South Park turns twenty-nine this year, and this Throwback Thursday looks back at 1997, the year it premiered, and the debate over whether it reshaped the shows around it.
The story includes a South Park VHS tape kept on a laundry room shelf, a threat of being grounded forever for touching it, and why the show landed harder for someone who waited until their late teens to watch it.
It also covers the 2001 movie that gave the world “Blame Canada,” and the observation that the show picked on everybody, with nobody off-limits.
Topics: South Park anniversary, Blame Canada, animated comedy, TV throwback, pop culture history
Originally aired on2026-08-13
