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How ‘South Park’ Brought Two Comedy Icons Back Together After a 15-Year Split

The makeshift collaboration eventually led to the pair officially getting back together.

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Despite having been on the air for 28 seasons, South Park hasn’t racked up a ton of celebrity cameos over the years. Don’t get us wrong, some pretty famous people have lent their voices to the series, from George Clooney to the members of Korn, but the number isn’t anywhere close to that of, say, The Simpsons.

Two of the more noteworthy—and quite frankly, impressive—guests that showrunners Trey Parker and Matt Stone were able to land were legendary stoner comics Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong, known collectively as Cheech and Chong. The duo’s joint appearance (no pun intended) in 2000’s “Cherokee Hair Tampons” is especially interesting when you can consider that, as a team, they’d been broken up since 1985.

Congrats to South Park on 20 yrs. We reunited 16 yrs ago for the ep "Cherokee Hair........

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