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That Time the ‘South Park’ Guys Ripped Off a CollegeHumor Video

Trey Parker and Matt Stone said they were trying to parody Inception, but ended up cribbing lines from someone else’s parody instead.

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When South Park parodied Christopher Nolan’s Inception in the 2010 episode “Insheeption,” viewers were quick to point out that Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s take on the film was very similar to a CollegeHumor video that was posted online earlier that year. The video in question, written by Dan Gurewitch and David Young, was modeled on a scene from Inception that features an “extraction” team capable of infiltrating people’s dreams and explaining the complicated aspects of their job to a new team member.

The South Park episode includes dialogue that, in some cases, is identical to the CollegeHumor parody, like when one character tells........

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