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|genre = [[Animation]]<br/>[[situation comedy|Sitcom]]
|runtime = 22 min approx.
|creator = [[Trey Parker]]<br />[[Matt Stone]]
|executive_producer = [[Trey Parker]]<br />[[Matt Stone]]
|voices= [[Trey Parker]]<br />[[Matt Stone]]<br />[[Isaac Hayes]] <small>(1997-2006)</small><br />[[Mary Kay Bergman]] <small>(1997-1999)</small><br />[[Eliza Schneider]] <small>(2000-2003)</small><br />[[Mona Marshall]]<br />[[April Stewart]]<br />[[John 'Nancy' Hansen|John Hansen]]<br />[[Jennifer Howell]]<br /> [[Adrien Beard]]
|opentheme = "South Park Theme" by [[Primus (band)|Primus]]/[[Colonel Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade]]
|country = [[United States]]
|network = [[Comedy Central]]
|picture_format = [[NTSC]] ([[480i]])
|first_aired = [[August 13]], [[1997]]
|last_aired = present
|num_seasons = 12
|num_episodes = 174
|list_episodes = List of South Park episodes
|website = http://www.southparkstudios.com
|imdb_id = 0121955
|tv_com_id = 344
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'''''South Park''''' is a two-time [[Emmy Award]]-winning, [[animation|animated]] [[United States|American]] television comedy series created and written by [[Trey Parker]] and [[Matt Stone]] for [[Comedy Central]]. The series has been distributed and aired by [[Comedy Central]] since [[1997]]. The show is well-known for its [[popular culture|pop-culture]] [[parody]], [[Toilet humour|scatological humor]], and [[satire|satirical]] handling of [[current events]].
Since its debut on [[August 13]], 1997, the show has aired [[List of South Park episodes|174 episodes]] over 12 seasons. The twelfth season began airing on [[March 12]], [[2008]], and the second half of season 12 will premiere on [[October 1]] 2008.<ref name="12th_season">[http://www.tv.com/south-park/show/344/episode_listings.html?season=12 South Park Episode List - TV.com</ref> The show is contracted to produce new episodes through a fifteenth season, until late [[2011]].<ref name=NYtimes>[http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/27/business/media/27south.html?_r=1&oref=slogin 'South Park' Creators Win Ad Sharing in Deal - New York Times<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> In [[1999]], South Park was made into a feature-length film titled ''[[South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut]]''.
==Origins==
{{main|The Spirit of Christmas}}
''South Park'' began in [[1992]] when Trey Parker and Matt Stone, at the time students at the [[University of Colorado at Boulder|University of Colorado]], met in a film class and created an [[short subject|animated short]] called ''[[The Spirit of Christmas#Jesus vs. Frosty|Jesus vs. Frosty]]''. The low-budget crudely made film featured [[prototype]]s of the main characters of ''South Park'', including a character resembling [[Eric Cartman|Cartman]] but named "[[Kenny McCormick|Kenny]]", an unnamed character resembling what is today Kenny, and two near-identical unnamed characters who would resemble [[Stan Marsh|Stan]] and [[Kyle Broflovski|Kyle]].<ref name="began">[http://www.southparkstudios.com/behind/how.php?tab=20 South Park Studios - Behind the Scenes - How It All Began]</ref>
In [[1995]], [[Fox Broadcasting Company|FOX]] executive [[Brian Graden]] saw the film, and commissioned Parker and Stone to create a second short film that he could send to his friends as a video [[Christmas card]]. Titled [[The Spirit of Christmas#Jesus vs. Santa|Jesus vs. Santa]], it resembled the style of the later series more closely, and featured a [[martial arts]] duel and subsequent [[ceasefire|truce]] between [[Jesus]] and [[Santa Claus]] over the true meaning of [[Christmas]]. This video was later featured in the episode "[[A Very Crappy Christmas]]" in which Stan, Kyle, Cartman, Kenny, and Mr. Hankey "save" Christmas for the town. The video was popular and was widely shared, both by duplication and over the [[Internet]]. This led to talks to create a series, first with FOX, then with Comedy Central, where the series debuted on August 13, 1997. During the first four seasons of ''South Park'', clips of the shorts can be seen in the opening sequence within an old television and a billboard.
