South Park is an American adult animated comedy created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone and developed by Brian Graden for the Comedy Central television network. The show revolves around four boys - Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman, and Kenny McCormick - and their strange adventures in and around the titular Colorado city. Similar to The Simpsons , South Park uses enormous ensemble styles of recurring characters and is notorious for its profanity and dark, surreal humor that teases various topics toward adult audiences. Parker and Stone developed performances from The Spirit of Christmas , two animated shorts made in 1992 and 1995. The latter became one of the first Internet viral videos, which eventually led to South Park i> production. It debuted in August 1997 with great success, consistently getting the highest rating of any basic cable program. The next rank varies but remains one of the highest rated events on Comedy Central, and is scheduled to run in new episodes until 2019.
The inaugural episode was produced using cutout animations, leading to all subsequent episodes produced with computer animations mimicking cutting techniques. Parker and Stone do most of the sounds that act for the male character of the show. Since 2000, every episode is usually written and produced in the week before its broadcast, with Parker serving as lead author and director. There are a total of 287 episodes during the 21 season event. The twenty-first show of the season airs on September 13, 2017.
South Park has received numerous awards, including five Primetime Emmy Awards, Peabody Awards, and many inclusions on the list of major television publications. The popularity of this show produces theatrical films, South Park: Bigger, Longer & amp; Uncut released in June 1999, less than two years after the premiere show, and became a commercial and critical success, even collecting nominations for the Academy Award. In 2013, TV Guide rated South Park The Biggest Ten TV Cartoon of All Time.
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Premise
Settings and characters
The event follows the exploits of four boys, Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman and Kenny McCormick. The boys live in the fictitious little town of South Park, located in a real-life South Park basin in the Rocky Mountains of central Colorado. The city is also home to a wide variety of characters who often like students, families, primary school staff, and various other residents, who tend to regard South Park as a bland and tranquil place to live. Prominent settings at the event include local elementary schools, bus stops, neighborhoods and snowy landscapes around it, real Colorado landmarks, and shops and businesses along the city's main roads, all based on a similar location appearance at Fairplay.
Stan is portrayed as a common person in the group, because the event's website describes it as "average, American fourth grader". Kyle was the only Jew in the group, and his role in this role was often dealt with satirically. Stan was modeled after Parker, while Kyle was modeled after Stone. They are good friends, and their friendship, symbolically meant to reflect the friendship of Parker and Stone, is a common topic throughout the series. Eric Cartman (usually dubbed by his surname only) is loud, obnoxious, and immoral, often described as an antagonist. His anti-Semitic attitude has resulted in a progressive rivalry with Kyle, though the deeper reason is a strong dispute between Kyle's strong morality and his lack of complete Cartman. Kenny, who came from a poor family, donned his jacket so tightly that it covered most of his face and muffled his speech. During the first five seasons of the show, Kenny will die in almost every episode before returning in the next episode with a little definitive explanation given. She was written out of the season's sixth event in 2002, reappearing at the end of the season. Since then, Kenny's death was rarely used by the show makers. During the first 58 episodes of the show, the children were in third grade. In the season of four episodes of "Class 4" (2000), they entered the fourth grade, but have remained there ever since.
Plots are often driven by events, ranging from the quite typical to the supernatural and extraordinary, which often occurs in the city. Boys often act as sound excuses when these events cause panic or inappropriate behavior among the adult population, which is customarily described as unreasonable, gullible, and easy to multiply. Boys are also often confused with the contradictory and hypocritical behavior of their parents and other adults, and often assume they have a distorted view of morality and society.
Themes and styles
Each episode opens with the fictional oppression of everyone's tongue-in-cheek: "All the characters and events in this event - even those based on real people - are entirely fictitious.All celebrity voices are copied... poorly, the following programs contain harsh language and because the contents can not be seen by anyone. "
South Park is the first weekly program to get TV-MA ratings, and is generally intended for mature audiences. Children and most other child characters use indecent words, with only the most taboo words stung during regular broadcasts. According to Parker and Stone, when small children are alone, that's the way they actually talk.
South Park generally uses carnival and absurd techniques, lots of jokes, violence, sexual content, pop-culture references, and celebrity satirical depictions.
The early episodes tended to be more oriented towards the shock value and featured more slapstick style humor. While social satire has been used on the show sometime before, it becomes more prevalent as the series progresses, with the performances retaining some of the focus on male passion from scattered humor in an attempt to remind the adult viewers "what it feels like to be eight years old." Parker and Stone also began to further develop other characters by giving them a greater role in a particular story line, and began to write plots as parables based on religion, politics, and many other topics. This provides an opportunity for the show to deceive both extremes of the contentious issues, while criticizing liberal and conservative views. Parker and Stone describe themselves as "offenders of equal opportunity," whose primary purpose is "to be funny" and "to make people laugh", stating that no particular topic or group of people is excluded from mockery and sarcasm.
