Their stories over the last decade or so, when focused, are sharp and critical of pop culture and modern-day society, finding some of the strangest and stupidest routes to parody such things. Where the other adult-oriented cartoons that have been on air for almost as long as South Park ( Family Guy) or even longer ( The Simpsons) have fallen by the wayside in terms of quality, South Park has somehow remained fresh and just as jagged, if not getting better with time.