![]() “In those days, there was no context for it at all.” Just The Simpsons - but none of those characters went as Hitler on Halloween (like Cartman) or gave themselves testicular cancer in order to get medical marijuana (like Stan’s dad, Randy). ![]() ![]() ![]() “There was nothing like it on TV,” says Doug Herzog, the Comedy Central executive who greenlighted the series and ushered its first episode on the air in August 1997. But the two college pals’ very first endeavor - a dementedly brilliant twist on Peanuts, in which each week the tiny tykes of South Park, Colo., spout obscenities (in one episode, the word “shit” is uttered 162 times) and commit blasphemy on everyone from the Virgin Mary to Tom Cruise - likely will remain their greatest artistic achievement. In the years since, Stone, 45, and Parker, 46, have collaborated on many projects, including a smash Broadway hit ( Book of Mormon) and a classic cult movie ( Team America: World Police). The animation in that first film was primitive, even by Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s lenient standards, but the contours of South Park were all there: A bunch of F-bomb-dropping grade-schoolers bring a demonic snowman to life and ask Jesus for help (“Oh my God, Frosty killed Kenny!”). Back in 1992, two classmates at the University of Colorado took a stack of construction paper, some scissors and an old 8mm camera and pasted together a five-minute stop-motion movie that would launch a cartoon empire.
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