South Park Questions

[gilmoregirls102]

Hi there all. I am new to South Park- and I LOVE THIS SHOW! Are they playing new episodes? How many seasons are there? :confused:
I have watched them so scattered, I want to watch them all in order!
Any other fans out there? :cool:
Please tell me some of your favorite episodes! I loved "Freak Strike" and "Conjoined Fetus Lady"!!!!! :D
Share, please.....

[jsmeeker]

Hi there all. I am new to South Park- and I LOVE THIS SHOW! Are they playing new episodes? How many seasons are there? :confused:
I have watched them so scattered, I want to watch them all in order!
Any other fans out there? :cool:
Please tell me some of your favorite episodes! I loved "Freak Strike" and "Conjoined Fetus Lady"!!!!! :D
Share, please.....


Cartman Gets an Anal Probe
Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride.

[moondoggie]

Looks like they are on Season Nine (http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/south_park/index.jhtml) and I think I read the new season starts in March.

[gilmoregirls102]

Looks like they are on Season Nine (http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/south_park/index.jhtml) and I think I read the new season starts in March.

YES! :Jumps up in the air, and kicks heels together:
:) :D :cool: :) :D :cool:

[Vito the TiVo]

And several seasons are available on DVD. And there's a feature film. It's amazing that you found this and love it so much at this point in its run.

[Langree]

To me the early stuff, before the movie, was best.

[MikeMar]

Scott Tenerman Must Die

Awesome episode

[jubrand]

Hi there all. I am new to South Park- and I LOVE THIS SHOW! Are they playing new episodes? How many seasons are there? :confused:
I have watched them so scattered, I want to watch them all in order!
Any other fans out there? :cool:
Please tell me some of your favorite episodes! I loved "Freak Strike" and "Conjoined Fetus Lady"!!!!! :D
Share, please.....


Two words: Beefcake! Beefcaaaaaaaake!

Weight Gain 4000
:D

[DancnDude]

I think my favorite episode is "The Return of the Lord of the Rings to the Two Towers " It is just too perfect! :up:

And my favorite overall saying is Out-of-control-child Cartman's "Whatever, whatever, I do what I want!" :D

[kiljoy]

Scott Tenerman Must Die

Awesome episodeEasily my favorite.

I also really dug the one last season with the Chinese fortune teller.

Tony

ETA: It's "Tenorman".

Oh yeah, the Towlie/GameSphere ep.

[heySkippy]

The Christmas episodes are the best.

Red Sleigh Down
Christmas In Canada
Woodland Critters Christmas

All classics along with the Mister Hankey Christmas episodes. :)

[Steveknj]

My favs are usually not listed among the "classics" but never fail to crack me up:

Chirstmas In Canada - spoof on Wizard of Oz, with OZ being Canada, surprise and topical ending which I won't give away.

Osama Bin Laden has poopie pants (or something like that) - Also very topical. Watch for the Looney Toons / Bugs Bunny spoof toward the end with Cartman, and lots of dissing of Stevie Nicks.

The MOVIE (Bigger Longer and Uncut) is just great. They show it late at night sometimes, without the bleeps, but of course it's better to watch on DVD. I guarantee you will be singing a few of the songs for a few days afterwards.

[writdenied]

Episode Guide (http://epguides.com/SouthPark/)

There are a total of 139 episodes over 9 seasons (so far). Unlike most network t.v. shows, a season of South Park is usually only about 12-13 episodes, instead of 22-24. That probably made sense at first when they really were using paper cutouts for every frame, but today, everything is done on computer, and the creators say they lash together an episode from scratch in about a week. I suppose the shorter seasons mean they can keep coming up wth fresh ideas (sometimes-- compare "Jared Has Aides" with "Trapped in the Closet"-- same gag), but also means that episodes are re-run hundreds of times.

Full season DVDs are available up through season 7, so if you're really that into it, you can own all but the last two dozen or so episodes.

As for my favorites, I really liked "Not Without My Anus" at the beginning of season 2, partly because I like the complete absurdity of it, and partly because of the circumstances surrounding its initial airing.

[slaponte]

Few things make me laugh out loud, and South Park does it every now and then.

The other day they showed an episode where Cartman thinks he is dead because the guys decide to ignore him. The things they do to Butters or whatever his name is are hilarious.. you see this aparatus approaching his rear end, cut to a full face shot and he shaking around... just crazy! :D

But obviously Cartman makes the show.

