5 basic South Park episodes that everyone should watch at least once

South Park has more than three hundred episodes under her belt, the first of which was first shown in more than 25 years. Trying to simplify the show to just five basic episodes is a semi -deserved task, but we will try it anyway.

The goal of this list is not to recommend the five best episodes, or even the five episodes that affected the largest plot in the series. No, the important point is to present five episodes that give viewers the best idea of ​​how the show is evolved. I will separate the show to five different ages and choose one episode of each of them, which is one that I consider typical in that period. “South Park” It has constantly evolved over decadesAnd unlike Other graphics series animationIt cannot be easily divided into an early “good” and “bad” era later.

Tragicly, this approach means that my favorite personal episodes of the show – which include those in which Windy outperforms the nonsense of Cartuman and the celebration that children are trying to lose in the small league championship – will not be here. These may be the most entertainment, but I don’t think it’s most important to understand the offer.

This is a regular picnic for the third season, which was broadcast in June 1999, and I chose it not only because I am the hard -line creek charger. ((See No. 7 from the list of the best episodes of “South Park” ever). If you are more familiar with the subsequent seasons of “South Park”, the main thing that may adhere to you with “Tweet Vs. Craig” is the extent of Kyle and Stan’s distinction. Both are the total holes in this episode, which raises a great fight between Craig and Tweet for another reason, but they believe it would be fun.

Within a few years, the exhibition will be established with Kyle’s firmness as a good character in the group, which is likely to defend what he believes in, even if it is easier to consider his works. Meanwhile, Stan Chewed will be created on Monday; He will generally agree with Kyle’s eating on the situation, but it is preferable to make peace between the two combat groups. In “Tweet Vs Craig”, however, Kyle and Stan are the switching tremors not better than Cartman.

When talking about Cartuman, you will notice that he is not an evil in this episode. It is at the same moral level as Stan and Kyle, which is equal to the course in the early seasons. Even the next episode in this list, Cartuman was likely to be intimidated by the same fiction. Stan and Kyle were often shaken by his appearance with a little provocation, a dynamic that will greatly get rid of the subsequent seasons.

Outside the specific character dynamics, “Tweek VS. Craig” offers a special version of the show. Subsequent seasons will give more time and depth to adult exhibition characters, but the third season was more satisfied to allow his third -grade characters (not the fourth grade until now) to keep the center stage.

The eighth season is firmly in the years of Tenorman after the range, which means that Cartuman has embraced his evil ways and is now enjoying its role as a major villain in the show. For this list, I wanted to choose a ring that really highlights Cartman in the strangest. Do I choose the person in which he pretends to have Torrett so that he can call people in public? The person trying to start a second Holocaust? It has almost focused on the worst Cartuman crime ever: When all the skin ate from chicken wings in Kentucky Fried Chicken before the rest of the children are about to eat.

She settled on the “amazing Cartman gift”, which not only highlights Cartuman’s tendency to cruelty but his full nickname. Cartuman hits his head after he tried to fly with foolishness, then begins a psychological profession to resolve the murder. It destroys the lives of countless people in this position, while he failed to capture the actual serial killer on an active killing.

This is a typical coordination of the “South Park” episode at this stage of the exhibition: Cartuman is a threat, Kyle tries to stop it, but the adults in “South Park” are so efficiently that it is up to children to close Cartuman’s strange closure. We may be eight seasons at this stage, but this is the era of “South Park” in which most people think when mentioning the series.

I must admit: I do not like this episode, but I am inserted it anyway because it features some important moments in the history of the show. The first such moment is Randy’s notorious words in a live episode of “Wheel of Fortune”. It is a moment that is not subject to censorship that shows the extent of South Park’s willingness to go in the shock of shock. Few networks would allow their comic series to make a joke like this, and a few contestants dare write the joke in the first place.

The other thing about note here is that “with an apology to Jesse Jackson” includes a kind of South Park conspiracy often by ordinary viewers: Cartman sometimes gets to win. Here, Cartuman succeeded in tormenting a man with dwarfing, leading the man to a harmful semi -harm. In the end, the man decided to bend to Cartman’s level and challenge him in a battle, just to win it easily. It is a story that I find very equipped and frustrated to see it, but, for some reason, it was well received by “South Park” fans in general. On the one hand, I hate her when Cartman gets victory, but ordinary viewers must understand that this is something that happens from time to time.

Perhaps the most important of all is that you can really see Randy’s rise here. Adults are written in depth and increasing focus with the progress of the exhibition, and Abu Stan Randy Randy is the clearest example of this. You will see that he really leads the plot in this episode, which will lead to this It only happens more than this point forward.

After enjoying the long and surprising golden age (I will put it in the classes from 6 to 13), the quality of “South Park” was stagnant in adolescence. Fans feel anxious one of their best days, and that the book was bored and running out of ideas. But then came the nineteenth season, which followed a serial approach that gave the show an explosion of energy. Season 19 promised a bold new era for “South Park”, and although season 20 was unable to present it, the 19th season itself was still a fun journey.

The first offer, “amazing and brave”, ” Serves PC PrincipalA character that represents the correct liberal surplus politically in mid -2010. I find that a large computer of computers is great because it is a character that can fall easily; By 2015, there was no shortage of reactionary comedy that shines from a personal computer culture, but the series Try Parker and Matt Stone managed to take over the computer culture in a way that mostly felt. PC Principal is not a cartoon for liberals; He is a really funny person itself. He even surpasses Cartman in this episode, making him a winner in my book.

“Amazing and brave” viewers present to the “South Park” perhaps more ambitious and developed. It provides us with a mature show over time and is playing effectively with its history and viewership expectations. Most of the comic play does not reach the nineteenth season, not to mention the end of the nineteenth season as one of their best.

To date, season 27 is the mirror image of the 19th season. While the first dealt with Zenith of Deart Woke Culture, the latter deals with Nader. PC Principal now describes himself as “the power of Christ”, and it affects Cartuman because he no longer stands out in a world full of selfish jokes.

It is worth noting that the first show of the 27th season pumps another explosion of energy into the offer. Since Covid, the chain has been defined through fixed special offers and brief seasons, along with the general sense of the purpose. It seems that the energy of the nineteenth season diminished until the 27th season returned with revenge.

What has changed? Well, the new tone of the display appears to be the result of each catastrophic second period of Trump and the procedures of the parent company “South Park”, Paramount. Not only did it delay the process of combining Paramount with Skydance Media this season, Which the exhibitors publicly criticizedBut they also settled a lawsuit with the Trump administration to protect their profitable integration from Trump’s intervention. Almost at the same time, CBS (owned by Paramount) launched late at night, Stephen Colbert Just days after criticizing Paramount’s actions, speculation that other heat -owned sarcastic offers (such as “The Daily Show” and “South Park”) may have been directed away from any harsh comment on the current administration for fear of revenge.

All of these factors combined to make “South Park” more anger in the current presidential administration more than ever, and in order for this anger to feel important in a way that is rarely in this broken modern scene. They have Foot a full new angle to TrumpAnd this one has a bite much more than Mr. Garrison’s approach from previous years. “A sermon on the mountain”. The viewers come to a new era of the show; The time will tell how this one comes out.