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South Park
Season 1
A gray box contains four crudely drawn cartoon children waving their hands. They have big round heads and wear colorful winter clothes. Behind them is "SOUTH PARK" in big letters, and below them is "THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON".
Home media release cover
No. of episodes13
Release
Original networkComedy Central
Original releaseAugust 13, 1997 (1997-08-13) –
February 25, 1998 (1998-02-25)
Season chronology
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Season 2
List of episodes

The first season of the animated television series South Park aired on Comedy Central from August 13, 1997 to February 25, 1998.[1] The creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone wrote most of the season's episodes; Dan Sterling, Philip Stark and David Goodman were credited with writing five episodes. The narrative revolves around four children—Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman and Kenny McCormick—and their unusual experiences in the titular mountain town.

South Park originated from Parker and Stone's 1992

The Spirit of Christmas (also known as Jesus vs. Frosty). The low-budget, crudely made film featured prototypes of South Park's main characters and was followed in 1995 by another short film of the same name, generally referred to as Jesus vs. Santa, which became popular and was widely shared over the Internet. The short's popularity caused Parker and Stone to develop a series based on it, and the project was first considered for purchase by the Fox Broadcasting Company
. Fox ultimately passed on the show, and Comedy Central signed on to produce the series instead. South Park debuted on August 13, 1997 on Comedy Central with an initial run of six episodes; due to its success, an additional seven episodes were quickly produced. The complete season was released on DVD in November 2002.

The first season was a ratings success for Comedy Central. The

Annie Award
in the "Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Primetime or Late Night Television Program".

The show was a financial success for Comedy Central and helped the network transform into "a cable industry power almost overnight".[2]

Voice cast

George Clooney (pictured in 2016), made a guest appearance in "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride"

Main cast

Guest cast

Episodes

See also: List of South Park episodes
No.
overall		No. in
season		TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air date [1]Prod.
code		U.S. viewers
(millions)
11"Cartman Gets an Anal Probe"Trey Parker[3]Trey Parker & Matt StoneAugust 13, 1997 (1997-08-13)1010.89[4]
Ike
is abducted also. They manage to rescue Ike while the aliens conclude that cows are the most intelligent species on the planet.
22"Volcano"Trey Parker & Matt StoneTrey Parker & Matt StoneAugust 20, 1997 (1997-08-20)1031.11[5]
Stan's uncle Jimbo and his friend Ned take the four boys on a hunting trip in the mountains. Stan's father, a geologist, discovers that the mountain is a volcano about to erupt and convinces the townspeople to dig a trench for diverting the lava.
33"Weight Gain 4000"Trey Parker & Matt StoneTrey Parker & Matt StoneAugust 27, 1997 (1997-08-27)1020.72[6]
The town prepares for an event involving Kathie Lee Gifford presenting an award to Cartman. He tries to lose weight but instead becomes even more obese from a body gaining supplement called Weight Gain 4000. Meanwhile, the boys' teacher Mr. Garrison, attempts to assassinate Gifford.
44"Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride"Trey Parker[7]Trey Parker & Matt Stone[7]September 3, 1997 (1997-09-03)1040.69[8]
Stan's new, gay dog runs away and finds the town's most flamboyant, gayest man,
Big Gay Al
. The South Park Elementary Cows lose a football game against a rival team as Jimbo and Ned fail to sabotage the game.
55"An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig"Trey Parker (uncredited)Trey Parker, Matt Stone & Dan SterlingSeptember 10, 1997 (1997-09-10)1051.29[9]
The boys try to breed a pig with an elephant and look for Dr. Alphonse Mephesto's help. Instead, Dr. Mephisto creates a clone of Stan that terrorizes the town.
66"Death"Matt StoneTrey Parker & Matt StoneSeptember 17, 1997 (1997-09-17)1061.13[10]
Stan's grandfather attempts suicide and tries to enlist the boy's help.
Terrance and Phillip
in protest of its toilet humor.
77"Pinkeye"Trey Parker & Matt StoneTrey Parker, Matt Stone & Philip StarkOctober 29, 1997 (1997-10-29)1072.67[11]
1.73[12]
(HH)[a]
Kenny is killed by the Mir space station and becomes a zombie. This goes unnoticed as he is thought to have dressed up for Halloween. The citizens who get bitten become zombies but instead are diagnosed with pinkeye.
88"Starvin' Marvin"Trey ParkerTrey ParkerNovember 19, 1997 (1997-11-19)1093.68[13]
2.20[14]
(HH)[a]
A starving Ethiopian child is accidentally sent to South Park. Cartman is sent back to Ethiopia instead, while mutant turkeys begin rampaging through the town.
99"Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo"Trey Parker & Matt StoneTrey ParkerDecember 17, 1997 (1997-12-17)1104.55[15]
As a
Mr. Hankey, a talking, singing feces
. Kyle's mom protests the school's Christmas play leading to the removal of all religious aspects of Christmas from the entire town.
1010"Damien"Trey ParkerTrey Parker & Matt StoneFebruary 4, 1998 (1998-02-04)1085.55[16]
3.01[17]
(HH)[a]
A new student arranges a boxing match between
Jesus
. The South Park residents bet on Satan due to his enormous size and muscular physique, but Satan throws the fight and wins everybody's money after having bet on Jesus. Meanwhile, Cartman has a birthday party.
1111"Tom's Rhinoplasty"Trey Parker (uncredited)Trey ParkerFebruary 11, 1998 (1998-02-11)1114.68[18]
2.87[19]
(HH)[a]
Mr. Garrison gets a rhinoplasty and quits teaching to become a model. Stan develops a crush on the substitute teacher Ms. Ellen (unaware that she is a lesbian), causing fellow classmate Wendy Testaburger to become jealous; soon, Ms. Ellen is discovered to be an Iraqi fugitive and is kidnapped by insurgents to be executed, but it is implied that Wendy may have orchestrated the whole thing.
1212"Mecha-Streisand"Trey ParkerTrey Parker, Philip Stark & Matt StoneFebruary 18, 1998 (1998-02-18)1125.38[20]
3.21[21]
(HH)[a]
Mr. Garrison takes his class on an archaeological dig where Cartman finds a mysterious triangle. Barbra Streisand steals this triangle and becomes Mecha-Streisand, a giant robot that wreaks havoc upon the town.
1313"Cartman's Mom Is a Dirty Slut"Trey ParkerTrey Parker & David R. GoodmanFebruary 25, 1998 (1998-02-25)1135.40[22]
3.20[23]
(HH)[a]
Cartman attempts to find his real father only to find that his mother slept with just about every man in town. Aided by Stan and Kyle, he manages to raise the money for a paternity
DNA test
after sending a video to America's Stupidest Home Videos.

