South Park is one of the most popular and longest-running animated sitcoms in history. It has made a name for itself by being irreverent, controversial, and often times offensive. While all South Park episodes have their fans and detractors, these are the ten that have generated the most mixed reactions from viewers. Be sure to check them out and laugh out loud with these episodes.
Created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, this adult animated series is now a rival and contender to The Simpsons, Family Guy, and American Dad!. Moreover, it managed to create itself a niche within pop culture by satirizing America’s and the world’s current events. Now on its twenty-fifth season, it runs on Comedy Central on Wednesdays. Now, without any further ado, let’s begin covering these episodes!
Top 10 Best Rated Episodes of South Park:
1. “Scott Tenorman Must Die” – Season 5, Episode 9
In South Park Season 5 Episode 9, “Scott Tenorman Must Die,” Cartman goes to great lengths to get revenge on Scott Tenorman, a ninth-grader who tricked him into buying pubic hair. Here, we get to see Cartman’s killer instincts side, as the boy made Scott eat his mom and dad out of a chili bowl —he chopped them up and cooked them, Yikes! You better not mess with Cartman! This episode is hilarious and full of surprises. If you’re a South Park fan, you won’t want to miss this episode!
2. “You’re Getting Old” – Season 15, Episode 7
An anti-tween-wave band CD was given to Stan Marsh by Kyle Broflovski for his 10th birthday, but Sharon forbade him from listening to it and promptly took it away, which enraged Stan. After Randy and Sharon have a disagreement, Randy decides to listen to the CD as a way to calm his nerve. Sharon doesn’t believe Randy when he says he likes the CD. Parents like Sharon and the other boys’ forbid them from listening to any tween wave music and instead try to play “Every Breath You Take” by The Police as an example of what they think is good music for their children. While it may not sound as disgusting to the adults as the “tween wave” music does to the boys and viewers, this is how it appears to them.
3. “Asspen” – Season 6, Episode 2
Cartman and Butters are on vacation in Aspen, Colorado, when an older, more experienced skier named Tad starts harassing Stan and calling him “Stan Darsh.” Stan, Kyle, and Cartman are taking ski lessons from Thumper, an upbeat instructor. Heather, a girl Tad claims Stan “stole” from him, is the only person Stan has ever met in his life.
4. “Casa Bonita” – Season 7, Episode 12
Kyle’s mother, Sheila, is taking him and three of his friends to Casa Bonita as a birthday present. Due to Kyle’s anti-Semitism, Cartman’s excitement is short-lived when he learns he will only be taking Stan, Kenny, and Butters. His initial attempts to show he is nice fail because he doesn’t understand the concept of being nice at all. When he finally succeeds in making amends for his actions, Kyle is moved and informs him that if Butters is unable to attend due to unforeseen circumstances, Cartman will attend in his place.
5. “Go Fund Yourself” – Season 18, Episode 1
With the help of the crowdfunding website Kickstarter, the five friends decide to quit school and start a business in order to make money fast. Because of the popularity of crowdsourcing, it’s difficult to come up with a unique name that hasn’t already been taken. In light of the Washington Redskins’ recent trademark lapse, Cartman proposes repurposing the team’s name for his own venture. Instead of convincing Cartman to change his business’ name, Snyder and his football team try to distance themselves from a business that is becoming known for its inaction. When Kyle and Stan end up leaving to structure their own start-up firm with the help of ISIS, Stan also quits after a short time.
6. “Member Berries” – Season 20, Episode 1
Attendance at a girls’ volleyball game in the South Park school gym has seemed to be soaring. Yet the overwhelming majority are there solely to see how many players will hold rallies a misogynist Online troll known as Skankhunt42 on the message boards of their school by sitting during the playing of the national anthem, and Randy Marsh has even placed a bet. In the meantime, Congress votes that the Star-Spangled Banner needs an update to fix the divisions caused by the protests and turns to J. J. Abrams for help.
7. “200” – Season 14, Episode 5 (200)
Butters sees actor Tom Cruise packing fudge into boxes while on a field trip to a candy factory. Stan, who previously criticized Cruise’s acting in “Trapped in the Closet” by calling him out as a “fudge packer” just because Cruise claims to be doing some fly fishing, unintentionally insults him once again, calling him a “fudge packer.” In order to come up with a class-action lawsuit against the town of South Park, Cruise then recruits a couple of hundred other celebrities who have been dissed by the town. When Stan and his father Randy go back to the factory to try to make amends and persuade Cruise to remove the suit, Stan struggles not to call him a fudge packer because he was literally packing fudge while they spoke.
8. “Trapped in the Closet” – Season 9, Episode 12
Scientologists on the main road offer Stan a free “personality test.” Stan is recommended for Scientology after completing a lengthy questionnaire that revealed he suffers from severe depression. They’ll lend him $240 to get him back on his feet. Stan asks his parents for the money when he gets back to his house in the suburbs. Upon paying the Scientologists, Stan is passed into an auditing room where an attendant reads his “thetan levels” using just an “E-meter”. Stan’s reading is so high that the Scientology HQ in Los Angeles is alerted to his situation. There, Scientology’s president determines that Stan is a reincarnation of the religion’s founder and prophet, L. Ron Hubbard.
