"everything is gonna be awesome now." heh. Three minutes in and it looks like it's going to rock. They seem to have the entire WF spectrum of conversations covered.
South Park is animated by hundreds of illegal Korean child slaves kept in their Colorado studios. They can produce an entire's season worth of episodes in a month.
Yes. And they also had McCain and Obama giving speeches, on stages that looked exactly like the ones they used on Tuesday, and quoting from the speeches they gave. "The failure was mine." "They earned that new puppy that..." I have no idea how they put that all out in less than 24 hours! I imagine many parts were done ahead of time, but there was *still* a lot of insanely topical stuff they must have feverishly done in less than a day. Wow.
I seem to recall a documentary somewhere about how they long ago switched from manipulating tiny cutouts to film each frame, to computer animation software.
Unless you're Steve Irwin showing up at Satan's Halloween party. MAtt and Trey have admitted that they've sometimes not started producing an episode until the day before it airs. Heck, if you go to their website, they've got a web program that lets you make a South Park-style cartoon in a couple of minutes.
Well... Think of how much it still would have worked if McCain had won. It would be the same exact episode. They could have made the entire episode and just stuck in the detailed parts later - like who walked into the white house (Obama or McCain).
That was pretty damned funny. The voter reactions, anyway. Wasn't all that impressed with the Ocean's 11 parody. In fact, I'd say Randy Marsh pretty much stole the show. Ce-le-brate good Obama, come awn!
It was my understanding that it was after the pilot ("Cartman Gets an Anal Probe") that they stopped doing that.
Fucking awesome episode. Like I said, Matt and Trey for President 2012! Randy going apeshit was hysterical and the McCain supporters building a bunker. The ER scene with the 'Hope and Change' flag sticking out of the guy's ass fucking killed me. I think I liked the whole diamond hiest plot better after the second time. The commentary there was probably "they're really all working together to rob the shit out of us", or something like that. It doesn't take up more than it's share. Really put shit in perspective I think. It still isn't my favorite Season 12 episode so far ("Canada On Strike" still wins for me), but still a great episode.
http://tv.ign.com/articles/928/928073p1.html The South Park guys talk about how they made the episode. They basically figured Obama would win and made the episode around that.
Thanks. I was guessing they only had the Obama version because he had such a lead, but then they could always switch it over to a McCain version within a week. The two candidates were basically interchangable for the heist. I wasn't positive that it was an Ocean's parody, but I saw the first movie so I guessed it. There were a few nice touches in the caper story- like when we find out Palin ('golly gee whiz') is in on it, and again when Michele was brought in ('I had to pretend to be married to this dolt'). But UA is right, the election stuff, Randy Obama and the suicidal McCainites, was funnier than the Oceans plot. My favorite this year was the Heavy Metal homage/Cat piss. But Canada on Strike was just as good. "Oh, look, it's the '"what what in my asshole kid"'." "That's 'what what in the butt', sir"
I was not looking foward to this ep because I assumed it would be a one way bash of Obama, but I have to admit that I was pleasantly surprised. Randy spazzed out... One thing though... the words in Obama's victory speech were almost verbatim for the ones he spoke at his victory party in Chicago. That was amazing. Was that done in 1 day?
I caught it last night, the first few minutes when you see the reaction of Butters family and the rest of the McCain supporters about how the world was about to end got me thinking that that is what happened in sheps house last week.
