Origins
After seeing their student film, Cannibal! The Musical, Fox executive Brian Graden wanted Matt Stone and Trey Parker to create a show that was Cannibal! on a weekly basis (before that, however, they created a short Christmas Card for Brian called The Spirit of Christmas). Thus, Trey came up with Time Warped-"a musical romp through time". The show starred many of the actors from Cannibal, such as Dian Bachar, Jason McHugh and Toddy Walters. When the first pilot was completed, Brian thought it would work better as a Fox Kids show. After making a kid-friendly pilot, Fox Kids passed on the show.
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Famous quotes containing the word origins:
“Lucretius
Sings his great theory of natural origins and of wise conduct; Plato
smiling carves dreams, bright cells
Of incorruptible wax to hive the Greek honey.”
—Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)
“Compare the history of the novel to that of rock ‘n’ roll. Both started out a minority taste, became a mass taste, and then splintered into several subgenres. Both have been the typical cultural expressions of classes and epochs. Both started out aggressively fighting for their share of attention, novels attacking the drama, the tract, and the poem, rock attacking jazz and pop and rolling over classical music.”
—W. T. Lhamon, U.S. educator, critic. “Material Differences,” Deliberate Speed: The Origins of a Cultural Style in the American 1950s, Smithsonian (1990)
“Grown onto every inch of plate, except
Where the hinges let it move, were living things,
Barnacles, mussels, water weeds—and one
Blue bit of polished glass, glued there by time:
The origins of art.”
—Howard Moss (b. 1922)