South Park
Cartman Gets an Anal Probe
TV Flash files “Cartman Gets an Anal Probe” as a desk essential hour — South Park (1997–present) on Comedy Central, season 1, episode 1, aired 1997-08-13, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E01: listed hour 1 of 335 in the South Park guide, first listed hour of season 1. It aired 1997-08-13 (30 min). No earlier hour is listed in this guide. Next is “Weight Gain 4000” (S01E02).
Essential hour: “Cartman Gets an Anal Probe”. The first cut: four Colorado kids as a Greek chorus, and Comedy Central's meanest appointment ritual already trading polish for currency.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Aliens wreak havoc in the Rockies, first by subjecting Cartman to an anal probe, and then by abducting Kyle's baby brother.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Cartman Gets an Anal Probe sit in the South Park guide?
S01E01 is listed hour 1 of 335 — first listed hour of season 1, season 1 episode 1.
When did South Park S01E01 air?
Cartman Gets an Anal Probe aired 1997-08-13 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Why can it react so quickly to current events?
Episodes are often produced in roughly a week, trading polish for immediacy so a Monday scandal can air as Wednesday farce.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Construction-paper kids roasting the news cycle before the week is over. Trey Parker and Matt Stone built Comedy Central's meanest appointment ritual: Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny as a Greek chorus of American outrage, plus a pipeline that trades polish for currency. Celebrity lawsuits, bleep battles, and the perpetual too-soon dare — satire that refuses to age into nostalgia.
The drop window is the week itself. Comedy Central puts four construction-paper Colorado kids on the air August 13, 1997, and Trey Parker and Matt Stone do not wait for a prestige season to mellow. Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny roast celebrity feuds and sacred cows as crude farce before Friday. The pipeline is the product: episodes often produced in **roughly a week**, a Monday scandal already a Wednesday cut. Rex will tell you satire used to need a living-room appointment and a laugh track with manners. Fine.…
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