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Comedy Central signed a contract with Stone and Parker, extending South Park to 15 seasons, with each new season having 14 episodes, bringing the series total to 223 episodes. As of March 19, 2008, 169 episodes of South Park have been produced and aired. Currently, the first ten seasons are available on Region 1 (US) DVD. Region 2 (Europe) has released the first five on DVD (note: these differ from the Region 1 versions) as well as selling episodes in different volumes. A feature-length film, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, was released during the third season on June 30, 1999.
This list is ordered by the air dates of the episodes. This is because of a reference made in episode 802 to a previous event in episode 804, and the positioning of the episode celebrating 100 episodes does not fit in production order.
Two polls have been held on the Comedy Central website for fans to choose their favorite episodes to be shown in TV marathons, aired initially in the United States. Lists of various poll winners follow the main episode list.
Cartman tells his friends about the odd dream he had of aliens abducting him and inserting things into his ass. Stan and Kyle try to convince him that the "dream" really happened, but Cartman blows it off as an attempt to mess with his mind.
The boys go hunting with Stan's Uncle Jimbo and his Vietnam vet friend Ned. Meanwhile, Stan's father discovers a volcano about to erupt and the mayor exploits the opportunity to put South Park on TV.
Cartman has won an essay test, but Wendy suspects him of plagiarism. Meanwhile, it is announced that Kathie Lee Gifford is to bring Cartman his trophy so Cartman decides to shape up by taking Weight Gain 4000 pills. However, the pills are causing Cartman to grow fatter, not stronger.
When Stan finds out that his dog is gay, he seeks advice whether or not this is a good thing. Meanwhile, Jimbo and Ned attempt to sabotage a football game against a rival elementary school.
Stan's grandfather, now 102 years old, harasses his grandson into assisting him with suicide. Meanwhile, Mrs. Broflovski leads the parents into protesting the crude humor of a popular cartoon show.
Kenny is killed by the Mir space station, and becomes a zombie. Meanwhile, Stan, Kyle, and Cartman must find a way to stop what is believed to be pink eye from destroying Halloween.
The boys befriend a boy from Ethiopia sent to them by Sally Struthers while mutant turkeys attack the town and the mayor sets up a canned food drive for Kenny's family.
Kyle meets a talking piece of crap named Mr. Hankey. However, no one believes him so they lock him up in a mental hospital. At the end, Mr. Hankey gives everyone presents.
While Satan comes to South Park to have his final battle with Jesus, his son Damien has trouble fitting in at school. Meanwhile, Cartman plans his birthday.
Mr. Garrison gets a nose job and quits teaching to be a model. Meanwhile, Stan has a crush on the substitute teacher, leading Wendy to threaten her to stay away from Stan.
Cartman tries to find out who his father is after his mom announces that she had sex with a lot of men at the Drunken Barn Dance. This episode is part one of a two-part special, while part two is "Cartman's Mom Is Still a Dirty Slut".
Terrance and Phillip are being held in a court by Scott the Dick after Terrance was repeatedly hitting someone upside the head with a hammer. Meanwhile, Saddam Hussein plans to take over Canada but his plan is foiled when everyone farts up the building.
While stuck in the genetic engineering laboratory after Mephisto's shooting, the crew of America's Most Wanted show up to recreate the shooting of Dr. Mephisto. Meanwhile, Mrs. Cartman sleeps with high-ranking officials to convince them to abort Cartman (confusing abortion with putting a child up for adoption) and the boys drive Mephisto to the hospital so he can be revived.
The boys try to save Kyle's brother from being circumcised. Meanwhile, Mr. Mackey gets fired from his job after losing a sample of marijuana and begins experimenting with drugs.
A "chicken fucker" (called "chickenlover" around the children) is loose in town, prompting Officer Barbrady to confess to his illiteracy and Cartman to become a deputy cop.
Mrs. Broflovski sets up an appreciation week for the deformed school nurse. Meanwhile, Chef forces the kids to compete in school dodgeball championships.
