Here are 30 Interesting Facts About South Park.
1-5 Interesting Facts About South Park
1. Because of South Park’s Scientology episode, The Church of Scientology hired people to spy on Matt and Trey to find something on them to use for blackmail. The Church became frustrated when their investigation turned up nothing but the fact that they’re pretty normal people. – Source
2. The Tourette Syndrome Association released a statement after the South Park episode “Le Petit Tourette” where they complimented the show on being “well researched” and that it “served as a clever device” to get accurate information to the public. – Source
3. The character Kenny on South Park is based on a real childhood friend of Trey Parker, who was named Kenny. He was the poorest kid in town, wore a large parka that muffled his voice and would frequently skip school, inspiring the running joke that “he died” by classmates. – Source
4. When “South Park” aired its anti-“Family Guy” episode, they received flowers from the crew of “The Simpsons.” – Source
5. The only reason Tom Cruise was literally in a closet in South Park, was Trey Parker getting around the legal repercussions of calling him gay directly. The Lawyers wouldn’t allow it, so he rewrote the scene to have him trapped in a closet. – Source
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6. Trey Parker stated that Mr. Mackey is based off his old school counselor Mr. Lackey. On South Park season 1 commentary Trey said “[Mr. Lackey used to say], ‘Trey, quit fooling around and get back to your school work, m’kay’ ‘but, now, I’m making millions out of him’ ” – Source
7. The song Chocolate Salty Balls from South Park reached No. 1 on the UK Singles Charts. – Source
8. On September 13, 2009 during the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, after Kanye West interrupted Tayor Swift, Comedy Central played South Park’s ‘Fishsticks’ episode on repeat for 2 hours. – Source
9. McDaniel College in Maryland offers a class that breaks down South Park episodes and looks at the real world social issues Matt and Trey are portraying. – Source
10. The character Alex, a character in South Park that appeared once, in the episode Red Man’s Greed, was voiced by Alex Glick, who was the highest bidder at a charity auction to benefit AIDS research. – Source
11-15 Interesting Facts About South Park
11. George Clooney inquired about guest starring on South Park. He was offered the role of Stan’s dog. He accepted, voicing several very good barks. Jay Leno has also provided the meows for Cartman’s cat. – Source
12. Pokemon is Japanese for Pocket Monsters and Chinpokomon (the South Park parody) is Japanese for Penis Monsters. – Source
13. There is a mutated gene in fruit flies which causes them to die in 2 days when infected by a certain bacteria. This gene is named Kenny, after Kenny McCormick from South Park. – Source
14. South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker got a hold of The Day After Tomorrow’s script in pre-production, and planned on making a word for word puppet film to be released on the same day. Their lawyer talked them out of it. – Source
15. Jenna Miscavige Hill, the niece of the Chairman of Scientology, David Miscavige, first learned about the story of Xenu from watching the “Trapped in the Closet” episode of South Park. – Source
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16. At the end of the South Park episode “Trapped in the Closet” All the names on the credits read either “John Smith” or “Jane Smith” due to Tom Cruise’s and Scientologists’ reputation of suing people. – Source
17. South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut was originally issued an NC-17 rating. According to Trey and Matt, “they edited the film with something more vulgar every time they submitted it to the MPAA again.” – Source
18. For years after South Park was banned from showing an image of Muhammad, an uncensored image of Muhammad appeared in the opening credits of every syndicated episode. – Source
19. The term “Derp” was coined by South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker. – Source
20. Casa Bonita from South Park is a real place in Denver. There’s even cliff divers. – Source
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21. There is an alien hidden in every episode of South Park. – Source
22. Creators of “South Park” were originally going to kill off the character Kyle in season 5 because he was too similar to Stan and they wanted to bring in Butters as a regular character. – Source
23. Frito Lay briefly sold bags of “Cheesy Poofs” as homage to South Park. – Source
24. In South Park when Kenny would die and Stan or Kyle would exclaim “they” and “you bastards” to apparently no one in particular, they are actually referring to Stone and Parker themselves, as though they are omnipresent within the show’s universe. – Source
25. The creators of South Park only start making a new episode 6 days prior to the episode’s air date. They have only missed the deadline once, when South Park Studios lost power. – Source
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26. Prior to season 8 of South Park, Chef is always seen facing the front, even when exiting scenes. This is because for 7 years South Park creators never drew a side view of Chef. – Source
27. EA had to do a mass recall of Tiger Woods 99 because somebody hid an entire episode of South Park inside it. – Source
28. Comedy Central only agreed to air the word “sh*t” uncensored in the South Park episode “It Hits the Fan” (the first South Park to do so) if the word was used an absurdly high number of times. The episode had 200 total shits, 162 spoken, 38 written. – Source
29. South Park Movie holds the Guinness World Record for “Most Swearing in an Animated Film.” It had 399 profane words, including 144 uses of the word f**k. – Source
30. The very first episode of South Park took three-and-a-half months to complete on a budget of $300,000. – Source
