{"id":7025,"date":"2015-12-17T15:16:15","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T23:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/?p=7025"},"modified":"2016-03-16T10:11:15","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T18:11:15","slug":"was-south-park-originally-going-to-be-a-big-parody-of-the-x-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/2015\/12\/17\/was-south-park-originally-going-to-be-a-big-parody-of-the-x-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Was South Park Originally Going to be a Big Parody of The X-Files?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about TV and whether they are true or false. Click here<\/a> to view an archive of the TV urban legends featured so far.<\/p>\n

TV URBAN LEGEND<\/span><\/u>: “South Park” was originally going to be an “X-Files”-style show.<\/p>\n

Trey Parker and Matt Stone came to the attention of Comedy Central due to their famous “Spirit of Christmas” video shorts from 1992 and 1995, starring the characters who would later become famous in “South Park” (Stan, Kenny and Cartman). However, after they got a deal to create an ongoing television series, Parker and Stone were faced with a difficult task – how do you turn a short video into a full television series? They essentially had to create a TV series from scratch. As a result, their earliest “South Park” episodes had a lot of uncertainty in them, as their approach to the series often changed as they developed the idea. It was very much like the problems that Matt Groening and the producers of “The Simpsons” had in adapting their short “Simpsons” video segments on “The Tracey Ullman Show” into a full series. In the case of “The Simpsons,” this caused Groening and crew to come up with all sorts of weird ideas for the series that never came to fruition, most famously (as featured in this old TV Legends Revealed<\/a>), having Homer Simpson turn out to secretly be Krusty the Clown. In the case of Parker and Stone and “South Park,” the most notable change was that originally the series was going to be a lot like “The X-Files!”<\/p>\n

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\nThe very first episode of “South Park” was called “Cartman Gets an Anal Probe,” and it detailed just that, alien “visitors” coming to South Park, Colorado and inserting an anal probe into third-grader Eric Cartman (as well as other residents of the town). The aliens abduct Ike, the younger brother of Cartman’s classmate, Kyle, forcing Cartman, Kyle, Stan and Kenny band together to rescue Ike. Eventually, the boys use the anal probe that the visitors left in Cartman\u2019s ass to lure them back to Earth in time to rescue Ike. <\/p>\n

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