Parker and Stone insist that the show is still more about "kids being children" and "what it feels like to be in [elementary school] in America", which states that the introduction of more satirical elements to the series is the result of two adding more from "moral center" to the show so that it will rely less on just being rude and surprising in an attempt to maintain an audience. While profane, Parker notes that there is still an aspect of "underlying sweetness" for the child's character, and Time describes the boy as "sometimes cruel but with innocent core." Usually, boys and/or other characters contemplate what has happened during the episode and convey the important lessons learned from it with short monologues. During the previous season, this speech usually starts with a variation of the phrase "you know, I've learned something today...".
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Origin and creations
Parker and Stone met in film classes at the University of Colorado in 1992 and found love with Monty Python, whom they often refer to as one of their main inspirations. They made a short animation titled The Spirit of Christmas . The film was created by animate construction paper cutouts with stop motion, and featured prototypes of main characters South Park , including a cartman-like character but named "Kenny", an anonymous character that resembles what Kenny is today, and two similarly nameless characters similar to Stan and Kyle. Brian Graden, Fox network executive and mutual friend, assigned Parker and Stone to make the second short film as a video Christmas card. Created in 1995, the second
When Jesus vs. Santa became more popular, Parker and Stone started talks about short development into a television series. Fox refused to take the series, not wanting to air a show that included Mr Hankey's character, a piece of shit talking. The two then entered negotiations with MTV and Comedy Central. Parker preferred the show produced by Comedy Central, fearing that MTV would turn it into a children's show. When Comedy Central executives, Doug Herzog, witnessed in a nutshell, he assigned him to be developed into a series.
Parker and Stone gather small staff and spend three months making pilot episodes "Cartman Gets Anal Probe". South Park is threatened to be canceled before it airs when the show falls poorly with the test audience, especially with women. However, the shorts were still gaining more popularity from the Internet, and Comedy Central agreed to order six episodes of running. South Park debuted with "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe" on August 13, 1997.
Production
Except for pilot episodes, produced using cutout animations, all episodes of South Park were created using software, especially Autodesk Maya. In contrast to the pilot, which takes three months to complete, and other animated sitcoms, traditionally hand drawn by companies in South Korea in a process that takes about eight to nine months, individual episodes of South Park takes less time to produce. Using the computer as an animation method, the show's production staff was able to produce episodes in about three weeks during the first season. Now, with a staff of about 70 people, the episodes usually finish within a week, with some in just three to four days. Almost the entire production of an episode was achieved in a set of offices, initially in the complex in Westwood, Los Angeles, California, and now part of South Park Studios in Culver City, California. Parker and Stone have been executive producers of this show throughout history. Senior 20th Century Fox Executive Executor Debbie Liebling also served as executive producer during the first five seasons of the event, coordinating the show's production efforts between South Park Studios and Comedy Central's headquarters in New York City.
Scripts are not written before the season starts. Episode production begins on Thursday, with brainstorming consultant writing with Parker and Stone. Former staff writers include Pam Brady, who has since written the script for the movie Hot Rod , Hamlet 2 and Tim America: World Police (with Parker and Stone), and Nancy Pimental, who served as Win Ben Stein's Money's co-host and wrote The Sweetest Thing after her tenure with a three-season performance. Television producer and writer Norman Lear, an idol of Parker and Stone, serves as a guest writing consultant for the seasonal seven (2003) "Canceled" and "My Little Country" episodes. For 12 and 13 seasons, Saturday Night Live actor and writer Bill Hader served as creative consultant and co-producer.
After exchanging ideas, Parker will write the script, and from there the entire team of animators, editors, technicians and sound engineers will each work 100-120 hours in the next week. Since the fourth season of the event (2000), Parker has assumed most of the show's director's work, while Stone relinquished his share of the lead to focus on handling the coordination and business aspects of production. On Wednesday, a complete episode was sent to Comedy Central headquarters via satellite uplink, sometimes just within hours before air time from 10 PM Eastern Time.
The state of Parker and Stone who subjected themselves to a week's deadline created more spontaneity among themselves in the creative process, which they felt produced a more humorous show. The schedule also allows South Park to stay more topical and respond more quickly to current events than any other satirical animation event. One of the earliest examples of this is in the fourth episode (2000) "Quintuplet 2000", which refers to the US Border Patrol attack on a house during the affair of EliÃÆ'¡n González, an event that occurred only four days earlier. episode originally aired. Season nine (2005) episode "Best Friends Forever" refers to Terri Schiavo's case, and initially aired in the midst of controversy and less than 12 hours before she died. A scene in season seven (2003) finals "This Christmas in Canada" refers to the discovery of dictator Saddam Hussein in the "spider hole" and subsequent arrest, which occurred just three days before the episode aired. Season 12 (2008) The episode "About Last Night..." is about Barack Obama's victory in the 2008 presidential election, and broadcasted less than 24 hours after Obama was declared the winner, using a dialogue segment from Obama's real victory speech.