The taking poop gets me in a bad mood. I find it beyond stupid.

[gilmoregirls102]

I think my favorite episode is "The Return of the Lord of the Rings to the Two Towers " It is just too perfect! :up:

And my favorite overall saying is Out-of-control-child Cartman's "Whatever, whatever, I do what I want!" :D
From Freak Strike- Oh YEAH! "I have sex and I don't use protection, it's MY hot body- whatever- I'll do what I want!" :up:

[gilmoregirls102]

Few things make me laugh out loud, and South Park does it every now and then.

The other day they showed an episode where Cartman thinks he is dead because the guys decide to ignore him. The things they do to Butters or whatever his name is are hilarious.. you see this aparatus approaching his rear end, cut to a full face shot and he shaking around... just crazy! :D

But obviously Cartman makes the show.

The taking poop gets me in a bad mood. I find it beyond stupid.
Even Though I love this show- I HATE :mad: THE TALKING POOP. It is beyond BEYOND retarded! And that's what most people think of when they watch this show! Too bad- far better episodes than that. And anbother one of my favorite's is Butter's Own Show ("It's Butter! uh..eh.. "That's ME!") :p

[DancnDude]

I like how topical the shows can be. The one that always cracks me up is the trapper-keeper episode where the elementary school class is voting for class president and how they keep demanding recounts, "Flora" is undecided, and then they need to wait for the absent kid to come in to vote. Just that it was so clever and came out like a week or 2 after the election was amazing.

[MitchO]

I think most of the best ones are the Cartman/Butters relationship ones; besides the aforementioned Scott Tenomman and Cartman's Dead episodes, I also like Casa Bonita and AWESOM-O. Cartman's plotting just plays off of Butters' innocence better than the rest of the boys.

[SparkleMotion]

And we can't forget the time Cartman ordered Sea Men (brine shrimp), put them in Ms. Choksondik's coffee cup and morbid hilarity ensued. His sweet little song about the men under the sea was touching until the report came back from the coroner's office. :eek: :)

[slaponte]

The one where they all wear condoms was very funny also...

The one with Kenny's "vegetable" state was right around the lady here in Fla they wanted to stop feeding as well...

[TiVoStephen]

../probably made sense at first when they really were using paper cutouts for every frame, but today, everything is done on computer...My understanding is that they considered using paper cutouts at the beginning, but started -- even with the very first pre-episode (the Santa Claus short pre-show demo) -- on computer.

The reason I believe this is because I worked at SGI at the time South Park started, and I had heard Matt and Trey used an SGI Indy workstations with SGI software to create that first episode. As one of my SGI employees commented when forwarding me the demo, "It's good to know that one of the market segments we can compete against and win is paper and glue."

But perhaps that guy didn't know what he was talking about.

[pdhenry]

One notable episode was the one that ran the week after the Elian Gonzales rescue (quote unquote if you must). They had totally rewritten and reshot the planned episode to feature an identical rescue scene in about 2 or 3 days.

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[kbohip]

There's really so many funny episodes and scenes I can't pick a favorite. I got a real kick out of the one where Cartman wants to go to Casa Bonita so bad. It was extra funny for me because I had just taken my daughter to Casa Bonita for the first time earlier in the week that the show had aired. Terrible food, but where else can you be entertained by cliff divers while you're eating...in Denver.

I also laughed a lot at the episode with J-Lo. My God Cartman was funny in that one!

[4inziksych]

I like the ones that center around the kids just being kids and trying to make sense of the adult world. The ones where they try to hard to make political points (like the rainforest one or the Virgin Mary one) usually fall flat for me.

The Return of the King thing mentioned above was a great example. I also loved the one where they were trying to climb to heaven to find Kenny because they wanted some ticket or something from him, but all the adults were thinking they were just sad and missing him.

They're cute when they take their hats off.

[smak]

There are two different types of South Park episodes that i like.

First you have the just flat out good episodes like Scott Tenorman, or Return of The Lord Of The Rings To The Two Towers.

Then you have the ones that are just so "I can't believe they did that", like The Mormon episode, and the Jennifer Lopez Episode.

The topical episodes are usually really good, like ****** and Turd.

-smak-

[bigpuma]

I loved the SARS episode where Stan's dad tells Stan only 5 - 10% of us are going to make it and that he must carry on.

