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{{short description|American animated TV series}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}}
{{Infobox television
| image              = 3 South Title Screen.jpg
| runtime            = 20–22 minutes
| genre              = [[Animated sitcom]]
| director           = [[Ron Hughart]]
| creator            = [[Mark Hentemann]]
| starring           = {{Plainlist|
* [[Brian Dunkleman]]
* [[Brian Posehn]]
* [[Mark Hentemann]]}}
| opentheme          = "Fight Test" by [[The Flaming Lips]]
| composer           = [[James L. Venable]]
| country            = United States
| executive_producer = {{Plainlist|
* [[Bill Freiberger]]
* Mark Hentemann
* Abby Terkuhle
* Marian Davis}}
| producer           = [[Kara Vallow]]
| editor             = Rob DeSales
| company            = {{Plainlist|
* Hentemann Films
* [[Warner Bros. Animation|Warner Bros. Television Animation]]
* [[MTV Animation]]}}
| network            = [[MTV]]
| first_aired        = {{Start date|2002|11|7}}
| last_aired         = {{End date|2003|1|16}}
| num_seasons        = 1
| num_episodes       = 13 (2 unaired)
}}
'''''3-South''''' is an American [[adult animated]] [[Animated sitcom|sitcom]] created by [[Mark Hentemann]] for [[MTV]]. The show premiered on November 7, 2002, and ran for 11 episodes before being cancelled on January 16, 2003 with two episodes not airing. 

==History==
The series was created by ''[[Family Guy]]'' veteran writer [[Mark Hentemann]] during the show's hiatus, loosely based on Mark's college days at [[Miami University]]. It is the only animated series produced for [[MTV]] by [[Warner Bros. Animation]]; [[Paramount Global]] currently owns the series via MTV. Previously, MTV was part of [[Warner Bros.]]' sister company, [[Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment]] before the network was sold to [[Viacom (1952–2005)|Viacom]] in 1986. After 3-South was canceled Creator Mark Hentemann would later go on to create ''[[Bordertown (American TV series)|Bordertown]]'' for [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]], which also ran for just one season due to low ratings and negative critical reception.

The show's theme song is [[The Flaming Lips]]' song "[[Fight Test]]" from the album ''[[Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots]]''.

==Premise==
The show revolves around two lifelong dim-witted friends, named Sanford and Del and their misadventures at the fictional Barder College.<ref name="Perlmutter">{{Cite book |last=Perlmutter |first=David |title=The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows |date=2018 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1538103739 |pages=639–640}}</ref> With the exception of their intelligent pre-med roommate Joe, nearly everyone at Barder is dumb and incompetent. Nonetheless, the idiotic, irresponsible, and thoughtless Sanford and Del are portrayed as the series' heroes, whereas the responsible, cynical, intelligent Joe is the ''de facto'' villain in most episodes.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Erickson |first=Hal |title=Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 |date=2005 |publisher=McFarland & Co |isbn=978-1476665993 |edition=2nd |page=845}}</ref>

