Last year, Trey Parker and Matt Stone (creators of “South Park”) made an unprecedented deal with Comedy Central that allows them to maintain complete control over their show, while still giving them tons of money. Part of the fruits of that deal have been announced that puts all the episodes of “South Park” available for free on their site.

NEW YORK, March 25, 2008 — South Park Digital Studios LLC, the joint venture between “South Park” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and COMEDY CENTRAL, a division of MTVN Entertainment Group, a unit of Viacom (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), announced today the launch of the new southparkstudios.com, which will feature free, streaming, full-length episodes and clips from the entire 12 seasons of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning animated series. The site which rolled out a beta version last Wednesday has already received over three million page views, over two million video plays, and more than a million streams of full episodes.

This is a great approach to digital distribution. Instead of a clearing house like Hulu, you go right to the source to get your shows…support the artist, so to speak. The only negative is not being able to download an episode to your iPod/Zune/Archos for that plane/car ride. But overall, “sweeeeet”.