[MisterBubble]

There's really so many funny episodes and scenes I can't pick a favorite. I got a real kick out of the one where Cartman wants to go to Casa Bonita so bad. It was extra funny for me because I had just taken my daughter to Casa Bonita for the first time earlier in the week that the show had aired. Terrible food, but where else can you be entertained by cliff divers while you're eating...in Denver.

I also laughed a lot at the episode with J-Lo. My God Cartman was funny in that one!

Wow, I learned something new from you today! I thought "Casa Bonita" was just something Trey and Matt totally made up, it was such a crazy, stupid-sounding place! I figured they were just spoofing Chuck E. Cheese type of kid-tastic restaurants. They actually DO have cliff divers??? For anyone else as surprised as me, here's their website:

http://www.casabonitadenver.com/

"I love you Ben! Almost as much as I love tacos!"

[Vito the TiVo]

Wow, I learned something new from you today! I thought "Casa Bonita" was just something Trey and Matt totally made up, it was such a crazy, stupid-sounding place! I figured they were just spoofing Chuck E. Cheese type of kid-tastic restaurants. They actually DO have cliff divers??? For anyone else as surprised as me, here's their website:

http://www.casabonitadenver.com/

"I love you Ben! Almost as much as I love tacos!"


I went there as a kid. And yes, I thought it was freakin' awesome.

[canonelan2]

Wow there are so many I really liked! Just to name a few...

Scott Tenorman Must Die: was fabulous!
I love all of the Christmas ones.
All About the Mormons?: dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb.
Cartman's Silly Hate Crime: Couldn't stop laughing when they played the "Oz" music.
The Biggest ****** in the Universe: Ladies and Gentlemen.... John Edward
Simpsons Already Did It: As mentioned by others, Cartman's Sea People were funny has hell!

[canonelan2]

Wow, I learned something new from you today! I thought "Casa Bonita" was just something Trey and Matt totally made up, it was such a crazy, stupid-sounding place! I figured they were just spoofing Chuck E. Cheese type of kid-tastic restaurants. They actually DO have cliff divers??? For anyone else as surprised as me, here's their website:

http://www.casabonitadenver.com/

"I love you Ben! Almost as much as I love tacos!"

I did the same thing the night the episode aired.

After the episode I wondered if it were a real place or just made up sort of mushing the Chuck E Cheeses and the Rainforest Cafe's of the world together.

Much to my surprise... it's real. Looks like a place I'd love to have around here... and I'd certainly visit in the unlikely event that I'm ever in Denver.

[MitchO]

Looks like a place I'd love to have around here... and I'd certainly visit in the unlikely event that I'm ever in Denver.

I wonder if they got a spike in business from the episode. I know that the movie Sideways actually made a decent impact on the wine industry.

[Steveknj]

And we can't forget the time Cartman ordered Sea Men (brine shrimp), put them in Ms. Choksondik's coffee cup and morbid hilarity ensued. His sweet little song about the men under the sea was touching until the report came back from the coroner's office. :eek: :)

That was a great one. Might be my number 3 favorite!!

[itsmeitsmeitsme]

Just saw one this weekend about global warming. The boys wrecked a boat into a giant beaver damn and flooded beaverton. It was all blamed on global warming until the boys fessed up..Was hilarious.

[bruinfan]

Just saw one this weekend about global warming. The boys wrecked a boat into a giant beaver damn and flooded beaverton. It was all blamed on global warming until the boys fessed up..Was hilarious.

I caused global warming.

[bruinfan]

fingerbang

they took our jobs!!!

stan got served... it's on!!

chinpokomon... you american have such big penis.

respect mah authoritah!!

denver broncos

profesor chaos

kick the baby

so many lines, themes, characters.. but the classic, quintessential south park:

"oh my god, they killed kenny you bastards"

[heySkippy]

I caused global warming.
We all caused global warming.

[writdenied]

My understanding is that they considered using paper cutouts at the beginning, but started -- even with the very first pre-episode (the Santa Claus short pre-show demo) -- on computer. . .
But perhaps that guy didn't know what he was talking about.

