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South Park: The End of Obesity Clip: Randy's Peer Pressure Revelation
Randy reveals his "revelation" to Towelie in this clip from Trey Parker and Matt Stone's Paramount+ special, South Park: The End of Obesity.
In case you missed the news, Trey Parker and Matt Stone have a new special streaming with South Park: The End of Obesity now available on Paramount+ in the U.S. and Canada – and tomorrow around the world. In the streaming special, weight loss drugs (*cough*cough-Ozempic-cough*cough*) take the town by storm. But when Eric Cartman is denied access to the medicine – well, let's just say that's something he, Kyle, Stan, Butters & Kenny just won't stand for. In the following clip, Randy – the dude who never said no to peer pressure – gives the new weight loss drugs a try. What results is a "high" so incredible that there's only one person who Randy can share it with – Towelie.
Here's that sneak preview for Parker and Stone's Paramount+ special, South Park: The End of Obesity – followed by the duo looking back on the long-running animated series:
South Park Creators Discuss Animated Series' Origins
Parker & Stone checked in with hosts Doug Herzog (former network executive at MTV, Comedy Central & FOX) & Jen Chaney (TV critic at New York Magazine/Vulture) on Basic!, a podcast series offering a look back to the glory days of basic cable history. While we don't want to spoil the episode for you because it's definitely a must-listen for fans interested in knowing a lot of the behind-the-scenes happenings, there were some highlights that we wanted to point out. First up, MTV passed on the series outright, while FOX was only interested if the series could be adjusted to focus on a family and not four kids (looking to apply to South Park what they thought it was about The Simpsons that made it work).
And at around the 21:20 mark, we have to give Herzog a ton of credit for throwing himself on his creative word by admitting that he tried to stop Parker & Stone from killing Kenny every week. That conversation segued directly into how Mr. Hankey, The Christmas Poo (S01E09), helped "mainstream" poop, as well as a great anecdote about how many a piece of poop was a bridge too far for one Comedy Central executive.
And then, starting around the 28:20 mark, the trio discuss the "The Gauntlet" short created for the 2020 MTV Movie Awards, spoofing Russell Crowe's Gladiator and John Travolta's Battlefield: Earth. When word hit that the short ended with a Cartman/toilet paper joke that wasn't too flattering to L. Rob Hubbard (author of Battlefield: Earth), Dianetics & Scientology, Isaac Hayes (Chef), who was a Scientologist, asked the show's creators if a Scienologist rep could see the short before it aired. Now, we get the backstory on how The Church of Scientology learned what was in the short at the same time as the rest of us did.
And here's your chance to check out the entire episode for yourselves – a "must" for any South Park fans:
Co-created by Parker and Stone, South Park: The End of Obesity is produced by MTV Entertainment Studios – with Parker, Stone, Anne Garefino, and Frank C. Agnone II executive-producing. Eric Stough, Adrien Beard, Bruce Howell, and Vernon Chatman serve as producers.