TRIO special on South Park in the days before it was South Park

[Khephra]

There's supposed to be a lot of animation that Trey and Parker put together for an online company, but the company freaked out and never showed it. I'm not talking about "The Spirit of Christmas" either. This is material that I didn't even know existed.

9PM ET...all others check your listings. The show is called "UNCOVERED".

[Kahuna]

1. What station?!?

eh :shrug:

[Khephra]

3. It's a cable station called TRIO

Check your listings.

[frylock]

2. more info..

Shocked! Airs Tonight on Trio
Ray March 08, 2004


The economists who will spend the next several generations arguing about what caused the 2000 dot-com bust could save themselves a lot of time by watching Shocked, tonight's Trio documentary that clearly has the answer: too many idiots with too much money and too little adult supervision.

It's a little strange to use the word ''edifying'' about a program in which the principal subject is the humor potential of various disgusting philias, ranging from necro- to copro- (go ahead, I dare you to look that last one up). But Shocked is a genuinely interesting look at how a lot of people absolutely lost their minds during the tech-stock bubble of the late 1990s.

It's the story of how Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the two animators who created South Park, managed to wangle a $2 million contract from a dot-com to create porn cartoons so unfathomably sick that they couldn't even be shown on the Internet.

Macromedia, considered one of the most cutting-edge Internet startups in the late '90s, hired Stone and Parker to do the cartoons for its interactive entertainment web site, www.shockwave.com.

You're the creative guys, Macromedia told the cartoonists, we're just the money guys. Do whatever you want. Which, as it turned out, was to be considered the gross-out kings of cyberspace.


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[Khephra]

4. That should read Stone and Parker in the first post.

D'OH!

[Khephra]

5. showtime kick

[NashVegas]

6. I Love Trio

For a company that teetered on bankruptcy (or did it fall?) Vivendi backed some pretty cool channels (NWI being the other).

[Khephra]

7. I guess I was wrong about what the show is about

It's about their internet day, but after South Park was already out. It's still great.

[NashVegas]

8. On My Way Now

To try to find a "Princess" video.

Bill Hicks special is on later, I see.