I got my info from Matt and Trey's commentaries on* the first season DVDs. Granted, it's been a couple of years since I listened to them, but I seem to recall them saying that the first ep. ("Cartman Gets an Anal Probe") was done with cutouts as a pilot for Comedy Central, and once they got it picked up, they could afford to do future episodes on computers. All subsequent episodes were done with steadily decreasing amounts of cutouts, and increasing amounts of computer animation. They explained that the toughest thing to do was to get the computerized images to have the same apparent texture as the construction paper. By the last few episodes of the first season, they were doing 100% of the animation by computer.

As for Casa Bonita, not only is it real, but it's essentially identical, inside and out, to how it is depicted in the episode. In fact, if you look carefully when they finally get there, you'll notice that the businesses across the street from Casa Bonita are liquor stores and pawn shops, which is exactly like the semi-seedy neighborhood that the real C.B. is in. Given the huge size of the place and the layout and decor of the dining area, the whole experience is probably a bit closer to eating at one of the dopier restaurants at Disneyland than it is to a Chuck E. Cheese, but the food is school-cafeteria mexican at best.



*The commentaries were recorded, but Warner Bros. refused to put them on the discs because of their content. (I don't remember if it was just because of bad language or insults directed at certain people or companies.) For a while, Comedy Central gave away CDs with the commentaries on them, but I don't know if you can get them any more.

[steve614]

I would have to say my faves are:

"Do the Handicapped go to Heaven?"
and its follow-up,
"Probably".

[heySkippy]

All of season 10 happened after this thread and it had some of the best episodes ever.

Notably:

"Tsst" - with Cartman and the Dog Whisperer.

"Make Love, Not Warcraft" - Brilliant.

"Go God Go" parts 1 and 2 - Ultimate Cartman episodes.

[jamesbobo]

I don't know the names of the episodes, but some of my favorites include:

The episode where the boys and girls get sex education
The one where Jesus and the devil have a boxing match
The one where grandpa wants the kids to help him commit suicide
The one where Jimbo takes the kids on a hunting trip ("look out! He's coming right at us.)

[heySkippy]

I don't know the names of the episodes, but some of my favorites include:

The episode where the boys and girls get sex education
The one where Jesus and the devil have a boxing match
The one where grandpa wants the kids to help him commit suicide
The one where Jimbo takes the kids on a hunting trip ("look out! He's coming right at us.)
I think that would be:

Proper Condom Usage
Damien
? (I remember the episode, but not the title)
Volcano

[phox_mulder]

Growing up LDS (Mormon) but falling away once I was old enough to know better,
I just love "All About the Mormons", and have it "KUID" on two of my TiVo's.

Dum dum dum dum dummmmm.


phox

[DLL66]

Cartman.........."My mom said licking a lot of carpet will make me a lesbian"!! I forget what that episode was.

Cartman............"My mom said eating boxes will make me a lesbian" lmao!!

[gilmoregirls102]

I can't believe this was bumped after a year!

LOL

[jsmeeker]

freaky.. and now you are a major South Park fan..


so, what are your favorite episodes?

[gilmoregirls102]

freaky.. and now you are a major South Park fan..


so, what are your favorite episodes?

LOL...

Freak Strike
TSSST
Proper Condom Use
Good Times With Weapons
South Park is Gay
Ikes Wee Wee....

So many others...

I LOVE this show. I love Eric, and I love Butters! :D

[Crash_Corrigan]

Starvin' Marvin in Space (love Sally Struthers as Jabba and Pat Robertson raising money to build star cruisers for Christ)

Trapped in the Closet (the actual Scientologists beliefs are...freakin' unbelievable)

Tsst

Make Love Not Warcraft

All the Satan episodes, especially the early ones with Saddam

[mtnagel]

My favs are ****** and Turd Sandwich and the one someone mentioned that was after the 2000 election with the election in class (I couldn't figure out the title). I guess I like the political ones.

[martinp13]

You might also check out the movie Team America: World Police (and DO NOT buy it at Wal-Mart or you'll miss the best (worst) part!). Granted, it's not South Park. But it is Matt and Trey, it is puppets, and it's very South-Park-esque. The Making-Of bonus features are especially good.

[bruinfan]

All of season 10 happened after this thread and it had some of the best episodes ever.

Notably:

"Tsst" - with Cartman and the Dog Whisperer.

"Make Love, Not Warcraft" - Brilliant.

"Go God Go" parts 1 and 2 - Ultimate Cartman episodes.
Science Dammit!!!

