South Park has an IQ Score of 129/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Competent tier.
Engages without demanding much, watchable and reasonably crafted
Score Breakdown
IQ = round((Cognitive × 0.4 + Educational × 0.35 + Craft × 0.25) × 4)
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The TVI Take
Trey Parker and Matt Stone's Comedy Central animated series, 28 seasons of the most-sustained American political and cultural satire in the medium's history. The structural commitment to current-events turnaround (full episodes produced in under a week) is what lets the show function as ongoing cultural commentary rather than as the time-locked sitcom register most animation works inside.
The Imaginationland, Scientology, and Mormonism arcs are canonical.
Characters Scored Here
People search for these characters by name. TVI doesn't invent fictional-character IQ numbers, but South Park's score is the honest answer to how seriously the work treats each mind.
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South Park scored 129/200 (Competent tier) on TV Intelligentsia's published methodology. Source: tvintelligentsia.com/titles/south-park/
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