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42 Authoritative Bits of ‘South Park’ Trivia You Have to Respect

October 17, 2024

If you’re reading this, you’re probably already a massive South Park fan. But with 27 years of memories (as of this list’s release), there has to be at least a few things you don’t know. For instance, did you know that the art was heavily inspired by the animations in Monty Python?

Did ya? Huh? Maybe. Okay, let us know if any of these 41 other gems are new to you. And be honest!

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The South Park pilot was accidentally included on the Tiger Woods PGA Tour '99 game. Ition The game had to be re- called because the entire South Park pilot was used as dummy data on the disc and players could watch the episode by simply put- ting the game disc into a PC. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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In the South Park song Let's Fighting Love, the lyric mistaken for kickassu is actually kenka suru, Japanese for quarrelling or squabbling. The rest of the Japanese lyrics are either admitting to how stupid the song is or talking about the singer's genitals. (Perhaps foreshadowing for the public nudity incident later in Good Times With Weapons, the episode the song is from?) CRACKED.COM — Source: 23 Movie And Show Jokes (Hidden In Foreign Languages)

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Mike Judge

CRACKED.COM SOUTH PARK BIGGER, LONGER & UNCUT featured MIKE JUDGE as the unmuffled voice of Kenny McCormick. — Source: 37 Celebs Who Secretly Voiced Animated Characters

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S C Cartoon Bears PEETIE THE SEXUAL HARASSMENT PANDA IN SOUTH PARK IS SANTA CLAUS. Trey Parker and Matt Stone revealed in a DVD commentary that the panda was actually Santa Claus, as both characters have red underwear and the same voice. CRACKED.COM — Source: South Park Archives

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BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS MATT STONE HATES THE FIRST THREE SEASONS. SOUTH PARK If I had to permanently erase anything from the library, it would basically be anything before season 4. It's just embarrassing to watch, says Stone. CRACKED.COM — Entertainment Weekly

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EASTER EGGSTRA South Park The blink-and-you'll-miss-it James Bond reference. EMERGENCY Schedule Doctor Chuey All Empk swnig Peceo Colon SuOY Vomno must wa SuGY urcmon Bond No before S In South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, there's a board in the doctor's ward with a schedule that features a Doctor No, — Source

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42 Authoritative Bits of ‘South Park’ Trivia You Have to Respect

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BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS IKE WAS VOICED BY TREY PARKER'S DAUGHTER. SOUTH PARK school stade Avenger Throughout the years, Kyle's brother like has been voiced by several staff members' kids. In 2016, lkk was voiced by Parker's nee-year-old daughter. CRACKED.COM — YouTube & The A.V. Club

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Herbert Garrison ('South Park')

Fictional Presidents SWEET KEITH'S PRESIDENT South Park Herbert Garrison The writing team struggled to come up with jokes that topped Donald Trump's real words and actions. As show co-creator Trey Parker put it, satire has become reality. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Atlantic

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EASTER EGGSTRA Overwatch South Park The easter egg. HALLOWEEN OUTLET In 22's The season Problem with a Poo, the Halloween Outlet features costumes for classic poP culture characters like Darth Vader and Pinhead. Also featured is the masks of two Overwatch characters, Tracer and Reaper. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM AD SOUTH PARK lost Chef when Isaac Hayes quit over an episode lambasting Scientology - or so was reported at the time. Hayes' son revealed years later that his father was incapacitated due to health issues, and someone in his Scientology circle quit South Park for him. — Source

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It happens

EASTER EGGSTRA South Park Kenny without his hood. MEN'S HOWERS CAUTION NO RUNNING! LOCKER'S Every nOW and then, Kenny appears without his famous orange parka, with most people having a hard time spotting him because his face is SO rarely shown. His unmuffled voice also features at times, most notably — Source

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EASTER EGGSTRA South Park Chewbacca on Halloween. There's a running theme throughout the show, with every Halloween episode featuring at least one character dressed as Chewbacca. — Source

