He's baa-aack! Chef returns for the Season 10 premiere of South Park Programming Highlights / Comedy Network Posted by RAD on Sep 28, 2006 - 04:06 PM Hard to believe it's been 10 years of reckless, rambunctious, raunchy fun straight from the screwed-up town of South Park, Colorado! And those foul-mouthed fourth graders Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman show no signs of graduating from their shocking antics when the tenth anniversary season of South Park premieres with 12 all-new episodes. Kicking off Season 10 is "The Return of Chef!", featuring the triumphant homecoming of Jerome "Chef" McElroy to South Park. While Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman are thrilled to have their old friend back, they notice that something about Chef seems different. And when Chef's strange behaviour starts to get him into trouble - most notably his shocking new fondness for sex with children (yes, only on South Park!) - the boys pull out all the stops to save him. Last season, controversy swirled around South Park when Isaac Hayes, the longtime voice of Chef, quit the show over creative differences with South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker. For the season premiere, Stone and Parker spliced together previously recorded footage of Hayes to create new dialogue for Chef. In the following episode, "Smug Alert!", Stan gets down with the environment and convinces the citizens of South Park to drive hybrid cars. But just as everyone starts feeling good about saving the earth, a dark, stormy smug cloud accumulates over the town, courtesy of George Clooney's Academy Awards acceptance speech. Other hilarious highlights this season on South Park include: - Kyle and Cartman at war over the popular cartoon Family Guy; - Towelie writes a book that gets selected for Oprah's book club; and - The boys help an ex-Vice President in his quest for attention and get trapped in a cave with buried treasure. South Park was honoured with a prestigious George Foster Peabody Award in April 2006. In announcing the winning programs, the Peabody committee cited South Park as being a "notoriously rude, undeniably fearless lampoon of all that is self-important and hypocritical in American life, regardless of race, creed, colour or celebrity status." After five nominations, the long-running adult animated series also won its first Primetime Emmy Award last Fall for "Outstanding Animated Program". Launched in 1997 exclusively in Canada on The Comedy Network, South Park has consistently been one of the Network's Top Three programs. Reruns from seasons past air Mondays through Thursdays at 9:30 p.m. on The Comedy Network. This article is from CHANNEL CANADA   http://www.channelcanada.com/ The URL for this story is:   http://www.channelcanada.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1579