>>80859933
It started in 97 so most of /co/ wasn't even born.
>Ask Your Kids
First episode I ever saw was the rain forest one. I was like 8 and of course my parents didnt want me watching it but I waited until they fell asleep to tune in. It was fantastic. Tony Danza still creeps me out to this day.
>>80859933
My mum hates South Park, so I was never allowed to watch it, and didn't have much desire to, though I knew the basic premise.
Then I saw the Coon and Friends trilogy on recommendation from a friend who knows I'm into comics, and I was hooked.
I've watched most of the episodes now, and to this day my favourite moment is Kenny confronting Captain Hindsight.
>>80861733
pic relevant, I guess
>>80859933
Funny story, I was born in 1994 and, even if don't remember exactly at what age, i remember seeing this scene on TV when I was really small.
for some reason it stayed in my memory, not because i thought it was frightening but because i found it... well, funny.
Only in junior high school I discovered that scene was from a quite popular adult cartoon.
One of the first cartoons I tried to watch over the internet, streaming it from some site in realmedia with a 56k modem, 240p, buffering every 5 seconds and with compression artifacts up the ass.
I discovered this show with the season 5 in 2002.
I was very young and completly shocked and fascinated by the violence and the vulgarity of the thing, but i actually find that pretty funny, i remember the episode where they said "shit" at TV and everyone start to say shit, or the episode where Kenny die, the episode about Cartmanland and Kyle with his hemorroids and the episode about sexual education with the funny sex scene.
the old seasons have a weird atmosphere, i can't explains that with words.
Parents bought me and my brothers a bunch of south park VHS tapes when we were like 10. they had no idea what it was because we're british and with shitty TV at the time. the homoerotic themes in the earlier episodes probably contributed a lot to who I am today desu
I remember a local newspaper made an article about how the series had become popular in the US and would soon start broadcasting over here too. The article talked about how South Park looks on the first glance like a kids' show with crude cut-out art and childish poo humor, but it actually has interesting commentary about mature topics. The way they hyped it up sounded cool, so I started watching it even though it aired kinda late.
(Oh, and I also remember the article discussed how "unclefucker" is a made-up term derived from the existing insult "motherfucker", and how neither of those words have a direct translation in the language here. I don't remember why they bothered talking about it, but their talking about those words ended up being memorable to me for some reason.)
Anyway. I got bored of the poo humor and quit watching the show not too long after it had started. After that, I've caught an episode here or another there if I happened to be nearby TV and had nothing better to do while South Park was airing. A couple of times when the show's caused a big controversy or if they've discussed a topic I'm interested in, I've looked up the episode. Most of the time I've enjoyed those episodes.
I'd like to watch through the whole series one of these days, but there are so many other shows that I'm also interested in, and so little time.
Got hyped about movie n watched it when it came out n ever got some posters.
FeelsGoodMan
I remember flipping through the channels one night and witnessing Kenny getting impaled by an Arabian sword thrown by that lesbian teacher.
Being named Kyle when South Park was in its prime was hell. Being in middle school didn't help either.
tfw you lived near south park colorado for a while and its just a boring hick redneck town
I can't understand people who complains on gore/disgusting on Family Guy ( just for this kind of stuff and not other problems actually ) but completly forget the same stuff is on south park, and sometimes very crude.
it's like they never watched the old seasons and knows only the current seasons, also they try to justify the moments when the show is dumb and gore for fun with deepness hipster reasons.
I guess as a 21 year old I'm pretty young relative to this board. I played WoW when I was 10 or 11, whatever 6th grade age is, and then somehow found the south park episode of it and just watched the whole series online there.
I was 9 or so on a family vacation back in 1998, I bunked with my cousin in his room and he had a South Park poster in his room of all the characters from season 1.
I didn't watch an episode until 8th grade when I sneakily watched the "IT" episode. I've watched it ever since.
>>80861387
Child detected.
Was Cartman inspired by Porky Minch?
>>80862424
Because South Park's been doing that sort of thing since episode 1 (technically before episode 1)
>>80863846
So? why they doesn't complains on South Park for gore/gross content?
>>80863632
I'm sure he's based on some asshole Matt and/or Trey knew.
>>80859933
>Behind the mystery of Linda Tripp
I didn't need to feel this old this early. Suppose my first SP memory is the pilot, though I'm pretty sure I didn't see it on the premier, but a re-airing not long after.
The earliest episode I remember watching was sitting in the living room when my parents were watching the episode where they join the magic cult and drown themselves in the washington memorial.
