South Park (1997): trivia & fun facts

Fun facts

• The season 14 (2010) premiere gained 3.7 million viewers, the show's highest-rated season premiere since 1998.
• Nearly the entire production of an episode is accomplished within one set of offices, which were originally at a complex in Westwood, Los Angeles, California and are now part of South Park Studios in Culver City, California.
• The season nine (2005) episode "Best Friends Forever" references the Terri Schiavo case, and originally aired in the midst of the controversy and less than 12 hours before she died.
• 20th Television replaced Tribune as co-distributor in early 2008.
• Isaac Hayes, a Scientologist, later quit South Park because of his objection to the episode.
• One of the earliest examples of this was in the season four (2000) episode "Quintuplets 2000", which references the United States Border Patrol's raid of a house during the Elián González affair, an event which occurred only four days before the episode originally aired.
• PowerAnimator and Maya are high-end programs mainly used for 3D computer graphics, while co-producer and former animation director Eric Stough notes that PowerAnimator was initially chosen because its features helped animators retain the show's "homemade" look.
• Subsequent seasons saw substantially lower ratings, though after taking on Donald Trump directly in season 27, ratings jumped to over 6.2 million viewers cross-platform, the show's highest since 2018.
• In 1999, they went on record to cancel the release of the Game Boy Color game based on the series, as Parker and Stone determined that a game based on an adult animated series would be inappropriate for a console whose core demographic consisted of children.
• From its debut in 1997 to the season twelve finale in 2008 the series had been originally produced in standard definition, with a 4:3 aspect ratio.
• Parker and Stone met in film class at the University of Colorado in 1992 and discovered a shared love of Monty Python, which they often cite as one of their primary inspirations.
• Fox Broadcasting Company executive and mutual friend Brian Graden commissioned Parker and Stone to create a second short film as a video Christmas card.
• By the time its run in syndication ended in 2015, it aired in 90 percent of the television markets across the United States and Canada, where it generated an estimated US$25 million a year in advertising revenue.
• All twelve seasons originally produced in standard definition have been remastered by South Park Studios, being fully re-rendered in high definition.
• Since its debut on August 13, 1997, 341 episodes of South Park have been broadcast.

Source: Wikipedia

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