But before the movie came out, he had only heard about it. And he didn't realize in writing the letter he was saying the things he says in the movie. He was like, 'I've been to Iraq and I'll take you there.' That's all he does in the movie. 'I've been to Iraq so I know everything.'
But let's spend an hour and a half of this meeting,' because this is Thursday, the show's going on the air Wednesday.
Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in womb?
Everything's idea based. We just promised ourselves we'd never make a movie for the sake of making a movie, which is why we never took a multi-picture deal or anything.
I almost bumped into Alec Baldwin and then turned around and Paris Hilton was standing there. And I was like, 'Look, it's stupid spoiled whore.'
I think by now, after nine years of South Park and after this movie, I think just about everyone, or we're on their s**t list.
I would let my kids watch this stuff way before I'd let them watch something like Full House that I think would make them stupid.
If we have a great idea, we'll go, 'Oh, this could be a cool movie.' Or really for us, it's more like, 'Oh, this is a really bad idea. Let's do this. This seems really stupid.'
In terms of the creative side of it, it's really been a thing where you come up with the funny stuff is usually at a bar or out talking to people or whatever.
It was exactly the same on the South Park movie really too. There's lots of violence in that too, but it always came down to anything sexual... They don't care about anything else.
It's been a fascinating thing because we didn't really know how to write when we started South Park at all. It's been like, we've just sort of grown up a bit and it's amazing to just see how, if you take Butters and Cartman and put them in any scene, it works.
It's funny because I think a lot of it is simply... We've never considered ourselves satirists, but because we're on Comedy Central and because we're South Park on Comedy Central, we can do any topic we want.
It's this simple law, which every writer knows, of taking two opposites and putting them in a room together. I love anything with Cartman and Butters at the same time, it's great.
My favorite musical? I don't. It changes all the time. I'm just a diehard, I'm totally old school, like I'll sit and watch, if they are re-doing Oklahoma in New York, I will be the first one there.
No, writing musicals is the hardest thing in the world. And it was really funny, because I remember when the South Park movie came out, there were some critics that said, 'Well it's obvious that in order to get it to be 90 minutes they filled some time with music.'
Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.
Sean Penn's really the only one stupid enough to put anything down on paper.
So we're considering doing a new Christmas album, because there's been Christmas episodes since then, and maybe finally do the version of "The Most Offensive Song Ever" with lyrics in tact.
Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable.
Talk about it, talk about it, and then I physically go write it and come up with the dialogue, and come up with the structure of the scene.
The badger prince was, of course, the backhanded one going, 'You'll never make it, Lemmywinks,' but Lemmywinks was never doing anything, just sitting there being a gerbil.
Then we went out to the animators, the lead animators like, 'We're going to do the battle between heaven and hell.' And they're like, 'What?'
There is nothing we can't do. So it's just the fact that we're doing topics like that that other people, especially network TV, won't touch, that we're satirists.
There really was a Lemmywinks debacle. There's been many times we tried to fall back on it. We started this Lemmywinks thing.
We got into it. We created all these other characters. It was going to be an Easter episode actually, a year ago.
We made this really dumb decision to put on the cover nothing from South Park but just a real life photo of a piece of pooh dressed up like Mr. Hankey, and a lot of people didn't, they didn't even know what it was.
You know, and it really doesn't have a lot to do with the movie. That's the trick to doing a good musical is that, if you take that music number out, there's less to the movie there. You would miss it.
You start animating it and you get to Friday and you get to Saturday and you go, 'This is not funny, like we haven't figured something out, scrap it.'
Trey always had a close relationship with his father growing up.
During some of the season 1 commentaries, Trey and Matt have a pet dog named Scratch.
Jimbo Kern is based on Trey's crazy uncle.
Trey claims to have never smoked marijuana while Matt is an occasional user.
Trey had said in an interview before season 10 that a main character would be killed off. That character was Chef.
Trey has said that he and Matt would like to make another movie if they get another idea.
Trey's character Cartman is said to be based on Archie Bunker.
Trey idolizes John Elway and the Denver Broncos.
Trey's sister Shelley once threw him down the stairs as a kid.
Trey's birth name is Randy after his father and grandfather.
In the season 2 commentaries, Trey and Matt have a pet pig named Macon.
Trey has said that he and Matt's favorite episode besides "It Hits the Fan" is "Red Hot Catholic Love."
In the episode "Ginger Kids," there is a joke made about the fact that Trey is marrying an Asian woman.
Trey is 2 years older than Matt.
Trey Parker loves the popular computer game Warcraft.
Trey has said that his favorite food is probably bacon.
Trey is actually named Randolph after his dad. Trey is just a pen name.
Trey knows Tae Kwon Do.
Trey has said that Dog the Bounty Hunter is one of his favorite shows.
He and Matt have a contract to keep South Park extented through 2008, which will bring South Park to its 12th season.
He's a pianist.
Trey and Matt's appearance in dresses at the 2000 Oscar ceremony was voted #14 on the 100 Greatest Red Carpet Moments by VH1.
Trey starred in the movie Cannibal!: The Musical.
Trey won a Peabody award along with Matt Stone for South Park at the 65th Annual Peabody Awards Show.
On the show South Park, Stan is used as a representation of Trey Parker and share similar characteristics.
Trey named Cartman's mom Liane after his former girlfriend/fiancee.
Trey starred in BASEketball along with his friend Matt Stone.
Trey is a registered member of the Libertarian Party. He is not a fan of huge political parties.
He won an Emmy for "Best Friends Forever" in the Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming Less Than An Hour). He wrote this episode.
Trey Parker is a Denver Broncos fan. He did a commercial for the NFL Network along with Matt Stone, showing their inner Broncos fan. They also have numerous references to the team in the show.
He wrote every song for the Team America: World Police.
He was kicked out of UCB because he was too busy writing, directing and starring in Cannibal: The Musical! to attend classes.
He likes to use the line "God bless us, everyone" in movies or episodes of South Park.
Always hoped that Saddam Hussein will see his movie "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut" in which he and Matt Stone made fun of him. In 2004 Parker and Stone portrayed another active dictator, Kim Jong-Il of North Korea, in their new movie "Team America". Two days after the premiere they sent a copy to the North Korean Government.
Trey and Matt both said they'd love to make a second South Park movie, if they ever get an idea for one.
Trey Parker won a Student Academy Award for his film, American History.
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