Posted on 10/11/2011 10:06:03 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
I watched with great fascination the Comedy Central broadcast on Sunday night of how an episode of South Park was put together. What got to me was how they were able to write and create an episode right up until almost deadline time. As was pointed out in the show, when South Park first began in the 1990s, the technology didn't exist for producing an episode so quickly. Also what got to me was the struggle to come up with ideas. Well, GOOD NEWS for South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker. They now have a potential South Park episode that practically writes itself. I will now put together a few possible scenes for an episode based on the OWS protests.
One hilarious incident occurred a few days ago at Occupy Atlanta when a bizarre cultlike groupchant ritual as you can see in this VIDEO was used to keep Congressman John Lewis from speaking to the group. With that video in mind, here is how I see the opening of the OSP episode:
The boys, Stan, Kyle, Butters, and Eric Cartman enter a fast food restaurant. They begin to walk up to the counter when they are cut off by a skinny guy with a red shirt who looks like the chant guy in the Occupy Atlanta video. The fast worker asks the guy for his order and the guy speaks into his megaphone:
"We believe..."
(A crowd of hippie types behind them repeat...)
"We believe..."
RED SHIRT GUY: That the eating of meat...
HIPPIE CROWD: That the eating of meat...
RED SHIRT GUY: May be morally reprehensible...
HIPPIE CROWD: May be morally reprehensible...
RED SHIRT GUY: Therefore we propose...
HIPPIE CROWD: Therefore we propose...
RED SHIRT GUY: That we put this item on our agenda for a vote...
HIPPIE CROWD: That we put this item on our agenda for a vote...
RED SHIRT GUY: Please signal our approval by wiggling our fingers...
HIPPIE CROWD (wiggling fingers): Please signal our approval by wiggling our fingers...
(The boys are watching this in stunned disbelief.)
STAN: What the hell...?!
KYLE: These people are cuckoo!
ERIC: Hurry up you idiots! I'm hungry!
RED SHIRT GUY: Should we place this item on the agenda now...
HIPPIE CROWD: Should we place this item on the agenda now...
RED SHIRT GUY: For a vote...
HIPPIE CROWD: For a vote...
RED SHIRT GUY: Or later after we have more input...
HIPPIE CROWD: Or later after we have more input...
(They all wiggle their fingers.)
STAN: Let's get the hell out of here!
KYLE: These idiots will be here forever trying to make up their minds.
(The boys leave the restaurant and later we see them walking by a park where there is a large crowd of demonstrators. The same Red Shirt Guy is on the megaphone again.)
RED SHIRT GUY: Please signal with wiggling fingers...
HIPPIE CROWD: Please signal with wiggling fingers...
RED SHIRT: Our approval of the occupation of South Park...
HIPPIE CROWD (wiggles fingers): Our approval of the occupation of South Park...
STAN: It's the same idiots that kept us from ordering at the restaurant.
KYLE: Who the hell are those people?
HIPPIE: We are here to occupy South Park.
STAN: Occupy South Park? Why?
HIPPIE: To like show our dislike of the system?
STAN: What system and what do you dislike about it?
HIPPIE: Well, like you know. Things just aren't fair.
KYLE: What isn't fair?
HIPPIE: It's not fair that some people have more stuff than others.
STAN: That's it? Is this why you want to Occupy South Park?
HIPPIE: Yeah, and we're not leaving until things are fair.
KYLE: How do you make things fair?
HIPPIE: I dunno but we're not leaving South Park.
ERIC: Oh crap! A bunch of weirdo hippies want to take over South Park!
(We see the inside of Stan's house. His father, Randy Marsh, is yelling at his wife, Sharon.)
RANDY: I'm really excited by Occupy South Park. Finally something is being done to make the system more fair.
SHARON: Oh Randy! Grow up! That group is nothing but a bunch of cultlike hippies who don't know what they want.
RANDY: Oh yeah? Well, I'm thinking about joining them.
(Randy looks out the window and gets a look of shock on his face.)
RANDY: Oh my God!!!
(Randy runs outside to a man with his pants down taking a dump on his car.)
RANDY: You're taking a crap on my car.
FECES MAN: Yup!
RANDY: Why?
FECES MAN: To show my disgust with the system.
(Suddenly we see the Red Shirt Guy on the megaphone and the Hippie Crowd.)
RED SHIRT GUY: We propose that the right to take a sh*t...
HIPPIE CROWD: We propose that the right to take a sh*t...
RED SHIRT GUY: On a car built by corporations...
HIPPIE CROWD: On a car built by corporations...
RED SHIRT GUY: Is an inalienable right.
HIPPIE CROWD: Is an inalienable right.
RED SHIRT GUY: Please signal our approval by wiggling our fingers...
HIPPIE CROWD (wiggling fingers): Please signal our approval by wiggling our fingers...
