A mashup of the book of mormon and south park seemed inevitable, but we might not have expected such a well constructed fan video. The story of the book of mormon episode 1 the genesis of mormon duration. Moroni official south park studios wiki south park studios. Joseph smith official south park studios wiki south. All about mormons is the twelfth episode of season seven, and the 108th overall episode of south park. The official youtube channel of the book of mormon musical. Sharon is thrilled that randy is making an effort to do more things that she enjoys.
So although the south park episode is basically factual, they leave out the most important piece of information. The book of mormon was a huge success on broadway to no small extent because garefino and rudin, the savviest of broadway producers, managed to replicate the south park way of working. Caught up in the familyfriendly doctrine of the church, randy declares the marshes to be mormon as well. From the south park episode, all about mormons, here is the ending, garys vindication. The musical, orgazmo and south park, and he, matt stone and robert lopez created a play in 2011 titled the book of mormon, which also featured smith. Randolph severn trey parker iii born october 19, 1969 is an american actor, animator, writer, producer, director, and composer. This season goes up to the 100th episode and a few beyond. Facebook is showing information to help you better understand the purpose of a page. It was made out of a genuine love for both the tv show and the stage musical. South park exiled from china, along with winnie the pooh. All rights belong to the respective companies and i hope so much that they dont kill me for what ive made.
Santa is stealing all the joy from the towns holiday season. I guess because south park is a guys show that it is just sexy to have girl sex jokes which isnt comedy yet gays is comedy for guys. Book of mormon not a problem for the latterday saints this article is more than 7 years old british branch of church launches ad campaign as south park creators musical opens, but says it doesn. They dont mention that later on martin harris did get to see the book of mormon, and the angel moroni. Stan learns about the mormon religion after a new family moves to south park from utah. South park 1997 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24. With trey parker, matt stone, adrien beard, mona marshall.
Is there any truth to the south park episode all about. For example, the story implies that only joseph smith saw the metal plates on which the book of mormon was engraven, but in reality over a dozen people saw them. He even testified to hearing the voice of god declare the translation to be correct. The episode was written and directed by south park cocreator trey parker. All about mormons, also known as all about the mormons. All about mormons official south park studios wiki. South park s7e12 all about mormons recap tv tropes. The making of the book of mormon musical heading australias way is another satirical bloodbath from the creators of south park. Still a girl episode about female mastubation would be great to me and girls figure out that stuff first anyways so the show is unrealistic. The book of mormon, the new musical that theyve written in collaboration with robert lopez, the cocreator of the equally irreverent muppetsstyle musical avenue q. I am a very strong member of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints, married in the temple, and just saw my son make the choice to be baptized this year. This is an early demo song from book of mormon, what would eventually become the all american prophet.
Whether you have seen it or not, almost all of us have wondered what the show would look like if it were just made into a special south park episode. That flat note, and a lot of the show in fact, might work better as a cartoon skit on south parks far superior competitor family guy, for example, but not so much when presented live on stage. November 19, 2003 mormon neighbors move into town, causing the citizens of south park to become mormons themselves. Same goes for the spooky mormon hell dream, which is basically a musical fantasia lifted from shows like south park, family guy and the simpsons. Gary tells stan how joseph smith wrote the book of mormon. The animation ive mad is in absolutely no way affiliated with either south park or the book of mormon. All about mormons season s07 episode e12 written by trey parker production code 0712 original air date 20031119 episode chronology the official south park studios wiki. During the collaboration, the duo offered lopez a chance to come to their studio to create an episode with them and workshop ideas. They hadnt heard about the musical, but theyd seen the mormon episode of south park.
The boys cant believe that stan is hanging out with new kid gary, whos horrifically nice. Their testimony is found in the beginning of the copy of the book of mormon that the missionaries gave me. The beloved cartoon bear was exiled from chinese media. The whole episode zigzags on mormon faiths mythology and practices in both inuniverse and in john smiths story an aesop. A recent episode of south park called all about the mormons focused on the story of joseph smith and the origins of the book of mormon. Etpt on comedy central allnew season 23 episodes will be available to stream in hd exclusively on. Stone won tony awards for the book and score of mormon which earned nine tonys in all, including best musical, will rejoin them in the writers room at south park, their comedy central series, where hell be contributing to a new episode of that animated satire. A day with matt stone and trey parker, the south park. Mornoi also appears in matt and treys kickass play the book of mormon, which discusses his peoples history in greater detail. Trey provided it in super best friends and matt took over for the expanded role in all about mormons.
But when stan and his dad become intrigued with the harrisons overwhelming happiness and the story of joseph smith, the marsh family decides to convert to mormonism. The video above takes the opening song from trey parker, matt. It was originally broadcast on comedy central in the united states on november 19, 2003. The episode revolves around the religion and culture of mormons, as a mormon family moves to the town of south park, and influences the beliefs of the family of character stan marsh. I just thought it sounded like it should be a south park song, so. When my husband and i were first married we watched south park all the time. But when stan and his dad become intrigued with the harrisons overwhelming happiness and the story of joseph smith. Book of mormon not a problem for the latterday saints. Season 7, episode 12 all about mormons first aired. Sharon is whisked away to new york and treated to every musical on the great white way. If someone is an otherwise good person, you shouldnt hold their beliefs against them anachronism stew. The day i spoke with stone, i coincidentally ran into a group of mormon missionaries in the lobby of a mall.
In the south park episode, randy runs into winnie the pooh in his work camp. The character of the new mormon student gary is voiced by south park writer kyle mcculloch, who himself grew up mormon growing up in colorado, parker and stone knew a lot of mormon people, and parkers high school exgirlfriend was a mormon, whose family he has visited while. There were some elements of truth, but the story was grossly simplified and omitted important parts of the history. So happy to have the original cast immortalized, in a sense. South park provides the stage for a book of mormon.
Trey parker and matt stone had just finished working with composer robert lopez in the broadway musical the book of mormon before this season of south park commenced. But, after he takes her to see a hit musical in denver, randy becomes broadways biggest fan. During joseph smiths lifetime, the term native american referred to. South park, book of mormon creators launch important. I believe from the book of mormon musical on the 65th tony awards.
The animation ive made is in absolutely no way affiliated with either south park or the book of mormon. The book of mormon meets south park in fantastic hello. Garys dad starts to tell stan the story of joseph smith, founder of mormonism. Both trey parker and matt stone have provided smiths voice in the show. The studio will have the power and money to approve television, movie and theater projects. Many people who are not familiar with the mormon church were baffled at the story as depicted by south. Its more than likely that parker and stone will never. When a super nice mormon family moves to south park, naturally the boys first instinct is to kick the new kids ass. Watch full episodes of south park online south park studios.
The bible, part 3 book of mormonsouth park fan animation. This is a great season of south park,the last of the classics in the south park series. How did mormons react to the south park episode about. Is the episode all about mormons accurate southpark.
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