On October 16, 2013, the show failed to meet their production deadlines for the first time, after a power outage on October 15 in the production studio preventing episodes, season 17 "Goth Kids 3: Dawn of the Posers", from being completed on time. This episode is scheduled to air for a week later on October 23, 2013. In July 2015, South Park is updated until 2019; extend the show until season 23 with a total of 304 episodes.
Animation
The show's animated style is inspired by a paper cut-out cartoon created by Terry Gilliam for the Monty Python Fly Circus , which Parker and Stone have been fans of for life. Construction paper and traditional motion piece cutting techniques are used in original animated shorts and in pilot episodes. The next episode has been generated by computer animation, giving it a look similar to the original while requiring a fraction of the time to produce. Before computer artists began animating an episode, a series of animisms drawn in Toon Boom were provided by the storyboard artist of the event.
Characters and objects consist of simple geometric shapes and primary colors. Most children's characters have the same size and shape, and are differentiated by their clothes, hair color and skin, and head coverings. Most characters are presented in two dimensions and only from one angle. Their movements are intentionally animated, as they do not offer the same free range of motion associated with hand-drawn characters. Sometimes, some non-fictional characters are depicted with snippets of photos from their real heads and faces instead of faces that remind the traditional style of the show. Canadians at the show are often portrayed in a more minimalist way; they have simple bead eyes, and the top of their heads just flap up and down when the characters speak.
When the event starts using the computer, pieces of cardboard are scanned and redrawn with CorelDRAW, then imported into PowerAnimator, used with an SGI workstation to animate characters. Workstations are tied to a render farm that produces 54 processors that can generate 10 to 15 shots per hour. Beginning with season five, the animators started using Maya rather than PowerAnimator. The studio now runs a 120-processor farm rendering that can generate 30 or more shots per hour.
PowerAnimator and Maya are high-end programs primarily used for 3D computer graphics, while co-producer and former animation director Eric Stough noted that PowerAnimator was originally selected because of its features helping animators maintain a "homemade" look. PowerAnimator is also used to create some visual effects of the event, which is now created using Motion, a newer graphics program created by Apple, Inc. for their Mac OS X operating system. The visual quality of the show has improved in recent seasons, though some other techniques are used to deliberately preserve the look of cheap cut animations.
Some episodes feature live-action recording sections, while others incorporate other animated styles. Part of season eight (2004) The premiere of "Good Times with Weapons" was performed in anime style, while the 10-season episode of "Make Love, Not Warcraft" was performed partly in machinima. Episode 12 episode "Major Boobage", a tribute to the 1981 Heavy Metal animation film, implements scenes done with rotoscoping.
Voice cast
Parker and Stone voiced most of South Park's male characters. Mary Kay Bergman voiced the majority of female characters until suicide on 11 November 1999. Mona Marshall and Eliza Schneider replaced Bergman, with Schneider leaving the show after her seventh season (2003). He was replaced by April Stewart, who, along with Marshall, continued to voice most of the female characters. Bergman was originally enrolled in credit under the alias of Shannen Cassidy to protect his reputation as the voice of some Disney characters and other child-friendly characters. Stewart was originally credited with the name Gracie Lazar, while Schneider is sometimes credited under his opera rock show, Blue Girl's disguise.
Other voice actors and production staff members of South Park have voiced minor characters for various episodes, while some staff members voice repetitive characters; Advisors producer Jennifer Howell, the sound of students Bebe Stevens, co-producer and storyboard artist Adrien Beard the voice of Token Black, who was the only African-American student in school until Nichole's introduction in "Cartman Finds Love", Vernon Chatman's writing consultant voiced an anthropomorphic towel named Towelie, and production supervisor John Hansen voiced Mr. Slave, former gay lover. Garrison. During the show, sounds for toddler and kindergarten characters have been provided by various small children from the production staff of the event.
When voicing the character of the child, voice actors speak within their normal vocal range while adding inflection like a child. The recorded audio is then edited with Pro Tools, and the pitch is changed to make the sound sound more like a fourth-grader's voice.
Isaac Hayes voiced the character of Chef, an African-speaking cafeteria worker, who is one of the few adults the boys believe. Hayes agreed to voice the characters after being among Parker and Stone's ideal candidates who also included Lou Rawls and Barry White. Hayes, who lives and hosts a radio show in New York during his tenure with South Park, will record his dialogue on a digital audio recording while each episode director will give directions by phone, then the recording will sent to a show production studio in California. After Hayes left the show in early 2006, Chef's character was killed in season 10 (2006) premiere of "The Return of Chef".
