learned is that in the South Park movie the song Blame Canada was nominated for an Oscar. Before the Oscars though Matt, Trey, and their friend took a sugar cubes worth of LSD before going. They ended up showing up at the Oscars in dresses while high on LSD. Anyway reaching that 6 day deadline is much harder than you think. The problem for this episode in particular is they haven't finished writing the story and the deadline to air is in 36 hours. They end up spending an all nighter and work into 7 am in the morning. This isn't the first time this has happened and apparently is more common then you would think. In that last night to work they banged out the last few scenes writing, recording, animating and eventually came out with a final project which they got to the studio with 4 hours till airtime. Trey said it best when he said that the 6 day deadline allows them to keep putting out so many episodes. He commented that if he had 4 weeks to make an episode it might be a bit better because he had time to work on it but with this deadline it allows them to not second guess things and make a final cut with constantly changing the smallest things. You have what you have when the deadline comes and most of the time the shows are funny and good. The days building up to that release and when they hand it in Trey and Matt see the episode as a piece of sh*t and the worst thing they've ever done but thats just their blues handing in the show. It takes a while for them to actually see their own show as something good. Coming from a writing standpoint an episode starts with a random idea. They have about 5-6 people in the writers room where they talk about ideas for a show. It's not a hostile environment where people put other people down for bad ideas but a friendly place where the worst you get is an ok. They do quick sketches of a story board to get an idea of what the show might look like. After coming up with an idea Trey writes the scenes. They recored the voices along with animating the scenes where the lip sync department combines those both. With much revision and editing they get the final product. I would love to work on this film set not just because I love South Park but the building actually seems like a chill fun place to work. Even though its hard work and the 6 day deadline means little sleep some days doing anything on the set I would enjoy. For a seemingly basic cartoon show South Park takes a lot more work to create than you might think. Eve in our progressive society today the humor of South Park ceases to fail still coming up with great shows week after week.