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that sucks i thought all this time it was there own parody but now i know that it wasn't. super weak matt and trey very super weak

I am shocked and disappointed at Matt and Trey now

Yeah, I looked that up too after I checked local listings. I just didn't feel like calling them out on it. I will now though. Jesus, come on guys. This even has me worried about the direction of the show, and I've never really been worried it before now... well at least not to this extent. 1411's description has me somewhat hopeful though.

"You guys, I need to copy your math homework before class" (Cartman in "Elementary School Musical").

"It's just because we do the show in six days, and we're stupid and we just threw it together" (M&T after "Insheeption").

Having Cartman in dreams within your dreams and letting him implant his "fruitful" ideas in your head is bad, m'kay! Don't let Cartman pollute your minds again, m'kay, or else Woodsy Owl will come and get you. HE'LL GETCHA!!!

^ LOL.

He'll touch your pee-pee with his wing.

Wow...

Not gonna lie, that news seriously bums me out. I mean... I'm not gonna stop watching but... that's pretty freaking weak.

Ok...this episode had me laughing at one point, and I don't even remember what it was.

I figured it was poking fun at Inception once the Leo de Caprio toon walked in, but...still. The previous episode was really good, and I guess I expected more.

I'm disappointed. Sorry, you could've done more with this.

Freddy Krueger was a nice touch, but still...I'm thinking Matt and Trey are running out of ideas.

Come on, guys, you can do better...

The embarrassing thing is not that they copied, but that they copied from CollegeHumor.com, which is only one step above manatees.

If you're gonna rip off an idea, rip off someone funny, like Seanbaby:

Evil Smokey the Bear comic from 30 September, 2010.

EDIT: I just watched the Inception parody at CollegeHumor.com, and what struck me is that all of the lines that M&T allegedly ripped off were from the first 20 seconds or so of the CH video.

And in my opinion, they were essentially "straight lines" -- i.e., neither funny nor MEANT to be funny, but simply to summarize Inception's basic premise for those who hadn't seen the movie. Everything in the "copied" portion was info that could be gleaned by reading a newspaper critic's review of the film, and not original material created by the CollegeHumor writers.

Or put it this way: Suppose I produced a five-minute comedy video that begins with a character saying, "So let me get this straight -- the entire flight crew is in a coma from eating tainted fish, and the only person on board who can fly a plane is a washed-up pilot with a drinking problem, who's in love with one of the stewardesses."

Does that mean I should apologize to the makers of Airplane! for stealing their idea?

Shirley not, because although that dialogue at the beginning of my video is similar to various lines that do occur in the movie, it amounts to nothing more than a bare-bones premise of Airplane! -- and not only that, but it also happens to be the basic premise of Zero Hour!, a 1957 drama/thriller that Airplane! itself spoofed.

To put it yet another way, if SNL had done a parody of Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes, and then two weeks later MadTV also did a parody of the movie, there would probably be some similar dialogue in both sketches -- but it would be silly to say that MadTV had plagiarized SNL.

What I'm saying, in other words, is that I think M&T were perhaps being overly gracious in offering an apology -- it was gentlemanly of them, but not really necessary, because pretty much any spoof of Inception would have used similar dialogue about "dream levels", and explaining that the movie's definition of "Limbo" has nothing to do with medieval Catholic theology (or with dancing backwards under a pole).

took the words right out of my mouth

stone and parker are falling off this season... very disappointing

Very well said Thorbert McGee. It's nice they apologized but whatever. I'm over it. I dont know what they actually 'stole' from Inception/Collage Humor as I haven't seen both but I dont need to know. I will still love the episode Insheeption for what it is and support the guys at SPS because I am a very loyal fan.

A lot of people here who are complaining now seemed to really like the episode when it aired, before this story unfolded. Isn't that what matters - when you like an episode? It's not like the entire episode is a copy of the original CollegeHumor video. Everyone's just making a big deal over a few lines in the whole episode; a cup of water to the ocean, guys. This is such a strange and unjustifiable reason to think less of Matt and Trey. If it were habitual, that would be one thing. But it isn't.

oh god. I can't believe I forgot about those...the first two are my favorites...although korn's was great.

"this one time..like 8 months ago..I saw two guys kissing in a park and that was the gayest thing i'd ever seen until i saw the kozy FM's halloween haunt."

classic

I don't think they should quit South Park just because the internet does better parodies of things. They should just do less parodies. Because those things aren't going to be so funny after a year or so anyway. TV shows, movies, celebrities..etc.