Guest star
The celebrities portrayed on the show are usually imitated, though some celebrities do their own voices for the show. Celebrities who have voiced themselves include Michael Buffer, Brent Musburger, Jay Leno, Robert Smith, and Radiohead and Korn bands. Cheech team comedy & amp; Chong voiced a character representing their similarity to the four-season episode (2000) "Cherokee Hair Tampons", which was the duo's first collaborative effort in 20 years. Malcolm McDowell appeared in a live-action sequence as the narrator of the four seasons episode "Pip".
Jennifer Aniston, Richard Belzer, Natasha Henstridge, Norman Lear, and Peter Serafinowicz have guest stars as other speaking characters. During the early season of South Park , some famous celebrities asked about the guest star at the event. As a joke, Parker and Stone respond by offering low-profile, non-speaking roles, which are mostly accepted; George Clooney provides barks for Stan's dog, Sparky in episode one (1997) "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride", Leno provides meets for Cartman cats in the first season "Cartman Mom Is a Dirty Slut", and Henry Winkler voices a variety of growls and grunt from child-eating monsters in the second season (1998) episode "City on the Edge of Forever". Jerry Seinfeld offered to lend his voice for the Thanksgiving episode "Starvin 'Marvin", but refused to appear when he was only offered a role as "Turkey # 2".
Music
Parker said that music usage is very important for South Park. Some characters often play or sing songs to change or influence group behavior, or to educate, motivate, or indoctrinate others. The show also often features scenes where characters have rejected reactions to certain popular musician performances.
Adam Berry, the original creator of the show, used sound synthesis to simulate a small orchestra, and often alludes to famous music. Berry also uses a signature acoustic guitar and mandolin cues as the main motive for shooting a performance. After Berry left in 2001, Jamie Dunlap and Scott Nickoley of Mad City Production Studios based in Los Angeles provided the original music of the show for the next seven seasons. Since 2008, Dunlap has been credited as the sole composer of the show. Dunlap's contribution to the show was one of the few that was not achieved at the show's own production office. Dunlap reads scripts, scores using digital audio software, and then e-mails audio files to South Park Studios, where he is edited to fit the completed episodes.
In addition to singing in an attempt to explain things to the children, Chef will also sing about things that are relevant to what has happened in the plot. These songs are original compositions written by Parker, and performed by Hayes in R & amp; B the same sexual nuance he utilized during his own musical career. The DVDA band, consisting of Parker and Stone, along with members of the show staff Bruce Howell and D.A. Young, will perform music for this composition, and, until the character's death on the show, is listed as "Chef's Band" in closing credits.
Rick James, Elton John, Meat Loaf, Joe Strummer, Ozzy Osbourne, Primus, Rancid and Ween are all guest stars and featured briefly in the two-season episode (1998) "Chef Aid". Korn debuted their single "Falling Away from Me" as guest star on episode three (1999) "Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery".
Main themes
The theme song of the show is a musical score performed by the band Primus, with lyrics alternately sung by the band's vocalist, Les Claypool, and the four main characters of the show during the opening title sequence. Kenny's muffled lines change after every few seasons. The lines are usually sexually explicit, like the original line, "I like girls with big fat titties, I like girls with deep vagina".
The original opening composition was initially slower and had a length of 40 seconds. It was considered too long for the opening sequence. So Parker and Stone accelerate it for the opening of the show, after Claypool band vocalist re-recorded his vocals. The instrumental version of the original composition, though, is often played during event closing credits and without words. The melody of this song is similar to the song "Coddingtown", in Primus Brown's Album.
The opening tracks played in the first four seasons (and ending credits in all seasons) have folk rock instrumentation with bass guitar, trumpet, and rhythmic drums. The speed is fast at opening and relaxing at closing credits. This is a minor key and a reduced tritone feature or a fifth, creating melodic dissonance, which captures the surrealistic nature of the event. At the end of season 4 and season 5, the opening song has electro funk settings with pop quality. Seasons 6-9 has a swift bluegrass instrumentation with banjo usage and is set in the primary key. For the next season, the arrangement is electro rock with a breakbeat effect, featuring an electric guitar supported by enhanced and contrived drumbeats.
The opening theme song has been reprinted three times during the series, including remixes performed by Paul Robb. In 2006, the theme music was remixed with the song "Whamola" by Flying Frog Brigade Frogless Colonel Les Claypool, from the album Purple Onion .
