South Park
on November 25, 2012 at 12:01 amChapter: Obligatory Flashback Sequence
Location: Danny and Joe's dorm room
South Park was in its first season in 1997! It was new and shiny. At the time of writing this particular comic, Comedy Central had only aired six episodes, and these six episodes were rerun ad nauseum probably fifteen times a day for over a month. I don’t think this deterred us from continuing to watch them. It wouldn’t be until the day after this strip published that we woulda gotten the seventh episode, “Pinkeye.”
It was exactly the sort of thing my parents would have banned from our house due to its obviously subversive content. Now on my own, I devoured it like a starving man put before a feast.
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How did you react to “Big Gay Al’s Big Gay Boat Ride?”
Are you sure this wasn’t early Mike instead?
I was a kid when South Park came out, so my parents wouldn’t let me watch it until season 3. In the first episode I ever saw, I learnt Moses looks like the CPU from Tron.
Whimper Whimper
The 6th South Park episode – the one that aired before this strip – had the show making a lot of jabs at itself, and at the end one character says that toilet-humor series usually don’t last more than one season.
Heh.
Wow, you went right from zero to South Park? No wonder you ended up so deranged. 😉
I know the feeling. I was seven when I started watching R-rated horror films. My teenaged cousins babysat me, and rented movies. After Sleeping Beauty they said they weren’t gonna make me go to bed, but I shouldn’t stay up because the next movie was scary. I said I could take it.
Expected maybe Dracula or King Kong. I mean, tha’s what scary movies are, right? I got A Nightmare On Elm Street. Didn’t sleep for days.
Wow, Joe is such a sensitive man. No wonder the ladies are all over him.
Aww Danny’s face. Also I was 7 when South Park started and even though my Mom hated me watching it my Dad was fine with it.
Didn’t want me watching DBZ though.
wait, a show that bleeps every other sentence is okay, but a fantasy fighting show isn’t? huh?
No, see, SBR’s dad only wanted him watching quality television. *drum kit*
Seriously, though, DBZ moves at a goddamn snails pace. Kai is much, much better.
Well, to be fair, cursing SHOULD be less objectionable than violence, but well, you know, America.
Which I think was the moral of South Park: The Movie. FULL CIRCLE
Wow. You all make me feel so old. I had just turned 22 when South Park started!
I was six when South Park started, and I only just turned 22 a few weeks ago.
That makes you mega-super-old 😀
Really, then what does that make me, I was 36.
South Park came out when I was a Junior in High School. I am 33 now, so I was 18 then. Ah, the Nineties.
Oh wow, classic South Park … the first couple series that ended up with the launch of the Chef Aid album (which I still own and cherish). Happy days.
I remember the first time I found out about South Park. I was at camp, I was about twelve, and someone had playing cards of it. They used them to explain each character to me.
I still remember my reaction when we got to Wendy.
GUY: And this is Wendy, Stan’s girlfriend… {starts to move to next card}
ME: Oh, what’s she like?
GUY: Um…she’s Stan’s girlfriend.
ME: …That’s it?
GUY: Yeah. She doesn’t do much.
ME: That’s stupid.
I don’t think I learnt about South Park until I was 6/7, didn’t understand why my parent’s wouldn’t let me watch it since it was ‘clearly just another cartoon’. Having watched some, I don’t like it that much.
The first glimpse of South Park was the first episode, which I saw, in a hotel room, with my parents, the day before I was dropped off at the dorm for the first time. A different college mind you but still, it is great. We went through the same process with it.
Joe’s supposed to be his friend, right?
Oh, South Park is the topic. I wouldn’t know, never bothered to watch any of it in full, it’s not my cup of tea.
Originally posted:
December 2, 1997