From Robert Scucci
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South Park has always been able to remain culturally relevant because an entire episode is quickly put together, as documented in detail in the documentation 6 days to air Documentary. While this method “does everything possible at the last minute”, Trey Parker and Matt Stone has served over the years because the pressure carried out it every week during an active run against an apparently impossible period, one episode was “I’m a little bit country”. by Donny and Marie Osmond.
And I am not talking about a situation in which they could have exchanged the melody with something else and could get away because a significant amount of the action for “I’m a little bit country” actually relied on the citizens of South Park throughout the episode, which singing the legendary song.
Land, rock’n’roll and the war in Iraq
Just three weeks after the United States entered in 2003, it is no surprise that “I would” unpack a little bit of land “how the city of the city of South Park Reacted to the war by led the Redneck war citizen against Skeeter against the more liberal anti-war protesters under the direction of Randy Marsh. According to Parker and Stone, they both noticed how most pro-war songs happen to be land, while most protest songs fall into the rock’n’roll genre, which they believe that the song of the Osmond would be significantly involved in playing playfully-and allowed that Skeeter and Randy Marseling in the blasty city tears on the town square Typical the-Typicical Sesses beaten up South Park Fashion.
In view of the narrow timeline, in the South Park Episodes are produced – usually start the production on a Thursday evening and will be handed over to the network the following Wednesday morning shortly before the broadcast.
Race against the clock
Other series do not meet the same problems as South Park Faces if you have to secure rights for musical numbers because an episode of The SimpsonsPresent For example, it takes about six months to produce. According to Parker, it is basically not identified to go through the right channels in every other show, as it takes a few weeks to a few months to clarify a song while the producers find out the licensing and negotiate with the owner of the song. In the case of South Park’s “I am a small country” or another episode, the luxury of the time does not exist, which has to talks that “Hey, we want to use your song on the show, it will be in four days?”
Fortunately, the Sunday evening before “I’m a little bit of land” was broadcast as broadcast like South Park’s 100. Follow, you have the green light to end the episode as written, which is nothing less than a miracle, since it means that you could secure the rights in a few days and not in months without legal effects.
Everything came together at the last minute
However, you would think that episodes such as “I’m a little bit Country” Trey Parker and Matt Stone would bring how to produce South Park Due to the amount of stress, it might have been attracted to your crew, you have to give them recognition to stick to what they call their, “”Live on Saturday evening Production plan. “It is this level of ruthlessness that enables you to stay up to date on the current events without publishing episodes in a world in which a message cycle suitable around the clock means that most of our attention spans can only be measured Nanoseconds (had to drop a Base ball Reference here … rest in peace, Denslow!).
So if you fire “I’m a little bit country” next time, thank your happy stars better that the Osmond Estate was cool enough so that his song is prominently presented in an episode of South Park With little to no prior notice.