Distribution
Episode
International
Internationally, South Park is broadcast in India, New Zealand, and several countries across Europe and Latin America on channels that are divisions of Comedy Central and MTV Networks, the two subsidiaries of Viacom. In distribution deals with Comedy Central, other independent networks are also broadcasting this series in other international markets. In Australia, the show is broadcast on The Comedy Channel, SBS (Season 1-13 edited and 14-15 Uncut), SBS Viceland (Season 16-19 Uncut) & amp; Comedy Central. The series is broadcast uncensored in Canada in English on The Comedy Network and, later, Much. South Park also airs in Ireland on TG4 in Ireland, STV in Scotland, Comedy Central and MTV in the UK (previously on Channel 4 and Viva (UK and Ireland), with 5Star recently taking Viva's place go off), B92 in Serbia., Game One and NRJ 12 in France.
Syndication
Broadcast syndication rights to South Park were acquired by Debmar-Mercury and Tribune Entertainment respectively in 2003 and 2004. The next episode edited for content began running in syndication on September 19, 2005, and aired in the United States with rating of TV-14. The 20th Television replaced the Tribune as a co-distributor in early 2008. The series is currently broadcast in syndication in 90 percent of the television market across the US and Canada, where it generates about $ 25 million annually in advertising revenue.
Home media
The complete season of South Park has been regularly released on DVD since 2002, with season two being the most recently released. Some of the other themed compilations DVDs have been released by Rhino Entertainment and Comedy Central, while the three episodes of Imaginationland have been re-published directly to DVD as a full-featured in 2008. Blu-ray releases began in 2008 with releasing season twelve. The following season has been released in this format along with the older DVD releases. The first season of eleven was released on Blu-Ray for the first time in December 2017.
Streaming
In March 2008, Comedy Central made every episode of South Park available for free legal streaming on demand at the official South Park Studios website. From March 2008 to December 2013, new episodes were added to the site a day after their debut, and an uncensored version was posted the next day. The episode remained there for the rest of the week, then deleted, and added to the site three weeks later.
Within a week, the site provided more than a million streams of complete episodes, and the number increased to 55 million in October 2008. Legal issues prevent US content from being accessible outside the US, so local servers have been set up in other countries.. In September 2009, the South Park Studios web site with streaming episodes was launched in the UK and Ireland. In Canada, episodes are available to be streamed from The Comedy Network's website, though due to digital rights restrictions, they are no longer available.
In July 2014 it was announced that Hulu had signed a three-year contract to purchase exclusive online streaming rights to South Park to report 80 million dollars. After the announcement of each episode remains available for free on the South Park Studios website, using the upstream player. In September 2014, after the eighteenth season premiere, only 30 selected episodes were shown for free viewing at the time of allotment on the website, with new episodes available for a full month starting the day after their initial broadcast. The entire series will be available for viewing on Hulu Plus.
In April 2010, a five-season episode of "Super Best Friends" and season fourteen episodes "200" and "201" were removed from the site; In addition, this episode is no longer aired and is only available exclusively on DVD. This episode remains unavailable after purchase in 2014 by Hulu.
On July 1, 2015, all episodes of South Park are available for streaming in Canada on CraveTV service, which first consists of seasons 1-18. The next season will be released in July.
Rendered episodes
From its debut in 1997 to the end of its twelve seasons in 2008, this series is naturally produced in the standard 4: 3 480i definition. In 2009 the series switched to the original being produced in the 16: 9 1080i high definition with the beginning of the thirteenth season. All seasons originally produced in standard definition with a 4: 3 aspect ratio have been remastered by South Park Studios in 1080i 16: 9 high definition by being frame-by-frame again, for several years; image quality to be true HD rather than converted to top. A re-released version was also released on Blu-ray. Some episodes that were recreated from previous seasons have original uncensored audio tracks; they have previously been released in censored form.
The fifth episode of the season, "Super Best Friends", drawn from online syndication and streams following the controversy surrounding the "201" episode was not released in conjunction with the rest of the season when it was released in HD on iTunes in 2011. The episode was then rendered back and available for Blu- ray season that was released on December 5, 2017. This episode is presented in its original presentation, without the image of Muhammad being obscured as in the next episode of the series.
Reception
Ratings
When South Park debuted, it was a huge ranking success for Comedy Central and seen as largely responsible for the channel's success, with Herzog crediting it for placing the network "on the map".
The first episode of the show, "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe", earned a Nielsen 1.3 rating (980,000 viewers), at that time considered high for cable programs. This event instantly generated a buzz among television viewers, and parties saw the crowds gathering on campuses. By the time of the eighth episode, "Starvin 'Marvin", aired - three months after the debut show - ratings and viewers have tripled, and South Park has become the most successful show in Comedy Central history.. When the tenth episode of "Damien" aired the following February, viewers increased 33 percent again. This episode earned a rating of 6.4, which at that time was more than 10 times the average rating obtained by the cable show that aired in prime time. The ranking peaked with the second episode of the second season, "Cartman Mom Is Still a Dirty Slut", which aired on April 22, 1998. This episode ranked 8.2 (6.2 million viewers) and, at that time, set a record as a non-sporting event with the highest rating in cable base history. During the spring of 1998, eight of the top ten rated events on base cable were episodes of South Park .
