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SO, LIKE, WHAT IS SOUTH PARK?  You don't know?  What the hell are you doing with your Wednesday nights anyway?  If you have the free time to hop on the Internet to check this page out, you should spend the half-hour every Wednesday night to sit your loser ass on the sofa and watch South Park.  It's the new adult animated series on COMEDY CENTRAL, the only all-comedy cable network (currently available in over 45 million homes nationwide - how about that for free advertising!)  The show runs from 10:00 p.m. (ET/PT) and can also be seen later Wednesday at 1:00 a.m., then again on Saturday (10:00 p.m. and 2:00 a.m.) and Sundays at midnight.  And don't think the crude fsanimation of the third grade gang won't cut it; ratings for South Park have more than quintupled Comedy Contrail's average and continue to grow.  One episode grabbed 6.2 million viewers, the program's largest audience yet.  OH MY GOD, THEY CREATED KENNY!  We're talking about Trey Parker (28 years old) and Matt Stone (26 years old) the creators of South Park. Stone and Parker met at the University of Colorado in Boulder where they were Film Studies classmates.  There they made crudely produced comedic shorts, including the Student Academy Award-winner "American History" (hey, that's what they tell us in the press release) and the original "Frosty vs. Santa Claus," the precursor to the now famous "Spirit of Christmas."  You know, the one where Jesus and Santa battle it out for the rights to the holiday.  The "Spirit of Christmas" was originally supposed to be just a Christmas Video card that (then) Fox Lab executive Brian Graden commissioned Stone and Parker to create.  Soon after, the "Spirit of Christmas" was a hit, and so were Parker and Stone.  The South Park debut was on August 13, 1997, and the show has gone on to be Comedy Contrail's highest rated original series in network history - and it's also garnered a CableACE award for Best Animated Series, has been nominated for the prestigious Environmental Media Award, and recently landed on critics 10 best lists for 1997 television, including The New York Times and Newsday.  Parker and Stone have just negotiated a new deal with Comedy Central, which will include forty new episodes - enough to keep South Park on the air into the next millennium.  Sources estimate the various deals the pair have signed will earn them roughly 15 million dollars.  Not bad for a couple of guys that look like they should be holding "will work for food" signs.     South Park on the Web     COMEDY CENTRAL'S site     South Park Category     South Park Memorabilia     South Park Net Events     Message Board        BUT WHAT IS THE SHOW ABOUT?  Listen dammit, it's impossible to explain an entire series in just a few short paragraphs, so you're just going to have to watch on Wednesday nights.  But fine, if you'd like, here's a little synopsis: South Park is a tiny town in the Colorado Rockies and home to our third grade friends Stan, Kyle, Kenny, and Cartman.  STAN is the group's leader (the kid in the blue hat with the red pompom.)  He usually avoids the cruel banter of his friends, though he isn't necessarily cool.  He pukes on chicks when he gets nervous.  KYLE is the smart kid, and also the only one of the four boys with a defined ethnic background (he's Jewish.)  The problem is, Kyle has no idea what being Jewish means, and his friends make fun of him for being Jewish, only they don't know what being Jewish means either.  CARTMAN is the fat kid.  He's loud, arrogant, and  over-opinionated.  And fat Boy, is this kid a butterball.  He's also stupid; and everyone knows fat and stupid is a far cry from future prom king.  KENNY is the poor kid; a sick twist of a boy who gets hideously killed each week in freak accidents - hence the catch phrase "oh my God, they killed Kenny."  We'd like to tell you more, but unfortunately, it's impossible to understand anything Kenny says.  He's not the most interesting fellow in the entire world, but each night he is faced with the question "will there be food on my table tonight?"      The show follows these four on new adventures each week, which includes plot lines such as: should Stan help his 103-year old grandfather kill himself or should the kids summon the Grim Reaper to do their dirty work?  Or: can Kyle and Cartman crossbreed an elephant with a pot-bellied pig so they can have a tiny elephant that their parents will let them keep in the house?  Yes, there's that and more ingenious struggle each week on South Park, ranging from UFO anal probes to Stan's gay dog (there are even morals to be found beneath the wit, charm, and exploding farts contained in each episode.)     Othe members of the town include the lovable Chef (a UFO fanatic on a quest to expose the government's conspiracy to hide its knowledge of alien infiltration from the public.)  Mr. Garrison, the third grade teacher; a sick freak of a man who talks to his hand puppet even when the boys aren't around.  Uncle Jimbo and Uncle Ned, the fun-loving and constantly drunk rednecks of South Park.  They fish with hand grenades, disintegrate bunny rabbits with bazookas, and liquidate deer with anti-air-craft missiles.  But like we said, you really have to watch the show to appreciate all the eccentric characters.    Another UN Production   Past Web Celebs: Laurie Plaskin, Andrew Shue, Calvert Deforest, Yasmine Bleeth, Howard Stern, Pamela Lee Anderson, David Letterman, Cindy Margolis, Will Smith, Kate Mulgrew, Jewel, Chris Rock, Rosie O'Donnell,  Pierce Brosnan, Tracey Ullman, Fiona Apple, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Winslet,  3rd Rock From The Sun, and Godzilla. 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