>>80861953
>or the episode where Kenny die
How long has it been since Kenny dying in each episode was still a running joke? I know they sorta explored his in-show reason for being immortal, but it feels like a lifetime ago that an episode could suddenly be interrupted at any time for Kenny to be crushed or stabbed or shot, his death marked only by Stan and Kyle for the briefest moment before carrying on.YOU BASTARDS
My oldest memory is like 2000 when I was at my grandma's house and my uncle brought over his N64 with a bunch of kids games and the South Park shooter, so naturally as kids my sister and I played a bit of each until we hit the South Park game and my uncle got mad at us for not knowing it wasn't a kids game
Besides that, I kinda forgot the show existed until youtube came around and I kept seeing videos of the Movie's "Did you just say the F-word" scene kept getting slapped on other anime and cartoons
I remember watching a looping scene of the seasons 4, or 5, christmas special, the one of Mr Hankey telling his son about "the circle of poop" on a VHS tape on a science fair. I guess the kid's project was about fertilizants or something. The first episode I saw was the Star Trek parody, the City on the Edge of Tomorrow. I remember Kenny died, and this one red shirt kid died too and I didn't get that Kenny died in every episode, I just thought he died because it was a Star Trek parody (and because it was a dream episode.)
I became obsessed with the show and downloaded every episode on Kazaa, then burned them on CDs.
Rewatching them now I notice how crappy they are, and how crappy, lazy and right-wing the show has become. It's also kind of weird that the whole show is available online on the South Park studios site. I put all those CDs on the microwave just for fun.
In 97 TV guide said " Peanuts meet Penthouse" classic
>>80864115
That episode is banned now since Mohammed was featured in it, I think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnNYXgV7L-c
I anciently taped two episodes that were directly after a late night animation documentary I wanted to watch. It was the ones where shit is said uncensored 200 times and the other involved an paedophile scout master. The shit one was very influential, I learnt my first curse work and wasted no time using it. Naturally, I was banned from seeing more episodes until recently.
I wasn't allowed to watch this as a kid. I think I was in 3rd or 4th grade when this debuted. I remember Mom and Dad making me leave whenever it came on and I could hear them laughing from my room.
One time, I listened in on an episode. Somebody (I think Mr. Garrison) kept calling everyone he came across a scumbag. I wasn't sure how or why this was supposed to be funny, so I just assumed the show and my parents were stupid.
I also remember going to the local arcade and seeing South Park toys, cups, and other junk being prizes for tickets. Fucking everybody had that shit and I was not interested, not at all. I'd rather spend my time on Rampage: World Tour or Air Hockey.
I think I finally got into the show around 2003 when my friends finally convinced me to check the show out. I saw the episode with The Succubus and liked it.
>>80861733
I remember when I was a kid (born in 1990 here) I had friends that weren't allowed to watch South Park. My mom used to watch it with me.
You poor souls. My mom didn't care if I watched SP or not
>>80864502
I also wasn't allowed to watch Family Guy, or anything out of Japan (my mum saw a episode of Sailor Moon and decided it was too risque).
For some reason Simpsons was fine though,
>>80862008
Your local newspaper printed the word "unclefucker"?
>>80862288
jewboy
>>80864549
When I was about 12-15 or so I used to watch the fuck out of Comedy Central. Mom and I watched Chappelle's Show together too.
Nothing says family time like laughing at a blind guy saying NIGGER over and over.
My parents would let me see anything that wasn't explicitly porn, up to and including HBO
>>80859933
My earliest memory was seeing a bunch of South Park merchandise in a mall in Pennsylvania back in, like 1998. I can't remember when I actually saw the show first.
The Halloween episode where Kenny became a zombie was the first episode I saw. A friend in class had told me about it so I had my mom record it. She soon realized it probably wasn't a good idea for kindergartners to be watching it.
My earliest memory was seeing Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo's Christmas special where all the southpark characters sang.
Mr. Garrison's "Merry Fucking Christmas" was the funniest shit to me.
>>80859933
>11 years old
>watching tv on my parent's room
>nothing to watch
>keep switching channels
>wtf is this?
>south park premiere
>looks like shit
>huge antenna comes out of cartman's ass
>what the fuck?
>burst in laughter
>parents are in the living room talking to some old family friends
>laughing too hard
>mom get in the room
>ANON! we are trying to talk! what the fuck are you laughing at so hard?
>i'm fucked
>mom starts watching
>starts laughing harder than i do
>she forgets she had friends over for dinner
>watches the whole episode next to me
we have been watching this shit together ever since.
>>80864832
adorable
Wasn't allowed to watch it. I think it and Beavis & Butthead were the only shows I was barred from watching.
First episode I remember seeing was the fat camp one. Saw it while sleeping over at my cousin's house.
>>80862008
Where you from, anon?
>>80861784
Bro I know that feel
I was born in 1991 and was vaguely aware of SP's existence up until that Osama Bin Laden episode that had me and my friend in tears (we were young, okay).
Got more into it, was a fan with a genuine love for the show since then.
