Grounded VindaloopĪfter realising that virtual reality had got too easy a ride, South Park made this episode, where Butters is tricked into thinking he’s living inside a VR simulation, before quickly getting stabbed by a sex worker. Maybe not the best episode, but an important one.Ĭartman and his probe from the very first episode in 1997. Kenny dies, Cartman is obnoxious, there is an overwhelming fascination with human body parts. South Park’s first ever episode was a much cruder affair than we are used to, but it still set out the stall of what the show wanted to be. This is possibly the bleakest South Park episode ever made, to the point that even describing it would bum me out for the rest of the week. When he was finally given his own episode in 2001, Parker and Stone tested that sincerity to the limit. Butters’ Very Own Episodeīutters is a peripheral character on South Park, but an important one whose sincerity has a habit of cutting through the show’s general cynicism. The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two TowersĪn amazing sleight of hand, this episode manages to simultaneously be a loving (and surprisingly faithful) parody of the Lord of the Rings movies and a meditation on the effects of hardcore pornography on children. Parker and Stone would hone it in later years, and it would make them millionaires several times over. And yet, for all its marketing gimmickry, this was South Park’s first stab at attempting to navigate the black hole of religious discourse. Photograph: Comedy Centralįor a time, the early buzz around South Park was so strong that you could walk into a high street greetings card shop and buy a replica faeces just because it had featured on the show.
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