Born from a Christmas Short
The series grew out of The Spirit of Christmas, animated shorts created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone before the show's television debut.
Movie
South Park
Four boys. One f**ked-up town.
Follow the misadventures of four irreverent grade-schoolers in the quiet, dysfunctional town of South Park, Colorado.
Why it's in the Vault
Few animated series have remained as gloriously irreverent as South Park. From its crude beginnings to its increasingly elaborate social satire, Trey Parker and Matt Stone have built a universe where politicians, celebrities, institutions and ordinary people can all become targets of spectacularly inappropriate jokes. Not every season hits with the same force, and its relentless provocations can occasionally become exhausting, but the show's darkest humor, absurdity and extraordinary ability to react to contemporary culture remain irresistible. An enduring animated institution that still knows how to make bad taste feel like an art form.
— Matty, Curator of the Vault
Atmosphere
Outrageous, satirical, chaotic, irreverent, absurd
Dark humor
Social satire
Absurdity
Provocation
Contains frequent strong language, sexual humor, graphic and cartoon violence, discriminatory language used in satire, religious and political mockery, and mature themes.
Dans les coulisses
Ce qu'on ne voit pas à l'écran
The Pilot Was Handmade
The original pilot was painstakingly animated using construction-paper cutouts, before the production adopted computer animation that preserved the same visual appearance.
Six Days to Air
The production became famous for completing episodes in approximately six days, allowing stories to respond to current events almost immediately.
A Surprisingly Prestigious Award
The series received a Peabody Award recognizing its fearless satire of hypocrisy, institutions and contemporary American society.
World of Warcraft Became an Emmy Winner
Make Love, Not Warcraft, an episode parodying online gaming culture, earned the series an Emmy in 2007.
Aux origines
The Spirit of Christmas
The creators' early animated shorts established the crude cutout aesthetic, irreverent religious humor and mischievous sensibility that would evolve into South Park.
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