South Park Creators Apologize for Ripping Material from a CollegeHumor Vid
· Oh no. Your heroes Trey Parker and Matt Stone made a boo-boo: They've officially apologized for stealing some dialogue from a CollegeHumor video in their Inception parody episode this week. "It's just because we do the show in six days, and we're stupid and we just threw it together," Matt Stone said to ArtsBeat. "But in the end, there are some lines that we had to call and apologize for." More than a few lines, in fact. Watch the source material and the South Park episode in question after the jump. [NYT/ArtsBeat]
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I'm pretty sure that Kim Cattrall has been banned from basic cable without severe editing (read: antibiotics).
Kudos to Stone for at least copping to it. Maybe it's because she's never been called out on it but Hasselbeck has never admitted to stealing lines from FOX news hosts.
not really. there's overlap but their handled completely differently.
When there are numerous lines of dialogue - long, complex lines of dialogue - that are basically identical, it goes way beyond "overlap." It's outright plagiarism.
Their statement doesn't make it clear whether they ever actually saw the movie when it was in theaters, or not. If they didn't see it, then they parodied (and criticized) a movie they've never seen, and called people sheep for liking it...which is pathetic.
And if they saw the movie at some point, then I have a really, really hard time believing their explanation that they thought those lines were all straight from the movie. Leonardo DiCaprio's character never actually said, "sometimes thought of my dead wife manifest themselves as trains" - and anyone who's seen the movie would know that.
Could be an accidental steal. You would think someone as big as them would check out the other videos.