Niiiice! (in response to the attractive teacher banging the student)

[mwhip]

I think one of my favorites is Cripple Fight. Just for the awesomeness of the homage to They Live.

[jsmeeker]

I think one of my favorites is Cripple Fight. Just for the awesomeness of the homage to They Live.


That was awesome..





"Ok... break it up" :D

[gilmoregirls102]

I like the new one too...

"People who annoy you"

LOL

[MasterOfPuppets]

I don't memorize episode titles...and all South Park is good South Park.
My favorite recent episode was the Warcraft one.
And most uncomfortable one was the opening of the Mr. Garrison sex-change episode.

Someone's been trolling in the archives...heh

[gilmoregirls102]

Someone's been trolling in the archives...heh

I though this was the funniest part!

jsmeeker said, Look what I found, and sent me the link... so strange!

[jsmeeker]

but I didn't dig it out of the archives.. I just found that it had been bumped up with a response.

:)




"People That Annoy You"

N__GGERS


LOL!! That was funny as hell. Poor Randy.

[Jericho Dog]

Cartman.........."My mom said licking a lot of carpet will make me a lesbian"!! I forget what that episode was.

Cartman............"My mom said eating boxes will make me a lesbian" lmao!!That was the one where the got the new "hot" teacher who was a lesbian and all the kids wanted to be lesbians, although no one knew what that meant.

Cartman's mom says "If you are going to be a lesbian you have to learn to lick carpet" so all the kids had there faces to the floor. and so on......
great stuff!


Isn't that the episode where Mr Garrison had his face lifted to look like David Hasslehoff?

[jeffsinsfo]

I'm not sure whether it was the same episode, but I thought that Mr. Garrison's plastic surgery made him look like Andy Gibb. At least I remember them playing "Shadown Dancing" every time they showed Mr. Garrison post-rhinoplasty.

That was the one where the got the new "hot" teacher who was a lesbian and all the kids wanted to be lesbians, although no one knew what that meant.

Cartman's mom says "If you are going to be a lesbian you have to learn to lick carpet" so all the kids had there faces to the floor. and so on......
great stuff!


Isn't that the episode where Mr Garrison had his face lifted to look like David Hasslehoff?

[420s]

Scott Tenerman Must Die

Awesome episode

+1 Definately one of my favorites

[aadam101]

Fat Butt and Pancake Head!!

Best Episode Ever!

[Sir_Q]

Fat Butt and Pancake Head!!

Best Episode Ever!


I agree! Trapped in the Closet (http://www.southparkstudios.com/show/display_episode.php?season=9&id1=912&id2=141) 2nd.

[aadam101]

I agree! Tapped in the Closet (http://www.southparkstudios.com/show/display_episode.php?season=9&id1=912&id2=141) 2nd.

Tapped? Sounds kinda dirty. lol :)

[Sir_Q]

Fixed. :)

[TostitoBandito]

Hi there all. I am new to South Park- and I LOVE THIS SHOW! Are they playing new episodes? How many seasons are there? :confused:
I have watched them so scattered, I want to watch them all in order!
Any other fans out there? :cool:
Please tell me some of your favorite episodes! I loved "Freak Strike" and "Conjoined Fetus Lady"!!!!! :D
Share, please.....

Just buy the first season on DVD. That's a good start. Recently, the Go God Go! two parter, the World of Warcraft episode, and the most recent Jesse Jackson one were all pretty good. This season's been solid.

[gilmoregirls102]

I think anything with Mr. Mackey is good too... mmmmmkay?

[steve614]

I can't believe this was bumped after a year!

LOL

That would be me. I was searching for a discussion on the "people who annoy you" episode, and didn't pay attention to the date. :o
I saw the clip for it on Comedy Central. It had me ROTFLMFAO!

[gilmoregirls102]

That would be me. I was searching for a discussion on the "people who annoy you" episode, and didn't pay attention to the date. :o
I saw the clip for it on Comedy Central. It had me ROTFLMFAO!
That's so funny, because I wrote this when I was new to TCF, and it was jsmeeker who brought (re-brought?) this to my attention... he was the 1st person to reply, and lately we have been talking about SP!

Funny!

[scooterboy]

Scott Tenerman Must Die

Awesome episode
That's my favorite.

[gilmoregirls102]

Tapped? Sounds kinda dirty. lol :)
LOL
I just read this!