Here are 20 geeky highlights from the series… Its short production schedule and Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s continued willingness to reflect contemporary real-world events through the South Park lens ensure it shows no sign of flagging just yet. It’s had a phenomenal run, traversing political satire, social commentary, laugh-out-loud humor and even character development deftly and with great ease. Two decades later, and far from having been consigned to television history, South Park is an establishment icon still brave and boundary-pushing, but revered by the majority, not feared, as much a part of the contemporary TV landscape as predecessor-in-anarchic-spirit The Simpsons.
Best noted for the ire it drew from parents groups and the weekly deaths of perma-hoodied fourth-grader Kenny, it bore all the markings of a flash-in-the-pan success as tie-in merchandise quickly shifted by the millions and a movie was fast-tracked to the multiplexes almost immediately. It was an ode to all things sexual and scatological that looked like it had been animated in the creators’ garden shed. Long, long ago, way back in 1997, South Park was a counter-cultural and revolutionary TV show.
It’s funny how time can shift our perceptions.
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