==History==
''South Park'''s early episodes tended to be [[shock value]]-oriented and featured more slapstick-style humor than later episodes. Although [[satire]] had been used on the show occasionally earlier on, it became more prevalent in later episodes. Episodes have parodied [[Michael Jackson]] ("[[The Jeffersons (South Park episode)|The Jeffersons]]"), [[Paris Hilton]] ("[[Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset]]"), and ''[[The Passion of the Christ]]'' ("[[The Passion of the Jew]]"), as well as addressed serious political issues such as [[terrorism]] ("[[Cartoon Wars]]"), American [[immigration]] policy ("[[Goobacks]]"), [[Same-sex Marriage|Gay Marriage]] ("[[Follow that Egg]]"), and the [[Terri Schiavo]] case ("[[Best Friends Forever]]").
The [[television pilot|pilot episode]], "[[Cartman Gets an Anal Probe]]" (nearly identical to the first official episode, which has the same name), required three months to produce using [[construction paper]] and traditional cut-out animation techniques. However, the version that aired was different from the original version. Current episodes duplicate the original, amateurish look using modern [[computer animation]] tools—first [[PowerAnimator]] and then [[Maya (software)|Maya]], which Parker and Stone described as "building a sandcastle with a bulldozer". This allows for a shorter production schedule, enabling the creators to respond quickly to current events. The [[December 17]], [[2003]] episode "[[It's Christmas in Canada]]" depicted the [[Operation Red Dawn|capture of]] [[Saddam Hussein]] a mere three days after the actual event, even referring to the "spider hole" in which he was found. In this instance—as with the [[Elián González affair|Elián González]] episode ("[[Quintuplets 2000]]") — the creators changed the production of an episode at the last minute to focus on the new world event.[[Image:Southpark disclaimer.png|left|thumb|The disclaimer that begins every episode.]]
In 2002, the episode "[[Free Hat]]" aired. In this episode—inspired by Kyle's comment on [[Ted Koppel]]'s ''[[Nightline (US news program)|Nightline]]'' that changing ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial]]'' would be like changing ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark]]''—a fictional [[George Lucas]] and [[Steven Spielberg]] decide to alter the first [[Indiana Jones]] film. Soon after the episode aired, Lucas and Spielberg announced that contrary to rumors they would not be altering ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' for [[DVD]] release.
On [[August 26]], [[2007]], Parker and Stone committed to three more seasons of ''South Park'', so the show will run until at least 2011.<ref name=NYtimes>[http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/27/business/media/27south.html?_r=1&oref=slogin 'South Park' Creators Win Ad Sharing in Deal - New York Times<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> They will continue to write, direct, and edit every episode of the show. <ref>[http://www.animationmagazine.net/article.php?article_id=4447 South Park Renewed for Three | Animation Magazine<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
Edited versions of ''South Park'' episodes, with the [[Television content rating systems#United States|TV-14]] rating, began broadcasting in syndication on [[September 19]], [[2005]] on various local channels around the [[United States|U.S.]]<ref>{{cite web| last = Rudolph| first = Ileane | coauthors = Matt Webb Mitovich | title = South Park Gets Cleaned Up| publisher = [[TV Guide]]| date= 2005-09-01| url = http://www.tvguide.com/news/south-park-gets/050901-03| accessdate = 2007-08-09 }}</ref> The series is co-distributed by [[Debmar-Mercury]] and [[20th Television]]; the latter replaced [[Tribune Entertainment]] as co-distributor in early-2008, after Tribune ceased business.
