Either way, the show captured the imaginations of many young television viewers in the United States and abroad and is often considered a classic piece of 1990s youth culture and Generation X. Trey Parker and Matt Stone, creators of South Park, cite the show as an influence and compared it to the blues, and met Mike Judge before the show aired.

Another version of " O Canada " in rock format was recorded by Lee and Lifeson on the accompanying soundtrack CD for the Trey Parker and Matt Stone film South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut released in 1999.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone made a South Park version of the sketch containing Cartman angrily returning a dead Kenny to Kyle's shop.

In the 1990s Trey Parker and Matt Stone made two original shorts and the pilot of South Park almost entirely out of construction paper.

Engrish has featured occasionally in the Trey Parker and Matt Stone cartoon South Park, such as the song " Let's Fighting Love ", used in the episode " Good Times With Weapons ", which parodies the poorly translated opening theme sequences sometimes shown in anime, and in Parker and Stone's feature length Team America: World Police where the late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is depicted singing the song " I'm so Ronery ".

In recent years, Idle has worked with people who regard him as a huge inspiration, such as Trey Parker and Matt Stone in South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, in which he voiced Dr. Vosknocker.

In a 2011 interview, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone stated that they regretted how Condit was portrayed in the episode.

* Words and Music: Only four musicals have won the Tony Award for Best Musical when a person had ( co -) written the Book ( non-sung dialogue and storyline ) and the Score ( music and lyrics ): 1958 winner The Music Man ( Meredith Willson – award for Book and Score did not exist that year ), 1986 winner The Mystery of Edwin Drood ( Rupert Holmes – who also won for Book and Score ), 1996 winner Rent ( Jonathan Larson – who also won for Book and Score ), and 2011 winner The Book of Mormon ( Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, and Matt Stone also won for Book and Score ).

It stars Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone, Fay Holden, Cecilia Parker, Judy Garland, Lana Turner, Ann Rutherford, Mary Howard and Gene Reynolds.

He debuted on television when South Park first aired on August 13, 1997 ; he had earlier appeared in The Spirit of Christmas shorts created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone in 1992 ( Jesus vs. Frosty ) and 1995 ( Jesus vs. Santa ).

Parker and Stone describe the character as " a little Archie Bunker ", and state that he is their favorite character, and the one with whom they most identify.

Parker and Stone have compared the relationship to the one shared by Archie Bunker and Michael " Meathead " Stivic on the 1970s sitcom All in the Family.

When commissioned three years later by friend Brian Graden to create another short as a video Christmas card that he could send to friends, Parker and Stone created another similarly-animated The Spirit of Christmas short, dubbed Jesus vs. Santa.

Cartman is partially named after and based on Matt Karpman, a high school classmate of Parker who remains a friend of both Parker and Stone.

Cartman is also inspired by All in the Family patriarch Archie Bunker, of whom Parker and Stone are fans.

Parker and Stone, despite being the basis for Stan and Kyle, insist that Cartman is their favorite character, and the one with whom they identify the most.

Cartman is foul-mouthed ( as are his friends ) as a means for Parker and Stone to portray how they believe young boys really talk when they are alone.

Stone has said that when fans recognize him or Parker, the fans will usually do their imitation of Cartman, or, in Parker's case, request that he do Cartman's voice.

Parker and Stone have always asserted that due to Cartman's actions and dialogue, his appearances in South Park are not meant to be viewed by younger children, and they note that the show is certified with TV ratings that indicate its intention for mature audiences.

Both Cartman's commentary and the commentary resulting in response to his actions have been interpreted as statements Parker and Stone are attempting to make to the viewing public, and these opinions have been subject to much critical analysis in the media and literary world.

Parker and Stone downplay the show's alignment with any particular political affiliation, and deny having a political agenda when creating an episode.

In South Park, the authors Trey Parker and Matt Stone are also voice actors for most male roles, especially the boys: Parker voices Stan, Cartman and others while Stone is the voice of Kyle, Kenny, Butters and others.

Parker and Stone downplay the show's alignment with any particular political affiliation, and deny having a political agenda when creating an episode.

Hecht was a snob, and hanging out at the Algonquin with Dorothy Parker, it suited him to downplay his movie work, so he only received credit for about half of the 100 plus films he worked on.

She also appears as a guest star in the Showtime cable television show Weeds as the marijuana supplier for the show's main character ( Mary-Louise Parker ).

According to Parker, Cartman does not possess the " underlying sweetness " of the show's other child characters.

By 1945, Pious and Reed were joined by two new Alley denizens: Parker Fennelly as stoic New England farmer Titus Moody, and Kenny Delmar, the new show's announcer, as bellowing Southern senator Beauregard Claghorn.

Near the end of the production run of the show's fifth season ( 2001 ), Parker and Stone contemplated having an episode in which Kyle was killed off.

Butters gradually became one of Parker and Stone's favorite characters, and for the show's season five finale they created the episode

Parker in the show's six seasons.

* Reed Halsey Philby ( Kathy Wagner ( Season 1 )/ Ashley Judd ( Seasons 2-4 )/ Noelle Parker ( Season 6 )): Alex and Wade's daughter Reed appeared on and off throughout the show's run and was played by three different actresses.

As the players prepare for opening night, Shayne is soon in over his head claiming Cheech's rewrites as his own, cheating on his partner Ellen ( Mary-Louise Parker ) with the show's seductive, alcoholic leading lady Helen Sinclair ( Dianne Wiest ), and facing his leading man, a compulsive eater ( Jim Broadbent ), beginning an affair with Olive.

Bill and Cassie Parker ( Eugene Roche and Cathryn Damon ) leased the Victorian house to the Papadopoulos ' during the show's second and third seasons, until George and Katherine bought it outright ( this was Damon's last TV series role, as she died from cancer a year after leaving Webster ).

After making the feature film Team America: World Police and the 13 other episodes in South Park < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s 8th season in the same year ( a year which Trey Parker and Matt Stone describe as " The Year from Hell "), Parker, Stone and the show's other writers were completely drained of ideas.

Although Parker and Stone sought to improve the details and textures of the characters and overall animation, they also specifically chose Alias because it would allow the animation to maintain the show's deliberately crude visual style they first created with construction paper in The Spirit of Christmas and " Cartman Gets an Anal Probe ".

However, Parker and Stone said in an early interview that the show's language is realistic.

In 2008, Parker and Stone made " Death " and all South Park episodes available to watch for free on the show's official website, " South Park Studios ".

In 2008, Parker and Stone made " Starvin ' Marvin " and all South Park episodes were made available to watch for free on the show's official website, " South Park Studios ".

Parker is again starring as Elphaba in Wicked, this time on the show's first North American tour.

" Tom's Rhinoplasty ", the show's first Valentine's Day episode, was written by series co-creator Trey Parker and was rated TV-MA in the United States and 15 in the United Kingdom.

However, Parker and Stone said in an early interview that the show's language is realistic.

Parker and Stone highlight it as another example ( after " Scott Tenorman Must Die ") of the show's change in style towards simpler ideas which consisted only of an A-Plot, with no subplot, and " not try to do too many things at once ".

In writing the episode, Parker and Stone regularly consulted Anne Garefino, the South Park executive producer and a practicing Catholic ; Stone said Garefino was a " good sport about it " and did not get offended by the show's jokes about Catholicism.

Parker also said the show's elements about flatulence causing spontaneous combustion stemmed from his own serious belief that holding in farts can indeed cause humans to spontaneously combust.

In 2008, Parker and Stone made " Mecha-Streisand " and all South Park episodes available to watch for free on the show's official website, " South Park Studios ".