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 #67 | Won 5 Primetime Emmys. Another 12 wins & 81 nominations.

Cast

Series cast summary:
Trey Parker	...	Stan Marsh / ... 298 episodes, 1997-2018
Matt Stone	...	Kyle Broflovski / ... 298 episodes, 1997-2018
Mona Marshall	...	Sheila Broflovski / ... 200 episodes, 2000-2018
April Stewart	...	Sharon Marsh / ... 179 episodes, 2004-2018
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 | social satire | censorship | 

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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 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

Cartman's mom is named Liane after Trey Parker's former fiancée. He caught her with another man, and so he named the promiscuous character after her.

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Goofs

Exactly who is related to whom in the Marsh family is never consistent. Early episodes imply that Jimbo and Marvin (Stan's grandfather) are on Sharon's side of the family, whereas more recent ones imply they are on Randy's side. Being on Sharon's side makes sense for Jimbo, as he has a different last name. However, Marvin's last name is, indeed, confirmed to be Marsh. Matt Stone revealed in an interview that Jimbo Kerns is Randy's half-brother.

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Quotes

Eric Cartman: I'm not fat, I just haven't grown into my body yet you skinny bitch.
Mr. Garrison: Eric. If you call Wendy a bitch one more time I'm sending you to the principal's office.
[beat]
Eric Cartman: Bitch.
Mr. Garrison: That's it Eric, you...
Eric Cartman: I'm going.

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Crazy Credits

Season Six has Timmy fill in for Kenny in singing the theme song since Kenny was absent for that season.

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Alternate Versions

There is a persistent rumor that, in the "Big Gay Al" episode, the line "And these South Park Cows are being absolutely molested by Middle Park. I haven't seen so many children since..." was initially followed by "since Michael Jackson came to town". This rumor is entirely unfounded; numerous tapes made of the episode as broadcast prove this, and nobody has yet to offer any actual evidence to the contrary other than memory. Despite this, the rumor persists.

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Connections

Featured in WatchMojo: Top 10 Cartoon Characters Hated For Stupid Reasons (2019)

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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

Best social satire ever, yet rarely seen as such

South Park is probably the most misunderstood show in TV history.

Sure, it does have fart jokes but what it has really involved into is a show that depicts a wide range of current events, pop cultures references, social problems through the lenses of a group of 10 year olds and all the wacky characters that surround them.

The fact that the drawings are fairly simple also makes a lot of people shy away from it, but actually this show has a completely unique approach to several divisive or thought-provoking subjects. To name a few:

• 'The Hobbit" looks at how photoshopped photos makes society expectations of a woman's body hard to reach and the amount of pressure it may put on little girls (whilst taking hilarious jabs at Kanye West and Kim Kardashian)

• "You're getting old" takes you over the nightmare that is feeling like you might be mentally older than you friends and that may make left out

• Console Wars episodes dive into the consumerism involving Black Friday, video games and the world's obsession with Game of Thrones

These are all great episodes and I think the show if anything has aged well with time.

The other brilliant thing about South Park is that because each episode gets produced in the span of week, it can be more up to date than any scripted show - just this season it referenced Kavanaugh nomination controversy in an episode even before he was eventually confirmed.

Second 10/10 I have given on IMDb and South Park is well deserving of it.