Eric Cartman

First is Butters

Second is Bebe

Third is Wendy

Fourth is young Liane with baby Eric

Didn’t really know what to put for the face

So I'm sure some of you have seen these iceberg chart images before, but if you haven't, it basically lists theories, trivia, hoaxes, and other types of things from most well-known to most obscure. After seeing several of these types of images, I wondered if there was one made for South Park. I did find two, but neither of them were very good; either they just didn't have many items listed, or kind of got the premise of an iceberg wrong. So I figured I'd make my own!

The order goes like this:

Tier 1: Things that just about any South Park fan would know about. These are things you either heard about before seeing the show or can figure out by watching the show, or just the most obvious trivia. A lot of simple behind-the-scenes trivia here.

Tier 2: Mostly "fun fact" type listings that are proven either in the show or by the creators. These are the kinds of things I learned about when I first got into South Park, and most of you would probably recognize them as well.

Tier 3: This gets more into theorizing territory, and some lesser-known trivia, some of which may not be entirely canon. This is mostly the stuff I found when I googled "South Park theories" or "South Park trivia."

Tier 4: Some things that are less obvious to the casual viewer, but still many fans of South Park have heard of.

Tier 5: More obscure, but more importantly more dark than the last tier. Lots of "dark" theories and trivia. Admittedly I opted a bit more for spookiness than obscurity here, though the two traits tend to overlap. So if you've heard about a lot of these, that's why.

Tier 6: More dark and obscure than the last tier. Some of this stuff is quite obscure and not as well-known, or references some of the darkest themes in South Park's history.

Tier 7: The darkest and most obscure bits of South Park that I could find. Includes some lost media, abandoned ideas and some "spooky" theories. Obviously this section was the hardest to fill up because the most obscure things aren't going to show up on the first page of Google, but I tried my best.

Feel free to give me some suggestions of what I can add to the iceberg, I'd love to hear them!

Hello, everyone! Today, have a handful of songs that (sometimes vaguely) remind me of characters and such from South Park!

The first one is “Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing” by Set It Off. I feel it sort of describes how Kyle feels about Cartman, complete with his clear wish and hope that he’d change.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o6ifhsL4kKw

The next two are both formerly overplayed songs from Evolve, an album by Imagine Dragons. “Thunder” makes me think of Ike, given his great gifts as well as his apparent desire for adventure and greatness; “I was dreaming of bigger things and wanted to leave my own life behind.”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c1Q0TvJUaig

The other is “Believer”. It sort of reminds me of Stan, idk.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=igulXNL1Kz0

Finally, there’s “Because of You” by Kelly Clarkson. Personally, it makes me think of Stan, Butters, and their respective shitty, narcissistic fathers. Many of these lyrics seem to display certain faults of theirs, possibly as a result of their parents.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hCkOlbL_WVs

Okay, so I just came up with an obscure take on South Park that’s so baseless, I’m not calling it a theory so much as a slightly irrelevant idea, somewhat inspired by similar obscure takes and the actual story behind the series. But I’m currently entertained by the idea, so here.

South Park is the highly metaphorical creation of a real-life Butters.

So, let me elaborate. Real-life Butters is an extremely bright, creative young boy around 8-10 who lives in a small town. Let’s call him Leopold, after the obvious. (I’ll elaborate on his life as I go.) He is a quiet, outcast kid who is simultaneously lonely and a loner. One day in school, he is assigned an art project. It didn’t have to be much, just some little at-home project that consists of construction paper. But like I said, Leopold is very creative, so he goes way beyond the standard, as he usually does. For the school project, he created an elaborate, albeit minimalist, town complete with houses and shops, an elaborate school, little people, and aliens (just for a random twist). He proudly shows it to his teacher, who (as always) appears unamused with his creation and enthusiasm, grades him on it, and gives it back to take home. However, Leopold later decides he really loves the little world he created, so he keeps working on it. He creates more little people, he makes different positions and props and voices for them, and starts making charming yet vulgar little animations with it. (After all, he’s a little kid with a gross, dark sense of humor as one might expect.)

As he gets further into the world, he starts basing the characters and events on his own world more. He’s extremely emotionally intelligent, and ten times more knowing of people than he lets on, but with a rather quirky worldview. Stan, Kyle, Kenny, and Cartman are based on a group of kids in school who would always bully him relentlessly.

“Stan” and “Kyle” were inseparable and, the way Leopold saw it, a little nicer and childlike than the other two. The two are also pretty similar, but “Stan” seemed a bit nicer, “Kyle” a bit smarter. “Kenny” was a kid who spoke clearly, but had perverse tastes. He rarely bullied Leopold himself, but was a friend of the others and would sometimes laugh at his bullying and misfortune, so he despised him anyway. He decided to make Kenny muffled so he wouldn’t get punished for talking about titties and such. (How he got away with everything else is beyond me.) “Cartman” was decidedly the worst of the four, but also the most bullied. The Cartman of his real world was a snarky, foul-mouthed, shallow, seemingly slow-witted and somewhat overweight asshole, who was often bullied by all the other kids for his weight as well as his generally annoying voice and temperament. “Cartman” had a father and (at least to his knowledge) his mother was not a crackwhore, but Leopold observed his behavior and figured he had issues at home, so he created Cartman as the fatherless son of the town bike. Pip was created simply to show how mean the other characters would be to some nice kid for no good reason, just as he felt other kids were to him. Leopold decided to keep subjecting those kids in particular to horrible situations in the story to take out his frustrations about their real-life counterparts. He’d also have Stan and Kyle often learn something in the process as a way of slowly and happily fulfilling his wish that they’d change.

