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Honeymoon huntdown among us1/6/2024 “Oh, my God: The homeless are crossbreeding!” he declares. “OK, that didn’t work – we’ve got to double the amount of money and crack,” quips Stone. “Let’s give them really nice engraved money clips and see if they’ll go away.” “They’ll use it for crack!” scolds Parker. “Let’s give them $150 for a spa treatment,” says writer Jon Kimmel. “We should give the homeless designer sleeping bags and really nice clothes so they’re pleasant to look at,” says writer Kyle McCulloch, in Randy Marsh’s voice. It’s not like Venice is such a perfect place – there are a zillion homeless people there and in Santa Monica, an observation that quickly turns into an hour-long assembly of an episode in which the South Park foursome – Kyle, Stan, Cartman and Kenny – confronts the homeless while their parents argue about the best way to save them. Stone, it seems, is having some problems with the city of Venice, California, over the height of a fence he wants to build around his house, and has been subject to multiple community-board meetings in elementary-school gymnasiums presided over by gray-ponytailed dudes (“Anytime a guy with a ponytail is telling me what to do, I get bummed out,” he says). They are damn cute, surrounded by a half-dozen equally adorable producers and writers, all wearing serene smiles and chortling at the silliest jokes. When they’re deep in thought, Stone bites his nails and Parker bites his lip. They wear T-shirts in primary colors and baseball caps. Stone, who resembles the high school science teacher with a cool haircut who is always telling you how the world really works in his parched basso voice, drums on his leg. The complicated, affable and devilish Parker – possessed of schlubby sex appeal, like a young Bill Murray – grabs at a plate of sweet-potato fries, taking notes on his scratched-up laptop. Not one episode has been written, but brains are being whetted for the onslaught of work to commence a week before the season premiere – each episode of South Park is created nearly from scratch a week before broadcast, and they wouldn’t have it any other way.įor three long hours, Stone, 35, and Parker, 37, ponder future episodes about George Bush as a superhero and one centering on “ghost cats,” genetically engineered felines from outer space. With South Park‘s debut a month away, this is Day Three of their four-day spring retreat, and they have played golf and eaten dinner at festive Mexican restaurants while drinking themselves into a stupor. Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the show’s cocreators, were younger then. This is the secret corporate retreat for Comedy Central’s most popular, antinomian and flat-out awesomest show: South Park.įor the past decade, Comedy Central has footed the bill for twice-yearly South Park writers’ retreats in Tahoe, Hawaii and Vegas, where episode plotting was trumped by strippers and dark nights of twisted fun. Most are gathering to debate recent advances in re-wetting drops for contact lenses – “I have superior lens technology to Bob, I know that,” one man jabbers, croissant in hand – but beyond the golf course, in a hut with a majestic plaque reading VILLA CAPRI, six Viacom employees huddle over coffee on polka-dotted chairs. DEEP IN A MAZE OF ADOBE-colored huts at the Hyatt Grand Champions Resort conference center in Indian Wells, California, men in polo shirts are striding to 8:30 A.M.
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