I remember as a 4 yo. child first seeing the merchandise everywhere, on people clothes, toys in vending machines, I was already watching a lot of cartoons including the simpsons at that age. And I remember walking into a teenager's room (who was babysitting me at the time) and seeing all sorts of merchandise form posters to toys, I was wierded out be the depictions of dead kenny, it was frighting but very interesting and comedic, I asked him about the poster and he said 'oh, ignore that, thats silly'. and then I walked over to a simpsons poster and he said, 'thats silly too'.
From then I always wanted to watch it as it was building up as a lengendary cartoon, but it was always on too late and my parents made as sure as possible not to let me watch it.
There was another time I was in a shopping centre and there was a lady wearing a dead kenny tshirt and I asked her (i didn't know the name of the show by then) 'whats that?' 'South Park' she said, and then I asked 'what' again and she reply'south park' again and that went on untill she started getting really annoyed.
And then I started looking at the box cover of the movie when it was released with a massive sticker saying 'Warning this film is not for kids' so I would just look at the box dreaming of a day when I could watch it.
There was also this one time when my cousin was babysitting me and I kept asking 'tell me the ways that kenny dies', and she gave answers like: eaten by chickens, put in a microwave, does a big poo.
Growing up in school, South Park was seen a legendery show that only brave kids defying their parents could watch, there was a lot of 'You saw an episode!', 'What was it like?' This is a part that the movie nailed, (when they go ice skating after seeing the TandP movie).
continued.....
>born '88
>grandparents get cable for first time when I'm brought home from hospital
>mom spends first several years of my life glued to MTV
>mfw I remember B&B as my first cartoon
Granted, not the best parenting, but she was a kid herself still.
>>80865186
......And then when I was old enough to watch it, it was certainly different to what I expected after years of build-up. It was very subtle and dry, and the toilet jokes weren't really the humour, it was the characters reactions that were,
still I really liked it and I have this amazing memery of skiing in austira with my then 10 yo. cousin and a few 8 year olds. We were on a skiilift together with 8 seats, and every time we got one during the lift up they asked me to do an impression of the classroom scene from the movie, and I would do my best impression of the scene, The ski lift we usually took was shared with middle aged people who had to be stuck with us 8- 12 yo kids swearing our ass off and dropping f-bombs re enacting that scene. their reaction was usually a silent: look forward and don't give them any attention.
not without my anus part 2
watched it with my parents. i can't believe they sat through it
The first episode I remember watching was the one with that kid whose shoes that flew up when he was dancing. They hit some spotlights and people got crushed by them.
>>80864457
I think that might have been the episode where mr. garrison calls everyone a "fag" and it just got childhood memory filtered
>>80859933
i remember this issue of newsweek
i didn't know any kids who watched it though, not until the like 3rd or 5th episode.
>>80864577
I'm pretty sure I remember reading an article where they discussed the etymology of the word "unclefucker" and the matter of how it should be translated over here, but I don't have the article anymore and can't check what exactly did they write. I think it was published on the newspaper's weekly entertainment magazine which had a more casual tone than the main paper.
I checked imdb. Apparently South Park started airing here in autumn 1999, at a time when the US had already gotten the South Park movie and the last half of season 3 was being aired there. The internet was a fairly novel specialty back then and it was more limited than today. Since every minute online used to cost money, I had to ask my parents for permission every time I wanted to go browse websites. So basically I still mostly relied on local TV and newspapers to give me my information and entertainment.
Sometimes I used VHS tapes for recording stuff that aired really late, or for rewatching purposes. Today I just google up things or go to certain websites.
>>80865016
The land of spurdo and Nokia.
Tuned in to the last half of Cartman Gets an Anal Probe, possibly the first night, possibly a re-run later in the week. I was in 6th grade at the time. Watched every episode of season 1 the week it first aired. South Park was HUGE for me at that age.
I was at a track meet in middle school. One of my best friends at the time has the audio of that scene where they are saying shit and get in trouble.
In that group no one ever watch South Park, but we were rolling on the ground.
We all watched FG, but SP was the next step up that only few kids even knew what channel it was on. I always remember my first track meet
just because of that and how I had to run the 2 mile by myself since black people don't run distance.
>>80859933
My only early memory of SP is one episode were Kenny was catapulted to a flag pole and got impaled by the head.
That's not saying too much but I can't forget it for some reason.
I also remember it airing Thursdays nights on a public TV channel.
>>80859933
>watching south park late at night with my older bro
>Kyle says goddamnit at some point in the episode
>episode ends and I go upstairs to go to bed
>trip on a stair and skin my shin and yell out goddamnit
>ultra religious mom comes downstairs and beats my ass for taking god's name in vain
>dad comes home and he hits me with a belt
those were some good times
I watched SP quite a bit as a kid, one distinct memory though was watching with my uncle and it was the episode where cartman grinds the parents into chili and makes the kid eat them, his response could be summed up as, holy shit what the fuck
>>80863901
Well for one, as you said, it's crudely drawn violence, not anatomically correct and detailed violence like Family Guy does.