In March 2008, Comedy Central made all South Park episodes available for legal streaming on the [http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/ South Park Studios website]. However, legal issues prevent the episodes from being accessible in the [[UK]], [[Australia]] and a few other territories outside US for now.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.southparkstudios.com/news/?id=3405|title=South Park DIGITAL Studios Press Release|accessdate=2008-08-09}}</ref>
==Characters==
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[[Image:Southpark ep107 1.jpg|200px|thumb|The boys dressed for [[Halloween]] in the episode "[[Pinkeye (South Park episode)|Pinkeye]]". From left to right: Eric Cartman (as [[Adolf Hitler]]), Kyle Broflovski (as [[Chewbacca]]), Stan Marsh (as [[Raggedy Ann|Raggedy Andy]]) and Kenny McCormick (literally a [[zombie]]).]]
Prior to season four, the main characters of the show were four [[third grade]] students (often called "the boys" when as a group for easier reference): [[Stan Marsh|Stanley "Stan" Marsh]], [[Kyle Broflovski]], [[Eric Cartman|Eric Theodore Cartman]], and [[Kenny McCormick|Kenneth "Kenny" McCormick]]. There are many recurring characters on the show, including [[List of South Park families|the boys' families]], [[List of staff at South Park Elementary|school staff]], and [[List of students at South Park Elementary|other students]]. These include [[Butters Stotch|Leopold "Butters" Stotch]], [[Chef (South Park)|Chef]] (who no longer appears in the show), [[List of other South Park residents#Mr. Hankey|Mr. Hankey]], [[List of other South Park residents#Towelie|Towelie]], [[Jesus (South Park)|Jesus]], and [[Satan (South Park)|Satan]]. There are also many other [[List of minor characters on South Park|minor characters]].
Matt Stone and Trey Parker voice most of the male South Park characters, while [[April Stewart]] and [[Mona Marshall]] (formerly [[Mary Kay Bergman]] and [[Eliza Schneider]]) voice most of the female characters such as [[List of students at South Park Elementary#Wendy Testaburger|Wendy Testaburger]] and [[Gerald and Sheila Broflovski#Sheila|Sheila Broflovski]]. Other voices are currently provided by [[Adrien Beard]] ([[List of students at South Park Elementary#Token Black|Token Black]]), [[Vernon Chatman]] ([[List of other South Park residents#Towelie|Towelie]]), and [[Jennifer Howell]] ([[List of students at South Park Elementary#Bebe Stevens|Bebe Stevens]]). Former members of the voice cast include [[Isaac Hayes]] ([[Chef (South Park)|Chef]]) and [[John 'Nancy' Hansen|John Hansen]] ([[List of staff at South Park Elementary#Mr. Slave|Mr. Slave]]). Stan Marsh and Kyle Broflovski were initially designed to represent creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone respectively; however, both have admitted to ultimately identifying far more with Cartman.<ref> "Goin' Down to South Park" documentary featured on the South Park Season 2 Boxset</ref>
== Setting ==
The show is set in the fictional town of South Park, [[Colorado]]. The town is located in [[South Park (Colorado basin)|South Park]], a geographical area of approximately 1000 square miles which is a high-altitude [[intermontane]] grassland basin.<ref name="Preserving the South Park Basin">{{cite web | title=Preserving the South Park Basin | publisher=Colorado Open Lands | year=2008 | url=http://www.coloradoopenlands.org/site/ourWork/landProtection/southParkBasin/index.php | accessdate=2008-05-01}}</ref> South Park is in [[Park County, Colorado|Park County]] about 80 miles southwest of [[Denver]] and four miles from [[Fairplay, Colorado|Fairplay]]. An unexplained peculiarity is that it is almost always winter in South Park, and there is (almost) always snow on the ground. This could be because the appearance of the characters, which were first introduced in a Christmas short, were dressed for winter. Cartman mentions in ''[[Jakovasaurs]]'' that there are only two seasons in South Park, winter and July (as seen in such episodes as ''[[Summer Sucks]]'').
