South Park is one of the longest running cartoon series of all time. It is a hilariously brave production by Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Over the years that the show was released, it possibly almost made fun of all celebrities, trends, politicians, religious issues, sociopolitical problems and much more. And maybe the fact that South Park does not recognize sacredness of anything basically is the reason why the show is popular and beloved around the world. But with great popularity, comes also excessive criticism all the time. Nevertheless, Trey Parker and Matt Stone don't seem to mind that at all and continue this masterpiece humorous cartoon series. Here are best 11 episodes that we have chosen from the show. You might not have your favorite episode of South Park in this list though. But as one might expect, it is all in all a hard task to choose best episodes from an awesome show that had 283 episodes released up to this date. Sit back and enjoy!
The boys start their own band and decide to get online music for inspiration. Little did they know though that they were tapping into the worst crime humanity could perform. At least that's what the poor starving musicians who already made millions of dollars say! The boys are so blown away of what a terrible crime this is that they decide to stop playing in protest to protect their music and become symbols for other big-name artists who decide not to play also. Cartman on the other hand, who started his own fake Christian rock band is making tons of money because there's nobody else to listen to. This episode not only has great commentary but it's another example of keeping your eye off the prize and doing what you love simply because you love doing it.
The boys are shocked that how much attention Britney Spears is getting in the media. Interrupting political debates, important news stories and sucking every common person's attention and the news about are never really that interesting either. She just does something stupid that in no way affects the world, but the world for some reason thinks that it does. And they hunt her down trying to explain what a pathetic blood-sucking creature she is never realizing that they themselves are turning to the pathetic blood-sucking creatures. Even after she pushes herself to the limit, shooting herself, people still want to be in on the things that nobody should care about. The episode talks about the obsession with celebrities our society has and asks the important question: Who the hell cares really?
Cancelled often shows the flaws of human nature, but once in a while it can get its humor from the idea that maybe we've been doing better than we thought. Like, we've actually been holding up when given the circumstances we're put in. And this episode plays around with that idea. Well, sort of. It starts of eerily similar to the very first episode. In fact, it's exactly the same. But then they realize they're reliving the same events as before and discover that the aliens who implanted the satellite in Cartman from the first episode, have returned. This of course raises to question: Why was the satellite there to begin with? Well it turns out Earth is part of an intergalactic reality show. The idea is revolving around what happens when various people and animals all live on one planet. This immediately creates conflict, violence, drama, which of course equals entertainment. But the problem is people are suddenly aware of its existence! So because of the fear of it not being as fun anymore the show is in danger of being cancelled, resulting in Earth's destruction. So the boys have to convince the aliens that mankind is still violent and still crazy.
Let's face it, whether you love Pokemon or not, there's no ignoring the impact that it had. Kids everywhere became obsessed. This is Tray and Matt's very adult outsider look on the phenomenon. This episode no doubt got most people's attention. The whole town is trying to understand the show and why it's so weird. Parents discover a plot that the Japanese are to brainwash all of American youth, forming an army to conquer the world! This episode did not only mocked the intense fandom at that time, but also helped how diabolical marketing can be.
First much as they mocked kids Anime it's fairly obvious that the writers of the show must enjoy good adult anime as well. In this episode the boys come across a series of weapons and pretend that they are ninjas. But not just any ninjas, Anime ninjas! And the best thing is we don't see it from an outsider point of view like we do with Chinpokomon. We see it from the children's point of view. Everything founded in traditional Anime is here. Over the top storylines, stylish designs, even the karaoke songs with bad English dubbing. A lot of the humor comes from the fact that it's taking a simple story about kids playing and turning it into a grand battle.