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Time to take in some Matt and Trey facts, m’kay?

35 Trivia Tidbits About Matt Stone and Trey Parker That We Also Happened to Bang Out in Six Days

October 07, 2024

While your tummy gets its fill at their Mexican restaurant, Casa Bonita, we thought that your brain could do a little consuming of its own. We didn’t want it to feel left out. And if you’re a big enough fan to dine at their restaurant, then you’re probably a big enough fan to join us on a little journey through their personal and professional lives.

So here are some fun facts about Matt Stone and Trey Parker to munch on while you wait for your chips and guac.

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South Park

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS TREY PARKER DIDN'T WANT MAKE LOVE NOT WARCRAFT TO AIR. SOUTH PARK Parker says he thought they lost their touch during season ten and begged the network to not air the now fan-favorite episode. Не thought the episode was terrible and that it would ruin their legacy. CRACKED.COM — Source

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BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS EPISODES ARE MADE IN A WEEK. SOUTH PARK While the process of making the show used to take several weeks, the show is currently written, animated, and produced the week before its air date. In comparison, it takes several months to complete a single episode of The Simpsons. CRACKED.COM — Source

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EASTER EGGSTRA South Park Trey Parker's phone number. THE SCOTT MALKINSON SHOW STREAMING RIGHTS NOW AVAILABLE ! CALL TREY (719) 838-4002 © At the end of season 23's Basic Cable episode that deals with the vast amount of TV shows currently available, Trey Parker S phone number ends up on screen. Dialing the number led people to a list of fake for-sale TV shows. CRACKED.COM — Source

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BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS KYLE WAS ALMOST KILLED OFF THE SHOW. SOUTH PARK The creators felt Kyle and Stan were too similar and planned on killing the character in the season five finale. They eventually gave up on the idea and decided to temporarily kill off Kenny instead. CRACKED.COM — Source

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EASTER EGGSTRA South Park Orgazmo, Orgazmo everywhere. PHILIA The creators' 1997 film's title character is featured in a ton of episodes, from a poster of him in Cartman's room to a cameo in a couple of episodes opening credits. CRACKED.COM — Source

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BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS GEORGE CLOONEY WAS A FAN FROM THE BEGINNING. SOUTH PARK DL - Clooney was such a huge fan of The Spirit of Christmas, the 1995 short that preceded the show, that he made VHS tapes of the short and sent them to his Hollywood friends. Не went on to voice Cartman's dog on the show and Dr. Gauche in South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. CRACKED.COM — Source

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South Park

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS BUTTERS IS BASED ON A REAL PERSON. SOUTH PARK The character is based on Eric Stough, the show's mild-mannered animation director and producer. Before the character was born, Stone and Parker actually nicknamed Stough Butters. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM How do you keep a puppet-on-puppet sex scene in your movie and still escape the dreaded NC-17 rating? simple. Add a golden shower sequence. Trey Parker and Matt Stone knew the MPAA would have a problem with the now famous Team America: World Police scene, so they deliberately added a golden shower moment, knowing they could cut it as a compromise. — Source: 20 Creators That Schemed Their Way Past Censors

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South Park

S C Cartoon Bears PEETIE THE SEXUAL HARASSMENT PANDA IN SOUTH PARK IS SANTA CLAUS. Trey Parker and Matt Stone revealed in a DVD commentary that the panda was actually Santa Claus, as both characters have red underwear and the same voice. CRACKED.COM — Source: South Park Archives

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South Park

CRACKEDc SOUTH PARK THE CLINTON STORYLINE. FIRST EPISODE LAST EPISODE Both suddenly disappeared after The main storyline of episode seven. Trey season 20 heavily Parker and Matt Stone forced both to involved drop Bill were the storyline because Trump and Hillary Clinton. won the election - something they didn't expect to — The Washington Post

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Cartman's mom is easy because Trey Parker was bitter. She was based on Liane, his college fiancee, who cheated on him before dumping him. so she calle — Source: 5 Famous Characters You Didn't Know Are Based On Real People

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Cartman: A Classic Blend of Misogyny and Neanderthalism.

ERIC CARTMAN the way he acts Cartman is a spiritual successor to a popular All in the Family character. I'd say within the first season, we kind of realized Cartman's like a little Archie Bunker, says Trey Parker. CRACKED — Comedy Central,
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Animation on animation hate

Eric Cartman isn't the only one who hates Family Guy. Turms out, his hatred of the show comes straight from Matt Stone and Trey Parker. The duo says they genuinely hate the show and its type of gag comedy. — YouTube

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Best: BASEketball

CRACKED BEST H 4 Peers Beers BASEKETBALL South Park creators create their own sport. BASEketball was a game where any out of shape nobody could be a star, and the psych out portion let Trey Parker & Matt Stone do their hilariously immature thing! It was their own original comedic style which was (clearly) skewered by critics, but adored by fans. — IMDB

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TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE PUPPET SEX CRACKED.COM The MPAA was perplexed, since the scene is sexual, but really it's just puppets without genitals clanking into each other. Parker & Stone submitted it nine times before the rating was flipped from an NC-17 to an R, leaving in 50 of the scene's 90 seconds. — Screenrant

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South Park co-creator Trey Parker was mostly unknown during the show's first season. OMEDY 1 So he let people think they were seeing him naked. Parker

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BASEketball

Rock songs in movies 4 Beers Beers BASEketball Five years after Trey Parker and Matt Stone invent BASEketball, the slacker sport has become huge. And what's the first thing we see after the time jump? A sprawling shot of the stadium, drunk people and cheerleaders and all - and before all that, Reel Big Fish singing BEER. It's dumb-comedy awesome. CRACKED.COM — Universal Pictures
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M’kay, Mr. Mackey.

