The Broadcasting Standards Authority has upheld a complaint that a programme that included reference to necrophilia was offensive.
Michael Hooker complained that an episode of South Park, broadcast on TV4 at 9pm on September 13, was outside the accepted norms of taste and decency in the context of a comedy.
TV4 declinedto uphold Mr Hooker's complaint and the matter was referred to the authority, which he asked to have the programme withdrawn.
He considered that South Park "had absolutely no merit, value or importance in relation to artistic, social, cultural, educational, scientific or any other matter".
Mr Hooker said the programme was intended for young audiences, and said TV4 had not disagreed that the cartoon would be "highly attractive to children".
But TV4 said other viewers enjoyed the programme and should be allowed to continue to do so.
TV4 said there was a thriving adult comic industry, of which South Park was one, and cartoons had undergone a revolution since the days of Mickey Mouse.
The authority said scenes and sounds describing the act of necrophilia could have been edited out without compromising the episode's storyline, but it decided no penalty was needed.