The success of South Park has encouraged more cable companies to bring Comedy Central and lead it into one of the fastest growing cable channels. The number of households with Comedy Central jumped from 9.1 million in 1997 to 50 million in June 1998. When the show began, Comedy Central earned the most 30 seconds of advertising for US $ 7,500. Within a year, advertisers paid an average of US $ 40,000 for 30 seconds of ad time during South Park airing in their second season, while some paid as much as US $ 80,000.
In the third season (1999), the series began to decline. The third season premiere episode attracted 3.4 million viewers, a dramatic drop from 5.5 million from the previous season's premiere. Stone and Parker attributed the show's downgrades to the media hype surrounding the event in the previous year, adding that the ratings for the third season reflect the "true" fan base of the event. Event ratings dropped further in the fourth season (2000), with episodes averaging just over 1.5 million viewers. The rating ultimately increased, and the five to nine seasons consistently averaged about 3 million viewers per episode. Though its views are lower than the peak of its popularity in its earliest season, South Park remains one of the highest-rated series in Comedy Central. Season 14 (2010) premiere earned 3.7 million viewers, the show's highest show since 1998. In 2016, a New York Times study of 50 TV shows with Facebook Likes most found that "perhaps not surprisingly, South Park... most popular in Colorado ".
Recognition and rewards
In 2004, Channel 4 picked South Park the third greatest cartoon of all time. In 2007, Time magazine included the show on the "100 Best TV Show of All Time" list, declaring it "the best source of American rapid fire alarms over the last decade." That same year, Rolling Stone declared it the funniest show on television since its debut 10 years earlier. In 2008, South Park was named the 12th largest TV show of the past 25 years by Entertainment Weekly, while AOL declared it the "most astute" character of every show in history when he named it the 16th best television comedy series of all time. In 2011, South Park was voted number one in the Greatest Animated TV Series poll by Entertainment Weekly . Cartman's character was ranked 10th in the TV Guide 2002 list of the 19th "Top 50 Lego Cartoon", "the 19th" Top 200 Cultural Icons "VH1, 19th on" 100 Greatest TV Characters "TV Bravo in 2004, and second in MSNBC's 2005 list of the scariest TV characters behind Mr. Burns from The Simpsons . In 2006, Comedy Central received a Peabody Award for "South Beach's rigorous social commentary" and "a fearless outlet without fear of all that is important and hypocritical in American life". In 2013, Writers Guild of America placed South Park at number 63 among "101 Best-Written Shows Ever". Also in 2013, TV Guide listed the event at number 10 among "60 Largest Cartoon of All Time".
South Park won the CableACE award for Best Animated Series in 1997, the last year awards were awarded. In 1998, South Park was nominated for Annie's Award for Position Achievement in the Animation or Late Night Primetime Program. It was also nominated for the 1998 GLAAD Awards for TV Circulating - Individual Episodes for "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride".
South Park has been nominated for the Emmy Award for Animation Program Being Sixteen (1998, 2000, 2002, 2004-2011, and 2013-2017). The event has won awards for an Extraordinary Animation Program (For Programming Less Than One Hours) four times, for the 2005 episode of "Best Friends Forever", the 2006 episode "Make Love, Not Warcraft", the 2009 episode "Margaritaville", and the 2012 episode " Raising the Bar ". The episode "Imaginationland" trilogy won an Emmy Award for an Extraordinary Animation Program (For One Hour or More Programming) in 2008.
Criticism
Performances that often depict taboo material, public toilet humors, accessibility to younger audiences, ignore conservative sensibilities, negative portrayals of liberal causes, and religious portrayals for comic effects have caused controversy and debate over the course of their journey.
When the series became popular, students in two schools were banned from wearing South Park-related t-shirts, and the headmaster of British public schools asked parents not to let their children watch the program after eight and children aged nine years old chose Cartman's cartoon character as their favorite personality in a 1999 poll. Parker and Stone insisted that the show was not meant to be seen by young people, and the show was certified with TV ratings that showed its intent for adult audiences.
The founding parents of the Board of Television L. Brent Bozell III and Action for Children's Television founder Peggy Charren have condemned the event, with the latter claiming it is "dangerous for democracy". Several other groups of activists have protested against the parody of Christianity and the depiction of Jesus Christ. Stone claims that parents who disapprove of South Park because of his portrayal of how children behave angrily because they "have a beautiful vision of what the children are like," adding "[children] do not have whatever kind of social wisdom or etiquette, they are just scoundrels raging. "
Controversy
The performances further led to controversy surrounding his profanity, and media attention around the network showed the use of the word Chicago Hope from the word shit , with the five-premier season "This Hits the Fan", at where the word dirt is said 162 times accidentally for censorship purposes, while also appearing uncensored in written form. In the days following the event's original broadcast, 5,000 unapproved emails were sent to Comedy Central. Though not using 43 uncensored racial uses of nigger , the 11th episode of the season "With Apologies to Jesse Jackson" resulted in a relatively small controversy, as most black communities and NAACP praised the episode because of its context and comedy mode to convey another race's perception of how black people feel when they hear the word.
