6 Days to Air: The Making of South Park

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Okay.

- Okay.

- Let's do it.

If we go down to this... either end,

see, you can get it.

Keep going. Keep going. Keep going.

- You know what I mean?

- Yeah.

- Like this, right?

- Yeah, that's good.

- So we're talking to you?

- Yeah.

Okay.

We have an amazing show tonight.

Oh, my God.

The creators of the legendary

animated series South Park,

Matt Stone and Trey Parker!

South Park's never been Matt

and I sitting there going,

"Okay, what's offensive?

What can we do that's offensive?"

Oh, "herro" "prease."

We just are sort of

offensive people, so...

Red rocket. Come on, dog. Red rocket.

You watch all four days of

the Democratic convention...

On Wednesday night,

I had to watch South Park, so...

Oh, this is hot scissoring.

Scissor me timbers.

All right,

I'd like to solve the puzzle.

N*ggers!

All the bad in society,

it's our fault.

You can blame us.

Now how about we do

some scripture readings

from The Book of Mormon?

They have a new musical

opening on Broadway

that is getting rave reviews.

It's called The Book of Mormon.

Been here in New York

for 2 1/2 months.

This is opening night in about,

what, an hour?

South Park seems like

a million miles away.

But we start into South Park

in two weeks.

We're really stupid.

This was the longest break

we've ever had in between runs.

It's been quiet here

for the last few months.

It won't be any longer here shortly.

Well...

Knowing we have seven shows coming up

and we don't have any

ideas for them yet...

That's typical,

but to go back to South Park

is gonna be really hard.

There's this documentary

being made on South Park,

so that starts shooting now.

Let's go to the bathroom, boys.

Bathroom cam.

Oh, I probably should, actually.

I'll have...

Want to get that little

mini detail for 75?

- Yeah. Yeah.

- Okay.

Just give me the keys.

I'll just give 'em to you.

What's your name? - Trey.

Trey, I'll take care of you,

what time you leaving today?

- 5 in the morning, probably.

- Okay.

It is kind of our mission

every morning to go in

and come up with ideas and jokes.

Writers' room is off-limits.

I will only bother the writers' room

if there's something that

has got to be dealt with

or answered right on the spot.

Man, we got to do seven episodes.

We never had cameras

in the writers' room.

Yeah, I mean, it's a really...

It's kind of a safe place.

For all the good ideas that we get,

there's, like,

The Japanese Tsunami, which isn't

funny at all,but there is, like...

every... a couple days, it's like,

a new video comes out,

'cause so many people were

everyone has a video phone.

It... you just... it looks...

Oh, it's terrifying.

Anyway, so Tsunami video?

Tsunami show?

- Not super funny.

- Real funny.

And you got to feel safe to just go,

"What about this?"

And it's like, people go, "well..."

You go, "okay, you know,

I don't take any offense.

You didn't like my idea."

And you got to feel

like... it is kind of...

It's weirdly vulnerable.

I've had friends that

worked at other shows,

and if you say something

that doesn't work,

they're like, "ah, that sucks.

You suck. You're not funny."

And these guys,

it's actually a very kind room,

and I think, like,

the worst you get is, "okay."

The way that they work is definitely,

like, having fun,

laughing, chasing that,

and never making it, like, a grind.

It seems like movie trailers

make you feel stupid these days.

"Hello, you.

"Kevin James is a Zookeeper.

Go see it, a**hole."

That trailer. Ugh.

Talking monkey? In a m-m-movie?

It's gonna help me g-g-get laid?

Kevin James is a Zookeeper. F*** you.

He's about to get married. F*** you.

I'm a squirrel. I can't talk.

F*** you.

Pirates of the

Caribbean forty f***ing eight.

F*** you.

You'll notice that a lot of

the people that work here,

they'll be going,

walking by back and forth,

and they're always kind of...

'Cause they know,

the more we're laughing in there,

the less hours they probably

have to work in here.

They walk by, there's no laughing,

and Trey's doing this and

I'm pulling out my hair...

And it's 3:
00 in the afternoon,

and we should be done.

You know what's getting a lot

of traction in the last, like,

maybe six months is

how f***ed up the NCAA is

and how f***ed up it is that

players don't get paid.

They're playing on ABC

on Sunday in front of, like,

and they can't afford to

fly their mom to the game.

You look in the crowd,

and everybody's white.

All the athletic directors,

everybody's white.

All the players are black.

Or most of them are, you know,

And you're like, "dude,

you're selling their image,

like, on video.

You're signing video game deals."

When I first met him,

we had just seen

Indiana Jones and the

kingdom of the crystal skull.

Matt, like, really hated it,

and he was kind of going off

about it, and he was like,

"it was like a rape."

He just kept saying, like,

"the movie was like a rape."

And then... and while

he's saying this,

like, Trey's just kind of,

like, pacing around,

and then Trey just goes,

"okay so the boys are

coming out of kingdom"...

And then it was just... it

just started... it became...

I was like, "Oh, my God.

This is becoming an episode."

Why are they doing this?

They're just taking Indiana Jones,

and they're...

They're raping him!

I can't watch!

Let's get out of here, Kyle.

Why would Spielberg

and Lucas do this?

Come on! Let's go!

Why are they doing this?

Just run!

So then what if Cartman

starts a lucrative business

of getting crack babies

to play basketball?

And he videotapes

these crack babies...

It becomes really big,

but he doesn't pay the

crack babies anything.

Stan's mom volunteers at the hospital

where she holds crack babies.

Then Cartman sees a really

great investment opportunity.

"The most successful

businesses in America

"don't pay their labor.

- Don't you understand, Kyle?"

- "It's slave labor."

"I see; You're gonna represent

the crack babies against me."

"How much money are

they paying you, Kyle?"

"No, I'm doing it pro Bono."

"What?

"You're doing it

just to get a f***ing boner?

"You know, it'd be fine... if

you were doing it for money,

"I'd understand,

but just to get a boner, Kyle?

Jesus Christ."

Just to get a boner.

There's on a show on this Wednesday.

We don't even know what it is,

and, like, even though

that's the way we've always done it,

there's this little thing going,

"Oh, you're screwed.

You're screwed."

And then I tried to get a diversion

and play a little Xbox last night,

and a big ad for South Park

came up on the Xbox.

You know, "Starting Wednesday."

And I was just like, "Oh, sh*t.

Just can't get away from it."

Let's do this.

Let's go till 11:30 trying to come up

with something completely new.

Then from 11:
30 to 12:30,

we'll pick which of these shows

we're gonna do,

and we'll come up with a scene for that,

and then we'll be done.

A whole another show.

Last night, I went onto iTunes,

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