South Park is inspired by both real-life towns in the South Park basin such as Fairplay and the Denver suburbs such as [[Littleton, Colorado|Littleton]], the sites of the upbringing of ''South Park'' co-creators [[Matt Stone]] and [[Trey Parker]].<ref name="Matt Stone Biography">{{cite web | title=Matt Stone Biography | publisher=IMBD | year=2008 | url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001778/bio | accessdate=2008-05-01}}</ref>
The town is served by [[South Park Elementary]] and Hell's Pass Hospital. Town police consists almost entirely of [[List of other South Park residents#Officer Barbrady|Officer Barbrady]] (not counting [[county police|county]] [[Sheriff#United States|sheriff's deputies]] [[List of other South Park residents#Sergeant Harrison Yates|Yates]] and Murphy) and the only discernible politician is [[Mayor McDaniels]]. The town flag was changed in ''[[Chef Goes Nanners]]'' because the image of white people [[lynching]] a black man was thought [[racism|racist]]. The new flag features a black man being lynched by people of all races and nationalities, including another black man. South Park was home to [[Jesus (South Park)|Jesus]] until his death in ''[[Red Sleigh Down]]''.
== Episodes ==
{{Main|List of South Park episodes}}
{{For|a list of DVDs|South Park DVDs}}
==Animation==
Construction paper cutouts were used in the original [[The Spirit of Christmas|pilot animation]] and in the [[Cartman Gets an Anal Probe|first episode made for Comedy Central]]. Subsequent episodes have been produced by computer animation providing a similar look to the originals. The appearance of characters and scenes has become less crude over time, largely in order to enhance the comedic effect. Special effects, such as prepackaged explosions, have replaced cardboard-style fires. Light shading has been used to highlight "sappy," movie-like moments as well as some of Cartman's dramatic poses. Some episodes, such as ''[[Tweek vs. Craig]]'' and ''[[Mr. Garrison's Fancy New Vagina]]'', have even incorporated sections of [[live action]] video.
[[CorelDRAW]] is used to create the characters, which are animated using [[Maya (software)|Maya]], or in early episodes, PowerAnimator. The style of animation used for ''South Park'' was inspired by the paper cut-out cartoons made by [[Terry Gilliam]] for ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'', of which Trey Parker and Matt Stone have been lifelong fans.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.southparkstudios.com/show/display_faq_search.php?section=2&id=36&search_faq=|title=South Park Studios FAQ, April 2001|accessdate=2006-10-19}}</ref> Thanks to this efficient method, episodes of ''South Park'' are usually completed in six days (although some, such as [[AWESOM-O]] or [[Woodland Critter Christmas]] have taken only three or four).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.southparkstudios.com/show/display_faq_search.php?section=2&id=15434&search_faq=|title=South Park Studios FAQ, March 2004|accessdate=2006-10-19}}</ref>
==Music==
The show's original [[theme music|theme song]] was a musical score performed by the band [[Primus (band)|Primus]]. The song has been remixed three times during the course of the series (as of [[List of South Park episodes#Season 10: 2006|season ten]]), and certain lines have been altered (see below). In the beginning of [[List of South Park episodes#Season 10: 2006|season 10]] the title music was changed to the song "Whamola", performed by [[Colonel Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade|The Les Claypool Frog Brigade]], from the album ''[[Purple Onion]]''. ([[Les Claypool]] is the singer and bassist in both Primus and the Frog Brigade.)
