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- Platysquirrel, on 10/12/2007, -14/+241I had no idea it was like that. I always thought they did everything together like a gay couple, that's, you know, NOT gay.
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -9/+131It's the most intelligent cartoon ever made.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -12/+103If you actually knew what South Park was, you would know that it's goal isn't to "offend". It's to give a different view on things.
Such as the episode where the people from the future come back with a time machine. The people from the future take all of the jobs, asking for very little money while they say it's enough for their families "back there", and can't speak proper English, forcing Kenny, Cartmen, Kyle and Stan to learn the language. The gang, however, doesn't want to learn their language because "they came here, THEY should learn". There, also, is no way for the Americans to stop them from coming to America.
This makes you see that the episode is just a metaphor for the Mexicans coming from Mexico illegally, with no way to stop them, forcing Americans to learn Spanish. While they get paid little, and give some of their pay check to their families back in Mexico.
Don't label something like "it's ultimate goal is to offend" when, in reality, it really doesn't. - metacoola, on 10/12/2007, -6/+96Manage the money...what else are us Jews to do :
- Ihavethespeed, on 10/12/2007, -16/+85hehe, i bet they work together.
they have sex. - BobbyMC, on 07/21/2008, -2/+53Stone needs to rewatch Baseketball and realize that he is a great comedic actor. I'd heard horrible things about it, including that episode of South Park, but they kicked so much ass together in that.
Same goes for Orgazmo even though Stone plays a very minor character. - NextGenXbox, on 10/12/2007, -16/+67Good article.
- cartman005, on 10/12/2007, -1/+51Whatever they do, it works. BEST SHOW ON TV!
- sugarazor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+46And he voices Butters, arguably the greatest character on the show.
As for everything else, Stone doesn't get nearly enough credit. Parker is the evil genius while Stone is the right hand man. - davidsmero, on 10/12/2007, -1/+40Orgazmo was great
- gleam, on 10/12/2007, -1/+38So.. he's a producer. What they described is what producers do. He clearly deserves that Executive Producer credit.
People talk about Steven Spielberg films, but they also talk about Jerry Bruckheimer films. Producers are one of the most maligned and most necessary roles in any film or tv show.
Glad to see Matt Stone get some credit. - schwab002, on 10/12/2007, -1/+35goddamn goobacks! DEY DERKOR JORBS!
- johnlandes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+28Maybe he traces.
TRACER!! - tranix, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24My favorite episode!
Also: at first the kids were earning $20 per lawn snow shoveling, then the "futurebacks" came and did it for 25c. Jobs nobody wants, huh?... Priceless. - bIuebonics, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22@merreborn
how is anything he said homophobic in any way? nice to see the typical sensationalism that runs rampant on digg... - virtualball, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22What they said isn't homophobia. What they said is that they were so close that they thought they were together. If it was a guy and a girl you'd have no problem with it.
"Wow Jen and Max are spending way too much time together."
"Ya think they're going out?"
"Could be"
You're the stereotypical one here. - mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -5/+24It's not homophobia.. I had just imagined them being two guys that shared ideas and collaborated closely on the show.. in a gay happy manner.
Even if I thought they had constant gay sex, it doesn't mean I'm homophobic. - DisposableRob, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20"I had no idea it was like that. I always thought they did everything together like a gay couple, that's, you know, NOT gay."
I don't know if Kevin Smith came up with the term, but I always thought the term "Hetero Lifemate" (from Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back) seemed appropriate. - CriX, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18LOL
DEY DOOKOR JEEOBS!!!! - MrStabby, on 10/12/2007, -7/+21@platysquirrel
As did I.
Though I could totally picture the Playgirl spread featuring the two of them wearing nothing but "Beers" jerseys...
...and the follow-up story featuring reports from Camp New Grace, where they "Pray the Gay Away" - Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14And check out who's riding the gravy train to Lootsville--it's never the talent.
- TheNik, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15What about Maude Flanders dying?
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -36/+49Two men work together, therefore they must be gay!
Nice to see the usual childish homophobia on digg. - xOCxKILLSx, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16Many great partnerships work this way Think Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in the early apple years.
