The 50 best South Park Episodes

When Butters is invited to Kyle's birthday party instead of Cartman, Cartman kidnaps Butters and locks him in a bomb shelter.

The boys dedicate their lives to defeating a high level player killing other players in World of Warcraft.

Randy becomes addicted to the Food Network, and Sharon tries to compensate for his lack of attention by turning to the Shape Weight.

The boys set off on a mythical quest to return a copy of the "The Lord of the Rings" movie to their local video store, while defending it from sixth graders.

The boys lie to get ninja weapons from the fair, but must decide whether or not to tell their parents when Butters is injured with a throwing star.

Stan learns about the Mormon religion after a new family moves to South Park from Utah. Caught up in the family-friendly doctrine of the church, Randy declares the Marshes to be Mormon as well.

Stan and Kyle become local celebrities after they score 100,000 points on the video game "Guitar Hero." A talent agent signs them to a contract, which ends up ruining their friendship.

The boys come face to face with Osama Bin Laden after they are mistakenly shipped to Afghanistan.

Cartman leads a group of schoolmates to Somalia to become pirates.

A drunken Civil War re-enactment leads to an actual Civil War breaking out.

The boys try to get the meaning of the word "fag" changed from homosexual to motorcycle riders.

While the rest of the nation is distracted by the results of the presidential election, Barack Obama and John McCain set out to complete their true combined objective: a daring "Ocean's Eleven" style jewel heist.

When Cartman's lack of fitness starts impacting on the "99%" of kids at South Park Elementary, he has to deal with some too-close-to-home revenge killings.

Stan helps a group of woodland critters by killing a mountain lion, only to discover that he's helping them give birth to the Antichrist.

The kids get hooked on a brainwashing violent cartoon from Japan which turns them against the American government.

There's a new girl in school and she's black, so Cartman instantly assumes Token wants her, but when Token doesn't seem interested, Eric sets up an elaborate scheme to put the two together.

When the boys kick Cartman out of their band, he teams with Tolkien and Butters to form the greatest Christian rock band ever, "Faith +1".

Al Gore gets the boys trapped in Cave of the Winds while trying to kill the purported "Manbearpig"; Cartman finds treasure that he attempts to steal.

Randy is outraged when Stan and the other boys start a boy band.

Jimmy writes the "perfect joke" which is quickly picked up by comedians and talk show hosts. Cartman thinks that being in the room means he co-wrote the joke, but his need for credit puts the boys in danger when a celebrity doesn't get it.

Mr. Barbrady goes back to school after it is discovered that he is illiterate. As he learns to read, a criminal is on the loose molesting all the chickens in South Park.

The rock band Korn visits South Park during Halloween to solve the mystery of the pirate ghosts that are terrifying the town.

The boys begin to exaggerate stories when their student news show falls behind in the ratings.

Cartman and Butters go to P.F. Chang's to try to uncover the Chinese conspiracy to take over the U.S. Stan and Kyle accuse Steven Spielberg and George Lucas of raping Indiana Jones.

During a game of border patrol vs. Mexicans, where the kids play the two groups, Butters goes missing and eventually winds up in Mexico where he becomes their new leader, Mantequilla. Suddenly legal and illegal alien Mexicans flood back across the border to Mexico for a better life because of the decline of the U.S. economy. Eric joins the U.S. border patrol and squares off against Butters.