South Park (TV series)

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Premise

South Park is an animated adult comedy/satire about four young elementary school boys and their adventures. While often moralistic, there is no subjet or taboo that the writers (Parker and Stone) seem unwilling to explore.

The show is set in in South Park, Colorado described in the shows theme song (written and preformed by Les Claypool) as a place with: "Friendly faces everywhere, humble folks without temptation!... ample parking day or night, people spouting howdy neighbour." However, the inhabitants of South Park are anything but normal. South Park features such characters as a transsexual school teacher ( Mr/Mrs Garrison) and a number of gay characters including: Big Gay Al and Mr. Slave.

The show is renowned for its use of crude language and sexual themes.

Main Characters

Stan Marsh: [1] is described as the voice of reason of the group. He is voiced by Trey Parker one of the shows creators .

Kyle Broflovski: [2] is Stan's best friend who is described as the most sympathetic of the group. He's also Jewish which often brings him into conflict with Eric Cartman. He is voiced by Matt Stone.

Eric Cartman: [3] (Trey Parker) is the primary antagonist. He is a fat, racist, foul-mouthed, obnoxious little boy. His hatred of Jews often brings him into conflict with Kyle.

Kenny McCormick: [4] (Matt Stone) is the poor kid of the group. During the first five seasons, his was killed off each week, in numerous ways, only to be resurrected the following week without explanation.

Cartman Joins NAMBLA: Episode no.53

First aired June 20, 2000, Eric Cartmen decides that he needs to find some friends who are more mature after having a disagreement with Stan, Kyle, and Kenny. He goes online and finds a chat room entitled “Men who like young boys”. Cartman posts a messages that he is a young boy looking for a mature friend. He is bombarded with messages. Cartman decides to meet a man with the nickname Tony316. However when the man shows up at the restaurant, he is arrested by the FBI. The following day, he makes his second attempt. Cartman meets another man, who turns out to be his schoolteacher Mr. Garrison. Again, the FBI show up and arrest him. Cartmen is confused why his new adult friends keep getting arrested. He concludes that it is a plot by his friends to prevent him from achieving his goal and he confronts them. They of course deny any involvement. Meanwhile, the members of NAMBLA go to the South Park jail to demand the release of the “political prisoners”. They explain to officer Barbrady that loving a boy is natural and has been around since ancient times. As they leave, Barrbrady comments that, “wow, they have activists for everything these days”.

He decides to ask the advice of Dr. Mephesto, who advises him that he should join his group called “NAMBLA” (The North American Marlon Brando Look-Alikes). Cartman decides that is just what he is looking for and goes to find one of their meetings. When he enters the hall, all the men turn to look at him. When he announces that he is there looking for an adult friend, he is immediately made the poster child for the group. The members of NAMBLA (depicted as stereotypical sexual predators ) and are shown taking suggestive photographs of Cartman under a sign saying, “ I love NAMBLA” for his poster. The group decides to hold a banquet in Cartmen’s honor and tell his to invite his friends to join them.