Here, he moves to the town under an assumed identity, and the kids try to figure out whether he really does molest children, or if he’s just the victim of society’s prejudice against rich Black men. The Jeffersonsįive years before he died, Michael Jackson became the subject of a full-frontal South Park attack. Which, now I’ve looked at it, is a hell of a sentence. But what could have been a truly mournful episode is enlivened by a subplot about a scheme to steal aborted foetuses in bulk for profit. Kenny DiesĪfter 78 episodes of killing off Kenny in increasingly elaborate ways, Trey Parker and Matt Stone made the momentous decision to kill him off properly (and sadly) from terminal muscular dystrophy. AWESOM-OĪ classic episode of escalating stakes, in which Cartman dresses as a robot to trick Butters, only to find himself kidnapped (and sexually assaulted) by the film industry and the military.īutters and ‘Awesom-o’. Here, the kids literally enter Facebook, and Cartman finds himself fending off a pack of compulsive masturbators. However, South Park’s approach is a little more elaborate. This episode and The Social Network came out in the same year, and both take potshots at Facebook. A fantasy about the kids getting high on cat urine, this episode is largely set in a city called Nippopolis, where everything is shaped like a breast. Major BoobageĪ step back from the hot-topic ambulance-chasing the show often indulges in, Major Boobage is relatively timeless. Grounded VindaloopĪfter realising that virtual reality had got too easy a ride, South Park made this episode, where Butters is tricked into thinking he’s living inside a VR simulation, before quickly getting stabbed by a sex worker. Maybe not the best episode, but an important one.Ĭartman and his probe from the very first episode in 1997. Kenny dies, Cartman is obnoxious, there is an overwhelming fascination with human body parts. South Park’s first ever episode was a much cruder affair than we are used to, but it still set out the stall of what the show wanted to be. This is possibly the bleakest South Park episode ever made, to the point that even describing it would bum me out for the rest of the week. When he was finally given his own episode in 2001, Parker and Stone tested that sincerity to the limit. Butters’ Very Own Episodeīutters is a peripheral character on South Park, but an important one whose sincerity has a habit of cutting through the show’s general cynicism. The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two TowersĪn amazing sleight of hand, this episode manages to simultaneously be a loving (and surprisingly faithful) parody of the Lord of the Rings movies and a meditation on the effects of hardcore pornography on children. Parker and Stone would hone it in later years, and it would make them millionaires several times over. And yet, for all its marketing gimmickry, this was South Park’s first stab at attempting to navigate the black hole of religious discourse. Photograph: Comedy Centralįor a time, the early buzz around South Park was so strong that you could walk into a high street greetings card shop and buy a replica faeces just because it had featured on the show. (I am very curious what everyone else would order them.) Also please remember i do love every episode.Mr Hankey, The Christmas Poo. I recently watched every episode, i went back and counted the amount of episodes i would happily rewatch from each season compared to the amount of episodes the season has then divided the amount i would rewatch by the total amount and the lower the number the higher it ranked, so here is my results. Just read our announcement on politics found HERE. If you would like to use a spoiler tag you can use this code (/spoiler) No low effort/quality comments and/or posts.Ĥ. So you can say "Hey, it's that nigger guy" or "Damnit Kyle, stop being such a Jew." Outright hate will not be tolerated though.ģ. No personal attacks, racism, sexism, bigotry, or homophobia UNLESS IT IS USED IN THE CONTEXT OF THE SHOW. Any posts or comments that begin to go off topic will be removed. r/SouthPark is for SouthPark related content only.
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