“We couldn’t think of an Act 3,” explains Parker.
“We put it in the show,” says Parker.
“That happened on a Saturday; we aired it on Wednesday.
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People went crazy, like, ‘How did you do that?'”
“That was the yearBook of Mormon[premiered on Broadway],” Parker explains.
“We’d done this other big thing, and we were exhausted.”
In fairness, the producers expected thatSouth Parkwould end a long time before that.
Says Parker: “We thought the movie was going to be our swan song.
Leave it all on the table.”
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Is South Park Growing Up?
The perspective has frequently shifted from the child characters to denizens like Stan’s irate dad, Randy.
“Now it’s just my voice.
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I’ve become my father.”
Adds Stone: “The show’s more mature, in a way.
It deals with the anxieties that are a mature person’s anxieties.”
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and “Member the ’80s?!”
but also occasionally mutter, “Member when there weren’t so many Mexicans?”
“Last year was about us getting old, [thinking] ‘Are we out of touch?’
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Timmy’s rival Jimmy was supposed to die in his first appearance.
Meanwhile, in the spirit of playful competitiveness, the creators have considered a main character fatality.
“We were like, ‘Let’s be super hardcore.
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Let’s just f—ing kill Kyle.’
" The long-suffering Jewish voice of reason survives… for now.
Now the creators have another legacy to deal with: their own.
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“We’ll sit here for two hours talking about an idea,” says Parker.
“I’ll be like, ‘This really sounds familiar.’
And you find out we did that 8 or 13 years ago.”
Beware Eric Cartman
South Parkstill maintains its famously breakneck start-six-days-to-air production schedule.
“We’re trying to f–with expectations of being serialized,” says Stone.
“As of right now, Cartman really hasn’t done anything wrong.
[But] his sinister plans are always a well for us to go to.”
Remarkably, that episode sawSouth Parkearn its highest ratings in 10 years.
“We have no idea why!”
“What we should have done is quit the show after season 5.
Then we could have done a reboot.
That’s what everyone else is doing.
We can’t even reboot ourselves, because we never went away.”