Specific controversies about the show include the April Mop joke played by its spectators in 1998, the portrayal of Virgin Mary in the last nine (2005) end of "Bloody Mary" that infuriated some Catholics, depictions of Steve Irwin with stingray stingrays stuck in his chest was on episode "Hell on Earth 2006", originally aired less than two months after Irwin was killed in the same way, and Comedy Central's sensor about Muhammad's depiction in the 10th episode of the "Part Wars Wars" episode of Jyllands- Posten Muhammad cartoon controversy.
Season nine (2005) episode "Trapped in the Closet" denounces Scientology as nothing more than "great global deception", while freely leaking church information that Scientology usually discloses only to members who contribute significant money to the church. This episode also featured a rumor involving Tom Cruise's Scientology sexual orientation, which allegedly demanded that further reruns of the episode be canceled. Isaac Hayes, a Scientologist, then quit from South Park because of his objections to the episode.
Season fourteen episodes "200" and "201" sparked controversy for insinuating issues surrounding the depiction of the prophet of Islam, Muhammad. The website for the Revolution Muslim organization, a New York-based radical Muslim organization, posted entries that included warnings to Parker and Stone creators that they risked retaliation for their portrayal of Muhammad. It is said that they "might end up like Theo van Gogh to broadcast this event". Postings provide addresses to Comedy Central in New York and production companies in Los Angeles. The postal author Zachary Adam Chesser (who prefers to be called Abu Talhah al-Amrikee), said that it was meant to be a warning to Parker and Stone, not a threat, and that giving the address was meant to give people a chance to protest.
Despite al-Amrikee's claim that website entries are a warning, some media and observers interpret it as a threat. Support for the episode has come in the form of Everybody Draw Mohammed Day, a movement that began on Facebook that encourages people to attract Muhammad on May 20th. The "200" episode, which also depicts Buddhist cocaine's snort, prompted the Sri Lankan government to ban the series directly.
Influence
Culture
Comments made in the episode have been interpreted as statements Parker and Stone are trying to make the public look, and this opinion has been the subject of critical analysis in the media and literary world in the popular philosophical, theological, social, and political frameworks. concept. Since South Park debuted, students have written papers and doctoral theses analyzing the show, while Brooklyn College offers a course called " South Park and Political Correctness".
Immediately after one of Kenny's trademark deaths on the show, other characters will usually shout "Oh my God, they killed Kenny!". The call quickly became his popular slogan, while the joke about the recurring death of Kenny is one of the more familiar signs among modern television viewers. Cartman's exclamation about "Respect authori-tah!" and "Fuck with you guys... I'm going home!" became a slogan as well, and during the show's previous season, it was very popular in the lexicon of viewers. Cartier's eccentric intonation about "Hey!" included in the 2002 edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Catchphrases .
In the season of two episodes of "Chef Aid", lawyer Johnnie Cochran used what was mentioned in the Chewbacca defense show, which is a legal strategy involving handling the plot holes associated with Chewbacca in the film The Return of Jedi rather than discussing the trial at hand during the closing argument in a deliberate attempt to confuse the jury by thinking there is reasonable doubt. The term "Chewbacca defense" has been documented as being used by criminologists, forensic scientists, and political commentators in their discussions of similar methods used in public law cases and forums.
The second episode of the other season, "Gnomes", is about a group of "pants gnome" which, as the name implies, runs a company that steals underpants. When asked about their business model, various gnome responded that they were a three-step process: Phase 1 was "collecting underwear". Phase 3 is "profit". However, the gnome can not explain what happened between the first and last step, and "Phase 2" is accompanied by a big question mark on their company's flowchart. Using "????" and "BENEFITS!" as the last two steps in a process (usually joking) has become a very popular Internet meme because of this. Particularly in political and economic contexts, "gnome pants" have been used by some commentators to characterize logical loopholes or striking plans.
When Sophie Rutschmann of the University of Strasbourg discovered a mutated gene that caused an adult fruit flies to die within two days of being infected with a particular bacterium, he named the genes Kep1 in honor of Kenny.