MR. MACKEY m'kay? Mr. Mackey is the school counselor at South Park Elementary, famous for his catchphrase M'kay, which he says at the end of most of his sentences. Turns out, he's based on Trey Parker's counselor, Mr. Lackey, who would really say, M'kay? CRACKED — Comedy Central
South Park Archives

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Trey Parker and Matt Stone hated all the early South Park video games So much that they made their own years later. SOUTH PARK Ki's BUFFET oE 8 P piav

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South Park

The character Kenny on 'South Park' is based on a real childhood friend of Trey Parker. CRACKED.COM Kenny was the poorest kid in town, wore a large parka that muffled his voice and would frequently skip school, inspiring the run- ning joke that he died by classmates. — Source

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South Park

T b P RT W Yer The South Park Season 2 premiere CApril 1, 1998) was a meta prank. Trey Parker & Matt Stone promised that the identity of Cartman's dad

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Cannibal! The Musical

CRACKEDG COM In this early work by Trey Parker, there's a Native tribe called the Nihonjin. CANNIBAL! THE MUSICAL Nihonjin is the Japanese word for

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Orgazmo

Even though it was absolutely destroyed by the critics, everybody who likes the juvenile humor of Trey Parker needs to see ORGAZMO It follows Latter Day Saint Joe Young as RENOR he finds himself caught up in the wacky world of adult films. It's got Trey Parker's humor, but doesn't get lost in trying to preach some kind of message about society. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Underrated Things & Three Reasons To Check Them All Out

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BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS IKE WAS VOICED BY TREY PARKER'S DAUGHTER. SOUTH PARK school stade Avenger Throughout the years, Kyle's brother like has been voiced by several staff members' kids. In 2016, lkk was voiced by Parker's nee-year-old daughter. CRACKED.COM — YouTube & The A.V. Club

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Cursing Kids

south Park: Bigger, Longer, and uncut Exactly 399 curse words are uttered during the movie. Trey Parker and Matt Stone wanted to make their R-rating worth their while. They topped off their swearing count at 399 because 400 would have given the movie an NC-17 rating. CAKES Dinhig CHOCO CRACKED.COM — Source: Moviefone

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Trey and Matt’s wild night at the Oscars.

Akward Awards 2000 OSCARS TREY PARKER and MATT STONE Parker and Stone went to the Oscars wearing dresses and had taken LSD. It had such a big impact on Stone that he's stayed away from LSD since. CRACKED — Alamy
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Team America

Michael Moore is a suicide bomber in Team America. MATT STONE STUCK HIM IN THERE FOR REVENGE. Moore interviewed Stone, best known for his work on South Park, in his documentary Bowling For Columbine. Then he cut to an anti-American cartoon, heavily implying that it was done by Stone and Trey Parker. So in Team America: World Police, a Michael Moore puppet suicide-bombs the team headquarters. CRACKED.COM http://www. bbc со uk/films/2005/01/13/matt_stone_team_america_interview.shtml — Source

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EASTER EGGSTRA South Park Matt Stone's sister. Stone's sister has a cameo as a picture frame in the very first episode, Cartman Gets an Anal Probe. — Source

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Matt Stone and Trey Parker

To get funding for CANNIBAL! THE MUSICAL Matt Stone and Trey Parker shot a three-minute preview, complete with costumes and songs, and, as Parker says, went around to people and said 'Hey, we need finishing money for our movie. They'd leave out that they also needed starting money, as they would be starting over from scratch. CRACKED.COM — Source

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THE MATT DAMON PUPPET FROM TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE Something happened in the oven when the puppet makers were baking Damon's head -- it came out looking ... less than intelligent. With no time to make a new one, Trey Parker and Matt Stone decided to give Damon an idiot personality instead. MATT DAMON! GRACKED.COM — Source

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The creators came up with the show in college

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS THE CREATORS CAME UP WITH THE SHOW IN COLLEGE. SOUTH PARK Matt Stone and Trey Parker Met while attending University of Colorado Boulder. The two made each other laugh by coming up with silly kid voices, which led them to create Jesus Vs. Frosty- a short that became — Entertainment Weekly

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South Park

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS FOX TURNED DOWN THE SHOW. SOUTH PARK Before landing on Comedy Central, Trey Parker and Matt Stone pitched the show to Fox. Executives at Fox turned them down because they didn't think a show about kids could work and wanted it to be more ly-centric. CRACKED.COM — YouTube

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BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS MATT STONE HATES THE FIRST THREE SEASONS. SOUTH PARK If I had to permanently erase anything from the library, it would basically be anything before season 4. It's just embarrassing to watch, says Stone. CRACKED.COM — Entertainment Weekly

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South Park

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS THE ART STYLE WAS INSPIRED BY TERRY GILLIAM. SOUTH PARK The art style of the earlier seasons was inspired by Gilliam's Monty Python animation. Both Trey Parker and Matt Stone were huge Python fans since childhood. CRACKED.COM — YouTube

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In the South Park movie, Saddam Hussein was credited as himself. BEBE JENNIFER HOWELL DR. GOUACHE GEORGE CLOONEY CONAN O'BRIEN BRENT SPINER BROOKE SHIELDS MINNIE DRIVER THE BALDWIN BROTHERS DAVE FOLEY SADDAM HUSSEIN HIMSELF DR. VOSKNOCKER ERIC IDLE CANADIAN FIGHTER PILOT NICK RHODES Gynen TODDY C WALTERS Unsurpisingly, in South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, the character of Saddam Hussein was actually voiced by Matt Stone. CRACKED.COM

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