The boys get back at Jimbo and Ned for telling a false story about being in the Vietnam War. Meanwhile, a producer plans to turn Jesus and Pals into a Jerry Springer-style talk show to save it from low ratings.
In this clip show episode, Miss Crabtree becomes a famous stand-up comedian while the South Park kids reminisce on all their adventures while stuck on a bus on the edge of a cliff.
The town bans fireworks and must come up with an alternative for their Fourth of July celebration. Meanwhile, Mr. Garrison loses Mr. Hat to Brett Favre and Cartman struggles with swimming lessons.
The boys' mothers force their children to hang out with Kenny so they can get chickenpox. Meanwhile, Kyle's mom tries to patch up the long-broken relationship between her husband and Kenny's dad.
When Chef is sued for pointing out that Alanis Morrissette's new song is actually a song he wrote years ago, the boys hire Chef's famous musician friends to raise money. Meanwhile, Mr. Garrison suspects Mr. Hat of several attempts on Mr. Twig's life.
The boys are forced to write a current events paper to save Mr. Garrison's job as well as Tweek's father's small-time corporation. Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny are grouped together with Tweek, a jittery child, who suggests that the presentation be on the "Underpants Gnomes", tiny men who sneak into his house and steal his underwear. Meanwhile, a local cafe is being threatened by a big-time corporate coffee shop.
Stan and Kyle discover a man who has been trapped in the ice since 1996, but break up when they can't decide on a name for him. Meanwhile, the "ice man" tries to reconnect with his wife and kids.
The children join a choir sent to Costa Rica to perform against deforestation, but they end up lost in the rainforest and discover that the rainforest isn't worth saving.
Randy must solve the problem when citizens start spontaneously combusting. Meanwhile, Cartman plays Jesus in a "Stations of the Cross" play and ends up stuck on the cross.
When Chef gets engaged, the boys become increasingly concerned as he seemingly becomes a different person. Meanwhile, Cartman becomes the butt of several pranks by his eye doctor.
Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny pit Tweek and Craig to fight against each other. Meanwhile, the school shop teacher, Mr. Adler, copes with the loss of his wife, who died in a plane crash.
A man in a panda costume is hired to teach the kids about sexual harassment, leading Cartman to sue Stan (and all the kids to sue the school) over claims of being harassed.
Cartman is stuck at home with Stan's sister Shelley as his babysitter while his mom is at a meteor shower party. Meanwhile, Cartman's cat, Mr. Kitty, is in heat and goes searching for sex with other cats.
At the meteor shower party mentioned in the previous episode, Stan is stuck in a bedroom with a group of nerdy kids from school who become important to him when the ATF stakes out the party, thinking that the attendees will commit suicide when the meteor comes. Meanwhile, Randy feels uncomfortable after he and Gerald watch each other masturbate in a hot tub.
Nu metal band Korn guest stars in this episode where they are blamed for making Halloween immoral and the boys use Kyle's grandmother's corpse to scare the fifth graders.
Cartman's mom buys a vocabulary-building kit to help Cartman win the spelling bee. Meanwhile, Kyle falls for a homeschooled girl with overprotective parents.
The boys must save Starvin' Marvin from the government and a Christian group who cares more about converting people from third-world countries than giving them food and shelter.
Mr. Hankey hosts a Christmas musical, featuring South Park characters singing twisted renditions of classic Christmas songs and a memorial piece to voice actress Mary Kay Bergman.
Cartman and Kenny mistake a colon infection for their menstrual cycle, prompting Kyle to lie about "getting his period" and Stan to ingest hormone pills so he won't feel left out. Meanwhile, Jesus plans a New Years' party and is worried his father won't be there.
The boys travel to Arkansas to perform at a recorder concert. Meanwhile, Mr. Garrison confronts his father about not being sexually molested as a child.
