'South Park' Guys Issue Apology for Plagiarizing Jokes

By PopEater Staff Posted Oct 25th 2010 03:50PM

'South Park' creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are widely heralded for their cutting creative style, but the two accidentally included some less-than-original material in a recent episode, CNN reports.

The pair, whose October 20 show parodied box office hit 'Inception,' inadvertently borrowed entire jokes from a CollegeHumor spoof of the film by writers Dan Gurewitch and David Young.

Following a blog post by Gurewitch, in which he accused 'South Park' of lifting lines from the CollegeHumor skit, Parker and Stone quickly apologized, saying that they had not consciously stolen the material.

"We thought their joke was that a lot of those lines were actually in the movie, showing that the 'Inception' characters didn't even know 'Inception.' That was a mistake, and it was an honest mistake," said Stone. "We're stupid and we just threw it together."

Stone and Parker say that their error came about as a result of their inability to find a copy of the movie to watch, leading them to use CollegeHumor's version as source material.

After receiving a personal apology from Stone, Gurewitch wrote on his blog, "All is well, and we're going to meet up with Matt and Trey when they're in New York."

Tags: college humor, matt stone, plagiarism, south park, stealing, trey parker

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Monday 25 October

By Apostate

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By TJK

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NO SUCH THING AS "inadvertently borrowed "
NEED I SAY MORE..............................
MOST PEOPLE ARE ONLY SORRY THEY GOT CAUGHT,NOT FOR WHAT THEY DID................

By Tim

Their excuse for stealing the jokes was great. Funny guys. Matt and Trey appreciated Dan Gurewitch and David Young's humor. So now they are going to have lunch. Soon you will see their manes listed as writers on S.P. Cool

By themeeker

As long as they don't apologize for skewering Shnookie and the rest of the sub-primate jersey shore gang, I'm ok with this. Shnookie got what she deserved and should not be proud of how humiliating the abuse was to her.

Tuesday 02 November

By schnookie2

well if you can't laugh at yourself. . . . .

By Lon Horiuchi V

... I've had material stolen from my postings that has shown on FX, A&E, movie title, and elsewhere. ... These Tribesmen of The Business are parasites living off of others. ... Usury is their bag. ... Gene Simmons says That's what Gentiles are for". ...

Wednesday 03 November

By Don

You're a total idiot. Just reading your post confirms that. Have a nice day, moron.

Tuesday 26 October

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By madnessofkingjc

Family Guy recently stole a joke, too. In a recent episode, a character hears something in the house and says "maybe it's just the wind" (pronouncing it like you would if you said "wind a clock") When informed by his wife of how he pronounced it wrong, he says "I've only seen it written".

Years ago on The Simpsons, Marge made this same mistake when she said "run like the wind!" (pronouncing it like "wind a clock") then explaining that she's only seen it in books.

To be fair, I'm not sure if The Simpsons were the first to use this joke.

By Daniel Boni

The Insheeption episode was one of the greatest South Park episodes ever! LOVE THIS SHOW!

And David Young sucks, he just makes me frown whenever he appears in a collegehumor vid. Dan on the other hand, is awesome!

By Will

No harm, no foul. Get over it people!

By OT

FUNNY, FUNNY, FUNNY, The joksters getting outed by the Network that turned into a JOKE1

By gloria

Bring back Beevis and Butthead!!!!

By vicvod

At least now they can blame someone else for being not funny!

Thursday 07 July

By Oriedo

This is a horrible and funny article blog foreal.''Trey Parker''.''Matt Stone''.''South Park''.''Dan Gurewitch''.''David Young''.''College Humor''.

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