Striking Out: South Park

The South Park episode Canada on Strike first aired in April 2008
- a “biting” “satire” released well after the Writers Strike had
left the news cycle, and one of many media pieces that helped
cement the legend that the entire strike had been about The
Internet. But one of the many issues that the WGA had brought to
the table was the very reason that the South Park team were so
annoyed with the Guild in the first place - while the Guild were
on strike, South Park and most of the animation industry were
still working. Because animation writers are not covered by the
Writers Guild.





The WGA wanted jurisdiction over animation in their next
contract. But that was an even harder ask than Reality TV, since
animation writing was already covered by The Animation Guild, or
IATSE Local 839.














CLIPS:





Six Days to Air (Comedy Central)


Canada On Strike (South Park Season 12 Episode 4)


Chris Sanders - Director of How to Train Your Dragon + Lilo &
Stitch Cartoons!!! (Directing Animation Podcast #39)


WSC Show #109 - Interview With Patric Verrone (Part 1)


Tina Fey Monologue (Saturday Night Live, 24th February 2008)


WGA Calls for Vote To End Writers Strike (Writers Guild of
America)


WGA Calls for Vote To End Writers Strike - Q&A (Writers Guild
of America)


Why I’m Striking - Patric Verrone (Deadline)





MUSIC:





“Fork & Spoon”, “C-Funk”, “Divertissement”, “Deadly
Roulette”, “Modern, Jazz Samba”, “Fuzzball Parade”, “Bicycle”,
“Expeditionary”, “Finding Movement”, “On The Cool Side”, “Groove
Grove”, “Floating Cities”, “Industrial Cinematic”, “Hard Boiled”,
“Leaving Home”, “Lost Frontier”, “On The Ground”, “Odyssey”,
“Bossa Antigua”, “Crossing The Divide”



Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)


Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License


http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/








“Bossy Boots” & “Synapse” by Shane Ivers -
https://www.silvermansound.com