Hey everyone, a quick heads up at the top.

This episode is about South Park, so it needs a content warning.

Consider yourself warned.

It's hard to describe just how popular South Park was in my school when it first aired in 1997.

I was in seventh grade.

New episodes came out every Wednesday night at 10 p.m. on Comedy Central.

And then the next day, everybody in my class would spend the entire week,

whispering lines from the show over and over again, totally out of context and making sure

that the teachers couldn't hear us.

Music totally out of context and making sure that the teachers couldn't hear us. I've been watching since I was way too young. I was probably not allowed to be watching the show when it was first on air in the late 90s.

I was just a grade schooler in Australia and, you know, I don't think the show was meant for me, but I was watching.

That's Slate, contributing writer David Mack.

I'm one of three boys, and I, this was the sort of epitome of my older brother's humor, and it very

quickly became the epitome of our humor, too, right?

The series, created by Matt Stone and Trey Parker, follows four young boys in a rural Colorado

town. And right from the start, South Park has always pushed the boundaries of what you could get away with saying on TV.

Especially in those early episodes where one of the kids, Kenny, would get brutally killed every week.

Oh my god, They killed Kitty!

You bastard!

The whole point of the show seemed to be the crazier, the more vulgar, the better.

I can remember the show feeling outrageous and scandalous and naughty and juvenile in a way that was obviously very appealing

as a pre-pupescent boy. Here was something that was beyond outrageous and they were getting

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