Trey Parker and Matt Stone went to see *Inception*, and like everybody else, they left confused. They eventually got around to making a parody but they forgot what the film was about. So like every school kid with a report due by the end of the week, they searched online to find some online Cliff-Notes, copied some of the lines and turned it in.
When Mr. Parker and Mr. Stone could not find a movie theater showing > “Inception,” and were unable to get a DVD screener of the film (or find a > watchable version on BitTorrent), they turned to other parodies of that film > on the Web, and found the CollegeHumor video. > > “We thought their joke was that a lot of those lines were actually in the > movie,” Mr. Stone said, “and they were banging them against each other, and > showing that the ‘Inception’ characters didn’t even know ‘Inception.’ That > was a mistake, and it was an honest mistake.” > > Mr. Gurewitch later updated his > blog<http://dangurewitch.tumblr.com/post/1375350231/south-park-ch-update>to > say that he and Mr. Young accepted the apology of the “South Park” > creators. > The South Park Episode and the College Humor video is here... http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/22/inception-parodies-seem-to-share-more-than-inspiration/ -- Wesley McGee http://www.ambivi.com http://drawing-a-blank.tumblr.com -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
