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nimation look.[27][54][83] A few episodes feature sections of live-action footage, while others have incorporated other styles of animation. Portions of the season eight (2004) premiere "Good Times with Weapons" are done in anime style, while the season 10 episode "Make Love, Not Warcraft" is done partly in machinima.[...
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oscoping.[85] Voice cast Parker and Stone voice most of the male South Park characters.[9][10][86] Mary Kay Bergman voiced the majority of the female characters until her death in November 1999. Mona Marshall and Eliza Schneider succeeded Bergman, with Schneider leaving the show after its seventh season (2003). She was...
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ted in the credits under the alias Shannen Cassidy to protect her reputation as the voice of several Disney and other kid-friendly characters.[87] Stewart was originally credited under the name Gracie Lazar,[88] while Schneider was sometimes credited under her rock opera performance pseudonym Blue Girl.[89] Other voice...
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voice recurring characters. Supervising producer Jennifer Howell voices student Bebe Stevens;[86] co-producer and storyboard artist Adrien Beard voices Tolkien Black,[nb 1][90] who was the school's only African-American student until the introduction of Nichole in "Cartman Finds Love"; writing consultant Vernon Chatman...
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f Mr. Garrison.[91] Throughout the show's run, the voices for toddler and kindergarten characters have been provided by various small children of the show's production staff.[92] When voicing child characters, the voice actors speak within their normal vocal range while adding a childlike inflection. The recorded audio...
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aac Hayes voiced the character of Chef, an African-American, soul-singing cafeteria worker who was one of the few adults the boys consistently trusted.[11][95] Hayes agreed to voice the character after being among Parker and Stone's ideal candidates, which also included Lou Rawls and Barry White.[96] Hayes, who lived a...
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or gave directions over the phone, after which the tape would be shipped to the show's production studio in California.[53] After Hayes left the show in early 2006, the character of Chef was killed off in the season 10 (2006) premiere "The Return of Chef". Guest stars Celebrities who are depicted on the show are usuall...
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uffer,[97][98] Brent Musburger,[99] Jay Leno,[100] Robert Smith,[101] and the bands Radiohead and Korn.[102][103] Comedy team Cheech & Chong voiced characters representing their likenesses for the season four (2000) episode "Cherokee Hair Tampons", which was the duo's first collaborative effort in 20 years.[104] Malcol...
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Belzer,[107] Natasha Henstridge,[101] Norman Lear,[108] and Peter Serafinowicz[109] have guest starred as other speaking characters. During South Park's earliest seasons, several high-profile celebrities inquired about guest-starring on the show. As a joke, Parker and Stone responded by offering low-profile, non-speaki...
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ig Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride",[110] Leno provided the meows for Cartman's cat in the season one finale "Cartman's Mom Is a Dirty Slut",[110] and Henry Winkler voiced the various growls and grunts of a kid-eating monster in the season two (1998) episode "City on the Edge of Forever".[111] Jerry Seinfeld offered to lend...
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112] Music Parker says that the varying uses of music are of utmost importance to South Park.[113] Several characters often play or sing songs in order to change or influence a group's behavior, or to educate, motivate, or indoctrinate others. The show also frequently features scenes in which its characters have disapp...
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synthesis to simulate a small orchestra, and frequently alluded to existing famous pieces of music. Berry also used signature acoustic guitar and mandolin cues as leitmotifs for the show's establishing shots.[113][114] After Berry left in 2001, Jamie Dunlap and Scott Nickoley of the Los Angeles-based Mad City Productio...
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ole score composer.[115] Dunlap's contributions to the show are one of the few that are not achieved at the show's own production offices. Dunlap reads a script, creates a score using digital audio software, and then e-mails the audio file to South Park Studios, where it is edited to fit with the completed episode.[93]...
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transpired in the plot. These songs were original compositions written by Parker, and they were performed by Hayes in the same sexually suggestive R&B style he had used during his own music career. The band DVDA, which consists of Parker and Stone, along with show staff members Bruce Howell and D.A. Young, performed th...
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53] Rick James, Elton John, Meat Loaf, Joe Strummer, Ozzy Osbourne, Primus, Rancid, and Ween all guest starred and briefly performed in the season two (1998) episode "Chef Aid". Korn debuted their single "Falling Away from Me" as guest stars on the season three (1999) episode "Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery".[103] ...
