7 South Park characters who deserve their own movie

In South Park’s early years, the dimwitted Officer Barbrady was the only real law enforcement in town. But starting with 2003’s “Christian Rock Hard,” his role became subsumed by Harrison Yates, a grittier, mustachioed cop who proved to be an effective vehicle for satirizing police brutality, institutionalized racism, and other within the criminal legal system. Barbrady rose to prominence again when he accidentally shot a kid in and was promptly fired, only to try and redeem himself with a streak as a kind of underground hero.Barbrady has since been reinstated to his old position and is occasionally seen as a background character. But his newfound sense of duty makes him the perfect foil for Yates’ racism, which was introduced all the way back in 2004 with “The Jeffersons” and further explored in last year’s with the shooting of Token Black. Having Barbrady work to take down the inherently corrupt Yates could be an effective way to provide further commentary and serve as a riff on one-good-officer-against-the-force movies such as and . South Park is often at its funniest when skewering hardboiled dialogue, and let’s face it, Parker and Stone have always had a keen eye for .

, , especially in its later years, and it will probably be that way until the show ends. But the other side of that coin is that Parker and Stone love writing wildly silly, irreverent, practically apolitical storylines just because they feel like it. Take “Lice Capades,” a 2007 episode that focused largely on a colony of parasites living in the hair of the boys’ classmate Clyde. While the human drama unfolds, the lice get their own stone-faced disaster movie, with a louse named Travis Mayfield at the forefront. After he sees the giant eye of a nurse looking through Clyde’s hair, he warns the rest of his civilization about impending doom. Catastrophe soon arrives in the form of a prescription shampoo that kills Travis’ friends, neighbors, and wife. When we last saw him, he had escaped Clyde’s head via housefly with his newly born child Hope, and was safely living in Angelina Jolie’s pubic lice colony.But what’s happened since then? Are Travis and Hope still okay? Are they in search of a new home after witnessing the tumult of Jolie’s from Brad Pitt? Have they gotten unpleasantly rocked by her stunts in the upcoming ? We already got an parody with “Lice Capades,” so maybe it’s time for the pair to strike out on their own again in an insectual version of . Whatever the case, Parker and Stone devoting an entire film to a character we’ve only seen once (and who was never actually seen by any of the show’s human characters) would be so South Park.