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My first exposure to Southpark was before it was even a show. A video file (below) was circulating on my brother's network at college. It is still strange to m
by gavanwoolery 10y ago
My first exposure to Southpark was before it was even a show.
A video file (below) was circulating on my brother's network at college. It is still strange to me to have witnessed the birth of such a huge hit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T_RZOoVlzc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T_RZOoVlzc
- beamatronic 10y agoThis is even older than the first one I saw which was "Jesus vs. Santa Claus", in 1997
- rplst8 10y agoI was unaware of this too until the other night when I looked it up. Apparently the first one was made as an entry into a student film festival. Then a producer saw it and asked them to make another as a gag gift for a friend. That was the birth of the Jesus vs. Santa episode. In the original, the character that looks like Cartman is referred to as "Kenny". He "dies" just like Kenny always did in later episodes.
- rabidrat 10y agoSame here. Small footnote: I was the one who made the transcription of 1997's Spirit of Xmas (soxmas) which was going around our university at the time. A classmate digitized the videotape we had gotten.
- emmelaich 10y agoNot my first exposure, but a good story, soon after. I was working at an investment bank in Europe and my boss/colleague got a call from his brother during a serious meeting. Execs and everything. His brother worked at a television studio and they had just bought rights to South Park. He said he you have to listen to this. Investment banker begs off but TV brother insists and after a bit of back and forth he stops mid meeting to listen to South Park and of course could barely contain himself. It was probably S1E1 - Cartman gets an anal probe; but may have been S2E13 "Cow Days" where Cartman gets amnesia and thinks he is a Vietnamese prostitute. Way off the wall stuff.