“But when Parker got to see himself digitally altered to look like Al Gore, he said, “It was the first time I had laughed at myself in a long time.”
Parker added: “I always hate watching myself. Even with ‘South Park,’ I have a perfect image of what it’s going to look like in my head all the time. But on this, there were moments where we felt like kids in our basement again.”
To Parker and Stone, the experience also reminded them of “The Spirit of Christmas,” their 1995 homemade short film that became a viral sensation in a more primitive age of the internet and paved the way for “South Park.””
The first video I remember downloading from the internet was The Spirit of Christmas in 1996[1] followed by Troops[2] the following year. 30MB takes a long time to download over a 28.8 modem. Streaming was out of the question.
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Trey Parker had a similar reaction [0]:
“But when Parker got to see himself digitally altered to look like Al Gore, he said, “It was the first time I had laughed at myself in a long time.”
Parker added: “I always hate watching myself. Even with ‘South Park,’ I have a perfect image of what it’s going to look like in my head all the time. But on this, there were moments where we felt like kids in our basement again.”
To Parker and Stone, the experience also reminded them of “The Spirit of Christmas,” their 1995 homemade short film that became a viral sensation in a more primitive age of the internet and paved the way for “South Park.””
[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/arts/television/sassy-justice-south-park-deepfake.html
The first video I remember downloading from the internet was The Spirit of Christmas in 1996[1] followed by Troops[2] the following year. 30MB takes a long time to download over a 28.8 modem. Streaming was out of the question.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spirit_of_Christmas_(short_film)
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troops_(film)