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South Park exploded into the national consciousness in 1997, becoming the most popular, outrageous, and controversial animated series to hit airwaves since Beavis and Butt-Head. The brainchild of creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park began in 1995 as a five-minute animated short commissioned by a Fox network executive and distributed throughout the industry as a video "Christmas card." The short, titled The Spirit of Christmas, was endlessly dubbed as it passed hands throughout Hollywood, becoming an underground sensation; ironically, Parker and Stone -- fearing that their depiction of hand-to-hand combat between Santa Claus and Jesus Christ would incense many viewers -- did not even add their names to the finished product to avoid controversy. The Spirit of Christmas introduced both South Park's distinctively primitive animation style -- its figures and backgrounds all created on construction paper cutouts -- and the show's primary characters, foul-mouthed third-graders Sta...