The boys plan to get rich off a scheme involving the Tooth Fairy, which attracts the attention of a Mafia boss child. Meanwhile, Kyle ponders his existence after his parents tell him the truth about the Tooth Fairy.
All the kids in South Park are mistakenly diagnosed with attention deficit disorder after the new, mentally retarded student Timmy is misdiagnosed himself. Meanwhile, Timmy joins Skylar's rock band, and Phil Collins plots to break them up.
Stan's family take in a grandmother and her quintuplet granddaughters from Romania who are on the run from the American and Romanian government. Meanwhile, Kenny practices opera singing.
Cartman's search for more mature friends lands him as the poster child for NAMBLA. Meanwhile, Kenny tries to stop his parents from having another baby.
Stan must get Cartman to donate one of his kidneys to save Kyle's life while everyone in town is addicted to new-age medicine run by an old woman and her "Native American" co-workers. Meanwhile, Mr. Garrison becomes a romance novelist after getting fired from teaching for his incompetence and his actions in the previous episode.
The boys enter fourth grade, and suddenly wish they were back in the third grade. Meanwhile, the fourth grade teacher Ms. Choksondik seeks help in controlling the students from Mr. Garrison, who is now a hermit who won't come to terms with his homosexuality.
A man from the future wants Cartman's new trapper keeper. Mr. Garrison's kindergarten class holds an election for class president with confusing results.
Kyle is upset over the fact that Mr. Hankey is too busy with his family to spread holiday cheer, so he and the other boys create a Christmas cartoon based on Parker and Stone's "The Spirit of Christmas" short.
The school is forced to teach sex education to the students at a younger age after the boys are found "milking" dogs, leading to a gender war because of incompetent teaching methods.
The boys go to Afghanistan to return a goat given as a gift, where Stan and Kyle fight with Afghan kids over America's reputation and Cartman becomes the Bugs Bunny to Osama bin Laden's Elmer Fudd.
Cartman "blows a funny fuse" when his prank of putting Kenny's butt on a milk carton prompts a family with butts for faces to come to South Park in search of their long lost son. Meanwhile, Butters gets grounded for his supposedly bad school photo.
Kyle's cousin, a stereotypical nebbishy Jewish boy also named Kyle, comes to stay with him. Meanwhile, Mr. Garrison's anger towards airline service after the September 11th attacks prompts him to create a new means of transportation.
When Butters survives a murder attempt by his mother, he must travel back to South Park in time for his parents' wedding anniversary at Bennigan's. Meanwhile, Butters' parents join Gary Condit, O.J. Simpson, and the Ramseys in lying to the press about who murdered Butters.
Weight loss advocate Jared Fogle incurs the wrath of the town after he announces that he lost weight because he has aides (misinterpreted as AIDS). Meanwhile, the boys use Butters as their spokesman for a Chinese restaurant.
Following the Catholic Church molestation scandals, Priest Maxi tries to bring about reform, the South Park parents convert to atheism, and Cartman wins a bet with Kyle that he can defecate from his mouth.
The kids form a club to try and stop Steven Spielberg and George Lucas from editing their classic films, but the townspeople mistake it as a call to free a child murderer named Hat McCullough from prison.
The boys build a ladder to heaven to talk to Kenny about a candy coupon. Cartman accidentally drinks Kenny’s ashes and becomes possessed with his spirit.
The boys go on a quest to return a tape with “evil powers” to the video store before the sixth graders steal it from them. Meanwhile, the parents try to find their kids to explain the context of the porno film they have in their possession.
Mr. Garrison tries to get fired for discrimination by performing inappropriate acts in class with his new teaching assistant Mr. Slave so he can file a lawsuit against the school.
Chef’s parents try to exorcise Kenny’s spirit from Cartman. Meanwhile, Stan calls out John Edward for providing false hope to people whose loved ones have died.
The boys are caught in the middle of a town fight between people for the War in Iraq and people against it. Meanwhile, Cartman travels back in time to the late Colonial era by electrocuting himself.
