{"id":21649,"date":"2016-08-13T06:05:02","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T10:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=21649"},"modified":"2016-10-22T17:54:11","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T21:54:11","slug":"august-13-1997-south-park-debuts-on-comedy-central-below-is-the-first-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=21649","title":{"rendered":"August 13, 1997&#8230;&#8221;South Park&#8221; Debuts On Comedy Central"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\"  title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/August-13-1997...South-Park-Debuts-On-Comedy-Central-Below-is-the-first-of.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>August 13, 1997&#8230;&#8221;South Park&#8221; Debuts On Comedy Central <\/p>\n<p>Below is the first (of three) pilot episodes for the show, and this one is called &#8220;Jesus Vs. Frosty&#8221;. The animation technique was inspired by the &#8220;Monty Python&#8221; use of cut outs, and this was created in 1992 by Tray Parker and Matt Stone, which was the year they met in a University of Colorado film class. <\/p>\n<p>The first two pilots, used real construction paper cut outs and stop motion. Later, their animation software would take over, but keep the cutout effect.  There have been a total of 267 episodes over the course of the show&#8217;s 19 seasons, and Season 20 will premiere on September 14. <\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Tray and Matt on their success! As a cast member on &#8220;Squidbillies&#8221;, with our 10th season airing now on Adult Swim, I know what a milestone 20 years on the air is to you guys.  Kudos! -Bobby Ellerbee<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"South Park - S00E01 - The Spirit of Christmas (Jesus vs. Frosty) Pilot Episode 1\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rvjuarWNyJY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>The 1st Pilot Episode of South Park. Don&#8217;t Own South Park or Comedy Central.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/1060641400640075\">Source<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 13, 1997&#8230;&#8221;South Park&#8221; Debuts On Comedy Central Below is the first (of three) pilot episodes for the show, and this one is called &#8220;Jesus Vs. Frosty&#8221;. The animation technique was inspired by the &#8220;Monty Python&#8221; use of cut outs, and this was created in 1992 by Tray Parker and Matt Stone, which was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[724],"class_list":["post-21649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}