Naturally, Mr. Garrison was based on his rude, indifferent teacher who seemed to have other things on his mind. Additionally, the parents of them are based on his older siblings, who he has a LOT of. (Rest assured, Leopold has good parents.) Sharon comes from his 13-year-old sister, who is intelligent, thoughtful, and caring. He always felt a closer, more comforting bond with her than his other siblings, and he felt she would make a saner mother. Randy is based on his slightly ditzy 14-year-old brother, who tends to be hammy and can’t keep a singular interest for very long. Shelia comes from his loud, activist 16-year-old sister who dislikes dark and/or edgy media, despite her age. Gerald comes from his quiet, brainy, somewhat arrogant 18-year-old brother. Liane is based on his sister, who enjoys making sweets and tends to be sweetly indifferent to what goes on around her. She also tends to tell (mostly white) lies to people for the sole purpose of making them feel good about themselves. Lastly, Stuart and Carol are based on his 19-year-old fraternal twin brother and sister. They are in college and rarely communicate with him nowadays, and when they do they seem bitter and tired, so he made Kenny’s parents alcoholics of a similar nature.

Leopold was a pretty bored little kid, so he would often read the newspaper despite his age. As time went on, he started enjoying those articles more and developing his own views on them, so he’d started to subtly include the stories and celebrities, and would often mock them in the same funny, vulgar way he had everything else in his stories. As he carved out his South Park world more, he’d slowly included his true author avatar, a ditzy kid named Butters. He was initially designed to look like himself in the art style, but wasn’t a lot more than a self-referential background character gag until what we’d call Season 5. When he finally decided to include himself in his exaggerated little world, that’s when he really started to feel an emotional outlet in South Park.

But more on that later. As Leopold got older, his real world naturally changed. He noticed that the kids he had been picked on by were starting to grow up and act nicer. As a result, so did his Stan, Kyle, and Kenny. However, he noticed that the “Cartman” didn’t really change for the better. He wondered, “What’s wrong with him?” That gave him an idea. He decided to make Cartman far, far worse than he ever was. He cut out a teenage bully, his parents, and some chili. The rest is history. Additionally, “Kenny” had moved away, so he decided to kill Kenny “one last time”, but make it actually depressing as Leopold had started to develop an actual friendship with him in real life.

But back to Butters. As they still were pretty mean to Leopold, he still made them use and torment Butters. He decided to design him as an exaggeratedly naïve, overly trusting, and somewhat stupid kid. This is so Leopold could better depict the way he was treated by others as he saw it.

I could go on and on about what various characters and episodes mean to him, (I already have a million ideas about that) but I figure that would be sort of excessive and boring. However, feel free to ask me any questions about my concept. In short, South Park is Leopold’s special art, his mouthpiece, his hobby, and (most importantly) a reflection of his entire life.

Hey guys!

I was thinking about Season 2 today and I realized how it's usually stacked against the other seasons as one of the worst. I think there are definitely highs and lows of Season 2, and it being the longest season might have something to do with that.

I think Season 2, while not the best, is a very important season for South Park as a whole. Season 2 builds on the foundation of the classic characters from the first Season while keeping their old traits in mind. My favorite example of this is "The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka". Everyone knows who Jimbo and Ned are if they saw Season 1, and this episode takes everything we know about them and establishes them as major side characters (for the time). We learn that Jimbo and Ned met in Vietnam and about their recently created hunting show. Another great example of this is Chef and "Chef Aid".

I miss how these "classic characters" have been given almost whole seasons to shine, especially now since most of them are either dead or missing.

Oh yeah, and don't forget Classic "Bully" Cartman! Season 2 had some of his best moments.

Please, let me know what you think of this quickly-written statement!

EDIT: I totally forgot to mention, this season DESERVES a DVD commentary. I really want to know why Matt and Trey decided to do what they did with most of these episodes!

Oh God, everyone needs to prepare for my longest, most heartfelt essay ever. And by long, I mean ranty. And by heartfelt, I mean angry and profane.

I wish you all luck, and please feel free to give you own views and analysis on this, and what you may agree or disagree on.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1--WYNtvZrQ7p9j6IFf7yyT2uuvMAk1PYrVJrlsEosDs/edit

"I'm starting to feel like life isn't gonna be so bad." -Heidi Turner

Hey everyone, today I'll be doing something a little different for this post.

As most of you know, Heidi and Cartman start a relationship in "The Damned", the third episode of Season Twenty. At this point, Heidi "quit Twitter" and Cartman's electronics were destroyed. The school was on the verge of a gender war, and Heidi shows Cartman life outside of social media. Near the end of the episode, she says "I'm starting to feel like life isn't gonna be so bad".

The normal viewer probably wouldn't think too much of this, but Heidi's had a pretty difficult time leading up to this. For starters, she was basically bullied off of Twitter. And since she's very conscious of her social status, it probably killed her to be bullied off of the one platform she could use to fit in. Sticking with this "fitting in" idea, while desiring to fit in with the other girls, she doesn't seem too comfortable with the idea of a gender war, teaming up with the most terrible student in the school to end it. If you read my theory a while ago, you'll know that I think Heidi was or still is an orphan, having switched families and relatives many times up to this episode, possibly making her feel like an outcast because (to my knowledge) nobody else in South Park is a foster child.

Now that she's started a relationship with Cartman, she believes that her life will be better. It is for a while, but everything goes wrong very quickly.