The men and boys of town become metrosexual. Meanwhile, Kyle, Mr. Slave, and Mr. Garrison try to stop the wave of metrosexuality when Kyle is treated like an outcast, and Mr. Garrison believes the metrosexual fad is cheapening the pride of real homosexuals.
Cartman, Token, and Butters form a Christian music band. Stan, Kyle, and Kenny protest against downloading music from the Internet after getting arrested.
Stan becomes a Goth after Wendy Testaburger breaks up with him. Meanwhile, Butters falls for Lexus, a waitress at a Hooters-esque restaurant called "Raisins".
Kyle finally sees Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ and decides Cartman's anti-Semitic claims are true. Meanwhile, Stan and Kenny see the movie and hate it, prompting them to head to Malibu to retrieve their ticket money from Mel Gibson himself.
Stan must form a dance group to compete against rivals from Orange County in a spoof of You Got Served. Meanwhile, Butters has flashbacks of causing death and mayhem at a tap dancing contest.
Butters befriends a robot (actually Cartman in disguise) he receives in the mail and takes him to Hollywood, where movie execs want him for film ideas, and the government wants him for national security.
A mysterious new neighbor named Michael Jefferson moves into town with his sheltered son, sparking fears that he is an unfit parent, and a police scheme to frame him for crimes he didn't commit.
When a Wall-Mart store comes to South Park, the townsfolk are torn between their love of the store's low prices, and their anti-corporate hatred of the retail giant.
Mr. Garrison gets a sex change operation, but when he realizes he is incapable of having a period, he tracks down the doctor to change him back. Meanwhile, Kyle goes to a plastic surgeon to turn himself black so he can be a star basketball player.
Kenny is left in a persistent vegetative state, beginning a war between Cartman, who wants him to die so he can inherit his Sony PSP, Heaven, who needs his spirit to fight a war against hell, and those who feel he should be kept alive. This episode won a 2005 Emmy Award in the category of "Outstanding Animated Program (for programming less than one hour)".
The boys try to lose their baseball games on purpose so they can avoid having to play all summer. Randy gets into training to fight the other fathers at the games.
The kids of South Park retaliate against Cartman by ignoring him, causing Cartman to think that he has died, but isn't allowed to go to the afterlife until he atones for his sins on Earth.
Jimmy starts getting erections and worries about performing in the school talent show. Jimmy also has a showdown with a pimp while fighting over a particular prostitute.
Cartman and Stan crash a boat into the world's largest beaver dam above the town of Beaverton. Afterwards, global warming is blamed, and the town enters a state of emergency.
After learning Mr. Slave will marry Big Gay Al, Ms. Garrison vows to stop same-sex marriage and uses the kids in his class as an example of why homosexual couples would make poor parents.
Stan and Kyle turn Cartman redheaded and pale after Cartman does a report on how dangerous redheaded children are, but the prank goes too far when Cartman leads the "gingers" to fight for their rights by any means necessary.
Stan is dubbed the reincarnation of L. Ron Hubbard by a local group of Scientologists, causing a chain of bizarre events, such as Tom Cruise and John Travolta locking themselves in Stan's closet and R&B singer R. Kelly turning the whole affair into an urban opera.
Randy's drinking problem is mistaken for a disease when he admits himself into Alcoholics Anonymous. Meanwhile, a priest in a neighboring town discovers that his Virgin Mary statue is bleeding from its anus and declares it a miracle.
The town is in panic when Family Guy angers the Muslim world by attempting to air an image of Mohammed. Meanwhile, Kyle and Cartman fight over whether or not Family Guy should stay on the air.
In a parody of James Frey's A Million Little Pieces controversy, Towelie disguises himself as a man and publishes his dubiously written memoirs. Meanwhile, Oprah's vagina and anus try to escape from the media mogul, who has been neglecting them.
Al Gore gets the boys trapped in Cave of the Winds while trying to kill the purported "Manbearpig". While in the cave Cartman finds gold that he attempts to steal.
