God Bless South Park Studios

[Orange]

So, because I was a young boy living in America in the late 90's, I always wanted to watch South Park but was never allowed to. Matter of fact, the one time I got to watch it was at a friend's sleepover, and I was way more interested in the vulgarity than I was the story.

Well, after watching the movie on Netflix, I decided that I finally wanted to watch South Park in its entirety. A hell of a challenge considering they're 17 seasons in, but it's not going to hurt me to watch a cartoon.

All I have to say is that South Park Studios is an incredible website, only because I can watch every episode LEGALLY without having to buy all of the DVD sets or what have you. Yeah, there are ads, but it's a small price to pay for having every episode of a show available whenever you want it.

Hats off to whoever it is that is in charge of South Park Studios, I'm guessing it's Comedy Central, because it's an awesome idea that's making 10 year old me's wishes come true.

So, for discussion purposes, how many of you weren't allowed to watch South Park growing up? As I said I wasn't, but my parents didn't have a problem buying me some merchandise from the show. I always thought that it was weird I was allowed to have toys from a show I couldn't watch, but I was happy to be able to have them anyway as they kicked ass.

[Raskovnik]

My dad actually encouraged it. It's probably the smartest show on TV, IMO.

[GuyOfOwnage]

South Park was on a long list of shows I wasn't allowed to watch, which also included Ren and Stimpy and The Simpsons. My parents told me they were "stupid" and that I wasn't to watch them. To this day, I've only seen one episode of South Park (which, funny enough, was the one that included a song from the guy in your sig), a handful of episodes from The Simpsons (which, funny enough, were shown in school when they related to the in-course content), and zero episodes of Ren and Stimpy. And yet, aside from Ministry Undertaker, they had no problem with me watching the WWF during the height of the Attitude era.

[Lazy peon]

Nov 2, 2013 17:11:21 GMT -5 Raskovnik said:

My dad actually encouraged it. It's probably the smartest show on TV, IMO.

So it wasn't just encouraged... It was allowed

[Clash, Never a Meter Maid]

I honestly cannot stand the show anymore. And it's funny, because as a kid, I was the biggest SP fan around- I had Stan, Cartman and Kenny plushes, I had a t-shirt, me and my parents were first in line to see BL&U, but not only have I not found much of the recent episodes funny, a lot of the older stuff doesn't hold up to me as well as I thought it would.

I guess my tastes changed. And I know it's not the shock humor or commentary that bothers me, because I don't mind it when Family Guy does either. There's just something very grating to me now of the way they'll stretch a running joke out, like in Eek A Penis or the Dum Dum song in All About Mormons. At least Peter Griffin kept adding new twists to the Surfin' Bird thing.

[Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie]

it may have simple animation, but some of the looks that the characters give crack me up ..... especially butters!

case example

in GOTH KIDS 3

SPOILER: Click to show

{Spoiler}when FIRKLE finds out that he WASN'T really turned into a emo, the way he looks is funny

[fw91]

suprisingly i was allowed. hell, I've been watching since i was 6. although, i wasn't allowed to see the movie until it hit cable

[Deleted]

I wasn't allowed too. I could only watch it when I was at sleepover at a friends house. Then there was a TV in my basement when I was 12 and they aired South Park around 7 o clock every day and I guess my parents finally stopped enforcing the r rated movie/show rules fully until I was 13.

[thetower52]

I was allowed to watch it from day one of finding it on TV
My mom just told me not to say those words

[Bishblast]

Beavis and Butthead and Duckman was more like that for me, by the time South Park had come out I was already almost a teenager, so it mattered little. Honestly, though, I didn't really like the show until high school, specifically around 01/02.

[Glitch]

I was already entering high school, so the problem wasn't so much not being allowed, as much as not having comedy central. We were cursed with the shittiest cable service around(watching the monday night wars was a hassle). I usually watched tapes my friends brought into class.
I eventually got comedy central years later but reruns were sporadic and couldn't actually catch up on every single episode. When south park studios came onto my radar, I watched everything I could.

[Jedi-El of Tomorrow]

Darn, I thought with the thread title that they had put up 200 and 201.

[Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster]

My parents had no idea about the show's content so neither of them really cared.

Though I stopped watching when later seasons got way too preachy for their own good.

[Deleted]

So Orange you're from Colorado. How much does that show hit home for you? Or the Denver Broncos fandom since they are big Broncos fans

[Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!!]

wasn't really allowed to watch it as a kid, but my dad died when I was 12, so my mom was too concerned with other things so she didn't much care what I was watching on television anymore. I have to say the first few seasons haven't really aged very well, but I still love everything from the time the boys hit 4th grade onwards. they do have the occasional flub here and there, but when they get an episode right they nail it.