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EASTER EGGSTRA South Park That strange alphabet. DiOSMiOHAnMoToDoHoKkeNaYbAsloRdosfouiwgPfV2GuXcBo2rQj In Chickenlover and Ike's Wee Wee. there's a strange scrambled alphabet framing the classroom chalkboard. The first part, Dios Mio han matado ha Kenny, Bastardos is Spanish, and translates to the famous line, Oh my God they killed Kenny, bastards! — Source

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China banned DJ Zedd because he liked one tweet from South Park. It was a pretty innocuous tweet, but the issue was that South Park relentlessly criticizes the Chinese government. CRACKED.COM — Source

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EASTER EGGSTRA South Park The Ty)Coon. s5 Cartman (as The Coon) offers his friends a $5 tour of his Coon lair as shown by the little detail hiding in the background. — Source

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EASTER EGGSTRA South Park Matt Stone's sister. Stone's sister has a cameo as a picture frame in the very first episode, Cartman Gets an Anal Probe. — Source

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EASTER EGGSTRA South Park The My Neighbor Totoro reference. In Mysterion Rises the relationship between Cartman and Cthulhu is a homage to Hayao Miyazaki's anime film. CRACKEDCO — Source

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Cartman: A Classic Blend of Misogyny and Neanderthalism.

ERIC CARTMAN the way he acts Cartman is a spiritual successor to a popular All in the Family character. I'd say within the first season, we kind of realized Cartman's like a little Archie Bunker, says Trey Parker. CRACKED — Comedy Central,
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KENNY 1992 NOW In the short Cursed with Jesus VS. Frosty, immortality. His it's actually the outfit and traits Cartman- were inspired by looking dude

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EASTER EGGSTRA South Park Orgazmo, Orgazmo everywhere. PHILKD The creators' 1997 film's title character is featured in a ton of episodes, from a poster of him in Cartman's room to a cameo in a couple of episodes opening credits. CRACKEDCOR — Source

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Trey Parker and Matt Stone hated all the early South Park video games So much that they made their own years later. SOUTH PARK Ki's BUFFET oE 8 P piav

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CRACKED SADDAM HUSSEIN WAS FORCED TO WATCH SOUTH PARK The Marines who were in charge of looking after Saddam Hussein made him watch the South Park movie over and over again while he was in prison. As a thank you, the creators of South Park got a signed photo of Saddam from the Marines. — HuffPost / IMDB

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COMEDY NERD The original idea for South Park would basically make it similar to The X-Files. In that idea, aliens would be present in South Park more or less all the time, and there'd be an alien conspiracy angle. CRACKED.COM — Source

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COMEDY NERD GRACKED.COM STEVE IRWIN IN HELL SOUTH PARK This episode Hell On Earth 2006 features Steve Irwin with his cause of death graphically depicted, only a few weeks after the tragedy. Terri Irwin worried her children might see it, and it also implied that Irwin was in hell. While the turnaround was fast after his death, the creators should have known Steve is off limits. — Source: Hollywood

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South Park, Colarado SOUTH PARK CRACKED.COM The small town of Fairplay, Colorado, was once named South Park City and has understandably claimed itself as the inspiration for the show's setting. — 9News

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The 1999 South Park film was originally named: South Park:All Hell Breaks LoOSE The MPAA didn't allow Trey Parker and Matt Stone to use the word He

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EASTER EGGSTRA South Park The Freaks parody. In Butters' Very Own Episode, Butters' parents cover up his murder by joining a support group made up of people involved in famous murder cases. To join the cult, the group chants, One of us! One of us! Gooble Gobble! Gooble Gobble!. It's a direct line taken from the 1932 film. CRACKED.COM — Source

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BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS KYLE WAS ALMOST KILLED OFF THE SHOW. SOUTH PARK The creators felt Kyle and Stan were too similar and planned on killing the character in the season five finale. They eventually gave up on the idea and decided to temporarily kill off Kenny instead. CRACKED.COM — Source

