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Topics: South Park, Film and TV, US News, Entertainment
Gerrard Kaonga
Topics: South Park, Film and TV, US News, Entertainment
South Park has been on screens for almost 30 years and has been controversial from day dot, but the creators do still have some regrets despite their success.
Whether your a fans or not, it is pretty impressive South Park has managed to stay relevant for 27 years.
And in all that time we have had wild, gross and hilarious adventures with the Kenny, Cartman, Kyle, Stan and good ol Butterz as well as the townfolk of South Park.
But the creators of the TV show Trey Parker and Matt Stone have reminisced about their humble beginnings and admitted there is some stuff they wish they could change.
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Namely, they wish they could straight up delete from existence of three seasons that they just don't see the merit in anymore.
Which makes sense as in 30 years your comedic tastes are bound to change.
Understandably, a considerable part of this regret stems from how they've matured since the early years of the show.
At the beginning of the show, Parker and Stone's priorities varied between 'trying to get laid' and 'f**king around', as they previously told The Hollywood Reporter.
But now they’re not twenty-somethings behaving like kids anymore, instead they’re actually parents to kids of their own.
And so, it’s no surprise then that their earliest seasons are the ones that have left the sourest taste in their mouth.
Notably, Parker said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly: “If I had to permanently erase anything from the library, it would basically be anything before season 4”.
And he was very clear in his reasoning why, citing pure embarrassment as the source of regret.
He added: “It’s just embarrassing to watch. OK, we were, like, 26, 27. But it’s like, ‘Really?’ We thought that was funny?
"We thought that was well-written? Oh my God, this is terrible.”
It’s hard not to sympathise with Parker’s reasoning for such embarrassment, because nostalgia-induced cringe is a rite of passage for most of us. How often have we all found ourselves haunted by memories of our early years?
But now 27 years have passed, and creators Parker and Stone have evolved and refined their craft. They follow the same age-old formula with a touch less cringe.
Parker shed light on the script-writing process in an article for The Los Angeles Times’ on the show’s 25th anniversary, saying: "The writers' room always starts with us sitting around a table going, 'All right, what's going on?' Just like in any office. But even in the season we just did, some of my favorite things were Butters riding a horse and Cartman living in a hot dog. Just kid stuff."