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South Park
TV Series

South Park

1997Animation, Comedy • 28 Seasons

Woke Score
3.9
out of 10

Series Overview

The curious, adventure-seeking, fourth grade group of 10 year old boys, Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny, all join in in buffoonish adventures that sometimes evolve nothing. Sometimes something that was simple at the start, turns out to get out of control. Everything is odd in the small mountain town, South Park, and the boys always find something to do with it.

Season-by-Season Breakdown

Season 1

4/10

This is the season that started it all! Join Stan, Kyle Cartman and Kenny as these four animated tykes take on the supernatural, the extraordinary and the insane. For them, it’s all part of growing up in South Park.

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Season 2

3/10

Join Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny as they discover the identity of Cartman's father, learn about Conjoined Twin-Myslexia and thaw a prehistoric ice man. For them, it’s all part of growing up in South Park!

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Season 3

3.8/10

Return to everyone’s favorite mountain town for seventeen outrageously bizarre episodes of South Park. Along the way, you’ll meet the Succubus, get caught up in the Chinpokomon frenzy and find out why citizens are spontaneously combusting.

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Season 4

3/10

Join Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny as they graduate to 4th grade, join in the 2000 election recount, the controversy over Saddam Hussein, and the introduction of Timmy!!! For them, it’s all part of growing up in South Park!

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Season 5

Pending

Join Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny as they welcome Jimmy the new handi-capable kid in town & Towelie, Radiohead guest stars, Big Gay Al returns, and Terrance and Phillip break up. For them, it’s all part of growing up in South Park!

Season 6

5/10

In this series Stan convinces the boys to kidnap all the calves from a local farm after a look at how veal is made turns him vegetarian; Professor Chaos struggles to find an evil scheme that hasn't already been done on 'The Simpsons'; and when Bebe's breasts begin to take shape, the boys can't understand why they're suddenly interested in her.

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Season 7

4/10

Join Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny as they go gaga for “Queer Eye,” start their own Christian Rock Band, and discover that Earth is an intergalactic reality show that's about to be cancelled. For them, it’s all part of growing up in South Park!

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Season 8

2.6/10

Join Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny as they witness the girls’ celebrity-worship of ditzy, rich, sex-tape-making socialites and take part in an awesome anime battle with Professor Chaos. For them, it’s all part of growing up in South Park!

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Season 9

4/10

Join Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny as they deal with the perceived dangers of global warming, a certain actor's sexuality is questioned, and the Pope arrives to witness a religious miracle. For them, it’s all part of growing up in South Park!

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Season 10

2/10

Join Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny as they witness the death of Chef, defeat a virtual villain out to destroy the world, and suffer the consequences of Cartman’s video game console obsession. For them, it’s all part of growing up in South Park!

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Season 11

3.4/10

It’s a season of diabolical secrets as Cartman covers up a salacious photo and the boys reveal a bizarre Easter society. An explosive visit from Hillary Clinton, a world-record crap and the Imaginationland trilogy only add to the awesomeness of Season 11.

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Season 12

3/10

Join Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny as they help a pop-princess down on her luck, negotiate a truce for striking Canadians, fight the addiction of "cheesing" and battle startling rodents. For them, it's all part of growing up in South Park

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Season 13

2/10

Join Cartman, Kenny, Stan and Kyle as they save the economy, the whales, and a bunch of dead celebrities all while discovering the joys of Fish Sticks. For them, it's all part of growing up in South Park

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Season 14

3/10

This series finds Stan, Kyle, Cartman, Kenny, Butters and co getting into fixes through their usual blend of innocence and mischievousness. As well as coming to terms with the perils of social networking and being accused of sex addiction in the furore that sweeps the nation in the wake of the revelations surrounding Tiger Woods, the boys finally reveal the identity of the suitably mysterious Mysterion in a three-part special.

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Season 15

3/10

Join Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny in the fifteenth season as they confront modern mad scientists, fundamentalist agnostics, and face their greatest challenge yet -- Stan growing a year older. For them, it's all part of growing up in South Park.

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Season 16

2.6/10

Join Cartman, Kenny, Stan and Kyle as they hunt down the mythical Jewpacabra, ‘sketti wrestle with reality stars, and go jackin’ it in San Diego. For them, it's all part of growing up in South Park.

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Season 17

3/10

Join Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Princess Kenny as they infiltrate the NSA, thwart patient zero, tame some strange and fight in the greatest battle of their young, hot lives.