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lead singer, Les Claypool, and the show's four central characters during the opening title sequence. Kenny's muffled lines are altered after every few seasons. His lines are usually sexually explicit in nature, such as his original lines, "I like girls with big fat titties, I like girls with deep vaginas".[116] The ori...
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uence. So Parker and Stone sped it up for the show's opening, having Claypool re-record his vocals. The instrumental version of the original composition is often played during the show's closing credits.[117] The opening song played in the first four seasons (and the end credits in all seasons) has a folk rock instrume...
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in the minor key and it features a tritone or a diminished fifth, creating a melodic dissonance, which captures the show's surrealistic nature.[how?] In the latter parts of seasons 4 and 5, the opening tune has an electro funk arrangement with pop qualities. Seasons 6–9 have a sprightly bluegrass instrumentation with a...
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hich feature electric guitars backed up by synthesized, groovy drumbeats.[93] The opening theme song has been remixed three times during the course of the series, including a remix performed by Paul Robb.[118] In 2006, the theme music was remixed with the song "Whamola" by Colonel Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Br...
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untries and territories, including India, New Zealand, and several countries throughout Europe and Latin America on channels that are subsidiaries of Comedy Central and Paramount Media Networks, both subsidiaries of Paramount.[27][121][122] In distribution deals with Comedy Central, other independent networks also broa...
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e-to-air channel SBS Viceland (before 2009), while new episodes aired on SBS. The program also airs free-to-air in Australia on 10 Shake, a sister network to Comedy Central through Paramount.[123] The series is broadcast uncensored in Canada in English on The Comedy Network[124] and, later, Much. The series was formerl...
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K (previously on Sky One, Channel 4, VIVA and 5Star), B92 in Serbia,[127] and on Game One and NRJ 12 in France. In September 2020, SBS, which aired South Park in Australia since 1997, removed South Park from its television line-up, though reruns could air on SBS Viceland.[128][129] Syndication Broadcast syndication rig...
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her edited for content began running in syndication on September 19, 2005, and were aired in the United States with the TV-14 rating.[131][132] 20th Television replaced Tribune as co-distributor in early 2008. By the time its run in syndication ended in 2015,[133] it aired in 90 percent of the television markets across...
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Television Distribution (the syndication arm of ViacomCBS, now known as Paramount Global), took over the full distribution rights following the acquisition of 21st Century Fox (parent of 20th Television) by The Walt Disney Company (who had employed Debmar-Mercury founder Mort Marcus as the head of their syndication div...
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w to be renewed all the way up to season 30 and 14 additional films, enough to carry the show to at least 2027.[137][138] Home media Complete seasons of South Park have been regularly released in their entirety on DVD since 2002, with season twenty-six being the most recently released. Several other themed DVD compilat...
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sued straight-to-DVD as a full-length feature in 2008.[140][141][142] Blu-ray releases started in 2008 with the release of season twelve.[143] Subsequent seasons have been released in this format alongside the longer-running DVD releases. The first eleven seasons were released on Blu-ray for the first time in December ...
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legal streaming on the official South Park Studios website.[146] From March 2008 until December 2013, new episodes were added to the site the day following their debut, and an uncensored version was posted the following day. The episode stayed up for the remainder of the week, then taken down, and added to the site thr...
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n by October 2008.[147] Legal issues prevent the U.S. content from being accessible outside the United States,[148] so local servers have been set up in other countries.[149] In September 2009, a South Park Studios website with streaming episodes was launched in the United Kingdom and Ireland.[150] In Canada, episodes ...
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lable.[151] In April 2010, the season five episode "Super Best Friends" and the season fourteen episodes "200" and "201" were removed from the site; additionally, these episodes no longer air in reruns and are only available exclusively on DVD and Blu-ray. These episodes remain unavailable following the 2014 purchase b...
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South Park for a reported $80 million. Following the announcement every episode remained available for free on the South Park Studios website, using the Hulu player. As of September 2014, following the premiere of the eighteenth season, only 30 select episodes would be featured for free viewing at a time on a rotating ...
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entire series was available on Hulu by this point.[152] As of July 2015, all episodes of South Park are available for streaming in Canada on the service CraveTV, which first consisted of seasons 1–18. Subsequent seasons were released the following July.[153] In early October 2019, industry rumors suggested that the str...
