College buddies Trey Parker and Matt Stone needed a theme song for their upcoming TV show, an irreverent cartoon about four foul-mouthed young boys in a Colorado mountain town called South Park.
A quarter century after the series’ 1997 debut episode, “Cartman Gets an Anal Probe,” the Comedy Central series is still cranking out profane and often timely episodes, with recent shows dealing with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and gentrification . The often baffling streaming landscape has given them material as well as riches. A two-part special, “The Streaming Wars,” lampooned the rapidly shifting media landscape through a plot involving water rights, popsicle stick boats and the return of climate-change surrogate ManBearPig.
The Times spoke with Parker and Stone about “South Park’s” longevity, how they try to keep the show fresh and their “deep fake” movie that fell victim to COVID-19.Trey Parker:Yeah, songs we wrote 20 years ago. So many of the songs are about our balls that it’s hard to keep them straight.We were just sitting around talking, like, “We should have a party. Who should we get to play at our party? Let’s get Primus and Ween. And maybe we should do a song.” It started evolving from there.
“South Park” is often very topical, but you’ve always said your favorite episodes were the ones with the kids just being kids. How do you balance that?It’s easier to be fresh about something topical because it’s new. The writers’ room always starts with us sitting around a table going, “All right, what’s going on?” Just like in any office. But even in the season we just did, some of my favorite things were Butters riding a horse and Cartman living in a hot dog. Just kid stuff.
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