"If you're working with a band and you really want to work them into the episode, you've got to say to them, "Look, we need you around every day and on Tuesday night all night because we need you to do voices as we're changing stuff." We do the show so quickly, and you just can't get bands to do that. It's not really fair."

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Source: 'South Park''s Matt Stone. Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. April 12, 2010.

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