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high as US$500 million. HBO and South Park Digital Studios announced that HBO had secured a multi-year deal for the exclusive streaming rights for South Park on their HBO Max service starting June 24, 2020.[154] While the terms of the deal were not disclosed, Variety reported the deal fell between US$500 million and US...
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6] Once that deal expires in 2025, Paramount+ will become the exclusive streaming home. In addition, the season 27 episodes would stream first on Paramount+ before hitting HBO Max.[157] Though season 27 would have originally aired in 2024, the season was delayed due to what Parker and Stone claimed to be uncertainties ...
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ed merger of Skydance Media and Paramount Global.[158] In February 2023, Warner Bros. Discovery filed a lawsuit which claimed that Paramount breached its exclusivity contract with HBO Max by airing South Park on its own streaming platform.[159] Re-rendered episodes From its debut in 1997 to the season twelve finale in ...
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g produced in 16:9 high definition 1080p with the beginning of the thirteenth season.[160] Since this, all twelve seasons originally produced in standard definition have been remastered by South Park Studios, being fully re-rendered in high definition. The aspect ratio of these episodes were also converted from 4:3 to ...
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asons have their original uncensored audio tracks; they had previously been released in censored form.[160][161][162][163] The fifth-season episode "Super Best Friends", which was pulled from syndication and online streams following the controversy surrounding episode "201", was not released alongside the rest of the s...
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f the season that was released on December 5, 2017.[144] The episode is presented in its original presentation, without Muhammad's image being obscured as in later episodes of the series.[164] Reception Ratings When South Park debuted, it was a huge ratings success for Comedy Central and is seen as being largely respon...
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episode, "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe", earned a Nielsen rating of 1.3 (980,000 viewers), at the time considered high for a cable program.[165] The show instantly generated buzz among television viewers, and mass viewing parties began assembling on college campuses.[21][15][23] By the time the eighth episode, "Starvin' ...
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sful show in Comedy Central's history.[23] When the tenth episode "Damien" aired the following February, viewership increased another 33 percent. The episode earned a 6.4 rating, which at the time was over 10 times the average rating earned by a cable show aired in prime time.[21][165] The ratings peaked with the secon...
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.2 million viewers) and, at the time, set a record as the highest-rated non-sports show in basic cable history.[29][37][165] During the spring of 1998, eight of the ten highest-rated shows on basic cable were South Park episodes.[22] South Park's second season would average a 5.8 rating (12.5 million viewers) which was...
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e cable companies to carry Comedy Central and led it to its becoming one of the fastest-growing cable channels. The number of households that had Comedy Central jumped from 9.1 million in 1997 to 50 million in June 1998.[165] When the show debuted, the most Comedy Central had earned for a 30-second commercial was US$7,...
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Park in its second season, while some paid as much as US$80,000.[166] By the third season (1999), the series' ratings began to decrease.[167] The third-season premiere episode drew 3.4 million viewers, a dramatic drop from the 5.5 million of the previous season's premiere.[165] Stone and Parker attributed this drop in ...
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d the show's "true" fan base.[165] Regardless the viewership stayed consistent with an average rating being between 3.0 (8 million viewers) to a 5.5 (17.5 million viewers). The show's ratings dropped further in its fourth season (2000), with episodes averaging just above 1.5 million viewers (though the season premiere ...
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ne consistently averaged about 3 million viewers per episode.[165] Season 8's episode "Goobacks" would have South Park's viewership peak at 30 million viewers. Seasons 10 to 12 would average 5 million viewers. Though its viewership is lower than it was at the height of its popularity in its earliest seasons, South Park...
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w's highest-rated season premiere since 1998.[169] In 2016, a New York Times study of the 50 TV shows with the most Facebook Likes found that "perhaps unsurprisingly, South Park ... is most popular in Colorado".[170] Subsequent seasons saw substantially lower ratings, with season 25 averaging 0.65 million viewers an ep...
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n 2007, Time magazine included the show on its list of the "100 Best TV Shows of All Time", proclaiming it as "America's best source of rapid-fire satire for [the past] decade".[172] The same year, Rolling Stone declared it to be the funniest show on television since its debut 10 years prior.[173] In 2008, South Park w...
