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While developing South Park, creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone observed that most groups of friends in small towns included one “poor kid.” In Parker’s group growing up, this friend was named Kenny. Aside from his poverty, the real life Kenny apparently had a tendency to miss school a lot. When he failed to show up at the bus stop, Parker and his friends would jokingly suggest that he had died since the previous day, then act nonchalant whenever they saw him again. Together, these two facts helped to (more…)

Look all you want, but you won’t find the town of South Park on any map of Colorado. No matter. The town is clearly modeled after one of the many small, out-of-the-way towns that dot the spine of the Rockies, playing upon the insecurities that exist in small towns everywhere.

In one sense, it’s easy to explain why it’s always winter in South Park: up in those high mountain valleys, the snow lingers nine months out of the year and “summer” simply defines that season where the sun shines consistently and the nights aren’t harsh enough to kill all the (more…)