A Brief Comparison between The Simpsons and South Park If a troublemaker want to arouse controversy, a following question can be effective. Which one is the best cartoon series, The Simpsons or South Park? These show programs take the highest rank in all kinds of lists of best cartoon series, but The Simpsons and South Park have not any resemblance. In this essay, finding out distinction between those TV animations with three points is the main purpose: target audience, language style, and satire differentia. First of all, The Simpsons and South Park are dissimilarly graded by the media rating system. The Simpsons can be viewed by audience who reached at 13 years old under their parental guidance. With a careful advice, the fact means that there are no abstruse issues to appeal to even young students. In contrast, teenagers under 19 forbid from watching South Park. Because this animation contains lots of controversial problems that make social and political arguments, minors who could not finish to forming a view of value can have a certain deflective opinion. Second, a style of language used in both cartoons shows quite different appearance. In particular, characters in The Simpsons use courteous and polite expressions generally, and the speed of speech is not as fast as news programs, so it is easy for viewer to feel relaxed. However, in the case of South Park, characters’ utterances are extremely violent, and speech speed of this cartoon is too rapid to hear even more than soap dramas. That can make viewer concentrate on conversation. Last, there are different degrees of satire in The Simpsons and South Park. In The Simpsons, the scriptwriters use euphemistic to avoid getting sued when they want to criticize celebrities or to parody certain scenes made from movies. Nevertheless, South Park writers don’t hesitate to ruin the reputation of the big names without circumlocution, and they uses even regional, racial stereotypes in every episode just for fun. In sum, tremendous gaps can be searched in The Simpsons and South Park. It is really hard to find single point of convergence between those show animations, but they give fun and inspiration to the fans in different ways. Eventually, even The Simpsons and South Park will meet the end someday as time goes by, but if they don’t lose their clear uniqueness, these TV animations will carry on their episodes as long as they have done.