South Park: Imaginationland

South Park: Imaginationland (2008)

A super-awesome action adventure!

Some of the boys from South Park Elementary find themselves on a balloon ride to an imaginary land. Upon their arrival they're faced with an unimaginable threat.

Date of release
2008-03-11
TMDB
7.9 / 10 (316)
Runtime
1h 7m
Genres
Comedy, Animation, Fantasy, Adventure, TV Movie
Director
Trey Parker

Casting

Interesting facts

South Park: Imaginationland, or Imaginationland: The Movie, are the three episodes merged into a compilation-film. The movie is uncensored and includes previously-unreleased footage. It was released direct-to-video on March 11, 2008, in the United States and a year later in the United Kingdom on May 25. A few months later the movie was released for free online as a streaming video.

Production

Production for the episode began in July 2007, nearly three months before the final airing. This was uncharacteristic for South Park, as most episodes are produced in one week or less. The original intention was to make the story into a feature-length film, created as a theatrically released sequel to South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, but there were myriad factors that led it to becoming a regular episode: they did not feel it was a "big" enoug…

On the Monday preceding this episode's broadcast, Parker decided to make the episode a trilogy. Stone felt it fun to create a three-parter, as many television dramas at that time—24, Lost—were based on serialization. The day after "Imaginationland Episode I" aired, Parker completed the rest of the trilogy's story in a swift fashion: "I remember that Thursday morning writing every beat of the show on the board.

Shortly after "Imaginationland" was originally broadcast, the site also featured T-shirts and hooded sweatshirts based on the episode. It featured Butters in a floating bubble, asking "Do I have to be the key?"

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