How is it that every single episode from every single season of South Park got posted for free to the show’s official site last week, and I’m only now learning about it through Variety? Huh? Let me turn down this DMX for a second, ‘cuz I can’t hear you.
Amazingly, no one thought to submit this as a scoop over the weekend, and since it ain’t news to me unless Variety reports it, you’ll have to forgive me for just now realizing that the entire South Park canon is officially available in one convenient (and official) location. Why? According to Trey Parker and Matt Stone, “We got really sick of having to download our own show illegally all the time, so we gave ourselves a legal alternative.”
The shows are currently streaming sans commercial interruptions, and they look a helluva lot better than the copies that came and went with frustrating irregularity on YouTube (not that maximum picture quality is integral to enjoying the average South Park episode). The only catch is that the newest episodes will only appear for a week following their initial broadcast; after that, they’ll disappear for a month before getting added to the back catalogue. I guess this means that you only have one more day to take in the scabrous, Shirley Jackson-inflected “Britney’s New Look”.
Obviously, other networks are offering their content for free online, but this is one of the few times I can remember that an entire series run going up free of charge (actually, I’m not sure this has ever happened). Enjoy it before someone comes to their senses.
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Not available in Canada. Because they hate us.
If by "free of charge" you also mean "ad-supported," ABC did it with Lost between seasons 3 and 4, putting the whole series up in HD, and hasn't pussed out yet. Of course, that's way fewer episodes than South Park.
Yeah, not available in Australia either, but we do get a pic of Russell Crowe's 'Fightin' Round the World' when we click on the episodes, which is almost as good.
I'm pretty sure that the only reason no one submitted it, is that during the last two weeks' episodes, they advertised it. I know they did during last week's episode, anyway.
Jesus tits Christ, it's a cool fucking move.
Not available in England, either. Fuck this! Boo hiss etc. In any event, this is a good idea. I can download excellent quality episodes of fuckin' South Park on my ispud, and watch the funny while I kill time on a flight or whatever. Sweet.
I don't know if I'm the only one this has happened to, but Brittney's episode had buggy progamming. Every two minutes the second audio track would go back to the begining while the episode was playing or the episode would completely freeze.
ABC did put all of Lost online for free last I checked, but this is pretty freaking awsome. Now I can watchh Awesomo5000 without buying that mostly not great season.
Since you were so behind in finding this, I just want to make sure that you know that cbs.com has every episode of the original Star Trek up for free.
I guess it's news if you want to watch that Libertarian dreck.
Libertarian dreck? South Park is the only consistently watchable "adult" animated show out there right now. When it is at its worst, its amusing, at its best (like last night) you're in severe danger of lung collapse.
Anyway, not available here in the UK as previously mentioned, but kudos to them for doing it! Couple this with Matt Stone doing some Spaced commentaries, and I'm one step closer to getting my golden statues of Trey & Matt commissioned for my garden…
not available in england australia and canada? i can watch it in germany. maybe it's because south park is on an viacom channel in germany(mtv)?
respect to trey and matt. now they are even more my heros
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