[tigermaskxxxvii]

Nov 2, 2013 16:29:34 GMT -5 Orange said:

So, because I was a young boy living in America in the late 90's, I always wanted to watch South Park but was never allowed to. Matter of fact, the one time I got to watch it was at a friend's sleepover, and I was way more interested in the vulgarity than I was the story.

Well, after watching the movie on Netflix, I decided that I finally wanted to watch South Park in its entirety. A hell of a challenge considering they're 17 seasons in, but it's not going to hurt me to watch a cartoon.

All I have to say is that South Park Studios is an incredible website, only because I can watch every episode LEGALLY without having to buy all of the DVD sets or what have you. Yeah, there are ads, but it's a small price to pay for having every episode of a show available whenever you want it.

Hats off to whoever it is that is in charge of South Park Studios, I'm guessing it's Comedy Central, because it's an awesome idea that's making 10 year old me's wishes come true.

So, for discussion purposes, how many of you weren't allowed to watch South Park growing up? As I said I wasn't, but my parents didn't have a problem buying me some merchandise from the show. I always thought that it was weird I was allowed to have toys from a show I couldn't watch, but I was happy to be able to have them anyway as they kicked ass.

I've been watching the show since the "Cartman Gets An Anal Probe" first aired, which was a month before I turned 14. My parents had a very Laissez-faire attitude to what my sister and I watched on TV. The only big exception was I was temporarily banned from watching Beavis and Butt-head after compulsively saying "this sucks", but I don't think that was really enforced, but I still obeyed any ways (for some stupid reason) and then asked for and was granted permission to watch it again....but anyways, my parents had no problem with me watching South Park. My dad thought a talking piece of shit in the form Mr. Hankey to be hilarious. My mom's only problem was the use of Satan in the "Jesus vs Satan" episode (as silly as Satan is made out to be in the show) because she was traumitized from watching The Exorcist as a kid and has a thing about seeing depictions of the devil. Kind of ironic that besides that one time South Park viewing at that sleep over that you started with the movie first in your quest to catch up, seeing as how the conflict in the movie starts by the parents being insanely concerned over what their kids watch on TV.

Nov 2, 2013 19:18:42 GMT -5 Clash, Never a Meter Maid said:

I honestly cannot stand the show anymore. And it's funny, because as a kid, I was the biggest SP fan around- I had Stan, Cartman and Kenny plushes, I had a t-shirt, me and my parents were first in line to see BL&U, but not only have I not found much of the recent episodes funny, a lot of the older stuff doesn't hold up to me as well as I thought it would.

I guess my tastes changed. And I know it's not the shock humor or commentary that bothers me, because I don't mind it when Family Guy does either. There's just something very grating to me now of the way they'll stretch a running joke out, like in Eek A Penis or the Dum Dum song in All About Mormons. At least Peter Griffin kept adding new twists to the Surfin' Bird thing.

You're getting old

[Orange]

Nov 3, 2013 8:51:14 GMT -5 @supersweetbotch said:

So Orange you're from Colorado. How much does that show hit home for you? Or the Denver Broncos fandom since they are big Broncos fans

Anytime the Broncos are mentioned I get all giddy. It's pathetic, but I do.

Plus, as GuyOfOwnage said, any show that features a song from Paul Stanley is fine by me.



Horrible quality, but it's the only one I could find of the scene on YouTube.

[BigBadZ]

I was allowed to watch and my parents let my younger brother watch with me. I believe my parents were only aware of the curse words rather than the actual content. They even rented the videos for me from Blockbuster. First episode I saw was plane'arium one where Cartman did the Cheesy Poofs commercial. I remember a time when I was 11 and my brother was 5 and in the living room I said "Oh my God, they've killed Kenny" and my brother goes "YOU BASTARDS!" Luckily he was young enough for my mom to think it was cute and we didn't get in trouble, just told not to use those words.

Nov 3, 2013 10:28:16 GMT -5 tigermaskxxxvii said:

You're getting old

I admit that when this episode played, I got tear eyed.

[Deleted]

I wasn't allowed to watch it, but on Wednesdays when my mother worked, my father watched TV downstairs. I would go in my parents room, close the door about halfway, and watch it anyway with the sound lowered to about 10.

Finally, after I graduated high school, I went out and bought the first season box set and watched the whole thing in a single night. And honestly...

I was amused, but didn't really get what the hubbub was about. To me, it seemed tame. Different times, I guess...