Woz was the electronics genius who put the computer together and Jobs was the front man. - lkmbrd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Naggers.
- ThankTheCheese, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10The problem with the Simpsons is that the writers keep changing. What keeps South Park so good is that it is all coming from the same person, and always has.
- thrallie, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Reminds me of Penn and teller (south park guys are friends with them too).
- reddevil3, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10I think Stone is Parker's "muse".
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+14You mean Matt is a j-o-o?
- bIuebonics, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8"cannibal the musical" was hilarious as well...
- ClunkClunk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8@mrassman,
While your terminology may not have been correct, your intention was. It's certainly appropriate to be ethnically Jewish, but not religiously Jewish. - Lennalf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Yes, it was a shpadoinkle movie!
- BigErn847, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6It will now be my lifetime goal to never, ever watch the episodes on stansdad.com.
- ViktorVaughn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5We get it, now go away.
- aydoubleyou, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9anybody got any change?
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Yes, that's exactly what I meant.. thanks for understanding and not burying me like everyone else.
- CountryBoyRI, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Oddy enough, as a software developer, I can totally relate to this story. Parker is like a coder who juts wants to frickin code man. Leave him alone, let him work in peace and quiet, and he's a happy camper. He sucks at meetings and anything requiring a smidge of diplomacy because he likely doesn't have a problem telling people they're a frickin' idiot for not understanding what he's trying to do or talking about. Plus, he'll just say whatever flops out of his mouth, and while he thinks its funny, everyone else would be gaping at him in horror. He's an artist; the show is his canvas. Leave him alone and let him create. Do not ask him to be diplomatic or to compromise his work. (You'll be sorely disappointed, either by his refusal, or by the resulting quality of the work.)
But if you want to put a show on television, at some point, you're going to have to interact with people, and you're going to have to do it diplomatically. Chances are good that if it was a one-man-show, with Parker at the reins, he'd have pissed someone off during season one and the show would have been canceled without a second thought.
And that's where Stone comes in. He's Parker's interface to the business world. Stone can talk the business, lay it all out, deal with Parker's eccentricities, fight the public fights, and so on, all while freeing Parker to do what he does best. If Stone wasn't there, a show might still be made. But would it still be on TV? Doubtful.
I thought the article did a good job of focusing on just what the hell it was that Stone did behind the scenes. It might not have been balanced, but for those who don't know what the hell a producer does or why it's important, it was good and useful information, - adeadwaffle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I like play game. You like too?
- thelastdyingday, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3awesome show, keeps getting better and better.
- joeydoo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Internet haters say the same thing about Woz and Steve Jobs in the early days of Apple. Jobs was just using Woz and so on. But it's highly unlikely that Woz could run the business and be a technical and creative genius. It almost seems like, expect in very rare situations, people can't be both.
Only stupid people think that Matt Stone doesn't do anything. - tnvwboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Oh Hamburgers!
- BattleStar47, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I wonder if you could track his reduced to creative input to when many people thought the show got less funny.
(I'm not one of those people, I'm just saying...) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Butters rules :)
- psylence, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Wow, you just.. wow.
- metafore, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5blame canada (if for nothing else, bryan adams and celine dion).
- SirSwiftblu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Actually, thirteen."
"What!?"
"One of them had an unborn baby."
"Ahhh!" - turpenine, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4jobs was the prettier of the 2.
- dfielder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Well he does the voices too , I'm sure he has some say in the episodes as well
- DuffyDirect, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3dude i write a lot of stuff and have alot of great ideas, but im terrible with money and talking to people i dont know and sitting in offices negotiating and crap. anyone want to do that crap and make a tv show?
- Dorepoll, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I know he comes up with a lot of the concepts and directions in which the show takes. Not backbreaking work, sure, but it's nice to know he sometimes steers the ship.
Plus, he was the possibly gay lighting man in Orgazmo, which allows him to do whatever he wants to do in life because he made this mark in cinema history. "I don't want to sound like a queer or nothing, but I think unicorns kick ass!". -
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