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Season 18

6/10

Join Cartman, Kenny, Stan and Kyle as they get lost in virtual reality, go underground with Cock Magic, and uncover the shocking truth about a music superstar. For them, it’s all part of growing up in South Park!

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Season 19

2.6/10

Join Cartman, Kenny, Stan and Kyle as Mr. Garrison makes a bid for the White House, Randy takes the lead in gentrifying the town, and everyone is looking for their safe space. For them, it’s all part of growing up in South Park!

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Season 20

6/10

Join Cartman, Kenny, Stan and Kyle as they confront online trolling, face the member berry epidemic, and come to terms with Cartman having a girlfriend. For them, it’s all part of growing up in South Park!

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Season 21

5/10

Join Cartman, Kenny, Stan, and Kyle as they take on the opioid epidemic, experiment with water bears, dig into the underbelly of social media and go to war with Canada. For them, it’s all part of growing up in South Park!

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Season 22

5/10

Join Stan, Kyle, Cartman, Kenny as they deal the vaping epidemic, Cartman’s anxiety disorder, and the fact that they didn't take the threat of ManBearPig "cereal" enough the first time around. For them, it’s all part of growing up in South Park!

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Season 23

7/10

Join Stan, Kyle, Cartman, Kenny, and Randy as they explore the wonders of the human biome, tackle the consequences of immigration, and get banned in China. For them, it’s all part of growing up in South Park!

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Season 24

4/10

Join Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny as they navigate the COVID-19 pandemic. Will the broship survive as vaccines become available? For them, it’s all part of growing up in South Park!

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Season 25

3.8/10

Join Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny as they correct a long-held misconception about one of their classmates, deal with moody teenagers, and celebrate Pajama Day at South Park Elementary. For them, it's all part of growing up in South Park!

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Season 26

3/10

Join Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny as they learn the wonders of Japanese toilets, grapple with latest developments in A.l. technology, reopen an iconic Colorado restaurant, and meet a couple who feel the need to share the importance of their privacy with the world. For them, it's all part of growing up in South Park!

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Season 27

5/10

No overview available.

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Season 28

7/10

No overview available.

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Overall Series Review

The nearly three-decade run of *South Park* is defined by its unwavering commitment to being an equal-opportunity offender, using crude animation and extreme scenarios to target absurdity, hypocrisy, and moral panic wherever it appears. Across its vast run, the foundational satirical targets remain constant: organized religion, celebrity culture, government incompetence, and the irrational behavior of adults. Early seasons established this irreverence, often focusing on shock value and dismantling social norms regarding sexuality and authority. The series rarely offers solutions or endorsements; instead, it consistently operates on a "plague on both your houses" principle, finding the moralizing zealots and institutional gatekeepers on all sides equally deserving of ridicule. Over time, the show has adapted its scope to reflect shifting cultural anxieties. While the initial seasons critiqued late 90s political correctness and consumerism, later seasons directly engaged with the rise of identity politics, social justice enforcement, and internet outrage culture. Periods like Season 19 (PC Principal) and Seasons 20 through 28 show the series pivoting to critique the specific mechanisms and rhetoric associated with contemporary "woke" ideologies, portraying them not as moral advancement but as new forms of hypocrisy, self-righteousness, and social control. Even when dealing with themes traditionally associated with progressive critique—such as race, gender, or systemic failure—*South Park* generally satirizes the political discourse surrounding those issues rather than validating a single ideological viewpoint on systemic oppression. A persistent theme across all eras is the elevation of the four main boys as cynical observers navigating a world run by foolish adults. This core dynamic remains intact even as the show moves from purely episodic plots (early seasons) to highly serialized, season-long arcs (later seasons, heavily focused on Randy Marsh's various schemes or presidential satire). The show’s most reliable source of hostility is consistently directed at organized religion, censorship, and ideological rigidity of any kind, whether that rigidity is political, environmental, or social. In summary, *South Park* is a long-running masterclass in provocative, non-partisan satire. It skewers the entire cultural landscape with reckless abandon, using its low-fidelity aesthetic as a shield to aggressively mock hypocrisy in all its forms. The series has never settled into a consistent political alignment, instead maintaining a commitment to dismantling certainty, exposing performance, and defending free speech, often defining itself by what it aggressively pushes against, whether that is manufactured grievance, religious dogma, or suffocating political correctness.

Categorical Breakdown

Identity Politics3.4/10

Oikophobia3.8/10

Feminism3.3/10

LGBTQ+3.6/10

Anti-Theism5.3/10