RED SHIRT GUY: ...and sh*tting on this car.
HIPPIE CROWD: ...and sh*tting on this car.
(They all pull down their pants and crap on Randy's car.)
(The scene is a meeting with the South Park mayor at a town hall. Randy is at the front yelling.)
RANDY: DAMMIT! We have to get rid of that group. They're crapping all over the place.
SCIENTIST: I've done some calculations and if the Occupy South Park crowd continues crapping in public at the current rate then South Park will be completely covered by sh*t in less than two weeks.
MAYOR: We have to get them out of town but we don't have any legal way to throw them out.
ERIC CARTMAN: Ahem! I think I have a way to drive them away from South Park.
MAYOR: How?
ERIC: I propose we fight sh*t with sh*t.
(The Red Shirt Guy is on his megaphone talking to a hippie crowd at a park. Suddenly we hear another voice on a megaphone. The Red Shirt Guy turns around and sees Eric Cartman on a ladder towering above him.)
ERIC (on megaphone): We propose...
SOUTH PARK CROWD: We propose...
ERIC: That we drive these spoiled hippies out of South Park forever...
SOUTH PARK CROWD: That we drive these spoiled hippies out of South Park forever...
ERIC: Please signal our approval by wiggling our fingers...
SOUTH PARK CROWD (wriggling our fingers): Please signal our approval by wiggling our fingers...
ERIC: ...And sh*tting on them...
SOUTH PARK CROWD: ...And sh*tting on them...
(Cartman drops his pants and takes a dump on the Red Shirt Guy who screams and runs away. The rest of the South Park crowd are also dumping on the hippies who run away in terror.)
FYI
Cartman would really struggle, he hates the hippies, but the hippies hate the Jews.
FYI
There is already one similar to that. Cartman has to get rid of the hippies by playing raining blood by slayer. And the hippie drill. Around 2006 I believe. Before chef got axed.
Cartman hates hippies and Jews.
I remember that and because Cartman hates hippies I used him to come up with the idea to rid South Park of these protestors. BTW, the moment I saw the Red Shirt Guy from Atlanta I knew he was perfect for a caricature. In fact, he actually does look like a living cartoon.
Matt and Trey have made a lot of money by saying what needs to be said. yes it’s crude sometimes, but at least they’re not afraid of political correctness.
Remember, the ideas I presented for an OSP episode of South Park aren’t set in stone. Anybody is free to come up with their own ideas but these protests just BEG to be immortalized on South Park.
I hope you watched the Sunday show where it shows how they produce a show. Fascinating to watch how they worked right up against the deadline.
Just a quick addition to your script... as the boys arrive at the park, they first hear:
RED SHIRT GUY: [looking at megaphone] Is this thing on?
HIPPIE CROWD: [each looking down as if they’re holding a megaphone] Is this thing on?
And then on into the rest of the scene.
LOL! Great idea!
Funny - thanks for sharing:
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FECES MAN: To show my disgust with the system.
(Suddenly we see the Red Shirt Guy on the megaphone and the Hippie Crowd.)
RED SHIRT GUY: We propose that the right to take a sh*t...
HIPPIE CROWD: We propose that the right to take a sh*t...
RED SHIRT GUY: On a car built by corporations...
HIPPIE CROWD: On a car built by corporations...
RED SHIRT GUY: Is an inalienable right.
HIPPIE CROWD: Is an inalienable right.
RED SHIRT GUY: Please signal our approval by wiggling our fingers...
HIPPIE CROWD (wiggling fingers): Please signal our approval by wiggling our fingers...
RED SHIRT GUY: ...and sh*tting on this car.
HIPPIE CROWD: ...and sh*tting on this car.
There should also be something about them forming subcommittes, each named after a lemming-like mass suicide cult, e.g.:
RED SHIRT GUY: All in favor of creating the Jonestown Committee on S***ing on cars, waggle your fingers.
HIPPIE CROWD: [waggling fingers] All in favor of creating the Jonestown Committee on S***ing on cars, waggle your fingers.
(and so on for Heaven’s Gate, and similar)
Dude. This is brilliant!
Thanx. Part of the reason why I wrote it is that these OWS protests have such rich comedy material and also because after watching the Sunday show about how they put together a show I wanted to provide some basic material upon which they could build a script. It was fascinating to watch. For some reason I thought basically one person writes the entire script but I see it is much more of a collaborative atmosphere. With this basic material, they could add, subtract, or revise but the basic premise is here. That was one thing that got to me. How they started from scratch just to find that basic premise which could be tough.
No, I mean this is brilliant like BRILLIANT. You NEED to get this in front of them. Seriously.
Mr Hankey! Of course!
“Mister HANKEY, the PROTEST POO,
He loves me and I love you,
Therefore by extension I love youuuu....”
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