Politics
While some conservative groups have condemned the show for its dishonesty, more and more people who hold central political beliefs, including teens and young adults, have embraced the show because of their tendency to ridicule the liberal outlook and lanterns of celebrities and liberal icons. Political commentator Andrew Sullivan nicknamed the Republican South Park, or conservative South Park. Sullivan asserted that members of the group were "highly skeptical of political correctness but also socially liberal on many issues", although he said the phrase applied to them was meant to be more of a casual indication of belief than a strong partisan label. Brian C. Anderson describes the group as "generally characterized by holding strong libertarian beliefs and rejecting more conservative social policies," noting that although the show was "pleasing to conservatives," he was "at the forefront of a conservative rebellion against the liberals. media."
Parker and Stone rejected the idea that the show had a fundamental political position, and denied having a political agenda when making an episode. Both claim a higher proportion of liberal-liblical examples than conservative orthodoxy derive only from their preference for making fun of the liberals. While Stone has been quoted as saying, "I hate conservatives, but I really hate liberals," Stone and Parker have explained that their impulse to rail against a given target comes first from the target's insistence on telling others how to behave. This duo explains that they consider liberals to have a delusional right to remain free from satire, and a tendency to uphold political correctness while patronizing Central Americans. Parker and Stone feel uncomfortable with the idea of ​​themselves or South Park given any partisan classification. Parker said that he rejected the " South Park Republican" and " South Park conservative" tags, feeling that the tag implies that a person is purely conservative or liberal. Canadian columnist Jaime J. Weinman observes that the harshest conservatives who identified themselves as "South Park" began turning away from the label when the show made the Republicans downplay in episode nine (2005) seasons "Friends Forever. "
Franchise
Movies
In 1999, less than two years after the first series aired, a long movie was released. The film, musical comedy, directed by Parker, who co-wrote the script with Stone and Pam Brady. The film is generally well received by critics, and earns a combined US $ 83.1 million at domestic and foreign box office. The film mocks controversy surrounding the show itself and earned a place in the 2001 edition of Guinness World Records for "Most Swearing in an Animated Film". The song "Blame Canada" from the soundtrack of this film produced song co-writers Parker and Marc Shaiman nominated Academy Award for Best Music, Original Song.
Shorts
In honor of the Dead Parrot sketch, a brief featuring Cartman attempting to return the dead Kenny to a shop run by Kyle aired during a special BBC television broadcast in 1999 to commemorate 30 years of Monty Python Flying Circus. South Park parodyed the short Scientology that aired as part of the 2000 MTV Movie Awards. Short film titled "The Gauntlet" and also mocks John Travolta, a Scientology. The four main characters are featured in The Aristocrats' documentary film, listening to Cartman telling his version of a movie titular joke. The Cartman short clip introduced an initial lineup for the University of Colorado football team shown during ABC coverage of the 2007 game between the University of Colorado and the University of Nebraska. In 2008, Parker, as Cartman, gave an answer to Proust Questionnaire by Julie Rovner of NPR. The Snakes & amp; The Arrows Tour for Rush in 2007 used an intro from Cartman, Stan, Kyle, and Kenny who preceded "Tom Sawyer". As Parker, Stone and producer Frank Agnone is a fan of the Los Angeles Kings, South Park's special pre-game video has been featured in Kings home games at the Staples Center, and the club even sent the Stanley Cup to visit South Park Studios after winning the 2012 finals. Parker and Stone have also made Denver Broncos and the short-themed Denver Nuggets, featuring Cartman, for home games at Pepsi Center.
Music
Chef Aid: South Park Album , compilation of original songs from performances, characters covering cover songs, and songs performed by guest artists released in 1998, while Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics, compilation of songs performed by characters in episodes of the same name as well as other Christmas-themed songs released in 1999, such as the soundtrack for the film. The song "Chocolate Salty Balls" (performed by Hayes as Chef) was released as a single in the UK in 1998 to support Chef Aid: The South Park Album and became the number one hit.
Video game
Merchandising
Merchandising associated with the show is an industry that earns several million dollars a year. In 1998, the top selling specialty shirts in the United States were based on South Park , and US $ 30 million in sales of t-shirts was achieved during the first season of the event.
The South Park pinball machine was released in 1999 by Sega Pinball. Fun 4 All companies, Mezco Toyz, and Mirage have produced a variety of action figures, collections, and plush dolls South Park.
Comedy Central signed an agreement with Frito-Lay to sell 1.5 million bags of Cheesy Poofs, Cartman's favorite snacks from the show, at Walmart to the premiere of the second half of the fifteenth season on October 5, 2011.
References
Further reading
External links
- Official website
- South Park on IMDb
- South Park on TV.com
- South Park in Toonopedia Don Markstein. Archived from the original on July 23, 2017.
- Ryan Parker (September 14, 2016). " ' South Park' History: Trey Parker, Matt Stone on Censorship, Tom Cruise and Scientology Role at Isaac Hayes Stop". Hollywood Reporter .
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