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Animator Flushed Over 'South Park'

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By Ray Richmond

HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - As the warped animated series "South Park" was smashing another ratings record at Comedy Central last week, a cartoon producer in the audience was crying foul.

John Kricfalusi, creator of the divertingly offbeat "The Ren & Stimpy Show" for Nickelodeon, was upset because he felt Wednesday's Yule-themed episode ripped off his idea of turning a piece of human excrement into a singing, dancing character.

The episode revolved around an animated piece of feces named Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo, a conventionally shaped, though decidedly animated, character bedecked in holiday threads, who alternately entertains and smears people around him with goo.

Kricfalusi believes that Mr. Hankey was directly inspired by his own similar creation, Nutty the Friendly Dump, who is prominently featured in a cartoon short that debuted on his own Web site on Oct. 15 and, he asserts, had been featured in various print publications "for years" prior to that.

"I didn't invent dumps or farts, but in the context that I use them in, I did invent them," Kricfalusi said. "The talking, singing dump was invented by me. And now these guys are gonna get rich off of it."

Responding to Kricfalusi's charge, Comedy Central spokesman Tony Fox called the claim of rip-off "ludicrous," saying that neither of "South Park's" chief creator/producers, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, had ever even visited the Spumco Web site.

"The fact is that Mr. Hankey is a character created by Trey's dad 25 years ago when Trey was being potty-trained," Fox said.

The "South Park" episode obliterated Comedy Central's highest-ever audience level, pulling down a staggering 5.4 rating from Nielsen (which translates to more than 4.5 million viewers). That is more than seven times Comedy Central's primetime average.

The ratings performance busts the previous Comedy Central mark of 4.8 set on Nov. 19 by the premiere of the "South Park" Thanksgiving-themed episode, which had broken the 3.8 established on Oct. 29 by the South Park ode to Halloween.

Comedy Central also boasted Thursday that the Wednesday episode was seen in one of every 11 households in the network's nearly 46 million-home universe. And it snared a 51 share of the males aged 18-24 demographic in Comedy Central households.

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John K. claims rip-off: "South Park stole my talking turd!" Fecal fight forseen

[email] (Sean Med) wrote:

Holy shit! The world has come down to the battle of who owns the shit. Fuckin' funny!

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No, no, no...that's incorrect; sit in the back of the bus.

It's who owns "a" shit, not "the" shit...a small semantic difference.

Seriously...if this can even be said in this NG, for John K. to be pissed off about a cartoon characted shows just how far his episode with Nick has affected him.

Too bad.

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OK, so who gives "a" shit?

Actually, Mr. Hanky has been aroung since the beginning. You can plainly see him bouncing across the screen during the theme song at the beginning of every episode.

Brett

Sean Med wrote in message ...

And we are supposed to buy-in to the fact that a talking cat and a talking dog are his original ideas too? And why is he worried about Stone and Parker getting rich? What's the matter, John K.? Nick at Nite not paying the royalties you thought they would?

Monday December 22 9:00 AM EST Animator Flushed Over 'South Park' (Eds: note content)

By Ray Richmond

HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - As the warped animated series "South Park" was smashing another ratings record at Comedy Central last week, a cartoon producer in the audience was crying foul.

John Kricfalusi, creator of the divertingly offbeat "The Ren & Stimpy Show" for Nickelodeon, was upset because he felt Wednesday's Yule-themed episode ripped off his idea of turning a piece of human excrement into a singing, dancing character.

The episode revolved around an animated piece of feces named Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo, a conventionally shaped, though decidedly animated, character bedecked in holiday threads, who alternately entertains and smears people around him with goo.

Kricfalusi believes that Mr. Hankey was directly inspired by his own similar creation, Nutty the Friendly Dump, who is prominently featured in a cartoon short that debuted on his own Web site on Oct. 15 and, he asserts, had been featured in various print publications "for years" prior to that.

"I didn't invent dumps or farts, but in the context that I use them in, I did invent them," Kricfalusi said. "The talking, singing dump was invented by me. And now these guys are gonna get rich off of it."

Responding to Kricfalusi's charge, Comedy Central spokesman Tony Fox called the claim of rip-off "ludicrous," saying that neither of "South Park's" chief creator/producers, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, had ever even visited the Spumco Web site.

"The fact is that Mr. Hankey is a character created by Trey's dad 25 years ago when Trey was being potty-trained," Fox said.

The "South Park" episode obliterated Comedy Central's highest-ever audience level, pulling down a staggering 5.4 rating from Nielsen (which translates to more than 4.5 million viewers). That is more than seven times Comedy Central's primetime average.

The ratings performance busts the previous Comedy Central mark of 4.8 set on Nov. 19 by the premiere of the "South Park" Thanksgiving-themed episode, which had broken the 3.8 established on Oct. 29 by the South Park ode to Halloween.

Comedy Central also boasted Thursday that the Wednesday episode was seen in one of every 11 households in the network's nearly 46 million- home universe. And it snared a 51 share of the males aged 18-24 demographic in Comedy Central households.

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i remember once on Ren & Stimpy, there was this fart called stinky that talked to stimpy but when he told others, they all called him crazy....i think at the end everyone sees the talkin fart is real....what a coinky dink.

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Oh, good grief. I thought the breakup of Pink Floyd was bad, what with Roger Waters going so far as to say the flying pig was "his". Now someone's claiming a singing and dancing turd as intellectual property? ROTFL! What next? I shudder to imagine.

AWESOME! YOU GOTTA LOVE THIS!

And this too. :-)

I sincerely hope that South Park chooses to remain on Comedy Central for the duration of its run (and vice versa). Can you imagine how good a well-funded Comedy Central would be? They could kick the pants off the networks! It just takes one hit show to get the money rolling...

A lawsuit over the creation of Mr. Hanky. If this actually gets into a civil law court I think I will be nauseous watching it -- not that it would stop me. Think it will be on Court TV? With straight feces -- er, faces?

Personally, I'd like to see Judge Judy's take on the whole thing. :)

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How much of this shit would she take? :-)

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