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* The characters of Terrance and Phillip were created because Trey Parker and Matt Stone kept getting complaints about the show having too many fart jokes.
* The character of Mr. Hankey was inspired by something from Trey Parker's childhood. When Trey was a kid, he had the habit of not flushing the toilet. Because of this, Trey's dad told him that if he didn't flush the toilet "Mr. Hankey" would come out and eat him.
* The character of Butters was based on Eric Stough, the show's animation director.
* In the original unaired version of the pilot, Trey Parker is credited as "Tupac Schwartz" and Matt Stone is credited as "M.C. Schwartz".
* Eric Cartman's middle name is Theodore.
* If you want to play Funkytown on a keypad (f.e. the one of a telephone),like Towelie did in one Episode just type 55754 45085.
* Butters was originally named Poof Poof.
* During the opening credits for the first two seasons, Kenny said something extremely crude. Trey Parker and Matt Stone were able to get away with this because his voice was muffled and very few people could make out what he was saying.
* When the Production company logo appears at the end, the music that accompanies it is from the song "Shpadoinkle" from Trey Parker's student film Alferd Packer: The Musical (1996) (aka Cannibal! The Musical).
* The character of Chef is based on an actual dining hall worker at the University of Colorado, the college Trey Parker and Matt Stone attended.
* Except that... in "Red Hot Catholic Love", the word "shit" is uncensored.
* Mr. Garrison is based on William Lloyd Garrison.
* The famous South Park Holiday Special episode features live-action footage after every commercial break of Trey Parker as a newsreader saying "Fight the frizzies. Film at 11." This references a widely-circulated bootleg video of the infamous The 'Star Wars' Holiday Special (1978) (TV) which included "pause button delay" sound bites of a real newscaster saying just that.
* There is either a celebrity impersonator or mention of a celebrity's name in every episode.
* The creators commented that when the show was first popular, the catch phrase from people on the street had been, "Omigod! They killed Kenny! You bastards!" With the introduction of a wheelchair-bound retarded child, the catch phrase became "TIMMAY!"
* Of all the characters added since the first season, only Butters continues to appear. (Mr. Hankey did appear in the first season.)
* Chewbacca is a running theme in the series. Every Halloween episode, at least one child dresses as Chewbacca, and usually wins the costume contest. Also, "the Chewbacca defense" is always used by Jonnie Cochran.
* The pilot episode was made using paper cutouts of the characters. Every episode thereafter was animated with a computer
* Kenny was killed off at the end of the fifth season (after 80 episodes and one movie), mostly because creator Matt Stone got "sick of that character" and he was not expected ever to return. He reappeared as a regular character in the last episode of the sixth season, but he no longer dies in each episode.
* Tweek has appeared numerous times, and was the replacement Kenny in the second half of Season 6.
* There are many "Star Trek" (1966) references throughout the series, including: The episode where the children are stuck on a bus begins with a boy in a red "security officer" uniform getting killed. In the episode where Kyle has a crush on a home-schooled girl, they have a discussion about love that is almost word-for-word a scene from the Star Trek episode "Gamesters of Triskelion". In "Roger Ebert should Lay Off the Fatty Foods", the latin phrase above the entrance to the planetarium roughly translates to "Beam me up, Scotty". in "Cartoon Wars", part two, the incomplete code the fox network president gives to pull the "Family Guy" episode, starts off the same as the destruct sequence code for the Enterprise in "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock" as given by Captain James T. Kirk.
* The music usually played over the closing credits is the original "South Park" theme song by Primus (which appeared in the pilot), speeded up and changed a little.
* The scripts for the episodes contain what Kenny is actually saying in every instance. It is difficult, but many times it is possible to decipher what he is saying.
* The character Towelie was created to mock the real-life trend where every new South Park character introduced was a new marketing blitz. Towelie represented the absolute dumbest thing possible to create: a talking towel.
* Because the show is made on computers, each episode only takes five days to make.
