Top 20 South Park Jokes That Crossed The Line

In “Fantastic Easter Special,” Jesus and Kyle find themselves being held prisoner by the Catholic League. In order to escape the cell that they are being held in, Jesus must use his powers. But, unable to use them as a mortal, Jesus realizes the only way he can re-obtain them is by dying. He asks for Kyle’s assistance, who naturally has some reservations. However, he follows through with the request, and the aftermath is gruesome to say the least. The writers clearly knew what they were doing here. Fortunately, he is actually resurrected and is able to save the day.

In "World Wide Recorder Concert," Garrison is shown to have a complicated relationship with his father. Based on how they behave, viewers are led to believe the latter sexually mistreated them. But that is not at all the case. In fact, it’s actually quite the opposite. In a shocking twist, according to Garrison, the issue with their father stems from the fact that he never actually did anything to them in the first place, and this results in Garrison believing that they are unloved by their father. Thus, the episode sees Garrison pressuring their father into assaulting them to prove his love. We can only gasp and be in shock at this strange twist of reverse psychology.

Leave it to Trey Parker and Matt Stone to add in an absolutely insane plot twist. In arguably the show’s most shocking Christmas special, what starts out as a simple tale with Stan helping out a few cute looking critters takes on a very, very dark turn. Much to his horror, Stan soon realizes that these critters are not who they say they are and have very dark intentions. Rejoicing at no longer having to deal with the mountain lion that frequently foiled their plans, they celebrate in utterly vile fashion. It’s too much for even those with the utmost tolerance.

Season 5’s "Proper Condom Use" centers on sex education. At South Park elementary, teachers attempt to educate the children about sex and, as anticipated, fail tremendously. One such instance where we see their shortcomings firsthand is when Garrison is shown educating kindergarteners about condoms and how to put them on. How do they do this might you ask? With a full on demonstration…using their mouth. The children are traumatized and…well, we can’t blame them. The episode itself sparked so much controversy that it was banned in the United Kingdom and the country of Australia even increased the episode's rating.

It’s no secret that Kenny is very much into performing crazy stunts. But when he’s unable to perform his most dangerous one yet in season 4’s “Fat Camp” due to a run-in with Howard Stern, Stan and Kyle force a boy posing as Cartman to go through with it instead.Dressed as Kenny, the boy does what the real Kenny was supposed to do; insert himself inside Ms. Crabtree’s uterus and remain inside there for 6 hours on live television. Naturally, things don’t end well for the poor boy and he unfortunately doesn’t live to tell the tale. We understand the creators’ intent to parody the show “Jackass,” but this was just too much.

The town of South Park was in complete pandemonium when a statue of the Virgin Mary begins shooting blood from its behind. Randy and other townspeople begin to believe this is a miracle, and that coming into contact with the statue means there’s a chance that it could cure their diseases. However, upon further inspection, it is not revealed to be a miracle since the blood is in fact actually coming from another part of the female anatomy. While Christians likely weren’t too pleased with the manner at which the Virgin Mary was depicted, the mere sight of a statue shooting blood at people wasn’t a comforting sight to see.

Are we really all that surprised? Out of all the characters on South Park, if anybody were to start a worldwide pandemic, it’d most definitely be Randy. Upon hearing a news report that the COVID-19 pandemic started as a result of someone being contaminated by a bat in Wuhan, he begins to connect the dots. He remembers how, during a night on the town in China with Mickey Mouse, he had sexual relations with a bat. On top of that, when the source of COVID is later revealed to in fact be a pangolin, Randy remembers that he and Mickey also had sexual relations with it. This, and the fact that viewers see Randy and everyone’s favorite mouse actually getting on with the animals, is shocking to say the least.

In the episode “Red Hot Catholic Love,” Cartman bizarrely comes up with an outrageous hypothesis in that if one puts food up their rectum, they shall defecate through their mouth. The other boys find this outrageous, but when it actually ends up working, everyone is in utter disbelief. News spreads of the “phenomenon”, and it isn’t long before the citizens of South Park begin doing it too. We see what the writers are trying to do here, but it’s well…how could we put it…really disgusting? The amount of times we see people literally spew crap becomes almost excessive and it is clearly over exaggerated. Fortunately, the townspeople eventually decide on ending the practice.

It’s the showdown of the century, as Paris Hilton and Mr. Slave go head to head to see who is the biggest floozy of them all. Paris starts things off when she not only makes out with the event MC, but then lewdly dances with several random males. She ends it off by doing something that we can only describe as way way over the top with a pineapple. When it’s time for Mr. Slave to prove his worth, he does so by…absorbing Miss Hilton. No one anticipated for this to be the way in which Mr. Slave would get one over this celebrity, and the only thing more surprising than that is the fact that she survives the whole ordeal…

At his halloween party, it is brought to Satan’s attention that someone has dressed up as Steve Irwin and it’s upsetting the guests. Satan confronts the individual but he soon realizes that they are in fact, Steve Irwin. To say that the encounter becomes awkward is an understatement, but Satan quickly kicks him out of the party because he wasn’t wearing a costume. Everything about this joke feels completely wrong; from the way in which Irwin is depicted, the fact that he’s in hell or even him mentioning that he thought both he and Satan were friends; it all feels very distasteful.