Kenny's lines in the song, like the rest of his speech in the show, are muffled by his [[anorak|parka]] hood, which covers his entire face except for his eyes; however, Kenny's lines have been revealed by South Park Studios. In seasons 1–2, he says "I love girls with big fat titties, I love girls with deep vaginas." <ref name="faq1">{{cite web|url=http://www.southparkstudios.com/fans/faq/archives.php?month=9&year=2001|title=South Park Studios FAQ, September 2001|accessdate=2008-03-26}}</ref> From seasons 3-5 he says "I have got a 10 inch [[penis]], use your mouth if you want to clean it." <ref name="faq1" /> In season 6, Kenny had been written out of the show, having supposedly permanently died; in his absence, [[Timmy (South Park character)|Timmy]], who has a cognitive disability (early in the show Timmy was originally described as being "mentally retarded"<ref>[http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/Timmy Timmy - South Park Archives<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>), takes his place, singing "Timmy Timmy, Timmy Timmy, Timmy Timmy, Livin'a lie Timmy!" After returning to the show just before season 7, Kenny also returned to the theme song: From season 7 to the first half of season 10, Kenny says "Some day I'll be old enough to stick my dick in [[Britney Spears|Britney's]] butt." <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.southparkstudios.com/fans/faq/archives.php?month=12&year=2003|title=South Park Studios FAQ, December 2003|accessdate=2008-03-26}}</ref> Starting with the second half of Season 10, Kenny's lines changed again to "I like fucking silly bitches because I know my penis likes it."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_does_Kenny_say_in_the_South_Park_theme_tune|title=What does Kenny say in the South Park theme tune? (response confirmed)|accessdate=2008-04-27}}</ref> In the original unaired pilot episode of Cartman Gets An Anal Probe, in the rather different version of the opening, Kenny's lines are the same as they were in the first 2 seasons.
Popular songs such as "Kyle's Mom is a Big Fat Bitch" originated on the show, but the creators' musical abilities were not frequently used until the release of ''[[South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut]]''. The film's soundtrack (co-written and produced by [[Grammy Award]]-winning composer-lyricist [[Marc Shaiman]]) featured songs like "[[Blame Canada]]" (nominated for an [[Academy Award|Oscar]]; see below), "I'm Super," "La Resistance Medley," "Hell Isn't Good," "Mountain Town," "[[South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut#Track listing|Uncle Fucka]]" (won an [[MTV Movie Awards|MTV Movie Award]] for "Best Musical Performance"), "Up There," and "[[What Would Brian Boitano Do?]]." Several of the songs from the movie are satires of tunes from [[The Walt Disney Company|Disney]] cartoons. For instance, "Mountain Town" is highly similar to the song "Belle" from ''[[Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)|Beauty and the Beast]]''. "Up There" is a take-off of two different Disney songs, "Out There" from ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996 film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'' and "Part of Your World" from ''[[The Little Mermaid (1989 film)|The Little Mermaid]]''. "La Resistance Medley" spoofs both "One Day More" from the stage musical ''[[Les Misérables (musical)|Les Miserables]]'' and "[[Tonight (song)|Tonight]]" from ''[[West Side Story]]''.
Parker and Stone have, on occasion, performed these songs (and others) under the band name [[DVDA (band)|DVDA]].
In the show, Eric Cartman will often burst into song to convey a false [[altruism]] or [[optimism]] that belies his baser motivations. In "[[Red Sleigh Down]]", he sings "Poo-Choo Train", an unnervingly cheery [[Christmas carol]], in an obvious attempt to convince Mr. Hankey and Santa Claus that he is worthy of Christmas presents. In "[[I'm a Little Bit Country]]", Cartman sings [[Paula Cole]]'s song "[[I Don't Want to Wait]]" while beating someone to death (Cartman also sings the song as an homage to his [[Dawson's Creek]] [[Trapper Keeper]] in the episode "[[Trapper Keeper (South Park episode)|Trapper Keeper]]"). In "[[The Death of Eric Cartman]]", Cartman sings "Make It Right" with Butters in a weak attempt to reconcile his sins. In "[[Roger Ebert Should Lay Off the Fatty Foods]]", Cartman sings the [[Donna Summer]] song "She Works Hard For The Money" during an audition for Cheesy Poofs. In the episode "[[Ginger Kids (South Park episode)|Ginger Kids]]", he sings a song about tolerance once he realizes he's not one of the "Gingers" and that he just convinced every Ginger in town to exterminate non-Ginger people. Cartman also uses the song "[[Heat of the Moment]]" in episode 513 ("[[Kenny Dies]]") to convince the [[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]] to approve [[stem cell]] [[stem cell controversy|research]]. Cartman has a mental quirk that forces him to finish singing [[Styx (band)|Styx's]] ''[[Come Sail Away]]'' whenever someone sings a few bars of the song. As soon as he learns this, Kyle, who has a strong and explicit hatred for Cartman, takes advantage of this and forces Cartman to finish the song so many times that Cartman becomes literally unintelligible. In episode 409, "[[Something You Can Do with Your Finger]]", the boys made their boy band, "Fingerbang".
