It might help if the South Park kids had personalities, but they’re as one-dimensional as the show’s cut-and-paste animation.
Vanity Fair August 31, 2018 Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland’s obscene Rick and Morty is exceptional, in a kind of scary way.
I must shamefully admit however that I like South Park -- a lot. It is at once insanely juvenile and very sophisticated, appealing to a funny...
Comedy Central’s own promotional material dubs the show "sick and twisted." You bet it is. It’s also sophomoric, gross, and unfunny. It...
Unlike many cartoons, this one actually "looks" funny, and it constantly plays on its grade-school aesthetic for shock value, with great success. A...
New York Times September 9, 2013 So far, 'South Park' succeeds best in small touches.
The evil spawn of Beavis & Butt-head has landed. South Park is built for bodacious discomfort.
Variety September 9, 2013 The genius of Parker and Stone is the incongruity between the innocent look of the characters and the outlandish invective that spews from their ya...
Rendered in the wanting style of a cheesy, early 1960's cartoon, South Park is a witless offering that wants to score as it seeks to be p...
I confess I am enamored of South Park for the same reasons as its fans: It’s shocking, sick – and funny – humor… [But] strip a...
AV Club September 11, 2013 Part of what made the show seem so unusual when it was in its first full flush of success was the way that it managed to be everywhere while also s...
Where its contemporaries temper their cynicism with affection and acceptance of their characters' flaws, South Park remains resolutely smug and mal...
South Park is so recklessly goofy and eager to shock that it somehow works. It’s very, very funny, and looks like a sure bet to become TV&rsq...
TOO BAD, KIDS! South Park… is for grownups albeit grownups who aren’t put off by some blood, some guts and some sure-fire passing-gas jokes a...
Really, this wasn’t little boys' talk at all; it was adults putting foul corpses into the mouths of innocents, imputing to them all the misog...
Beneath the rough edges… are some knowingly clever observations about childhood and popular culture.