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...episode 607 of South Park, Butters, in his guise as Professor Chaos, dreams up a host of insidious schemes-blocking out the sun, decapitating a South Park statue, selling the town a monorail-only to be told that these had already been spun out on a certain animated TV series. "How come every time I think of something clever," Butters asks, "The Simpsons already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Simpsons, Bigger and Better | 7/26/2007 | See Source »

...episode was a tribute from one cadre of cartoon geniuses-South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone-to another, earlier one: Matt Groening, James L. Brooks and their team of highly educated misfits, who developed Groening's crudely drawn one-minute Tracey Ullman Show vignettes of a chinless yellow family into a half-hour sitcom, nay, a veritable comedy cosmos that this fall begins its record-breaking 19th season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Simpsons, Bigger and Better | 7/26/2007 | See Source »

...another challenge. How could they expand 22 min. of content into a coherent, cholerically funny, 87-min., worth-paying-for laff riot shown on a wall in a mall? And beyond how-why? Maybe because Parker and Stone had proved it could be done, splendidly, with their 1999 South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. Anyway, here's The Simpsons Movie. It was worth waiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Simpsons, Bigger and Better | 7/26/2007 | See Source »

...those of you who were wondering if a great TV show could top itself at feature-film length, the good news is that The Simpsons did it! But South Park did it first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Simpsons, Bigger and Better | 7/26/2007 | See Source »

...explosive issue here in the southwest Virginia, which like much of Appalachia, had long suffered from a wave of addiction to the drug. More than 100 people gathered at a morning rally in a town park to tell their stories about the prescription drug before moving to the courthouse. In the afternoon, many of them would be in the courtroom, giving victim statements in front of the pharmaceutical executives and the judge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Punishing OxyContin's Maker | 7/20/2007 | See Source »

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