Ten years ago, two film students from the University of Colorado were approached by the folks at Fox to create an animated short film to send to friends as an online Christmas card. The name of that short was The Spirit of Christmas, and it made Trey Parker and Matt Stone overnight successes. I don't believe the film was ever aired in its original form on television, but it can be easily found through several sources on the internet. So, happy 10th anniversary to the film that started it all for South Park. Go South Park's Spirit of Christmas, the tenth anniversary
Ten years ago, two film students from the University of Colorado were approached by the folks at Fox to create an animated short film to send to friends as an online Christmas card. The name of that short was The Spirit of Christmas, and it made Trey Parker and Matt Stone overnight successes. I don't believe the film was ever aired in its original form on television, but it can be easily found through several sources on the internet. So, happy 10th anniversary to the film that started it all for South Park. Go 
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12-09-2005 @ 12:37AM
mathmonkey said...
They were actually U of Colorado students, not U Chicago. The original title of _Cannibal: The Musical_, btw, was _Alferd Packer: The Musical_. Old ALferd also lent his name to the grill on CU's Boulder campus.
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12-09-2005 @ 7:08AM
Keith McDuffee said...
Doh! My bad with that. I knew the correct answer, but my typing hands didn't when I wrote it.
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12-09-2005 @ 10:57AM
Mike said...
Actually I first saw the spirit of christmas on TV, about 8 years ago. I believe it was HBO. Not a lot of chance of it showing up on regular television, of course. Don't remember at all what sort of program it was... that short pretty much obliterated my memory of whatever happened immediately before or after.
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12-09-2005 @ 1:49PM
Willie Westwood said...
I saw the original SOXMAS - the one with Jesus fighting Frosty - on UHF channel 38 in March 1997, a year after seeing the second and more famous one at Laemmle's Sunset 5. Both were in Sick and Twisted Festivals. :D
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