One of the reasons South Park is that, unlike the likes of The Simpsons, Family Guy, The Rugrats, The Flintstones, or basically any other cartoon, Parker and Stone don’t start writing or drawing episodes until just a week before they’re broadcast.
In an interesting open letter in The Guardian, documentary maker Adam Curtis – who recently released the astounding HyperNormalisation on BBC iPlayer – wrote how the Matt Stone and Trey Parker helmed cartoon is ‘true genius’.
He concurs, however, that the best social commentary comes from South Park.
Meanwhile, when promoting the Comedy Central show, the marketing team managed to anger the White House, Church of Scientology, and more with some well-placed billboards.