==Main characters==
* '''Sanford Reilly''' – voiced by [[Brian Dunkleman]]. Sanford is an obese, oafish, highly insensitive loudmouth who shows little consideration for others. He has a very crude sense of humor, believing in the value of toilet humor and stupid pranks. As Del's best friend, he often takes the lead in their pointless adventures. In the episode Fraternity, he is revealed to be diabetic and has to take insulin for it.
* '''Del Swanson''' – voiced by [[Brian Posehn]]. Del is Sanford's lifelong friend, similarly stupid, but more reserved and considerate. While Sanford is hopelessly dumb, Del shows a few glimpses of intelligence to his own surprise. He is extremely short and tends to have slightly better luck with women than Sanford ever does. Actor Brian Posehn gives Del a distinct low, droning voice, almost identical to the one used for Jim Kuback on the short-lived [[The WB|WB]] adult animated series [[Mission Hill (TV series)|''Mission Hill'']].
* '''Joe Tate''' – voiced by [[Mark Hentemann]]. The most intelligent and very miserable student at Barder, Joe is forced to attend Barder College because he was not accepted to [[Harvard]] (because Harvard had already filled their quota of white male students). He has aspirations of becoming a medical doctor, but is constantly at odds with Barder’s idiotic students and the school's abysmal facilities, including an extremely inept medical center run by an incompetent doctor. As Del and Sanford's roommate, he is forced to endure their rudeness and stupidity on a daily basis.
* '''Todd Wolfschmidtmansternowitz''' – voiced by [[Brian Posehn]]. The R.A. of Del and Sanford's floor, Todd is a grotesque loser with a high, croaking voice and several medical conditions, including [[albinism]]. Todd has been pathetic his whole life, often mentioning his loud alcoholic father and inability to cope with ordinary problems. He is constantly ignored by the students on his floor despite his good intentions, and has a tendency to blindly follow rules and regulations.
* '''Ed Bickel''' – voiced by Mark Hentemann. A hillbilly who lives on Todd's floor. Ed often hangs out with Del and Sanford and displays many stereotypical [[redneck]] habits, including a distinctly stupid laugh. Although just as dumb as everyone else, he sometimes provides helpful information and always has a cheerful demeanor.
* '''Dean Earhart''' – voiced by [[Jeffrey Tambor]]. A Barder alumnus, Dean Earheart deals with the school's many failings on a daily basis. He is neurotic, dishonest, and incompetent at his job. He has a blonde female assistant named Linda, who serves as his voice-of-reason.
* '''Felicity''' – voiced by [[Lori Alan]]. A girl who has a major crush on Del. Felicity has a psychotic romantic crush Del that she has had since high school, and only enrolled in Barder in hopes to always be with him. Her dorm room is filled with photos of Del all over the place. At one point, Del had to file a restraining order against her only for her to injunct it thinking it was all a misunderstanding. She constantly rips off her own hair to make clothing for Del, in hopes that one day she'll marry Del and bear children with him. She constantly bickers with Sanford.
* '''Cindy Reilly''' – voiced by [[Kathleen Wilhoite]]. Is Sanford's ditzy, unattractive, alcoholic older sister, who's a junior at Barder. In the first episode, she spent the summer sobering up, only for one of her friends to give her a beer to celebrate, which gets her drunk all over again.  A common running gag in the show is her getting hit by a car, as well as flashing her breasts. She has also been banned from eating in the cafeteria for her antics.
* '''Dr. Heminger''' – Barder College's doctor. He is not very helpful when it comes to helping the students on campus, and doesn't seem to know anything about his profession. He also abuses medication.

