South Park:
How it all Began.
Southpark started life a couple of Christmases ago as a video greetings card commisioned by Fox TV executive Brian Graden. Its creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, were already responsible for the milestone of juvenilia that was Fuzzie, a film about a group of retarded kids saving a town from the evil alien "fuzzies"( later shelved due to South Park commitments).
They took the 2000 dollars Graden offered them, spent half of it on presents and used the rest to throw together a short, expletive heavy cartoon about a battle between Jesus and Santa Claus witnessed by four potty-mouthed kids. Most people who've seen it can't wait to die, so they can try out the line, "Dude! You can't say 'pig fucker' infront of Jesus!" for real.
The video did the rounds, got circulated on the Internet and was noticed by cable channel Comedy Central, which signed up Trey and Matt for a full series. Forty million bucks' worth of merchandise later, South Park entered its second series at the start of the summer as the top-rated cartoon show in the U.S.