“The Human Centipede” has gained a reputation as one of the most repulsive films ever made. Naturally, South Park simply couldn’t resist parodying the infamous horror film. Steve Jobs assumes the role of the mad doctor, sewing three Apple users together from mouth to anus. Unfortunately for Kyle, he’s the one who ends up in the middle of Jobs’ HUMANCENTiPAD. While the whole setup is cringe-worthy, the scene that really got under people’s skin involved an Asian man digesting cuttlefish and asparagus into Kyle’s mouth. As disgusting as the episode might be, at least it didn’t go “Full Sequence” on us.

In season 9, “South Park” flirted with controversy with its mockery of Scientology. But for many people, it was the aftermath in Season 10 that truly crossed the line. As a Scientologist, Isaac Hayes felt that he could no longer voice the character of Chef. In response, the creators used pre-recorded dialog to portray Chef as a sexual deviant that’s been brainwashed. The kicker comes when Chef falls down a cliff, is impaled, gets attacked by wild animals, and defecates. Watching poor Chef go in the most demeaning way possible, audiences couldn’t help but shout, “You basterds! You basterds!”

2008 was just not Britney Spears’ best year, and “South Park” was there to take advantage. The boys accidentally push Britney to her limits, influencing the pop princess to put a shotgun in her mouth. Although the top of her head is blown off, Britney amazingly doesn’t die. Even after this suicide attempt, people continue to mock her appearance and behavior. The episode's relentlessness left the audience feeling uncomfortable throughout. To the creators’ credit, however, they did make some thoughtful commentary on how the media and public had been treating the singer, influencing them to just leave Britney alone already.

By the fifth season, Eric Cartman had already proven himself as South Park’s resident bad boy. In this episode, though, he went from being a problem child to a flat-out psychopath. As a petty feud with older student Scott Tenorman escalates, Cartman gets his revenge by arranging to have his rival’s parents murdered. It doesn’t end there, as he grinds up their bodies and feeds them to the unsuspecting Scott. On one hand, the episode boldly pushed boundaries... on the other, we can definitely see why this downright mean-spirited ending left so many people saying, “That’s too much!”

“South Park” has never shied away from poking fun at AIDS, but that didn’t make this episode any less outrageous. It all begins when a surgery gone wrong results in Cartman contracting HIV. Kyle views this as karmic, which influences Cartman to pass on the deadly disease on to him. With some help from Magic Johnson, the two eventually find a cure for the virus: cash and lots of it. Sadly, not everyone has $180,000 just lying around. Kyle’s outburst at Cartman towards the episode’s conclusion sums up why AIDS isn’t funny. Nevertheless, Cartman still tries to put an “HIV-positive” spin on things.

Learning that he can sue the school if they fire him for being gay, Garrison basically turns his classroom into a sex dungeon. Determined to shock his students, Garrison hatches a plan that involves a gerbil, a Bunsen burner, … and Mr. Slave’s butt. Lemmiwinks soon discovers that he’s not the only animal that’s been shoved up Slave’s rectum, leading to one vile adventure. While Matt Stone and Trey Parker found this hilarious, most of their colleagues just thought it was bizarre and would never make it into the finished product. Even to the duo's friends, the episode was as messed up as it was funny.

A world without Internet means no Brazilian fart porn, leaving Randy unable to pleasure himself. Upon getting back online, Randy is finally allowed to unleash weeks of pent-up sexual frustration. But, his moans attract unrequested attention, and mass vomiting. Randy tries to pass off the white substance covering his body as ectoplasm, but the “Ghostbusters” reference doesn’t get him anywhere. After this scene was aired, Trey Parker stated that it was probably the most offensive shot in the show’s history and couldn’t believe the censors let it slide by. It’s really saying something when even the co-creator of “South Park” admits that the show crossed a line.

“South Park” has gotten away with a lot, but the censors draw the line when it comes to portraying the prophet Muhammad. Still, Muhammad actually was depicted in a Season 5 episode alongside Jesus, Buddha, and other religious figures. But when the creators later tried showing Muhammad in a Season 10 two-parter, Comedy Central wouldn’t have it. They challenged censorship once again in the 200th episode, as the boys attempted to unveil Muhammad to Tom Cruise. In due course, Stone and Park received a death threat from a radical Muslim group. Muhammad’s name was subsequently censored in the 201st episode, along with the episode’s message.

Following the accident that paralyzed him, Christopher Reeve became an advocate for stem cell research, which gave Matt and Trey a jaw-dropping idea. Audiences couldn’t believe their eyes when Reeve was depicted sucking fetuses dry. The stem cells eventually turn Reeve into a super villain, his arch-nemesis of course being Gene Hack-Man. Knowing that it would be in poor taste, the creators initially held back on satirizing Reeve, but decided to go for it after seeing his “Larry King Live” interview. Even then, they knew the joke would only get by if virtually every character acknowledged that this really wasn’t cool. And it wasn't.

When Stan and Kyle mention that one of their friends was assaulted, audiences knew that “South Park” was about to cross the line like never before. Of course nobody could’ve predicted that the friend in question was Indiana Jones, who was terribly mistreated by Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. We see Jones suffer at the hands of both filmmakers multiple times throughout the episode with each instance being more graphic than the last. While there is some pretty clever satire here, this incredibly dark imagery had a lot of people feeling grossed out, disturbed, and uncertain if they should be laughing. Was ‘Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’ really that bad?