>>80862288
Shut up Kyle, you fucking Jew.
>>80867487
> family guy
> anatomically correct
"anatomically correct" are capeshit or action stuff, not cartoons, also South Park had a lot of shock or disgusting scenes, even if it's drawn with a shit art for purpose, this kind of shit shock me when i was young.
what you mean by "detailed violence"?
>>80859933
I remember watching TV with my brother when we were home alone.
There was an ad on comedy central where one of the adults was taking a shit that was bigger than he was. That played every commercial break.
Then we watched the episode where Britney Spears shoots her face off.
I was a sheltered child, so I didn't get most of the jokes and the violence was too much for me.
>>80861745
Mintberry crunch is the hardest looking motherfucker out there.
>never watched comedy Central before
>for some reason in Chicago it was court tv in the morning then turned to comedy Central at 6pm each night
>randomly find put about the show "thats my Bush" one Sunday night
>begin to watch it every week
>catch South park one night after the episode
>never knew the name but knew it's reputation
>it was Scott Tenorman must die
>loved the episode on the Sunday repeat episode
>watched show ever since
>>80862424
I never got why gore was such an issue to begin with, most complaints are about pretty tame things. We all have things that are disturbing to look at but sometimes if there is more than a bit of blood or some vein and people freak the fuck out.
>>80867487
not in later seasons where its worse than FG could hope to be. fight me sethfag
>>80859933
Seriously? No mention of the Arthur parody?
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sgALKH7cMKo
>Thanksgiving break back when it first started
>boring after dinner talk, went to grandparents basement to watch TV instead
>Starvin' Marvin episode
and that was that.
>>80859933
I spent a couple hours downloading a 20 megabyte clip of the movie.
>>80861784
Yeah, that realmedia bullshit. It was the thing where Cartman sings O Holy Night while getting the cattle prod, to be specific.
>>80863901
It was a move of desperation for Family Guy, whereas South Park has always been a sort of metacommentary on cartoon violence and how people hate it. You're right though, they're not actually that different. Especially if you compare Family Guy with NEW South Park (like the last 10 years lol) which is crisper and more detailed. The violence was more amusing when it looked like a child drew it. It's weird to me how Matt and Trey apparently prefer the show to have "better animation", like they never understood the atmosphere or message of their own work.
Been watching since the first episode. Still watch.
Hasn't gone to shit yet, which is good, because the Simpson's died years ago, Family Guy has always been shit, King of the Hill is dead, Bob's Burgers is ???, Venture Bros comes out with a 2 episode season once every 14 and a half fucking years, Rick & Morty's doing ???, Aqua Teen is dead, and American Dad ping-pong's between good and shit.
>>80869872
also I think people have a boner for the recent handful of seasons of South Park because it validates their opinions on various things so they give it a pass.
>>80861745
cant wait for the next SP rpg
>>80859933
>7 years old
>walk into my brothers room
>he's watching the first episode of South Park
>I hear nothing but beeping coming from the T.V
>I tell my brother that he should have dad look at the T.V because it's making beeping noises
>>80869331
fantastic
My unforgettable first South Park experience was when me and my parents settled in our hotel room, and we caught a scene where Mr. Hankey in a sorcerers apprentice parody called on waves of shit to tear up Hollywood.
>>80862288
At least you're not named Hank, or as other kids liked to call me, Mr. Hanky.
>>80862424
The differenice is, that when the violence happens in south park it has weight, and people react to it, execpt when kenny dies. or they don't have people react to it to illustrate a point like catlein jenner running over the jogger at the white house.
Earliest memory is when I was like 7 and my dad was on the computer late at night and had SP on the TV next to him and I just lingered and watched for a bit.
I very fondly remember staying up late to record the South Park movie when Comedy Central aired it uncensored. The tape was very important to me since my mom was so against SP and I would never be allowed to actually buy/rent the movie.
I watched that TV broadcast so many times that now when I watch it on Blu-Ray I still remember all the parts where the commercial breaks come in and automatically feel the urge to grab the remote.
>>80873260
that's cute
VHS memories are good ones
>>80869331
I forgot this happened
>>80859933
A part of my heart will die when the show finally ends.
This show has helped me make so many friends and happy memories.
I've cried laughing and even had some unexpected feels that have stuck with me.
Great show, dgaf what anyone says.
I was in sixth grade when I first heard of SP. My family didn't even have basic cable at the time, but my friends at school would refer to me as the Kenny of the group. I remember them telling me that Kenny would die in every episode by various means, such as being strangled by a tetherball. But I never heard them mention that it was a cartoon, and I stupidly imagined it as some live-action show until I found a VHS copy a year later.
