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Caution: potential spoilers.

I don't always like this show. There have been episodes I thought sucked, but most of the time it's at least pretty good, and sometimes it's bloody brilliant. Anyway, there are four young boys who for a few seasons are in 3rd grade, and in later seasons are in 4th grade. Two of them, Stan Marsh and Kyle Broflovski, are fairly normal kids. But Eric Cartman is pure evil, and the funniest one of them (though everyone on the show can be pretty funny). And then there's Kenny McCormick, who is funny both because of and in spite of the fact that you can't really make out anything he says (his voice is muffled by his hood, though everyone on the show seems to understand him). In the early seasons, he dies every episode, but in later seasons he remained dead, and was replaced by Leopold "Butters" Stotch (a very easily manipulated nice guy/loser who's really messed up). Except then after awhile the other guys fired Butters as their fourth friend, and replaced him with Tweek (who's a total spazz because his parents make him drink so much coffee). Then Butters became Professor Chaos, a supervillain. Oh, but eventually Kenny came back as the fourth friend, and no longer got killed off all the time. Anyway, whoever the four main characters are at any given time, they always have all sorts of weird stuff going on. And alot of it parodies or lampoons pop culture, and there are alot of faked celebrity cameos. And stuff. Oh yes, all sorts of bizarre misadventures....

There's a pretty large cast of supporting characters, both kids and adults. It would just take too much space here to try and list many characters at all (so check the Wikipedia link if you're interested). But I should at least mention Chef (played by Isaac Hayes), who works at the school and is a friend of the children, kind of advises them and stuff; he's probably the only really sane, intelligent adult in town. (Though he is rather oversexed.) But eventually he gets killed off. Anyway, all the parents are way screwed up and moronic, as are the teachers and pretty much everyone in town. In fact, come to think of it, the whole show is really stupid and disgusting and horrible and offensive and no one should watch it.

...Except that it's often too funny for words and maybe sometimes even has a kind of (bitingly satiric yet insightful) social message buried in there somewhere. But mainly it's disgusting and disturbing and just plain wrong. ...Um, yeah, I should probably say more stuff, but at the moment, I can't think what. Oh yeah, of course the animation style looks like construction paper cutouts... though it gets less crude as the series progresses, it's still pretty different from most animation. Anyway... it really is a hilarious show, most of the time. And crazy. And junk. Whatever....

There was also a theatrical movie, South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut, which was pretty good, and I should definitely rewatch it someday and write up a review....