Development

The idea for South Park originated in 1992 when creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone met in a film class as students at the

Jesus vs. Santa", the short resembled the style of the later series more closely.[25] In 1997, The Spirit of Christmas won the Los Angeles Films Critics Association award for "Best Animation", thus further bringing the two filmmakers to the attention of industry representatives.[26]

The "Jesus vs. Santa" video was widely copied and shared over the Internet. George Clooney was reported to have made 300 copies for his friends, and the short was subsequently regarded as likely the first viral video.[2] The popularity of the short led to Parker and Stone to develop an adult-animated show concept with four children as main protagonists and the fictional town of South Park in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. Through Graden, the duo persuaded Fox to buy their series due to its reputation with primetime edgier shows such as Cops, The Simpsons, and The X-Files. Fox set up a meeting at its office in Century City to discuss with Parker and Stone on how the show would proceed. It did not go well; Fox hated Mr. Hankey being included in the show, as they felt a talking stool character would not fly well with its viewers. Parker and Stone refused to honor Fox's requests to remove the character and completely severed ties with the network as a result.[27][28][29]

Later, Comedy Central executive Doug Herzog saw the Jesus vs. Santa short and considered it to be "literally the funniest thing [he]'d ever seen," and requested Parker and Stone to develop a show for his network.[2] During the negotiations, Parker and Stone brought up the idea of a Mr. Hankey episode, with Parker claiming to have asked that "one thing we have to know before we really go any further: how do you feel about talking poo?"[24] The network's executives were receptive to the idea,[30] which would be one of the main reasons Parker and Stone decided to sign on with the channel. The first episode of the series, "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe", debuted on Comedy Central on August 13, 1997, while Mr. Hankey debuted a few months later in the ninth episode, "Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo".[24]

Two seated men. One holds a microphone in one hand and gestures with the other.
South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone in 2007

The pilot episode received poor results from test audiences.[31] Parker later conceded that regarding the language, he and Stone felt pressure to live up to their previous two shorts and "tried to push things ... maybe further than we should [have]."[32] In contrast, they allowed subsequent episodes to "be more natural",[33] focusing more on making fun of topics considered taboo "without just throwing a bunch of dirty words in there."[32] After the poor results from the test audience, Comedy Central executives were unsure whether they wanted to order additional episodes after "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe". However, when buzz began to generate on the Internet about the two original shorts, the network commissioned Parker and Stone to write one more episode without committing to a full series until they had seen the script. While working on the 1997 film Orgazmo, Parker and Stone wrote the script for what would later become the episode "Weight Gain 4000". The duo sought to give Comedy Central executives an idea of how the series would be and how each episode could differ from the others. The network liked the script, and when Parker and Stone refused to write another script before signing off on at least six episodes, the executives agreed to commit to a series.[31]

