Fans Share Their Most Unpopular Opinions About ‘South Park’

For a show so gleefully contrarian and iconoclastic, it feels like you’re not a proper South Park fan unless you have an opinion about the series that makes other South Park fans mad enough to tell you, “No, you’re a towel!”

South Park has been thumbing its nose at the status quo since 1997, and with 325 total episodes, five movies and nine video games all making up a billion dollar franchise, there are many arguments to be made about which eras, styles, characters or arcs are “peak South Park” and which moments were the show’s lowest. Co-creators and stars Trey Parker and Matt Stone are, arguably, the only parts of South Park that have stayed consistent through the decades, and each of their decisions regarding the direction of the show have been hyperbolically scrutinized by their internet fandom since the days of dial-up message boards.

Over in the South Park subreddit, modern South Park stans recently voiced their most controversial opinions about the show, past and present. Predictably, the comments are as diverse and divided as the fandom itself, with many fans praising what the others are trashing and vice versa. Here are the hottest takes…