South Park

Music

Although South Park is well known for its humor and controversial plots, viewers are also treated to an original musical score. The show's opening theme song is performed by alternative rockers Primus.

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Theme song - Primus

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It should be noted that Kenny's lines in the song, as well as all but one of his lines throughout the show (Episode 807, The Jeffersons) and one in the movie, are muffled. Kenny always wears an anorak with the hood concealing all of his head except for his eyes. The fact that the lines are unintelligible helped them slip past network censors. It is sometimes easy to comprehend the lines, given the context in which they are delivered.

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The Jeffersons - Anorak

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One of the rumors is that Kenny's original line says "I like women with fat titties, I like women with big titties." Another interpretation that is common is, "I like girls with big fat titties, I like girls with big fat titties." Another variation states that he sings, "I like girls with big fat titties, I like girls with big vaginas."

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Kenny's line in the theme song changed at the start of the seventh season. It was promised that the line would be revealed a year after the change. When the time had passed, the creators had forgotten exactly what the line was, but were "95% sure" that it was as follows: "Someday I'll be old enough, to stick my dick in Britney's butt."

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Popular songs such as "Kyle's Mom is a Bitch" originated on the show, but the creators' musical abilities were not frequently used until the release of South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut. The film's soundtrack featured songs like "Mountain Town", "La Resistance Medley," "Uncle Fucka", "What Would Brian Boitano Do?" (a song to which Brian Boitano has been known to figure skate), "I'm Super", and "Blame Canada" (nominated for an Oscar, see below). Several of the songs from the movie were satires of tunes from Disney cartoons. For instance, "Mountain Town" is highly similar to "Bonjour" from Beauty and the Beast. "Up There" is a take-off of two different Disney songs, "Out There" from The Hunchback of Notre Dame and "Part of Your World" from The Little Mermaid. "La Resistance Medley" spoofs "One Day More" from the stage musical Les Miserables.

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Uncle Fucka - What Would Brian Boitano Do? - Figure skate - Blame Canada - Oscar - Beauty and the Beast - The Hunchback of Notre Dame - The Little Mermaid - Les Miserables

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In the episode Asspen, a well-made spoof song assumably called "Montage" is performed by Trey and Matt, as Stan trains to become

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a better skiier - "Show lot of things hap'nin' at once, Remind everyone of what's goin' on And with every shot, show a little improvement - To show it will all would take too long: That's called a montage!" A song in the same vein as this

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one appears in the "Special Olympics" episode, where Cartman works on his handicapped "act": "Push it to the Limit" by Paul Engemann,

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which also appears in the Scarface montage.

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Trey Parker and Matt Stone have, on occasion, performed these and other songs (some unrelated to the show, such as "Dead Dead Dead"), under the band name DVDA.

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The character of Eric Cartman will often burst into song to convey a false altruism or optimism that belies his baser motivations. In "Red Sleigh Down", he sings "Poo-Choo Train", an unnervingly cheery Christmas carol, in an obvious attempt to convince Mr. Hankey and Santa Claus that he is worthy of Christmas presents. In "The Death of Eric Cartman", Cartman sings "Make it Right" with Butters in a weak attempt to reconcile his sins. Cartman also uses the song "Heat of the Moment" to convince the U.S. Senate to approve stem cell research.

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Altruism - Optimism - Christmas carol - The Death of Eric Cartman - Heat of the Moment - U.S. Senate - Stem cell research

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Additional musical contributions to the show come from themselves and from Isaac Hayes, who voices Chef, and from the band Primus, which performed the original opening and ending themes for the show. Another high point of the series is its dramatic score, for it dramatizes common and deep parts with a very heartwarming, melancholic, or mysterious soundtrack.

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Isaac Hayes - Melancholic

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