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EASTER EGGSTRA South Park Celebrity cameos: Animal edition. Two big stars made small cameos voicing animals on the show. Jay Leno voiced Cartman's cat in the first season. George Clooney was Sparky, Stan S dog, in Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride. CRACKED.COM — Source

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BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS JERRY SEINFELD WANTED TO BE ON THE SHOW. SOUTH PARK All the way back during season one, Seinfeld and several other celebrities offered to provide voice work for the show. Seinfeld ended up retracting his offer after getting offered the role of Turkey No. 2 in the episode Starvin' Marvin. CRACKED.COM — Source

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EASTER EGGSTRA South Park The shot-for-shot creation of They Live. In the second episode of season 5, Timmy and Jimmy get into an elaborate fight that lasts over two minutes. It's a recreation of the fight between Rowdy Roddy Piper and Keith David in John Carpenter's 1988 movie. CRACKED.COM — Source

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BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS THE ART STYLE WAS INSPIRED BY TERRY GILLIAM. SOUTH PARK The art style of the earlier seasons was inspired by Gilliam's Monty Python animation. Both Trey Parker and Matt Stone were huge Python fans since childhood. CRACKED.COM — Source

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BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS IMAGINATIONLAND WAS ALMOST A MOVIE. SOUTH PARK Before being broken up into three episodes, Imaginationland was conceived as the second South Park feature film. CRACKED.COM — Source

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This Fact Is One Step Up Knowledge Mountain

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS GEORGE CLOONEY WAS A FAN FROM THE BEGINNING. SOUTH PARK DL - Clooney was such a huge fan of The Spirit of Christmas, the 1995 short that preceded the show, that he made VHS tapes of the short and sent them to his Hollywood friends. Не went on to voice Cartman's dog on the show and Dr. Gauche in South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. CRACKED.COM — Source

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EASTER EGGSTRA South Park Damien Thorn is a homage to The Omen. Не shares the name of the character in the 1976 horror movie. His theme song is a parody of the movie S theme song, Ave Satani, and his mother is called a real dog. In the film, the Antichrist's mother is a jackal. CRACKED.COM — Source

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EASTER EGGSTRA South Park The Chinpokomon reference. BEST NERD TECH FUPPORT BUY Chinpokomon was an episode in season 3 that dealt with the Pokémon craze of the '90s. All the kids in South Park had to have a Chinpokomon doll. In season 10's episode, Cruch Nezum Make Love, Not Warcraft, you can spot the kids Chinpokomon Gerbibad merch throughout the show. CRACKED.COM — Source

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BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS BLIZZARD HELPED MAKE MAKE LOVE, NOT WARCRAFT. SOUTH PARK People at Blizzard were ecstatic when they heard the show wanted to use their characters. Several Blizzard employees went to South Park offices to help them create the episode by allowing them to direct it using the game's engine. CRACKED.COM — Source

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EASTER EGGSTRA South Park Celebrity cameos: Muso edition. COMEDY IF H of FA In South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut, Police drummer Stewart Copeland voices a random American soldier, and Nick Rhodes from Duran Duran voices a Canadian fighter pilot. CRACKED.COM — Source

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EASTER EGGSTRA South Park The sound clip of Captain Picard. In the Something You Can Do with Your Finger episode, Randy freaks out and smashes a glass cabinet, yelling No! Noooo! It's the same audio from Star Trek: First Contact where Captain Picard yells it before smashing glass. CRACKED.COM — Source

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BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS BUTTERS IS BASED ON A REAL PERSON. SOUTH PARK The character is based on Eric Stough, the show's mild-mannered animation director and producer. Before the character was born, Stone and Parker actually nicknamed Stough Butters. CRACKED.COM — Source

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UNITED NATIONS 123 In South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, the flag display outside the United Nations includes the Jolly Roger and an LGBT Pride flag. CRACKED.COM — Source

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