Cartman's mom calls upon a dog trainer (Cesar Millan) to keep her son from misbehaving, which changes Cartman's personality so greatly that he plans on killing his mother.
Stan and Kyle "discover" the true culprits behind the 9/11 attacks while Mr. Mackey is determined to find out who defecated in the boys' room urinal at South Park Elementary.
Mrs. Garrison objects to teaching evolution in science class, and Richard Dawkins is sent to help her. Meanwhile, Cartman buries himself in snow in an attempt to freeze himself until the day the Wii console is released.
Butters' father catches his son about to perform oral sex on Cartman and sends Butters to a Christian camp for "confused" children. Meanwhile, Cartman blames Kyle for stealing an incriminating photo of himself and Butters.
An infestation of head lice plagues South Park Elementary, and Cartman finds a way to detect who has lice so they can make fun of the unfortunate kid. Meanwhile, the lice in Clyde's head try to escape when most of their kind are killed by lice shampoo.
Hillary Clinton is in town for a big campaign rally, and discovers that her vagina has been rigged with a bomb. Meanwhile, a new Muslim kid raises Cartman's terrorism fears at school.
Determined to get the real story behind why he has to decorate eggs for Easter, Stan falls in with an eccentric society that guards a legendary secret.
Mrs. Garrison falls for a woman at a lesbian bar and fights Persians to keep the bar from being renovated. Meanwhile, Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny hire illegal immigrants to do their homework for them.
Cartman pretends to have Tourette syndrome so he can say whatever he wants without being punished. However, he gets more than he bargained for when he begins to inadvertantly admit the truth.
Muslim terrorists attack Imaginationland, in an attempt to take over peoples' imagination. Meanwhile, Cartman makes a bet with Kyle that if leprechauns are real, Kyle will suck Cartman's balls. Cartman wins, and Kyle is stuck in a dilemma.
Stan and Kyle are being held in the Pentagon until they tell the government how they got into Imaginationland. Meanwhile, Cartman goes to great lengths to get Kyle to suck his balls after the leprechaun bet.
Inside Imaginationland, Stan and Butters engage in the battle of their lives as they fight the army of evil imaginary forces alongside what's left of the good imaginary people led by Aslan. Kyle tries to save Stan and Butters from Imaginationland, and Cartman goes to great lengths to get Kyle to suck his balls.
The girls in the fourth grade class make a secret list that rates every boy's looks from cutest to ugliest. The fourth grade boys discover this and steal the list. They are, however, unprepared to deal with the results.
When the boys try to get Britney Spears' picture, they discover the shocking secret behind her popularity.
"Best Episodes" lists
Top 27 episodes (October 2004)
The top 27 episodes, as voted on through Comedy Central's website, are listed below. They were shown on Comedy Central on the weekend of October 22, 23, & 24 in a countdown to the number one episode. Episodes from 808 onwards had not yet been broadcast so were not part of this poll. Certain episodes such as "Pip" and "Terrance and Phillip in Not Without My Anus" were also not included in the poll.
Almost exactly one year after the "Top 27 Episodes" marathon was broadcast, a marathon was put together focusing on the character of Eric Cartman. Like the previous marathon, the episodes that were shown were chosen by voting on Comedy Central's website. These episodes were shown on the weekend of October 14, 15, & 16 in a countdown to the number one episode.
On October 3, 2006, in conjunction of the 10th anniversary of the show, Comedy Central released a DVD set titled South Park The Hits: Volume 1 featuring Parker and Stone's ten favorite episodes, four favorite fan episodes and, for the first time ever, "The Spirit of Christmas" animated short, which served as the basis for the show. This DVD has yet to be released in region 2.
The 10 episodes that changed the world (September 2006)
In anticipation for the premiere of the second half of South Park's tenth season on October 4, 2006, Comedy Central aired ten episodes that, according to the network's commercial promotions, "changed the world".
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