Okay, We admit it, we really love this show, but all they will show us in Australia is the old repeats and we still don�t know who�s Cartman�s Father is.

So, instead of a) Ask people from on the Net who Cartman�s father is.

                      b) Hi-jack the Television station and demand the new episodes be shown, or...

                      c) Fly to America and watch it,  we�ll talk about the show and it�s creators.

 Hollywood success stories, they're a glut on the market. But
 there's never been one quite like the saga that surrounds "The Spirit of Christmas,"
   a five-minute animated short on which hangs a million-dollar tale. For openers,
   though the shorts situation is highly competitive, with 60 selected from 1,200
 submitted, "The Spirit of Christmas" is here because the festival called filmmakers
    Trey Parker and Matt Stone and asked if it could be shown. That's because
 bootleg tapes of this anarchic, outrageous, obscenely funny film, which features a
 fierce battle between Jesus and Santa Claus, have gone all around Hollywood and
 the world, making this the hottest home screening item in memory. It started when
a Fox executive they'd met through contacts made at Sundance gave them $2,000 to make a video he could send
as a Christmas card. "I did the animation using construction
paper cutouts," Parker says, "and we both improvised the
dialogue, screaming obscenities at each other in my
basement while my mom was baking fudge upstairs. It cost
$750 and we pocketed the rest." The exec sent the video
 out at Christmas 1995 to 80 people, who promptly made it their card as well. And
so on. "By February, we were hearing about it from every state (in the US), friends
 of friends in New York were telling us 'Metallica saw your
  video and they loved it.' We'd never bothered to put our
name on it, so the whole thing came full circle when a friend
 from Ohio sent us a copy and said, 'You've got to see this.' " Though their career as live-action filmmakers had already started (their "Cannibal the Musical" was a Sundance midnight show that was picked up by Troma), this short put
them into orbit. "First everyone was trying to figure out who we were, and then
there was like a little bidding war going on, studios offering three-picture deals."
         The team sold Comedy Central a series called "South Park," based on the shopping mall world "The Spirit of Christmas" takes place in, and they're about to go into
  production with a full-length animated feature. The budget: $1.5 million. "Pretty
amazing," Parker says, and who's going to argue?