Matt Stone: If we were to each pick twenty-five, we'd overlap by maybe half. How did you decide on these episodes? Did you agree on all of them? And thanks to another nine-figure deal, HBO Max is home to the entire catalogue of the series that started it all (minus a few banned episodes).įor the show's twenty-fifth anniversary, emmy's Sarah Hirsch spoke with Parker and Stone, who discussed the evolution of South Park, whether they'll ever hand off the show to someone else and their favorite episodes - one for each season (even the ones they don't like). Their 2021 landmark deal with ViacomCBS (estimated at more than $900 million) ensures more episodes through 2027 - along with fourteen made-for-streaming South Park movies for Paramount+, where their 1999 theatrical release, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, also resides. They also keep the show timely with a punishing six-day production schedule for each episode, including the writing, vocal recording and animation. Parker and Stone - who also cocreated the Tony Award–winning musical The Book of Mormon with Robert Lopez - credit the longevity of the series to their enduring aim to make each other laugh.
"I even have to explain to my daughter that we were saying something against a culture that was so uptight." Nevertheless, the show climbed steadily in the ratings and collected five Emmys as well as a Peabody for "pushing buttons and envelopes with stringent social commentary." "Now you watch it, and you're like, 'This is PG-rated,'" Parker adds. "The coverage from the first season was like, 'Do not let your kids watch this show!'" Stone recalls. The animated series about four grade-school pals - Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman and Kenny McCormick - growing up (but never growing old) in South Park, Colorado, immediately drew ire from critics. On August 13, 1997, five years after Parker and Stone met, South Park premiered on Comedy Central. The duo met in film class at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where they connected over a shared sense of humor, and really, says Parker, "We just wanted to make stupid shit." An early effort, The Spirit of Christmas - an animated short that went the '90s equivalent of viral (copied and shared on VHS) - ultimately caught the eye of then–Comedy Central president Doug Herzog. "Every season when we get into the room, we're just like, 'How do we do this?'" "I still don't know what the formula is," says Parker, who also directs the series. Trey Parker and Matt Stone - the cocreators, executive producers, writers and lead voice actors for twenty-five seasons of South Park - have yet to figure out the secret of their success.
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