Referenced in Millions (2004)

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Soundtracks

South Park (theme song)
Music by Primus
Lyrics by Trey Parker and Matt Stone
Performed by Les Claypool, Trey Parker and Matt Stone

User Reviews

Sadly Misunderstood

South Park is one of the most misunderstood, and also the most intelligent shows on television.

South Park is a satirical look on most anything from Western society - politics, the media, today's youth, celebrities, violence in our society, and much much more. However, instead of presenting these issues as they are, they alternately project them through the exploits of four young boys in South Park, Colorado.

Unfortunately, many people take the show solely at face value, refusing to see the intelligence in it - South Park is admittedly filled with racist and sexist jokes, along with other offensive material. The problem lies within the fact that most people don't seem to understand the concept of satire and self parody.

I admit that I, myself, was one of these people - for years I refused to watch that "garbage," until finally a friend forced me to actually watch a whole episode, and I realized that the show was actually making a point.

So, if you haven't done so, go - watch an episode. You'll feel smarter when you're done.