All this stuff is there, but I know that many have not bothered to look. Here is some of the more interesting (imo) stuff recently put up there, all from interviews with Matt & Trey. Some of it deals directly with questions people have debated right here!
==================================================== September 17, 2001 There has been a rumor going around that one of the kids was going to move away, namely Kyle. Is this true or was true? Did you change your minds? Or we're you just messing with us?
Trey: Kyle would be the one to move because he's a Jew. We did consider it briefly just to shake things up, but the thought of only three boys kind of bummed us out. South Park is the four boys, so none of them are going to move away. ==================================================== August 31, 2001 What's with the whole "Fighting the Frizzies" thing from Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics? Is there some obscure reference that I'm just not getting?
Trey: "The Star Wars Christmas Special" starring Chewbacca, his wife and his kid is one of the worst pieces of television ever made. Everything about it is bad. I think it only aired once it 1977, but some smart person taped it off of TV way back then and we got a hold of a copy. You can get it at Comic conventions I think. The tape is complete with commercials from the time and all. They turn out to be the best part. The local station that it was taped off of teases a story about "fighting the frizzies" for the evening news that night. Remember it was 1977, people really cared about their hair back then. It was a hair story. That joke is really a half-percenter, because only one in two hundred will actually get it. ==================================================== August 30, 2001 Why do Matt and Trey change little scenes after it gets aired Wednesday? I notice small changes from Wednesday to Saturday like a line gets cut or a scene is different. why?
Trey: We finish a show and satellite it to the East coast Wednesday afternoon the day it airs. But the satellited copy is not the greatest quality so then we FedEx a *new* copy of the show on Friday for the Saturday showing.
Matt: And then sometimes, because we have a couple extra days, we fix some shots and redo some sound. That's it, we're just the worst procrastinators ever in the whole world ever that have ever lived ever. ==================================================== August 28, 2001 This explains their attitudes about little mistakes pretty well:
When Ned and Jimbo spot Mrs. Tenorman "letting the twins out" and Ned starts jerkin' it, how does he answer Jimbo's questions? Since his good hand is uh...occupied, did he get an implant or something?
Trey: I think he is supposed to be going back and forth between jacking it and talking. If not, you caught a mistake. Happy? ==================================================== August 24, 2001 What the hell is that thing in Barbrady's ear?
Matt: Officer Barbrady wears a hearing aid. That's why he always talks so fucking loud all the time. His voice was based on our impression of radio talk- show host Dennis Prager, who we actually worked with years ago. Both Trey and I actually think pretty highly of Dennis Prager, but he does have a HUGE voice and in person its almost overwhelming. I don't think Dennis Prager has a hearing aid, but it would explain why he talks so big. ==================================================== August 23, 2001 Was the fight scene in "Cripple Fight" inspired by "They Live," featuring Rowdy Roddy Piper? Why was such a long and painful drawn-out fight scene chosen?
Matt: "Cripple Fight" itself was just a funny concept, but when it came down to storyboarding it, Trey remembered that fight from "They Live" as being long, drawn-out, and really funny if it were redone with cripples.
Trey: So the answer is yes. ==================================================== August 16, 2001 Was there some sort of debate with Comedy Central about bleeping out the word "shit?" I don't understand how you can say it 162 times in one show and not censor it, but a few weeks later censor it when it's said only once...
Trey: Personally, we don't understand how or why Comedy Central let us say "shit" 162 times either.
Matt: We just asked. They were excited about the idea and checked with advertisers who were psyched and that was it. Trey: It was kind of weird. But cable can honestly do whatever it wants as long as its advertisers say okay. It's not controlled by FCC guidelines like the networks are. Part of the reason they were hip to it was because the entire storyline of the episode relied on it. The reason we bleeped "shit" the next week is just because we thought that was funny to say it 162 times the week before and then bleep its singular occurrence the next. ==================================================== August 13, 2001 Terrance and Phillip remind me a lot of Matt and Trey themselves. Their names are also Trey's initials, is this coincidence? Or was it made to look like that?
Matt: I really don't know how to respond to being compared to a farting, flappy-headed, loudmouth Canadian, but thank you. They are kind of like us in that they love fart jokes. Terrance and Phillip is our answer to the critics who said that South Park was nothing but fart jokes. Oh Yeah?! Well *here* is a show that is really all fart jokes! Trey doesn't remember naming them Terrance and Phillip to signify his name, but maybe he did it subliminally. It was always going to be Terrance and something. But neither of us even noticed it was TP until about year later. ====================================================