South Park is an Emmy Award-winning American animated television comedy series about four elementary school boys who live in the small, backward mountain town of South Park, Colorado. The series was created and is written by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and has been distributed and aired by Comedy Central since 1997. It is well-known for its handling of current events and its pop-culture parody.

In recent years, each season has been aired in two halves, in spring and in autumn, with a summer hiatus. The eleventh season began airing on March 7, 2007, and is set to follow this system. The second half of the eleventh season began airing on October 3, 2007. The show is contracted to produced new episodes up to a fifteenth season, until late 2011.