What is South Park about?
Follow the misadventures of four irreverent grade-schoolers in the quiet, dysfunctional town of South Park, Colorado.
Four irreverent grade-schoolers navigate a dysfunctional town with brisk, darkly comic, and absurdist wit.
Satirical, with dry wit. A late-night trip at a brisk pace. Emotionally it carries some weight.
Streaming on Paramount+.
South Park parents guide
Nothing past what a TV-MA promises: moderate sex and nudity, and some violence.
- Scare
- Not scary
- Jump scares
- None noted
- Gore
- Light gore
- Some blood or injury, briefly.
- Violence
- Some violence
- Some fighting or peril.
- Sex and nudity
- Moderate
- Moderate means a sex scene or nudity on screen, even brief, or sexual violence that is described or implied but never shown.
- Language
- Strong
- Frequent strong profanity or slurs.
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Three questions
- How gory is South Park?
- Light gore and some violence.
- What is South Park rated, and is it OK for kids?
- Moderate sex and nudity, and frequent strong language. The TV-MA is earned, so not for kids.
Cast and crew
Created byTrey Parker, Matt Stone
StarringTrey Parker, Matt Stone, Mona Marshall, Jennifer Howell
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