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[AmishDude]

Wouldn't really want to think of myself as the only person in the world who could come up with that idea. Regardless, I'm sure it's better as a cartoon TV episode.

[faq]

Simpson's did it!

[mnehring]

Seems like South Park beat the Farrellys by over a year... Maybe Tray and Matt can sue the Farrelly bros. Plus, the South Park episode really was about steroid use.. something the Farrelly's movie doesn't sound like it touches.

[LanPB01]

The Farrelly Brothers haven't made a decent movie in years. They peaked with There's Something About Mary.

[wvobiwan]

South Park rips EVERYONE off, and does it funnier and better than anyone. Get over it wussies.

They should be happy, at least their 'story' gets watched via South Park, I'm sure no one gives a crap about whatever show/writer was supposedly robbed.

[Space Wrangler]

I would also add that after Parker and Stone absolutely drilling Tom Cruise this season, look for more attacks from the Hollywierd usual suspects. I can easily imagine that there are going to be some vehement attacks on them in the coming months. Their epsiodes are starting to hit a little too close to home for some of these nitwits' sacred cows.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Dante's Peak/Volcano

Armegeddon/Deep Impact

Sometimes ideas just take hold and there are several people doing the same thing at the same time.

[ko_kyi]

The old "pitch a story to a producer then sue if anything remotely similar ever comes out" scam is as old as hollywood itself.

[hattend]

The Farrellys, meanwhile, are attempting to stage their long-gestating update of The Three Stooges.

Are they going to be gay?

Bastards

[Welsh Rabbit]

I like the Farrelly brothers. King Pin is one of my favorite movies, but I think they should let this go. Even if SP did rip off the idea (which I doubt), it's not like people are not going to see the movie because they already saw the SP episode. Apples and oranges.

[Calvin Locke]

I think Josh Grossberg should go back to school: copied The Ringer, the brother's? That should be brothers',
if my parochial school education serves me.

Maybe the brothers would be more happy if SP did it with Cartman beefing up on 'roids for a cow curling contest during Cow Days?

[HairOfTheDog]

But veteran producer Bob Kosberg (Twelve Monkeys), who pitched The Ringer to the South Park brain trust, tells the trade he never actually spoke to Parker and Stone about the screenplay

Wha? Shopped it to the "South Park Brain Trust" (whatever that is) and such "brain trust" didn't include Parker OR Stone?

Love that term... "Brain Trust" though.

[Alouette]

Ideas can't be copyrighted.

[dfwgator]

Count on Matt and Trey to rip the Farrellys a new one in an upcoming SP episode.

[RightWingAtheist]

Ahhh, the Farrellys just got a little sand in their vaginas!

[Thoro]

I could have sworn that that particular episode was more of a spoof on an old ABC Afterschool Special that featured Ben Affleck as a steroid addicted high school athlete.

The Cartman angle was just a subplot.

I'm currently researching a link confirming it.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"Per Daily Variety, the Farrellys claim a 2004 South Park episode, in which Cartman pretends to be mentally disabled to compete in the Special Olympics, blatantly copied The Ringer, the brother's upcoming movie about, yes, a guy who feigns a mental disability to win the Special Olympics."

Hell, Seinfeld did that, in a fashion-- the Mel Torme episode.