The Best Episodes of South Park Season 2
Every episode of South Park Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of South Park Season 2!
Follows the misadventures of four irreverent grade-schoolers in the quiet, dysfunctional town of South Park, Colorado.
Season 2 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "South Park" season 2 is "Terrance and Phillip in Not Without My Anus", rated 6.2/10 from 3919 user votes. It was directed by Trey Parker and written by Matt Stone, Trey Parker. "Terrance and Phillip in Not Without My Anus" aired on 4/1/1998 and is rated 2.0 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Slut".
6.2/10 3,919 votes#1 - Terrance and Phillip in Not Without My Anus
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 4/1/1998
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 half of "Cartman's Mom Is A Dirty Slut," they do a 180 degree turn-around and reveal that for April Fool's Day they will be showing Terrance & Phillip in "Not Without My Anus".
Director: Trey Parker
Writer: Matt Stone, Trey Parker
8.2/10 3,858 votes#2 - Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Slut
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 4/22/1998
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. Much to Eric's chagrin, they rush Mephisto off to the hospital. Chef rushes out the door with Mephisto in hand. They must fight against time to learn Eric's background, who is his father? Where does he come from?
Director: Trey Parker
Writer: David A. Goodman, Trey Parker
8.0/10 3,588 votes#3 - Ike's Wee Wee
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 5/20/1998
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 wee. Kyle sends Ike away to protect him from his scissor wielding parents.
Director: Trey Parker
Writer: Trey Parker
8.0/10 3,531 votes#4 - Chickenlover
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 5/27/1998
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 someone in South Park is having sex with the town's chickens and only Officer Barbrady with his new deputies Kenny, Kyle, Stan, and Cartman can stop them!
Director: Trey Parker
Writer: David A. Goodman, Matt Stone, Trey Parker
7.6/10 3,346 votes#5 - Conjoined Fetus Lady
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 6/3/1998
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. Kyle's mother educates the boys on her "condition" and decides that everyone in South Park should be made aware. Meanwhile, the South Park Cows dodgeball team goes to the state, national and finally the international finals in China.
Director: Trey Parker
Writer: David A. Goodman, Matt Stone, Trey Parker
7.5/10 3,254 votes#6 - The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 6/10/1998
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 believe the boy's report and gives them detention. They plot revenge against Stan's Uncle by submitting a phony video of the Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka to them.
Director: Trey Parker
Writer: Matt Stone, Trey Parker
7.3/10 3,321 votes#7 - City on the Edge of Forever (Flashbacks)
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 6/17/1998
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 doing a brief stint as a standup comedienne. Back in South Park, Mr. Mackey convinces the parents that their missing children must have run away. In the end it's all a dream within a dream.
Director: Trey Parker
Writer: Trey Parker, Nancy M. Pimental
7.4/10 3,126 votes#8 - Summer Sucks
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 6/24/1998
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 celebration. Mr. Garrison seeks psychiatric help from Dr. Katz while Jimbo and Ned go to Mexico, in an attempt to smuggle fireworks back to the children of America.
Director: Trey Parker
Writer: Trey Parker, Nancy M. Pimental
7.5/10 3,192 votes#9 - Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 8/19/1998
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 pitch and they quickly turn his story into a film starring Tom Hanks and a monkey they call "Mr. Hankey." Kyle is outraged that the filmmakers aren't hearing his pleas. Soon Chef's Salty Chocolate Balls energizes everyone.
Director: Trey Parker
Writer: Matt Stone, Trey Parker, Nancy M. Pimental
7.9/10 3,202 votes#10 - Chickenpox
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 8/26/1998
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 parental conspiracy" and with the other boys hires a prostitute to give their parents herpes. Meanwhile, Kenny's mother and Kyle's mother reunite their husbands who were both childhood friends that drifted apart.
Director: Trey Parker
Writer: Matt Stone, Trisha Nixon, Trey Parker
7.5/10 3,106 votes#11 - Roger Ebert Should Lay Off the Fatty Foods
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 9/2/1998
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 mystery. Meanwhile, Cartman wins an appearance on a snack commercial. The four boys get to the root of the strange planetarium.
Director: Trey Parker
Writer: David A. Goodman, Trey Parker
7.9/10 3,115 votes#12 - Clubhouses
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 9/23/1998
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 their own; only theirs has hot chicks. Meanwhile, the Marshes marriage breaks up and Stan learns a valuable lesson about love and family.
Director: Trey Parker
Writer: Trey Parker, Nancy M. Pimental
7.5/10 3,002 votes#13 - Cow Days
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 9/30/1998
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 Cartman up for a bull riding contest. A freak accident has Cartman believing he is a Vietnamese prostitute named Ming Li. The boys learn about money and cow insanity.
Director: Trey Parker
Writer: David A. Goodman, Trey Parker
7.8/10 3,109 votes#14 - Chef Aid
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 10/7/1998
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 boys round up all of Chef's old musician friends and organize a huge concert to raise the cash.
Director: Trey Parker
Writer: Matt Stone, Trey Parker
8.4/10 3,524 votes#15 - Spookyfish
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 10/28/1998
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 is convinced Stan is doing the killings and begins hiding the bodies. The boys discover there are two Cartmans and a gateway to a parallel universe at the "Indian Burial Ground Pet Store."
Director: Trey Parker
Writer: Trey Parker
8.1/10 3,226 votes#16 - Merry Christmas Charlie Manson!
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 12/9/1998
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 cellmate, Charles Manson.
Director: Eric Stough
Writer: Trey Parker, Nancy M. Pimental
8.3/10 3,359 votes#17 - Gnomes
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 12/16/1998
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 planning on doing their report on the underpants gnomes. Tweek's father schemes to use the boy's report as a platform for fighting Harbucks. The report the boys deliver sparks the town into taking action.
Director: Trey Parker
Writer: Matt Stone, Trey Parker, Pam Brady
7.8/10 3,073 votes#18 - Prehistoric Ice Man
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 1/20/1999
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. The iceman is put on display and the fighting Kyle and Stan free him. The iceman tries to return to his family, but finds himself a man out of time. Meanwhile, the government has their own plans to use the iceman in their plot against Sweden.
Director: N/A
Writer: Trey Parker, Nancy M. Pimental