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tute" characters of any show in history when naming it the 16th-best television comedy series of all time.[175] In 2011, South Park was voted number one in the 25 Greatest Animated TV Series poll by Entertainment Weekly.[176] The character of Cartman ranked 10th on TV Guide's 2002 list of the "Top 50 Greatest Cartoon C...
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cial in 2004,[179] and second on MSNBC's 2005 list of TV's scariest characters behind Mr. Burns from The Simpsons.[180] In 2006, Comedy Central received a Peabody Award for South Park's "stringent social commentary" and "undeniably fearless lampooning of all that is self-important and hypocritical in American life".[27...
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Also in 2013, TV Guide listed the show at number 10 among the "60 Greatest Cartoons of All Time".[184] In 2019, the series was ranked 42nd on The Guardian newspaper's list of the 100 best TV shows of the 21st century.[185] South Park won the CableACE Award for Best Animated Series in 1997, the last year the awards were...
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te Night Television Program. It was also nominated for the 1998 GLAAD Award for Outstanding TV – Individual Episode for "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride".[32] South Park has been nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program eighteen times (1998, 2000, 2002, 2004–2011, 2013–2018 and 2021). The show has w...
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Forever",[181] the 2006 episode "Make Love, Not Warcraft",[187] the 2009 episode "Margaritaville", and the 2012 episode "Raising the Bar".[188] The "Imaginationland" trilogy of episodes won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or More) in 2008.[189] Criticism The show's frequent dep...
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negative depiction of liberal causes, and portrayal of religion for comic effect have generated controversy and debate over the course of its run.[190] As the series became popular, students in two schools were barred from wearing South Park-related T-shirts,[18][22][32] and the headmaster of a UK public school asked p...
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n as their favorite personality in a 1999 poll.[191] Parker and Stone assert that the show is not meant to be viewed by young children, and the show is certified with TV ratings that indicate its intention for mature audiences.[22] In 1999, they went on record to cancel the release of the Game Boy Color game based on t...
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core demographic consisted of children.[192] Parents Television Council founder L. Brent Bozell III and Action for Children's Television founder Peggy Charren have both condemned the show, with the latter claiming it is "dangerous to the democracy".[18][166][193][194] Several other activist groups have protested the sh...
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for its portrayal of how kids behave are upset because they "have an idyllic vision of what kids are like", adding "[kids] don't have any kind of social tact or etiquette, they're just complete little raging bastards".[32][191] Controversies The show further lampooned the controversy surrounding its use of profanity, a...
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iere "It Hits the Fan",[196] in which the word shit is said 162 times without being bleeped for censorship purposes, while also appearing uncensored in written form.[37] In the days following the show's original airing, 5,000 disapproving e-mails were sent to Comedy Central.[48] Despite its 43 uncensored uses of the ra...
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black community and the NAACP praised the episode for its context and its comedic way of conveying other races' perceptions of how black people feel when hearing the word.[197][198] Specific controversies regarding the show have included an April Fools' Day prank played on its viewers in 1998,[199] its depiction of the...
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a stingray barb stuck in his chest in the episode "Hell on Earth 2006", which originally aired less than two months after Irwin was killed in the same fashion,[200][201] Comedy Central's censorship of the depiction of Muhammad in the season 10 episode "Cartoon Wars Part II" in the wake of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad c...
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[202][203][204] The season nine (2005) episode "Trapped in the Closet" denounces Scientology as nothing more than "a big fat global scam",[195] while freely divulging church information that Scientology normally only reveals to members who make significant monetary contributions to the church.[205] The episode also amb...
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ns of the episode be canceled.[200][206] Isaac Hayes, a Scientologist, later quit South Park because of his objection to the episode.[207] The season fourteen episodes "200" and "201" were mired in controversy for satirizing issues surrounding the depiction of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad. The website for the organiza...
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nd Stone that they risk violent retribution for their depictions of Muhammad. It said that they "will probably wind up like Theo van Gogh for airing this show". The posting provided the addresses to Comedy Central in New York and the production company in Los Angeles.[208] The author of the post, Zachary Adam Chesser (...