Cartman was also the lead singer for "Faith + 1", a Christian band he formed with Butters and Token in the episode "[[Christian Rock Hard]]". He creates several "Christian" songs by taking sexually suggestive love songs and substituting romantic words such as "baby" and "darling" with "Jesus"; instead of the traditional "Christian Rock" lyrics singing about spiritual love for Jesus, Cartman sings about his desire to have actual, physical sex with Jesus. A few titles of these songs include "Body of Christ" and "Get Down on my Knees and Start Pleasing Jesus"
The band [[Korn]] appears in one of the Halloween episodes, where South Park is plagued by ghost pirates. It is the band's job to "solve the mystery" (this of course is a spoof of [[Scooby Doo]]). In the episodes climax, Korn plays "[[Falling Away from Me]]" in celebration of the solved mystery.
In "[[Fat Butt and Pancake Head]]", Cartman's hand puppet "Jennifer Lopez" (who pronounces her name as "Hennifer Lopez") recorded a hit single entitled "Taco Flavored Kisses", inciting the wrath of the "real" [[Jennifer Lopez]] character.
Additional musical contributions to the show come from the band Primus, which performed the original opening and ending themes for the show, and formerly from Isaac Hayes, who voiced Chef's singing of usually-sexual songs to explain certain adult themes to the boys. The Chef song "[[Chocolate Salty Balls]]" was released as a single in the UK in 1998 to support the [[Chef Aid: The South Park Album|Chef Aid]] album and became a number one hit[http://www.theofficialcharts.com/stats-one-hit-wonders.php]. Many episodes also feature highly melodramatic [[sheet music|musical score]]s to comically exaggerate the emotional content of the scene. For example, [[melancholia|melancholy]] music plays in the background when [[List of students at South Park Elementary#Timmy|Timmy]] sends away his beloved pet turkey, Gobbles, in the episode "[[Helen Keller! The Musical]]".
==Controversies==
{{main|South Park controversies}}
'''Controversies over ''[[South Park]]''''' have occurred numerous times. The show depicts what many people find to be [[taboo]] subject matter, from its use of [[vulgarity]] ([[It Hits The Fan]]) to its satire of subjects such as [[religion]] and [[cult]]s (such as [[All About Mormons]], [[Bloody Mary (South Park)|Bloody Mary]], [[Red Hot Catholic Love]], [[Fantastic Easter Special]], and [[Trapped in the Closet (South Park)|Trapped in the Closet]]), [[Human sexuality|sexuality]] ([[The Death Camp of Tolerance]]), [[steroids]] ([[Up The Down Steroid]]), and [[global warming]] ([[Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow]]). Stone and Parker are self-described "equal opportunity offenders" and episodes often lampoon all sides of a contentious issue, rather than taking a concrete position.
==Themes==
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{{Main|South Park themes}}
Apart from the continuously "vulgar" presentation of issues, ''South Park'' implements several recurring themes that it frequently uses, including current events, [[disabilities]], [[politics|political issues]], [[racism]], [[LGBT social movements|gay rights]], [[death]], [[environmental policy|environment]], [[censorship]], [[political correctness]], [[abortion]], [[sex]], [[atheism]], and [[religion]], many of which are widely viewed as controversial.
