Robert Smith had claimed that nothing in his career mattered as much to his younger nephews and nieces as the fact that he was featured on South Park (1997).
Robert Smith made a guest appearance because Trey Parker is a big fan of The Cure and it was his lifelong dream to meet Smith. He was one of the few celebrities Parker specifically requested to make an appearance.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone strongly dislike Barbra Streisand, hence why she is mocked more severely than most celebrities on the show. Part of the reason they disliked her was that after Colorado passed Amendment 2, an amendment to the Colorado state constitution forbidding homosexuals from being recognized as a protected class, Streisand made a public statement speaking out against the state and all its citizens, promising she would never visit Colorado again. Parker said he also finds her singing voice annoying, which inspired the scene with Streisand torturing the boys by singing to them. The duo tried to make Streisand's portrayal as "sick and disgusting as possible.
Barbra Streisand took a negative view of her portrayal, stating in a Mirabella interview,
" I wasn't even aware of this show until I read in Time magazine that they had used me in a very negative way. Let me say that I enjoy satire and parody and I loved the movie In & Out. It made me laugh. It wasn't mean-spirited. But I wonder if shows like South Park (1997) and Beavis and Butt-Head (1993) don't add to the cynicism and negativity in our culture, especially in children. These youngsters are formulating their attitudes and maybe they come away feeling that any woman who dares to accomplish something is the incarnation of self-centeredness and greed. And that would be very unfortunate, especially for young girls".
Trey Parker and Matt Stone created Spookyfish (1998) in response, where they took a picture of Streisand's head, placed the image into all four corners of the screen and called it "Spooky vision".
" I wasn't even aware of this show until I read in Time magazine that they had used me in a very negative way. Let me say that I enjoy satire and parody and I loved the movie In & Out. It made me laugh. It wasn't mean-spirited. But I wonder if shows like South Park (1997) and Beavis and Butt-Head (1993) don't add to the cynicism and negativity in our culture, especially in children. These youngsters are formulating their attitudes and maybe they come away feeling that any woman who dares to accomplish something is the incarnation of self-centeredness and greed. And that would be very unfortunate, especially for young girls".
Trey Parker and Matt Stone created Spookyfish (1998) in response, where they took a picture of Streisand's head, placed the image into all four corners of the screen and called it "Spooky vision".
During a scene with Chef and Leonard Maltin driving in a car, actual video footage of Colorado roads is visible through the back window of the car. The footage was shot by a friend of Trey Parker and Matt Stone and used because the animators did not yet know how to create roads in perspective.