9. “The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers” – Season 6, Episode 13
The episode opens with “The Lord of the Rings” being played by Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and a formless Kenny (who is inhabiting Cartman’s body). When Stan’s parents rent The Lord of the Rings (specifically The Fellowship of the Ring), they tell Stan, Kyle & Cartman to carry it to Butters’ parents, as they had requested to borrow it. These young men, still engrossed in their video game, perceive their task as a “quest” and embark on their journey accordingly. They try to watch a pornographic movie but discover that Randy got it mixed up with the Lord of the Rings tape and that Butters is now watching it at his house.
10. “Super Best Friends” – Season 5, Episode 3
David Blaine visits South Park and impresses the townspeople with his street magic. The boys become fans of Blaine and join the “Blaintology” cult in order to learn everything they can about the magic trade. After that, Stan becomes concerned about the cult and leaves. But Kyle refuses to leave and is subsequently imprisoned in a glass bubble. The Super Best Friends learn about the planned mass suicide, and Kyle is saved in the nick of time.
Top 10 Worst Rated Episodes of South Park:
1. “The China Probrem” – Season 12, Episode 8
Cartman has been troubled by nightmares since watching the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on television, believing that the Chinese will invade the United States. In spite of his best efforts to warn his friends, Kyle declares that he “canno longer do this” and departs. Stan confronts Kyle, who tells him that “the rape of a friend” has left him unable to pretend things are normal again.
2. “The Jeffersons” – Season 11, Episode 7
A new tenant has decided to move into the Donovans’ old house, and Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny notice this. To get away from city life, a boy named Blanket tells them they’ve moved to South Park. There are toys and games everywhere, and the back garden is a fairground. A wealthy, quirky, feminine-looking pale-skinned man who looks just like Michael Jackson is Blanket’s father.
3. “Sexual Healing” – Season 14, Episode 1
There are more fighting-style elements in the new Tiger Woods video game than there are in the previous iteration, which is reminiscent of the alleged physical altercations that Woods had with his wife over his extramarital affairs. Stan, Kyle, and Kenny are becoming big fans of the game. The Center for Disease Control has determined that sex addiction is a disease that has reached epidemic proportions. Kenny, Kyle, and Butters are given a diagnosis as sex addicts as a result of a school screening for the disease.
4. “The Cissy” – Season 18, Episode 4
In order to use the girls’ restrooms at school because the boys’ stalls are always full, Eric Cartman dons a bow on his beanie and asserts to be a “transginger.” In order to avoid the inevitable scandal that Cartman will cause, Principal Victoria is advised by Mr. Garrison to give in. Because the female students are offended by Cartman’s mere existence in their bathrooms, the school makes a concession by installing a luxurious transgender restroom in the janitor’s quarters.
5. “Tweek x Craig” – Season 19, Episode 6
Wendy, PC Principal, and the school administrators host a gathering to introduce yaoi, an Asian art form whose popularity has grown as more Asian students enroll. Astonished members of the gang watch as a series of manga-style drawings depict Tweek and Craig in various states of heterosexual and homosexual proclivity. In the Principal’s office, Tweek and Craig both claim that they are not gay, but the Principal insists that if they are in a relationship, they must have given their affirmative consent to the relationship in the first place.
6. “A Million Little Fibers” – Season 10, Episode 5
When Towelie lost his job because he was high, he decided to write his memoirs, but a publisher rejects him because he’s a towel. Afterward, he resubmits the manuscript as Steven McTowelie, a human author, and is accepted. Oprah Winfrey is a fan of the author’s work and regularly promotes it on her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show. Minge, Oprah’s vagina, is depressed because the overworked Oprah no longer pays attention to him.
7. “Boys Do Cry” – Season 12, Episode 7
In order to get her family to go to church, Lois takes a job as the new musician at the church and convinces them to do so. Stewie mistakenly drinks too much Communion wine and vomits it up, causing the Quahogians to believe that Stewie is inhabited by Satan. The Griffins flee to Lois’ sister Carol’s residence in Texas when the priest attempts to exorcise him with the help of everyone in town.
8. “The Snuke” – Season 11, Episode 3
When a new student joins Ms. Garrison’s class, the episode begins. As a child of Muslim parents, Bahir Hassan Abdul Hakim is so frightening to Cartman that he leaves the classroom and asks Ms. Garrison if Bahir has been frisked for bombs. To which he gets an angry response, claiming that not all Muslims commit terrorist acts. Cartman counters whilst not all Muslims commit terrorist acts, the majority of them do.
9. “Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow” – Season 10, Episode 14
If anything goes wrong while Stan drives the boat Cartman claims is his uncle’s, Cartman promises to take the blame for it. Because Stan has no experience operating a boat, they run aground on the nation’s biggest beaver dam, causing Beaverton to flood. As a result of Cartman’s admission that he told lies about the boat belonging to his uncle, Stan is persuaded to keep quiet about their involvement in the incident.
10. “Cartman Sucks” – Season 6, Episode 12
Cartman’s latest pastime involves luring Butters Stotch to his house, where he photographs him in a degrading position while he sleeps. To prove that Butters is a lesbian, Cartman shows Stan, Kenny, and Kyle a picture of him with Butters’ p*nis in his mouth. Kyle, on the other hand, points out that Cartman is homosexual because he performs the act on another male. It is then that Kyle convinces Cartman that a picture with his and Butters’ positions reversed would “cancel out the gay polarity”.
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