South Park - The Boys Attempt Stop Motion Animation

Season 4 Episode 17 - A Very Crappy Christmas

[befer]

I can see why Kenny would be their comfort character now

[jacktorrance]

Clearly Matt and Trey were making fun of what they had to go through when they made the pilot episode for the show. That's the only episode in the show that was all done through stop motion, unless you include the original spirit of Christmas.

[RG_]

As a stopmotion animator, I have to say, the part when cartman sneezes and the whole scene flies away, is the most relatable yet traumatic experience an animator will go through. It's just so... sad 🥲

[kitbarrows]

I like the fact that in universe they were talented enough to recreate photorealistic stop motion models of themselves.

[forgottenartist]

Stop motion animation / cut off style is really one of the hardest animation process ever

[guineapiggirl]

ATLEST THEY DONT HAVE TO DO ANYTHING TO KENNY. YOU CAN'T SEE HIS MOUTH ANYWAYS.

[chipmunkz]

Kenny saved them some time at least. You can't see his mouth.

[deoxys]

This is probably my favorite South Park Christmas episode. Because it not only makes fun of the original spirit of Christmas short, but because the boys are able to experience how painstaking it is to make a stop motion Christmas special

[walrusArmageddon]

This is why I just don't even with mouths in claymation. Saves me like ten hours

[Joshua_Quinzel_Isley]

This clip is almost like they were breaking the 4th wall.

[ethanmorris]

This is the meta episode. You know that matt and trey just did this to show ppl how hard it is to make an episode of south park

[tdflky]

This has to be Matt and Trey showing us what they suffered through in the beginning, just so we can laugh at the Comedy Gold that is South Park.

[OmegaChase]

I imagine this is exactly what Matt and Trey went through.

[LeaveTheMark_YT]

South Park probably wouldn't have even reached its 200th episode today if it was still animated in stop motion.

EDIT: Unless Trey and Matt have more than one team of animators doing the episodes separately from each other, just to ease the workload.

[zakbax]

Too bad they didn’t include the scene where one of them sneezes and it blows the entire set away

[crrsux]

I do stop motion and this shit is so fucking relatable LLMAO

[ajtv]

South Park didn’t break the fourth wall, they shattered it!

[katemiller]

Love how Kyle and Stan were the ones that did all the work cuz Stan represents Trey and Kyle represents Matt while creating the pilot ep 😂

[TheKnewGreg]

It took me until now to realize they got Butters to make the cutouts because he’s based on Eric Stough, the actual animation director for the show

[Pops]

Turn the voice pitch back to normal and it's just basically Trey and Matt's daily routine
Someone fucking make it happen