![]() "Now you watch it, and you're like, 'This is PG-rated,'" Parker adds. ![]() ![]() "The coverage from the first season was like, 'Do not let your kids watch this show!'" Stone recalls. The animated series about four grade-school pals - Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman and Kenny McCormick - growing up (but never growing old) in South Park, Colorado, immediately drew ire from critics. On August 13, 1997, five years after Parker and Stone met, South Park premiered on Comedy Central. The duo met in film class at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where they connected over a shared sense of humor, and really, says Parker, "We just wanted to make stupid shit." An early effort, The Spirit of Christmas - an animated short that went the '90s equivalent of viral (copied and shared on VHS) - ultimately caught the eye of then–Comedy Central president Doug Herzog. "Every season when we get into the room, we're just like, 'How do we do this?'" ![]() "I still don't know what the formula is," says Parker, who also directs the series. Trey Parker and Matt Stone - the cocreators, executive producers, writers and lead voice actors for twenty-five seasons of South Park - have yet to figure out the secret of their success. ![]()
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