* Traditionally an animated series takes eight to 12 months to be completed, making it almost impossible to address current event. In the case of "South Park", computer-animating the show has afforded the creators lee-way to put certain episodes together quickly (such as -"Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Slut" - 22 April 1998) and identifiable changes between the episodes and that episode's own promo. Most notable have been what are known as the "11th hour episodes", episodes put together mere days - and sometimes hours - before airtime. These include, but are not limited to:
o "Quintuplets 2000" a.k.a "Janet Reno in a Bunny Suit" (airdate: 26 April 2000). This episode mirrored the removal, by the U.S. government, of Elian Gonzalez from the home of his Miami relatives; an event which occurred three days prior.
o "Trapper Keeper" (airdate: 15 November 2000), which parodied the scandal of the 2000 presidential election, which happened a week earlier.
o "It Hits the Fan" (airdate: 20 April 2001). Numerous story changes kept the episode in production all the way up to the airing. Upon its original airing, the show was notably lacking in numerous completed sound effects. Most obvious was the lack of sound during Kenny's death.
o "Osama bin Laden has Farty Pants" (airdate: 7 November 2001). Airing weeks after the terrorist attacks on the USA of 11 September 2001, it became one of the first fictional series to address the matter.
o "It's Christmas in Canada" (airdate: 17 December 2003) which acknowledged the capture of Saddam Hussein a mere four days after it took place.
o "Best Friends Forever" (airdate: 30 March 2005) which parodied the media coverage of the Terry Schiavo case.
o "Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow" (airdate: 19 October 2005) This episode was inspired by the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, first being that people blamed the government what happened, and also that it took so long for aid to arrive.
* To date South Park still holds the Guiness World Record for "Most Swearing in animated series."
* Kenny's uncovered face has, to date (June 2005), been shown three times on the show:
o "Super Best Friends" (episode 504, airdate: 4 July 2001), in which Stan comes upon a drowned corpse, which he first mistakes for Kyle before saying "Oh my God, they killed Kenny!"
o "The Jeffersons" (episode 807 - airdate: 21 April 2004) features an un-jacketed Kenny (wearing an eye-covering masquerade ball masque) posing as Michael Jackson's toddler, Blanket, and -- for the first time on the actual series - speaking.
o "The Losing Edge" (episode 905 - airdate: 6 April 2005) shows Kenny in baseball uniform several times (he's the one with the dark, dirty blonde hair sitting on the right-hand side in Whistlin' Willy's Pizza Gultch.) No words, though.
* The show is animated using Maya, the same program used to animate Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001) and Final Flight of the Osiris (2003).
* Butters' real name is Leopold Stotch. Butters is only his nickname. Until the third season episode, "Two Guys Naked In A Hot Tub", he was called Swanson and never spoke.
* Eliza Schneider took over the voice acting for all the female roles after the suicide of Mary Kay Bergman.
* Patrick Duffy, George Clooney, Jay Leno, Jennifer Aniston, and Robert Smith (lead singer of "The Cure") accepted roles on the show. Samuel L. Jackson, Steven Spielberg, Jerry Seinfeld, Steve Buscemi, and Jeff Daniels asked to do guest voices, but were either rejected or declined the offer afterward. Stone and Parker also asked "Mr. Show with Bob and David" (1995) alumni Tom Kenny, David Cross, Bob Odenkirk, Brian Posehn, and John Ennis as well as "Family Guy" (1999) voice talent Roddy Piper to do guest voices, but all declined because their shows were doing well (Mr. Show has since been canceled, and Piper again declined due to other commitments).
* Whenever Damien (Satan's kid) is onscreen, we hear voices chanting in what sounds like Latin. The voices are actually saying "Rectus... Dominus... Cheesy Poofs..." ("Rectus Dominus" cod Latin for "Ass Master" which is an often used insult on the show, and Cheesy Poofs is Cartman's favorite snack)
* Stan's family (parents Randy and Sharon, sister Shelley) are named after Trey Parker's family. Kyle's parents, Gerald and Sheila, are named after Matt Stone's parents.
* Butter's birthday is 11 September.
* Butters' supervillain alter-ego, Professor Chaos, is based on Marvel Comics villain Dr. Doom.
* In almost every episode there is a hidden image of a visitor that is on screen for only one shot.
* In the late 1990s, a mother in Canada filed a complaint against this series with the CRTC (Canada's equivalent of the FCC). She stated that her young son, named Kenny, was being traumatized by the death of the character Kenny in each episode, this trauma being made worse by classmates teasing him about it. She requested the CRTC pressure Parker and Stone to change Kenny's name to something else. Her request was thrown out.
* Most of Cartman's lines are ad-libbed by Trey Parker, who has stated that Cartman is his favorite character on the show.
* The character of "Dr. Alphonse Mephesto" spoofs Marlon Brando's character in The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996).
* Matt Stone records Kenny's dialogue by talking into his sleeve.
