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`SOUTH PARK' BRAND OF HUMOR MIGHT MAKE BUTT-HEAD BLUSH.


The funniest show of the new season is exactly where it should be: on Comedy Central.

Let me qualify that. To some, it will be the funniest show. To others, it will be another reason to march on Washington.

``South Park,'' chock full of crude drawings and cruder characters, will make its debut at 10 tonight on Comedy Central.

Kenny, Stan, Kyle and Cartman are the in-crowd among the third-graders of South Park, Colo. They curse, they're mean to each other, and their mouths move like they're on hinges Hinges may refer to:
  • Plural form of hinge, a mechanical device that connects two solid objects, allowing a rotation between them.
  • Hinges, a commune of the Pas-de-Calais département, in northern France
.

They make Beavis and Butt-head seem like altar boys, and the show's animation style makes the aforementioned pair of miscreants' show look like ``The Lion King.''

``South Park'' is not shy when it comes to rough dialogue. It will carry a TV-MA TV-MA Suitable for Mature Audiences Only (television rating)  rating (for mature audiences), so consider yourself warned. It will never run before 10 p.m. Pacific or Eastern time.

The title of the pilot should go a long way toward explaining the tone of the series. It is called ``Cartman Gets an Anal Probe.''

The probe is placed by aliens, who have come to South Park, which in real life is the home of the most UFO sightings This is a list of UFO sightings including cases of alleged alien sightings and abductions. Some cases are popularly known, and have become folklore. Others are more obscure, and known mainly to ufologists and enthusiasts.  in the country. Simple gas attacks turn into flame-throwing sessions for Cartman, who ends up sprouting a huge satellite dish satellite dish
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A dish antenna used to receive and transmit signals relayed by satellite.



satellite dish

A parabolic antenna used to receive signals relayed by satellite.
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It is straight-at-you humor humor, according to ancient theory, any of four bodily fluids that determined man's health and temperament. Hippocrates postulated that an imbalance among the humors (blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile) resulted in pain and disease, and that good health was , but far more clever than it would seem at first take.

The setup has the four 8-year-olds - a poor one who dies in every episode, a smart Jewish kid, a leader who throws up when he talks to girls, and a fat one who insists he's just big-boned even though his mother feeds him snacks such as chocolate chicken pot pie A pot pie is a type of baked savory pie with a bottom and top completely surrounded in flakey crusts and baked in its own pie tin. This is in contrast to the Australian meat pie and many British regional variants on pie recipes, which may have a top of flakey pastry, but whose .

They are brutal to each other and shred popular culture.

In tonight's episode, a baby is abducted abducted Distal angulation of an extremity away from the midline of the body in a transverse plane and away from a sagittal plane passing through the proximal aspect of the foot or part, or away from some other specified reference point  by aliens and taken aboard a hovering hov·er  
intr.v. hov·ered, hov·er·ing, hov·ers
1. To remain floating, suspended, or fluttering in the air: gulls hovering over the waves.

2.
 spaceship. Kyle, in an attempt to save the baby brother, whom he alternately protects and kicks through windows, tells the tot to do his David Caruso imitation, so he'll jump from the craft and crash land, like the actor's career.

``South Park'' has been an underground hit since a short called ``The Spirit of Christmas'' started making the rounds. It is available on the Internet and is probably downloaded more than naked pictures of the cast of ``Baywatch.''

THE FACTS

The show: ``South Park''

The stars: Stan, Kenny, Kyle and Cartman.

The voices: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Shannen Cassidy, Franchesca Clifford.

Behind the scenes: Executive produced by Trey Parker and Matt Stone.

Premieres: 10 tonight on Comedy Central.

Our rating: A

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Photo: Stan and Kyle are two of the havoc-wreaking 8-year-olds on ``South Park,'' premiering tonight on Comedy Central.
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Date:Aug 13, 1997
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