Question: Why has Sgt. Yates replaced Officer Barbrady whenever an episode has a crime subplot?
Hooked on Monkey Fonics - S3-E12
Question: Is the Dio guy who sings at the dance a real person? If so, then does Trey Parker or Matt Stone hate this person?
Answer: Dio is the band name of Ronnie James Dio of Rainbow and Black Sabbath fame. Check out http://www.robertjamesdio.com for more info. Matt and Trey don't hate him he is just an easy target for jokes.
Question: Why does Kenny only die occasionally in the later seasons, not in every episode?
Answer: Because Trey Parker and Matt Stone got bored with having to find new ways of killing Kenny each episode. Originally they wrote him out completely by killing him in "Kenny Dies" but they decided to bring him back but without having to kill him each episode.
Worldwide Recorder Concert - S3-E17
Question: Is there actually a real sound frequency known as a "brown noise?"
Answer: No, it's an urban legend. Mythbusters did a really good bit on it. Look on Discovery.com for the DVD.
Good Times With Weapons - S8-E1
Question: In the middle there's a rather humorous song in what's supposed to sound like Japanese. Does it have a literal translation? I know that Trey Parker went to the University of Colorado with a double major in Music and Japanese, so it wouldn't surprise me if the entire song was just a long, dirty, sentence since he was perfectly capable of doing it. Anyone know?
Answer: According to tvtome.com the translation is: You have an awesome penis, I see the hair on your balls, Sounds like a baby monkey, No, no it's ninjas, "hey Hey Let's Go!" we fight, It's really important to "protect my balls", It's my bad "so let's fighting", Let's fighting Love... This song is dumb, it makes no sense, The English is bad, but it's ok, we do it all the time, "hey Hey Let's Go!" we fight.
An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig - S1-E6
Question: When the episode returns from the first commercial break with the kids at lunch, it is obviously all construction paper until Terrance shows up. Why is that?
Answer: All of the South Park episodes are computer animated except for the first one, the construction paper effect is deliberate.
Question: With many references to homosexuality (e.g. Saddam Hussein, Mr. Garrison, Big Gay Al, etc.), are the creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker homosexuals?
Chosen answer: No, they're not. Homosexual jokes are generally pretty funny, and they usually stir up a lot of controversy, which is always good for ratings and box office returns.
Question: Does somebody know why there is an airplane of Braniff Airlines with the mention "Believe it" in the end credits?
Chosen answer: See http://www.spscriptorium.com/SPinfo/SPStudiosFAQ3.htm.
Question: When Stan first tries to return the drink machine, an employee explains that the store just takes an initial payment, then remaining payments are handled by a separate finance company. How does the store even make a profit if they only get the initial payment? I know this is a TV show, but it sounds like the banks who let people mortgage homes for small down payments in the late 2000s, then sold the debt to other companies.
Answer: The store sells the debt (at a discount) to the finance company, which then has the right to collect the balance due. This frees the store from the administrative burden of tracking payments and transfers the risk of non-payment to the finance company. This scheme usually works best when there is a huge markup on the product.
Question: Why do Shelly and Amir hardly speak to each other when they meet in person?
Answer: When people form online relationships, they sometimes - not always - develop a certain idea of the person in their mind, and they become infatuated with this idea. Meeting the person in real life can be awkward and disappointing, because the true person may not match the fantasy.
Question: In the intro of some episodes, Timmy says "Livin' a lie." What is the lie that he is living?
Answer: It's a lyric from Timmy and the Lords of the Underworld's self-titled one hit.
Question: After everyone takes the 'Nice lady with the handkerchief' test, why does Kyle put his hand up to say he did not see a handkerchief? Is he just following Kenny's actions?
Answer: Kyle put his hand up because he didn't see the handkerchief, he wasn't following Kenny's actions. He didn't see the handkerchief because he tested positive for sex addiction, just like Kenny and Butters and sex addicts would test positive if they didn't see the handkerchief.
Question: Why is Tweek always so nervous and jumpy?
Answer: His father owns a coffee shop, and in the episode where the Starbucks ripoff is moving in, it shows that his parents give him coffee all the time. So it's just the effect of the caffeine.
Question: I am aware that Canada and Mormons appear frequently in South Park. Is there a reason for them to appear?
Chosen answer: Trey Parker and Matt Stone have said that they're making fun of the media; Canadians are very similar to Americans, yet the US media often portrays them has being very different. Trey Parker apparently grew up around a lot of Mormons and, we can infer, organised religion didn't make a good impression on him.
Answer: For the Mormon thing, there's the fact that it's set in Colorado, which is next door to Utah, the center of Mormonism.
Question: I've read that the shows creators are friends with Mike Judge, the creator of King Of The Hill. Is this one reason why, in the "Cartoon Wars" episode, the boys walk through the King Of The Hill studio without anything happening or any insults being made?
Answer: This is more likely because they mean to imply that nothing ever happens on that show.
It's a reference to all the scenes in which Hank Hill stands around with his friends, drinking beer and sometimes not saying much.
Hooked on Monkey Fonics - S3-E12
Question: Why doesn't Stan believe that Cartman wants to be home-schooled when Cartman walks out of class?
Answer: He suspects that Cartman just wants an excuse to stay home and slack off on schoolwork.
Question: For the slightly crude ball-throwing game, why is Jennifer Love Hewitt the target?
Answer: In the late 90s and 2000s, she was reported to be dating several different men. She was often called a "serial dater."
Question: Why does Mr. Adler think the boys will be "pumping gas or cutting sheet metal" someday?
Answer: Children are often told that they can grow up to be anything. As Mr. Adler says "You may someday be doctors or lawyers or scientists." However, many children in an average school will have more common, "blue collar" jobs. These jobs matter, but society often views these workers as inferior. Mr. Adler is being realistic.
Question: I have no idea what episode where this is from, but during one conversation all the boys have at the school lunch is talking about Terminator and Skeletor with Butters exclaiming "Skeletor is real?" I'm assuming that Terminator is Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver being Skeletor. I don't understand the joke or the conversation of Maria being Skeletor?
Answer: In S15 E04, "T.M.I, " at the start the joke is that Maria Shriver, prior to getting together with Arnold, was hot; and now she's all bony (time code 00:00:40).
Answer: I believe this is from s15e12 "1%." Many people, especially on the internet, say that Maria Shriver looks like Skeletor because of the bony features of her face. She has very high cheek bones and a broad, flat, square jaw that resembles Skeletor's jaw (the mandible). Sometimes she appears to have sunken in eyes too.
Answer: Officer Barbrady would be too stupid and incompetent to actually solve any real crime cases. Additionally, his role is only really that of a first line of defence. Detectives such as Sgt Yates solve the real crimes of South Park.