''Your Studio and You'' is a 1995 American

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created by

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and

Trey Parker Randolph Severn "Trey" Parker III (born October 19, 1969) is an American actor, animator, writer, producer, director, and musician. He is best known for co-creating ''South Park'' (1997) and '' The Book of Mormon'' (2011) with his creative part ...

for

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and commissioned by comedic filmmaker

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. It was to be played at a party

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threw for its employees acquired as a result of its Universal take-over. It parodies the style of 1950s

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s such as '' Duck and Cover'', while poking fun at Universal and its talent. It was shot in the

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, and it runs approximately 14 minutes. Upon commissioning the duo to make this film, David Zucker failed to mention that there was no script, so everything was written by Parker and Stone less than an hour before it was shot.Parker and Stone explaining the circumstances
/ref> The film is notable in that it was Stone and Parker's first Hollywood gig. Parker has said that "you could probably make a feature film out of the experience of making that movie because it was just two dudes from college suddenly directing

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." This film has still seen no public release as it was intended to be strictly an internal film (indeed, its creators were not even allowed a copy), but copies of the film have surfaced on the Internet. Ifilm.com had the video on its site for a limited time. The video was promoted on the site in ad banners. These advertisements included the date that ifilm.com would stop hosting the video. Stone and Parker would make their first major studio-produced feature, ''

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'', for Universal with David Zucker directing (albeit one in which they merely starred). Parker would very later appear in the 2017 animated Universal/ Illumination film ''

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'' as the antagonist Balthazar Bratt.

Celebrity appearances

The film is also notable for its use of a number of celebrity actors, musicians, writers, producers, and directors in the Universal family, including

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(shown improving the Universal Studios landscaping),

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, Barry Kemp,

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(shown painting the '' Psycho'' House), Mike Lobell,

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, Darrin Pfeiffer,

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(shown as a Universal Studios Guide),

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(in his

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character, and subtitled for comedic effect),

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, and

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appears with

as two guys at a food stand during the "It's UCS for me!" segment.

References

External links

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'South Park' Creator Trey Parker Cops to Kooky Universal Spoof
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