On September 25, 2013, Season 17 of South Park will kick off on Comedy Central. What can we content marketers learn from a cartoon about potty-mouthed third-graders? Plenty.
3. Back on August 13, 1997,
Comedy Central debuted a
new animated series unlike
anything anyone had ever
seen.
“Cartman Gets an Anal Probe,” Season 1
4. Since then…
4 Prime-Time
Emmy Awards
16 Seasons
237 Episodes
2006 Peabody
Award
“One of the 100
Best TV Shows of
All Time”
- Time, 2007
#12 on “Greatest
TV Show of the
Past 25 Years,”
Entertainment
Weekly, 2008
5. So, what can we
content marketers
learn from a cartoon
about potty-mouthed
third-graders?
18. South Park episodes
have tackled such
hot-button topics
as:
•Scientology
•Depictions of the prophet Mohammad
•Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
•Pedophilia
•Euthanasia
•Anti-Semitism
•AIDS
•And many others
“South Park controversies” now has its
own Wikipedia page.