Comedy Central originally ordered only these six episodes, but when the show proved successful, they requested an additional seven, which Parker and Stone had to produce quickly. "Pinkeye", the first of these new episodes, would air on October 29, 1997, only two and a half months after the show's premiere.[34][35] There were three holiday episodes—"Pinkeye", "Starvin' Marvin" and "Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo"—which aired at intervals of three weeks, while the remaining four aired later in February 1998.[36]

"Cartman Gets an Anal Probe" was the only episode animated almost completely with traditional

Maya.[38] By the eighth episode, "Damien", much of the drawing and animation responsibilities handled by Parker and Stone were now being delegated to a team of animators.[39] This would be the only episode aside from "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe" to receive a TV-14 (unsuitable for children under the age of 14) rating instead of the show's customary TV-MA (unsuitable for under the age of 17).[40] Parker and Stone credit the fourth episode, "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride", with helping to raise the ratings during the early part of the season. They felt that the show's first official Christmas special, "Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo", brought South Park to a new level of popularity, and Parker said this episode "just vaulted everything."[24]

Reception

Ratings

South Park's first season was a ratings success for Comedy Central.[41] "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe" earned a Nielsen rating of 1.3, translating to 980,000 viewers, which was considered high for a cable program in the United States at the time.[41] It increased slightly by the third episode, "Weight Gain 4000", and by the sixth episode, "Death", the show had reached a rating of 1.7.[41] In the releases of "Starvin' Marvin'", "Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo" and "Damien", three consecutive episodes, the Nielsen ratings rose: 4.8, 5.2 and 6.4, respectively.[41] Changes in ratings of episodes from "Pinkeye" to "Mecha-Streisand" corresponded to an increase to 5.4 million viewers in 3.2 million households.[42][43] The season finale, "Cartman's Mom is a Dirty Slut", received a Nielsen rating in the 8.0 range[44] and gained over 300,000 viewers when first aired in Canada in August 1998.[45][46]

South Park became one of the first television series to be bootlegged via the Internet, just as The Spirit of Christmas had been before it. College students digitized many episodes from the first season and streamed them online for friends who were unable to receive Comedy Central.[47]

Critics

Despite high ratings, reviews from television critics for the season were mixed. Both The Washington Post and The New York Times had three articles mentioning the show, usually in terms of "class-based taste arguments."[26] "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe", the first episode of the series, received generally negative reviews after airing. Bruce Fretts of Entertainment Weekly thought poorly of the writing and characters, lampooning that "if only the kids' jokes were as fresh as their mouths" and that "it might help if the South Park kids had personalities, but they're as one-dimensional as the show's cut-and-paste animation."[48] Calling the series "sophomoric, gross, and unfunny," Hal Boedeker of the Orlando Sentinel reckoned that the episode made "such a bad impression that it's hard to get on the show's strange wavelength."[49] Tom Shales of The Washington Post considered that "most of the alleged humor on the premiere is self-conscious and self-congratulatory in its vulgarity: flatulence jokes, repeated use of the word 'dildo' (in the literal as well as pejorative sense), and a general air of malicious unpleasantness."[2]

When "Weight Gain 4000" aired, many writers in the mainstream media were still debating the longevity and the overall quality of South Park. With the series still in its earliest stages, the episode continued to shock many due to the characters frequent use of profanities.[50] Nevertheless, several reviewers felt "Weight Gain 4000" was a significant improvement over "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe" and felt that it went in a much more satirical direction.[51][52] Several media outlets described the fifth episode of the season, "An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig", as one of the most popular early episodes.[53][54][55] Tom Carson of Newsday said it was the most outrageous South Park episode until "Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo" aired three months later.[56] Many reviewers also said this mere title demonstrated the crudeness and originality of South Park.[30][57]

Due to its impact, South Park made the cover of

Newsweek in March 1998.[59] It was discussed in five different New York Times articles in 1998.[26] Franck Rich of The New York Times mentions the show's "ability to engage political topics with far more success than other (more obviously political) shows" and considered that the show "is hilariously candid about faith, family and death as well" and "is neither politically correct nor incorrect; it's on a different, post-ideological comic map altogether."[60] In 2002, Jeremy Conrad of IGN wrote in a DVD review that it is rare when a television season is "perfect", but "the first season of South Park comes pretty damn close" and that "almost every single episode in this three-disc set is a classic and each is still funny as hell even after so many viewings over the years."[61]

In 2008, scholar Stephen Groening argued that the show appeared as part of a reaction to the

free speech.[62]

