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South Park: Season 2

18 episodes Premiered Apr 1, 1998 Updated Sep 23, 2026

South Park season 2 continues the overarching saga across 18 episodes. The series is an American animated comedy series created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and it has been broadcast on Comedy Central. The show revolves around four irreverent grade-schoolers and their misadventures in and around a quiet, dysfunctional, and titular Colorado town. The main characters of the series are four boys named Stan Marsh, Kyle

Previously on South Park

Season 2 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • The series revolves around four main boys named Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman, and Kenny McCormick.
  • The narrative is set in and around a quiet, dysfunctional, and titular Colorado town often referred to as a f-cked-up town.
  • The show follows the misadventures of these four irreverent grade-schoolers.
  • The American animated comedy series was created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone and broadcasts on Comedy Central.

Season overview

South Park season 2 continues the overarching saga across 18 episodes. The series is an American animated comedy series created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and it has been broadcast on Comedy Central. The show revolves around four irreverent grade-schoolers and their misadventures in and around a quiet, dysfunctional, and titular Colorado town. The main characters of the series are four boys named Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman, and Kenny McCormick. As the series progresses, it follows the daily lives and adventures of these four boys in their f-cked-up town, maintaining its status as a widely recognized television program with multiple seasons and hundreds of episodes spanning across its broadcast history.

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Season 2 Episodes

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S2·E1 Mytharc

Terrance and Phillip in Not Without My Anus

Apr 1, 1998

The show starts off with the build up from last season's cliffhanger revolving around Cartman's paternal origins. However, just as it seems they are about to get on with the second

S2·E2 Core

Cartman's Mom Is Still a Dirty Slut

Apr 22, 1998

Dr. Mephisto is about to reveal who Eric Cartman's father really is! Glass shatters and gunshots ring out. A mysterious assailant apparently shot Mephisto while the lights were off

S2·E3 Core

Ike's Wee Wee

May 20, 1998

Ike's going to have a Briss and everyone is invited! Stan, Kenny, and Cartman find out what a Briss really is and try to warn Kyle that his parents are going to cut off Ike's wee w

S2·E4 Core

Chickenlover

May 27, 1998

The Booktastic bus is in town and soon everyone finds out that Officer Barbrady can't read. He is whisked off to school with the boys so he can save his job. While he's there someo

S2·E5 Core

Conjoined Fetus Lady

Jun 3, 1998

Kyle is injured and must go to see the school nurse and is terrified because of the stories he's heard. She looks fairly normal, except for the dead fetus sticking out of her head.

S2·E6 Core

The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka

Jun 10, 1998

Mr. Garrison assigns the boys to learn about Vietnam from somebody they know. Stan's Uncle Jimbo and his friend Ned tell the boys their outrageous tale. Mr. Garrison doesn't believ

S2·E7 Core

City on the Edge of Forever (Flashbacks)

Jun 17, 1998

While their school bus is dangling on the edge of a cliff, the boys remember some of their past adventures. Mrs. Crabtree catches a ride into town with a stranger and winds up doin

S2·E8 Core

Summer Sucks

Jun 24, 1998

Schools out for summer and with Mr. Hat missing, Mr. Garrison is over the edge. The state has a ban on the sale of fireworks, and it screws up the boy's plans for a 4th of July cel

S2·E9 Core

Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls

Aug 19, 1998

A film festival moves to South Park, only to have a devastating effect on the sewer system. Mr. Hankey calls upon Kyle for help. The movie people interpret Kyle's pleading as a pit

S2·E10 Mytharc

Chickenpox

Aug 26, 1998

Cartman's mother plots to give the boys the chickenpox by sending them over to Kenny's for a sleepover. Both Stan and Cartman breakout, but Kyle remains immune. Kyle discovers "the

S2·E11 Core

Roger Ebert Should Lay Off the Fatty Foods

Sep 2, 1998

The kids go on a field trip to the planetarium. All of the children except Cartman are acting weird. As usual Stan and Kyle, with Kenny's sacrifice, try to get to bottom of the mys

S2·E12 Core

Clubhouses

Sep 23, 1998

Stan needs to build a clubhouse so he and Kyle can play "Truth or Dare" with Wendy and her friend, who has a crush on Kyle. Cartman and Kenny retaliate by building a clubhouse of t

S2·E13 Core

Cow Days

Sep 30, 1998

South Park's annual "Cow Days" party is happening! The cows become transfixed on a cow statue. In order to get the money they need to win Terrance and Phillip dolls, the boys sign

S2·E14 Core

Chef Aid

Oct 7, 1998

Chef is getting sued by Capitalist Records for trying to obtain the rights to a song he wrote twenty years ago. He needs 2 million dollars to hire Johnny Cochran. In response the b

S2·E15 Core

Spookyfish

Oct 28, 1998

Sharon Marsh's Aunt Flo makes her monthly visit and she has present for Stan, a fish. Stan's fish really freaks him out, especially when the dead bodies start piling up. Mrs. Marsh

S2·E16 Core

Merry Christmas Charlie Manson!

Dec 9, 1998

Kyle, Stan and Kenny accompany Eric and his family to a Christmas celebration with the Cartman family. One of Cartman's relatives breaks out of jail for the reunion, with his cellm

S2·E17 Mytharc

Gnomes

Dec 16, 1998

Harbucks coffee plans to move into South Park and drive Tweek coffee shop out of business. Mr. Garrison assigns a report on current events to help him keep his job. The boys are pl

S2·E18 Mytharc

Prehistoric Ice Man

Jan 20, 1999

Kyle falls into a cave. Stan goes to rescue him and finds an iceman, and the two fight each other for sole credit. Dr. Mephisto discovers that the iceman has been frozen since 1996