Introduction : Taking South Park seriously / Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock -- "Bigger longer & uncut" : South Park and the carnivalesque / Alison Halsall -- The pleasures of South Park : an experiment in media erotics / Brian L. Ott -- Orphic persuasions and siren seductions : vocal music in South Park / Jason Boyd and Marc R. Plamondon -- "Simpsons did it" : South Park as differential signifier / Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock -- Freud goes to South Park : teaching against postmodern prejudices and equal opportunity hatred / Robert Samuels -- Cynicism and other postideological half measures in South Park / Stephen Groening -- Shopping at J-mart with the Williams : race, ethnicity, and belonging in South Park / Lindsay Coleman -- "I hate hippies" : South Park and the politics of generation X / Matt Becker -- South Park heretics : confronting orthodoxy through theater of the absurd / Randall Fallows -- Prophetic profanity : South Park on religion or thinking theologically with Eric Cartman / Michael W. DeLashmutt and Brannon Hancock -- "You know, I learned something today..." : cultural pedagogy and the limits of formal education in South Park / James Rennie -- "Omigod, it's Russell Crowe!" : South Park's assault on celebrity / Damion Sturm