Posted on 02/01/2006 5:01:55 PM PST by wallace144
Now that they’ve taken down everyone from the Scientologists to Paris Hilton, have South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker run out of targets? (Hey, Rob Reiner: Watch your back!) Interview by Mickey Rapkin
You did an episode about Paris Hilton, in which she opens up a retail store called Stupid Spoiled Whore. Why pick on Paris?
Trey Parker: Okay, for me, she’s a whore. Whatever. She’s a dumb, ugly whore. But then I walked into a Guess? store, and she was all over the place. I’m like, Wait a minute, they’re treating her like a glamorous model now? Does anyone notice how dangerous this could be to little girls?
On-screen she eventually competes with Mr. Slave in a “whore-off.” How do you come up with an idea like that?
TP: I think she came up with that idea, actually. We just made a cartoon out of it.
How does the show manage to be so topical? Do you really write and produce every episode in six days?
TP: Yes. The hours are absolutely brutal, and they have been for nine years now. We show up on Thursday morning at nine o’clock, and usually we don’t have even an idea for what the show is gonna be about. And we go into the writers room and we’re in there freaking out, and every week I’m like, Why do we do this? Why do we do this? There are a lot of ways we come at show ideas. But we’ll look at things happening in the news. Maybe we say, Let’s do a Paris Hilton episode. Let’s rip on her for being such a whore. And let’s rip on America for embracing her for being such a whore. Now we think, What could be one funny scene? An example is, We should have the Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset, and do a little commercial. Immediately, I have to go out of the room and go write just that scene because we’ve gotta get animators going on something. Then I’ll run back to the writers room and go, Okay, now what could come after that scene? Why does that scene exist? We really get to sculpt the show.
We actually tried to watch Orgazmo recently and we thought it was about as baaaaaaad as Baseketball...
But we ADORE Cannibal the Musical.
You have to remember, something that these guys LOVE to do is screw with the audience!
Do you remember that cliff-hanger, where Cartman's father's identity was going to be revealed in the next episode? And instead of showing that episode, they did a "Terrance and Phillip Special?"
I read an interview where one of the guys said that they were just making a joke, but they started getting death threats!
Mark
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WE DIDN'T LISTEN! LMAO, I nearly wet my self the first time they aired that episode.
Oh, they certainly are. It's one of the reasons I dig "South Park." They really rag on the liberals.
What's funny is that a lot of liberals like the show and don't see that Parker and Stone's ideaology is making fun of them most of the time.
Given Michelle Malkin's extremely accurate description of the Left from her latest book, it's almost like dropping a grenade to kill the fish in the barrel. Parker and Stone clearly know how self-indulgent and nihilist the Hollywood Left is, and it's just too easy to make fun of them.
A great adventure is waiting for you ahead
Hurry onward Lemmiwinks or you will soon be dead
The journey before you may be long and filled with woahs
But you must escape the gay man's a$$ or your tale cant be told
All hail the Gerbil King!
/jasper
the old tree hugging hippy....
That was my FAVORITE episode from this past season. I've seen it twice and just laughed all the way through it.
I love that it was written, conceived, drawn, produced and everything else by John Smith or Jane Smith.
Now you did it. The FR burka police will be upon you.
Fat chicks and guys with grey beards will throw donuts.
I about fell out of my chair when he turned Kyle into a chicken. It came out of nowhere.
Hey, dont knock BASEketball. I laughed my ass off when Jenny McCarthy hands the trailer hitch to the old, bad guy with chrome on her face and says, "Here I'm done with this one."
Does South Park take story idea submissions? I have a few ideas I would like to submit.
"(Hey, Rob Reiner: Watch your back!) "
Hasn't South Park already skewed Reiner's fat a$$ in an episode that mocked the anti-smoking movement?
Why is it you cracker children always come to me? Don't you have Parents?
That's cute! :)
Even SP ripped on BASEketball.
Theirs and Comedy Central's voice mail boxes were overloaded with hate and threats. Some of the calls were so over the top that Comedy Central ran them as commercials for South Park.
BFL
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