==Awards==
* ''South Park'' has been nominated for the [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming less than One Hour)|Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program]] seven times (1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005, [[58th Primetime Emmy Awards#Outstanding Animated Program (Less Than One Hour)|2006]], and [[59th Primetime Emmy Awards#Outstanding Animated Program (for programming less than one hour)|2007]]). The show has now won twice, for the 2005 episode "[[Best Friends Forever]]"<ref name="basile2">[http://animatedtv.about.com/cs/news/a/awards_2.htm South Park Awards<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> and the 2006 episode "[[Make Love, Not Warcraft]]".<ref>[http://www.emmys.org/awards/2007pt/nominations_crtv.php?action=search_db#1 Academy of Television Arts & Sciences<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* On [[April 5]], [[2006]], it was announced that the show had won a [[Peabody Award]].<ref name="basile2"/>
*In 2007, [[Time (magazine)|Time magazine]] included the show on their list of the "100 Best TV Shows of All Time." <ref>[http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1651341_1659196_1652729,00.html South Park - The 100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME - TIME<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* South Park was named the 12th greatest TV show of the past 25 years by [[Entertainment Weekly]] in 2008. <ref>
[http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20207076_20207387_20207339,00.html] </ref>
* ''South Park'' was nominated for important awards such as the 1998 [[Annie Awards|Annie Award]] for Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Primetime or Late Night Television Program. It was also nominated for the 1998 [[GLAAD Media Awards|GLAAD Award]] for Outstanding TV - Individual Episode for "[[Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride]]". It also received an [[NAACP Image Awards|Image Award]] nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (Isaac Hayes) in 1999. <ref name="imdbawardspage">[http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0121955/awards IMDB full list of awards won by "South Park"]</ref>
* ''South Park'' was nominated for a [[Teen Choice Awards|2006 Teen Choice Award]] for "Best Animated Show", but lost to ''[[Family Guy]]''.<ref>[http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Teen_Choice_Awards/2006 IMDb: Teen Choice Awards: 2006<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* ''[[South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut]]'' was nominated for an Oscar for "Best Music, Original Song" for "Blame Canada". They lost to [[Phil Collins]] and made fun of him in two consecutive episodes in season 4 ("[[Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000]]" & "[[Timmy 2000]]"). Creator Trey Parker explained the reasoning for these barbs in the season 4 DVD commentary, saying "we were fully expecting to lose, just not to Phil Collins". "Blame Canada" was performed by [[Robin Williams]] during the [[72nd Academy Awards|televised award show]], which was the first to carry a [[Television content rating systems#United States|TV-14]] parental advisory, in part because of the performance of that song, which contains some adult language.
* Another track from the movie, "Uncle Fucka", won an MTV Movie Award for Best Musical Performance; Trey Parker and Matt Stone accepted the award, and thanked the audience for "not nominating Phil Collins".
* ''South Park'' is the one of the very few actively-running television series that has won a [[CableACE Award]]. It won the award for Best Animated Series in 1997, the last year the awards were given out.<ref>Basile, Nancy. [http://animatedtv.about.com/library/weekly/aa092102b.htm South Park Awards]. [[About.com]]. Last accessed August 15, 2007.</ref>
==Notes==
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==References==
* Johnson-Woods, Toni (2007). ''Blame Canada!: South Park and Contemporary Culture''. New York: Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 0826417302.
==External links==
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* [http://www.southparkstudios.com/ South Park Studios]
* [http://www.comedycentral.com/tv_shows/southpark ''South Park'' at Comedy Central]
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* [http://www.spepisodes.com South Park Episodes] is a resource for South Park downloads. In operation since Season 1, it has been featured on the official South Park website.
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