Southpark has faced numerous controversies. It often uses what many people find to be taboo subject matter, from its use of vulgarity to its satire of subjects such as religion and cults, sexuality, tolerance and natural disaster hysteria.
For example: In the episode "It hits the fan", the word 'shit' was said a total of 162 times uncensored. Alson in the episode entitled "With apologies to Jesse Jackson", the racial word 'nigger' was used throughout the entire episode for a total of 42 times! In 2005, some catholic organisations protested the season finale episode, "Bloody Mary", for its depiction of a statue of the Virgin Mary bleeding from her vagina.
Southpark began around 1992. As you know, Trey Parker and Matt Stone are the creators of Southpark. They met in a film class and together they made a animated short film called Jesus vs. Frosty. The main characters in this movie were: Kenny(now Eric Cartman), and three unnamed characters(now Kenny, Stan and Kyle). In the film these four characters bring a murderous snowman to life with a magic hat. You see, the subjects were as weird as now!
When a employee from Fox saw the movie, he wanted Parker and Stone to make another episode. On this moment, the very begin of Southpark was a fact.
Southpark has faced numerous controversies. It often uses what many people find to be taboo subject matter, from its use of vulgarity to its satire of subjects such as religion and cults, sexuality, tolerance and natural disaster hysteria.