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oviding the addresses was meant to give people the opportunity to protest.[210][211] Despite Chesser's claims that the website entry was a warning, several media outlets and observers interpreted it as a threat.[212][213][214] Comedy Central censored the episode's broadcast in response, by bleeping out several speeches...
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Draw Mohammed Day, a movement started on Facebook that encourages people to draw Muhammad on May 20.[215] The "200" episode, which also depicted the Buddha snorting cocaine, prompted the government of Sri Lanka to ban the series outright.[216] Due to many taboo topics in China—such as Dalai Lama, Winnie the Pooh,[217] ...
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s entirely banned in China after the episode's broadcast. The series' Baidu Baike article, Baidu Tieba forum, Douban page, Zhihu page and Bilibili videos have been deleted or inaccessible to the public, all related keywords and topics have been prohibited from being searched and discussed on China-based search engines ...
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ic apology in response.[221][222] Legacy Cultural Commentary made in episodes has been interpreted as statements Parker and Stone are attempting to make to the viewing public,[223] and these opinions have been subject to much critical analysis in the media and literary world within the framework of popular philosophica...
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and doctoral theses analyzing the show,[55] while Brooklyn College offers a course called "South Park and Political Correctness".[225][226] Soon after one of Kenny's trademark deaths on the show, other characters would typically shout "Oh my God, they killed Kenny!", followed by another yelling out "You bastard(s)!"—th...
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1] while the running gag of Kenny's recurring deaths is one of the more recognized hallmarks among viewers of modern television.[227][228] Cartman's exclamations of "Respect my authori-tah!" and "Screw you guys ...I'm going home!" became catchphrases as well, and during the show's earlier seasons, were highly popular i...
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of Catchphrases.[230] In the season two episode "Chef Aid", attorney Johnnie Cochran uses what's called in the show the Chewbacca defense, which is a legal strategy that involves addressing plot holes related to Chewbacca in the film Return of the Jedi rather than discussing the trial at hand during a closing argument ...
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d as being used by criminologists, forensic scientists, and political commentators in their various discussions of similar methods used in legal cases and public forums.[231][232] Another season two episode, "Gnomes", revolves around a group of "underpants gnomes" who, as their name suggests, run a corporation stealing...
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"collect underpants". Phase 3 is "profit". However, the gnomes are unable to explain what is to occur between the first and final steps, and "Phase 2" is accompanied by a large question mark on their corporate flow chart. Using "????" and "PROFIT!" as the last two steps in a process (usually jokingly) became a widely p...
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used by some commentators to characterize a conspicuous gap of logic or planning.[235][236] When Sophie Rutschmann of the University of Strasbourg discovered a mutated gene that causes an adult fruit fly to die within two days after it is infected with certain bacteria, she named the gene kep1 in honor of Kenny.[237][2...
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ght, walk, and caused seizures, indicative of severe neurological defects, a different set of researchers named it Tweek in honor of Tweek.[240] Political While some conservatives have condemned South Park for its vulgarity, a growing population of people who hold center-right political beliefs, including teenagers and...
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Political commentator Andrew Sullivan dubbed the group South Park Republicans, or South Park conservatives.[40][242][243] Sullivan averred that members of the group are "extremely skeptical of political correctness but also are socially liberal on many issues", though he says the phrase applied to them is meant to be m...
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aracterized by holding strong libertarian beliefs and rejecting more conservative social policy", and notes that although the show makes "wicked fun of conservatives", it is "at the forefront of a conservative revolt against liberal media" and Hollywood's "liberal hegemony".[241][244] Parker and Stone reject the idea t...
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two claim the show's higher proportion of instances lampooning liberal rather than conservative orthodoxies stems simply from their preference for making fun of liberals.[16][73] While Stone has been quoted saying, "I hate conservatives, but I really fucking hate liberals", Stone and Parker have explained that their dr...
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n that they regard liberals as having both delusions of entitlement to remain free from satire, and a propensity to enforce political correctness while patronizing the citizens of Middle America.[39][40] Parker and Stone are uncomfortable with the idea of themselves or South Park being assigned any kind of partisan cla...
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tag implies that one only adheres to strictly conservative or liberal viewpoints.[35][241] The duo has in the past reluctantly labeled themselves libertarians and fans of government gridlock. In 2006, they said that they were "rooting for Hillary Clinton in 2008 simply because it would be weird to have her as president...
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