y as its also aimed at adults and includes much satirical humour as 'Family Guy' does, causing controversy.
So what is 'South Park'? 'South Park' is the story of four boys living in a quiet little mountain town in Colorado, America. Strange things happen with alarming regularity, and they deal with each situation in there own unique way. The four foul-mouthed youths create comedy from nothing most of the time, generally through naivety or downright mindlessness. But these children aren't your usual eight year olds, no these are obnoxious, rude and wise cracking little kids, this in itself has caused controversy as using children to present adult humour is always going to be controversial. The series is deliberately crudely animated, which adds to its charm and interest, which could be for originality or it could emphasise the comical side, the verbal humour as its one of the successful cartoon comedy's around but visually and graphically inferior to the likes of 'The Simpsons'.
'The Simpsons' still has new episodes getting made as has been running for so long that it is so influential in the cartoon comedy genre, as was leading the market for this genre for so long. It wasn't till the late 90s and early 2000s that 'South Park' came about and challenged 'The Simpsons'. Except it wasn't another cartoon with child humour nor was it aimed at the family audience, far from it, put on late at night and made 18 when out on video, 'South Park' did not shy away from political or social humour. With the use of satirical humour in the light of current affairs 'South Park' was different from 'The Simpsons'. Even the Iraq war and many jokes relating close reference to this, Saddam often making an appearance, even Bin laden was in one episode. Though they tend to have moral stories in the ending, many episodes don'...