25 Funniest ‘South Park’ Moments (Video)

Rolling Stone has assembled what they believe to be the 25 funniest moments from the first ten years of “South Park” and provide a video clip for each of them.

Their tastes are clearly different from mine, as I don’t find several of the ones they picked funny at all. I mean, the Towelie character? C’mon.

Still, these are pretty good:

MOMENT #22 Cartman addresses Congress in an attempt to save his friend by convincing them of the merits of stem-cell research. They finally agree after he leads them in a sing-along version of prog supergroup’s Asia 1980′s classic “Heat of the Moment” — one of many songs from that era Cartman has an affinity for.

MOMENT #21: South Park takes on The Simpsons. South Park pays homage to its predecessor by admitting that The Simpsons has covered literally every plot imaginable. In the end, all the characters morph into yellow-skinned Springfield residents.

MOMENT #19 Realizing just how profitable Christian pop rock can be, Cartman forms a group called Faith +1 with Token and Butters. They go on to sell millions. Sample lyric: “I wanna get down on my knees and start pleasing Jesus! I wanna feel his salvation all over my face!”

MOMENT #12 In what turned out to be South Park’s most notorious episode, Scientologists conclude that Kyle must be a reincarnation of L. Ron Hubbard. Kyle is given a brief overview of the cult’s beliefs via an abridged version of the Scientology creation myth, which features frozen aliens in volcanoes, alien warlord Xenu…the whole she-bang. Throughout, the message “This is what Scientologists actually believe” is periodically flashed on the screen.

There are a lot of classic South Park scenes missing from the list, though, and some of the show at its sick-not-funny worst included.

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