Line #17 WesternAnimation/SouthPark


1	[[AC:This page is for the show; for the ''South Park'' franchise as a whole, see ''Franchise/SouthPark''.]]
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6	[[caption-width-right:350:Pictured: Pretty much everyone.[[note]]In the foreground from left to right: [[OnlySaneMan Stan Marsh]], [[NiceJewishBoy Kyle Broflovski]], [[LovableSexManiac Kenny McCormick]], and [[FatBastard Eric Cartman]].[[/note]]]]
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8	->''I'm goin' down to South Park, gonna have myself a time!\
9	('''Stan and Kyle:''' Friendly faces everywhere, humble folks without temptation!)\
10	Goin' down to South Park, gonna leave my woes behind!\
11	('''Cartman:''' Ample parking day or night, people spouting "HOWDY, NEIGHBOR!")\
12	Headin' on up to South Park, gonna see if I can't unwind!\
13	('''Kenny:''' mumbles something perverted[[labelnote:*]]translated to one of the following depending on the season: '''Pilot:''' "Our town is bigger, dammit! Right down to the little granite!" '''S1:''' "I like girls with big, fat titties! I like girls with deep vaginas!", '''S2-5:''' "Me, I got a ten-inch penis! Use your mouth if you wanna clean it!", '''S7-9:''' "Someday, I'll be old enough to stick my dick up [[Music/BritneySpears Britney's]] butt!" '''S10+:''' "I like fuckin' silly bitches and I know my penis likes it!"[[/labelnote]])\
14	So come on down to South Park and meet some friends of mine!''
15	-->-- The theme song, sung by '''[[Music/{{Primus}} Les Claypool]]'''
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17	''South Park'' is an [[[CrossesTheLineTwice in]]]famous [[LongRunners long-running]] AnimatedSitcom created by Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone on Creator/ComedyCentral. Arguably the defining SubvertedKidsShow, it debuted in 1997 and follows the misadventures of a group of elementary school kids in the titular mountain town of South Park, UsefulNotes/{{Colorado}}.
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19	The central characters are Stan Marsh, the group's passive, animal-loving StraightMan, Kyle Broflovski, the passionate moral compass and one of the town's few Jewish kids, [[Main/LastNameBasis Eric Cartman]], a spoiled, bigoted and sociopathic bully, and Kenny [=McCormick=], a perverted hedonist and [[Main/TheyKilledKennyAgain one of the show's biggest punching bags]].
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21	These four main boys and their friends, family, and neighbors find themselves embroiled in all sorts of weirdness, ranging from cults, aliens, and monsters to exaggerated-for-comic-effect versions of RippedFromTheHeadlines problems to obvious parodies of action and family movies. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking It's also well-known for containing loads of swearing, violence, and toilet humor]] (at least early on).
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23	While the AuthorTract is very evident, Matt and Trey make a point of targeting ''[[EqualOpportunityOffender everyone]]''. They've lampooned subjects near and dear to the hearts of social conservatives, social activists, socialists, liberals, [[TheFundamentalist religious fundamentalists]], [[HollywoodAtheist actively hostile atheists]], corporations and business interests, anarchists, dictators, hippies, trendy people, geeks, teenagers, the elderly, [[SelfDeprecation themselves]] and sometimes [[TakeThatAudience even their own audience]] -- seriously, you could name just about any kind of group and the show's probably done ''something'' to piss that group off.
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25	[[ProductionLeadTime An astonishingly short turn-around time]] helps keep the show topical with current events. The show is produced using the same graphics engine that helped create the dinosaurs in ''Film/JurassicPark1993'', which fostered comparisons to building a sandcastle with a bulldozer; only the early shorts and the pilot episode were done by hand via cut-outs and physical backdrops. In some cases, an episode can be produced a matter of days before it airs, allowing for current events to be parodied almost as soon as they happen. An episode on the capture of UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein aired just a few days after it happened, and excerpts from both UsefulNotes/BarackObama and UsefulNotes/JohnMcCain's post-election speeches were featured in the episode that aired ''less than 24 hours'' after the election results came in. While different seasons, episodes and movies have different timetables, they have proven capable of regularly completing episodes in less than a week's time before being submitted to Comedy Central; the show has only missed its deadline ''once'', due to a power outage. The documentary ''6 Days to Air: The Making of South Park'' sheds light on this lightning-fast production schedule.
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27	For its first sixteen seasons, episodes were split between two different batches between spring and fall releases, usually comprised of seven to eight episodes each. Season 17 the show started running for a single ten-episode chunk in the fall; done to accommodate Matt and Trey on other projects (such as ''Theatre/TheBookOfMormon'') and the fact that they're not the young men they used to be when they made a paper-cutout animation about foul-mouthed third graders as a Christmas gag gift. Season 18 introduced them [[ContinuityCreep experimenting with a continuous plotline]], though that has had issues with their quick production turnover. In 2021 it was announced the show was renewed through Season 30 and that 14 hour-long movies would be made for Creator/ParamountPlus separate from the TV show episodes, beginning with ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkPostCovid''[[note]]Due to the COVID Pandemic they produced the hour-long ''Recap/SouthParkThePandemicSpecial'' and ''Recap/SouthParQVaccinationSpecial'' in lieu of the regular season, which served as a testbed for longer format episodes[[/note]]. Trey and Matt have stated that they will continue to make ''South Park'' as long as Creator/ComedyCentral lets them.
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29	!!We had to split ''South Park'' trope examples into pages because Cartman's fat ass got tired when he had to read them all in one go:
30	[[index]]
31	* SouthPark/TropesAToD
32	** [[BaitAndSwitch/SouthPark Bait-and-Switch]]
33	** [[CatchPhrase/SouthPark Catchphrase]]
34	** [[CassandraTruth/SouthPark Cassandra Truth]]
35	** [[CharacterizationMarchesOn/SouthPark Characterization Marches On]]
36	** [[ComicallyMissingThePoint/SouthPark Comically Missing the Point]]
37	** [[DisproportionateRetribution/SouthPark Disproportionate Retribution]]
38	* SouthPark/TropesEToJ
39	** [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness/SouthPark Early Installment Weirdness]]
40	** [[EvenEvilHasStandards/SouthPark Even Evil Has Standards]]
41	** [[Flanderization/SouthPark Flanderization]]
42	** [[Foil/SouthPark Foil]]
43	** [[HypocriticalHumor/SouthPark Hypocritical Humor]]
44	** [[InsaneTrollLogic/SouthPark Insane Troll Logic]]
45	** [[InsufferableImbecile/SouthPark Insufferable Imbecile]]
46	** [[Jerkass/SouthPark Jerkass]]
47	* SouthPark/TropesKToQ
48	** [[LaserGuidedKarma/SouthPark Laser-Guided Karma]]
49	* SouthPark/TropesRToV
50	** [[RunningGag/SouthPark Running Gag]]
51	** [[TakeThat/SouthPark Take That!]]
52	** [[TheyKilledKennyAgain/SouthPark They Killed Kenny Again]]
53	* SouthPark/TropesWToZ
54	** [[WhamEpisode/SouthPark Wham Episode]]
55	[[/index]]
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57	->'''Cartman:''' AY! [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Screw you guys, I'm going home.]]

Context WesternAnimation / SouthPark