my father was into it when his friends would mail him homemade videotapes of tv recordings of the first few episodes of south park from the united states between august and november of 1997. keep in mind, this was months before south park aired in canada, but dvds did exist, but they were expensive as fuck cuz they werent mainstream until around 2001. also, youtube (or any kind of social media site and smartphones) didnt exist back then either.
sadly, me and him dont have the tapes since it has been almost 15 years since he has last seen them and im sure that if i had them, they wouldve been in terrible condition and the vcr probably would eat the tape as well.