Impact on Comedy Central

In 2006, Devin Leonard of Fortune regarded that the launch of South Park transformed Comedy Central from a "not-so-funny" network to "a cable industry power almost overnight."[2] The impact the show had ended up surprising everybody involved.[2] At the time, the cable network had a low distribution of just 21 million subscribers.[26] Comedy Central marketed the show aggressively before its launch, billing it as "that's why they invented the V-chip." The resulting buzz led to the network earning an estimated $30 million in T-shirts sales alone before the first episode was even aired.[26]

South Park became immediately one of the most popular shows on cable television, averaging consistently between 3.5 and 5.5 million viewers.[26] The Denver-based Tele-Communications Inc., the largest cable operator in the U.S. at the time, had just dropped Comedy Central, but when South Park debuted, Denver newspapers and radio stations heavily criticized the operator for not carrying the hit show of the two local filmmakers—Parker and Stone.[2] Doug Herzog, Comedy Central's president at the time, said that the public "went nuts" as the network received about ten million new subscriptions through Tele-Communications Inc. alone, "which at that time was unheard of."[2]

An affiliate of the

MTV Network until then, Comedy Central decided, in part due to the success of South Park, to have its own independent sales department.[63] By the end of 1998, Comedy Central had sold more than $150 million worth of merchandise for the show, including T-shirts and dolls.[43] Over the next few years, Comedy Central's viewership spiked largely due to South Park, adding 3 million new subscribers in the first half of 1998 alone and allowed the network to sign international deals with networks in several countries.[26]

Awards

Some episodes of the first season received nominations for several entertainment awards. The season's fourth episode "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride" was nominated for an

The Old Man & the Lisa".[68][69]

During the series first season, South Park won a

Annie Award in the "Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Primetime or Late Night Television Program" category.[71] In 1998, the two creators of the show Matt Stone and Trey Parker won the "Nova Award" given by the Producers Guild of America for the most promising producers in television.[72][73]

Home media

South Park – The Complete First Season[74][75]
DVD Set Details
  • 13 Episodes
  • 3-disc Set
  • 1.33:1 Aspect Ratio
  • Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
  • English (Dolby Digital 2.0)
Special Features[76]
  • Episode introductions by Trey Parker and Matt Stone
  • Cartman "O Holy Night" video
  • Ned "O Little Town Of Bethlehem" video
  • Four original television promos
  • "A South Park Thanksgiving" featured exclusively on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
  • The four boys presenting at the 1997 CableACE Awards
Release Dates[77][78][79]
Region 1 Region 2 Region 4
November 12, 2002 October 22, 2005 October 4, 2005

Six episodes—"Cartman Gets an Anal Probe", "Weight Gain 4000", "Volcano", "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride", "An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig" and "Death"—were released in a three-VHS set on May 5, 1998, marking the first time South Park was made available on video.

Warner Home Video on October 27 on the compilation collections South Park, Volume 1,[81] Volume 2[82] and Volume 3.[83] The last episode of the season "Cartman's Mom Is a Dirty Slut" was released on the South Park, Volume 4 on December 14, 1999.[84]

South Park – The Complete First Season was originally released by Warner Home Video as a three-disc region 1 DVD box set in the U.S. on November 12, 2002 and received an MA rating.[77][85] The season was re-released on June 29, 2005 by Paramount Home Entertainment. The DVD releases featured bonus material such as introductions for each episode, two Christmas carols by Eric Cartman and Ned, a short clip featuring Jay Leno and another clip in which the four boys present at the 1997 CableACE Awards. Trey Parker and Matt Stone produced commentaries for each episode but requested they be pulled off altogether when they found out the commentaries would be edited. Instead, the commentaries were released unedited by Comedy Central on a set of five CDs.[76] In October 2005, South Park: Complete Series 1 was released in Australia[79] and with a 15 rating in region 2.[78] "Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo" was released again on November 13, 2005 on the compilation DVD Christmas Time in South Park.[86]

The distribution licenses for six episodes of the South Park's first season ("Volcano", "An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig", "Pinkeye", "Damien", "Starvin' Marvin" and "Mecha-Streisand") were purchased in 2000 by the

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based company and website SightSound.com. The site made the episodes available for download for $2.50 for a two-day copy and for $4.95 for a permanent copy. It was one of the first experiments with downloadable television videos, thus making South Park one of the first shows legally obtainable on the Internet.[87][88] In March 2008, Comedy Central made the first season's episodes as well as almost all other South Park episodes available for legal streaming on the South Park Studios website from within U.S.,[89] and later from within Canada[90] and the United Kingdom.[91]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f (HH) indicates the amount of households an episode was viewed in when it premiered.

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