== Episodes ==
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{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber = 1
 | Title = College Material
 | WrittenBy = [[Mark Hentemann]]
 | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|11|7}}
 | ShortSummary = Idiotic friends Sanford Riley and Del Swanson move into their new dorm at the low-rent and anti-intellectual Barder College, where they must contend with their new, brainiac pre-med roommate, Joe (who is forced to attend there after Harvard filled their quota of white male students) and try to pass their first semester after bunking all of their classes.
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{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber = 2
 | Title = Stomach Pump
 | WrittenBy = [[Dave Jeser]] & [[Matt Silverstein]]
 | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|11|14}}
 | ShortSummary = Sanford becomes the "bitch" to a female bully after stealing her personalized T-shirt. Meanwhile, Dean Earhart must boost interest in Barder College...and gets his wish when Joe volunteers to create a fully functional stomach pump for students suffering from alcohol poisoning.
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{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber = 3
 | Title = New Friends
 | WrittenBy = Pat Pujolas
 | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|11|21}}
 | ShortSummary = Sanford fears that Del will become Mr. Popular after Del makes friends with the newspaper club.
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}}
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber = 4
 | Title = My Name is Todd W.
 | WrittenBy = [[Bill Freiberger]]
 | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|11|28}}
 | ShortSummary = Todd throws a party in an attempt at being cool, but after he spills beer on himself and falls out of a window (and onto Dean Earhart), Todd gets stripped of his R.A. duties and ends up in Alcoholics Anonymous, where he falls for Sanford's sister Cindy.
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}}
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber = 5
 | Title = Del Gets Sick
 | WrittenBy = [[Reid Harrison]]
 | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|12|5}}
 | ShortSummary = Del forgets his coat on his way to a campus football game and ends up with a nasty cold, which is worsened when Sanford takes his sick friend ice-fishing and throws a cigar-smoking party.
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{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber = 6
 | Title = Fraternity
 | WrittenBy = Mark Hentemann
 | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|12|12}}
 | ShortSummary = Sanford and Del get tricked by a group of townies living off-campus into being pledges for a fictitious fraternity, but when the townies choose Del over Sanford, Sanford decides to join the Sigma Phi house—home to a psychotic frat brother named Randy Shaner.
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}}
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber = 7
 | Title = Coke Addicts
 | WrittenBy = [[Erik Sommers]]
 | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|12|19}}
 | ShortSummary = Sanford and Del desperately try to get Coca Cola from a soda machine and resort to stealing from Joe's change jar. Meanwhile, Joe finds out from the university doctor that no one worthwhile has ever graduated from Barder College, and decides to take out his revenge on the school after being mugged by Shaner.
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}}
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber = 8
 | Title = Midnight Del
 | WrittenBy = [[Steve Callaghan]]
 | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2003|1|2}}
 | ShortSummary = Barder College celebrates "The Midnight Yell" (a college tradition where students scream out their dorm windows to relieve stress from midterms), but Del ends up in trouble when he participates.
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}}
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber =  9
 | Title = Joe Gets Expelled
 | WrittenBy = Paul Fourie & Alan Cross
 | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2003|1|9}}
 | ShortSummary = Joe sets up an interview to get transferred to another college, but blows it when he comes in high after accidentally eating Del and Sanford's slice of pizzas with marijuana leaves on them and ends up expelled from Barder after Dean Earhart catches Joe passed out on top of the polar bear on the Dean's diorama. Meanwhile, Sanford and Del are called upon by a stoner student named Berger to look after his marijuana plant (which he refers to as an oregano plant).
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{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber = 10
 | Title = 100 Yr. Old Man
 | WrittenBy = Dave Lewman & Joe Liss
 | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2003|1|16}}
 | ShortSummary = Dean Earhart attempts to bilk money out of a Barder College alumnus who won the lottery. Meanwhile, Sanford and Del steal Barder College's mascot: the 100-year-old "strapping young man", whose presence ensures Barder will beat the point-spread at football games.
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}}
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber = 11
 | Title = Top Dogs
 | WrittenBy = Dave Jeser & Matt Silverstein
 | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2006|06|09}} (MTV2)
 | ShortSummary = Sanford and Del get invited to a sorority party that ends up being a stunt called a "dog show" where sorority sisters bring in ugly men as their dates.
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{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber = 12
 | Title = Cock Tale
 | WrittenBy = Paul Fourie & Alan Cross
 | OriginalAirDate = Unaired
 | ShortSummary = Sanford and Del lose all their money in a poker game to Milo, and hold cockfights to make up the difference. Meanwhile, Joe finds a secluded study place and meets a college student named Max who, like Joe, is the only smart student in a university of idiots, and the two plot to expose Barder's seediness so they can rebuild the school as an intellectual paradise.
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}}
{{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber = 13
 | Title = Fake I.D.
 | WrittenBy = Pat Pujolas
 | OriginalAirDate = Unaired
 | ShortSummary = A Nobel prize winner comes to Barder to give a speech but loses his wallet—which ends up in Sanford's possession, which he uses to score beer at a local bar.
 | LineColor = A42900
}}
}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
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* {{IMDb title|0338684}}

{{MTVNetwork Shows}}
{{MTV Animation}}
{{Warner Bros. animation and comics}}
{{Rough Draft Studios}}

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[[Category:2000s American animated comedy television series]]
[[Category:2000s American college television series]]
[[Category:2000s American sitcoms]]
[[Category:American adult animated comedy television series]]
[[Category:American animated sitcoms]]
[[Category:American English-language television shows]]
[[Category:MTV cartoons]]
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