The 15 Most Controversial TV Shows Of All Time

South Park

Throughout its 20-plus seasons, South Park has had its fair share of controversies because the show has always refused to be politically correct and has never spared any sensitive topic or group from mockery and satire. The show has created a number of controversies over the years for its depiction of the Virgin Mary and Muhammad, for denouncing Scientology as nothing more than “a big fat scam,” and for airing an episode that showed Steve Irwin with a stingray stuck in his chest just two months after he died in the same way. The Parents Television Council has frequently criticized the show for its “over-the-top vulgar content” and tastelessness” and called it a “curdled, malodorous black hole of Comedy Central vomit” that “shouldn’t have been made,” but it’s still going 21 seasons later.