South Park: The Stick of Truth
Trey Parker and Matt Stone have essentially won television. Since South Park’s inception in 1997, it’s earned Emmy nominations in the double digits, and has gone on to win roughly half the time. It’s been on scores of ‘Best Television Show’ and ‘Best Cartoon’ lists, from Time, TV Guide, Entertainment Weekly, and Rolling Stone, just to name a few. It didn’t take them long to move on to the silver screen, acting in BASEketball, and writing, starring in and producing multiple cult and commercial hits such as Orgazmo, Cannibal! The Musical, and Team America: World Police. The inevitable South Park movie treatment was largely successful and even nominated for a ‘Best Original Song’ Oscar. In more recent years, Trey and Matt have even met with accomplishment on Broadway. Their smash hit The Book Of Mormon went on to win numerous Tony Awards, including Best Musical. Trey and Matt hope to bring that success to the video game arena next by bringing their fictional ‘quiet mountain town’ to life on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in the recently released South Park: The Stick of Truth.
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