South Park Creators Apologize for Copying Inception Parody: ‘We’re Stupid’

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The creators of “South Park,” the animated Comedy Central series, apologized on Friday to the creators of a Web comedy video satirizing the summer blockbuster “Inception,” following a recent episode of “South Park” that shared numerous similarities with the Web video, called “Inception Characters Don’t Understand Inception.”

“It’s just because we do the show in six days, and we’re stupid and we just threw it together,” Matt Stone, who created “South Park” with Trey Parker, said Friday in a telephone interview. “But in the end, there are some lines that we had to call and apologize for.”

The video, which was written by Dan Gurewitch and David Young, and posted on CollegeHumor on Aug. 2, is loosely modeled on a scene in “Inception” in which a team of extractors — who can manipulate and move in and out of other people’s dreams — are attempting to transport a wounded colleague while explaining their challenging situation to a new member of the team. In a similar sequence in the “South Park” episode shown on Wednesday, the “Inception” characters, one of whom is wounded, burst into a room and attempt to explain some complicated circumstances to one of the “South Park” characters.
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http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/22/inception-parodies-seem-to-share-more-than-inspiration/
 
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JS80

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Great episode. But with a title like "insheeption" I was hoping at least they make fun of Kiwis.
 
Fritzo

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This episode was a little weak (although the background music when something was being explained made me LOL every time).
 
NikolaeVarius

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I burst out laughing when Randy became the butterfly and flew around looking for butterfly poon. Actually, everything that Randy did after he went into dreamland made me burst out laughing.
 
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it's not like the joke about not understanding what is happening in inception is all that original...
 
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Kev said:
it's not like the joke about not understanding what is happening in inception is all that original...
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exactly, that's what I was thinking. The joke about the concept being ridiculous has been done over 9000 times.
 
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Kev said:
it's not like the joke about not understanding what is happening in inception is all that original...
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Nothing is original in entertainment these days. Somewhere, someone has thought up of and written an idea and submitted it.

Not that it matters because Simpsons did everything.
 
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Kev said:
it's not like the joke about not understanding what is happening in inception is all that original...
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This.

Trey and Matt are big on being original though. It's a good show of their character that they apologized for the similarities.
 
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Acanthus said:
This.

Trey and Matt are big on being original though. It's a good show of their character that they apologized for the similarities.
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Considering they turn shows a few days after a current event...I'd say SP is one of the most original shows on TV. While the allegories and metaphors may be rehashes, the content is by definition fresh.
 
Deeko

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I haven't seen inception, but I knew that episode had to be parodying something. Now I know. Cool.
 
Modelworks

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I liked the episode more than the movie.
Can't believe the movie is rated #4 on imdb top 250 now, its ranked higher than schindler's list , amazing what people think is good film.
 
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Modelworks said:
I liked the episode more than the movie.
Can't believe the movie is rated #4 on imdb top 250 now, its ranked higher than schindler's list , amazing what people think is good film.
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It's amazing how many self righteous bastards are on these forums. Seriously... if you can't recognize different tastes for different people than you're just pompous.

God forbid the majority think something is good when you don't... they must not know what "good" means right? :rolleyes:

I personally judge what's "good" based on if I want to watch it multiple times. You know what that means for me? Inception is better than a lot of classic movies for that reason. Other movies may have more of an initial impact on first viewing, but I don't care to watch them again.
 
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gorcorps said:
It's amazing how many self righteous bastards are on these forums. Seriously... if you can't recognize different tastes for different people than you're just pompous.

God forbid the majority think something is good when you don't... they must not know what "good" means right? :rolleyes:

I personally judge what's "good" based on if I want to watch it multiple times. You know what that means for me? Inception is better than a lot of classic movies for that reason. Other movies may have more of an initial impact on first viewing, but I don't care to watch them again.
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Exactly! I could watch Inception over and over and just keep finding things that I missed.

I watch The Shawshank Redemption every time it comes because, damnit, it's a GOOD movie.

I've seen Schindler's List once -- I do not need to see it again. The movie was powerful, and made me very emotional, but it's not something that I want to watch again. Not because I think it's a bad movie (in fact, I think it's quite excellent), but it was a one-shot punch to the gut for me and I'm out!
 
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