Sunday night saw the premiere of the one hour documentary on the hectic creation of the first batch of South Park's 15th season, 6 Days to Air: The Making of South Park on Comedy Central. The special takes an unprecedented inside look at the creation of the show thanks to the access granted to the documentary's director, Arthur Bradford. Bradford, a longtime friend of Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the show's creators, was gradually able to take a simple behind-the-scenes EPK video and gradually work his way into the writers' room and the production booth to see the challenges in getting a single episode out the door in the span of--you guessed it--six days.

Before checking out the interview, here's the trailer for the doc, which will be airing again throughout the week and later this fall:

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This year has been busy for comedian and actor Nick Swardson. A lot of readers may know Swardson from his regular role on Reno 911! as the rollerskating male prostitute Terry, or his appearances in Happy Madison productions like Grandma's Boy and I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. Most recently, he could be seen with Danny McBride as a dim-witted crook in the comedy 30 Minutes or Less as well as his starring vehicle, Bucky Larson: Born to Be A Star. He also wrapped the second season of his sketch show, Nick Swardson's Pretend Time which begins its run of eight episodes on October 5th at 10:30 ET on Comedy Central.

We spoke to clearly exhausted Swardson about getting the second season off the ground, the challenge of getting a half dozen or more episodes into a half hour, and the learning curve going from the first season to the second.
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Another season of Futurama, another oddball anthology episode. This time with pixel art!
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Futurama wants you to read those EULAs, people!
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Fry's flu--fatal for his future friends? Find out in this alliteration-free recap!
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Johnny, Hubert, and the trip down Yeti memory lane.

What's it about?
Dr. Zoidberg is maybe the most improbably incompetent and unprofessional medical surgeon on T.V.--and I'm including the Gray's Anatomy cast here. Allegedly the best "alien doctor in the galaxy," he's butchered and mangled the employees of Planet Express in new, catastrophic, and often very funny ways. Well, after a simple splinter removal turns into a major dismantling of multiple bodies, Leela and company are fed up and demand to know what Professor Farnsworth keeps "Johnny" Zoidberg on the meager payroll. What we get is the first meeting between doctor and professor, and the terrible secret that has kept them together all these years.

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Fry gets a pet! Leela gets blotto!

What was it about?
After Leela goes on a natural food kick, Fry ends up with a last-of-its-species egg containing a bitey little blue monster. Unfortunately, Fry's acid-spewing new pet is deemed a menace by the Professor, so it's off to "Mr. Peppy's'" home planet to reintegrate him into his natural habitat. Unfortunately, the sheep ranching locals don't take too kindly to the reintroduction of the animal known quaintly as the Bone Vampire, and when Mr. Peppy is released into the environment, everyone--except for Fry--is convinced that his murderous blue pal is sucking the bones out of the livestock.

How was it?
I'm convinced that many if not most of the Futurama writing staff owns cats. Bad cats. How else to explain the carefully observed knowledge of biters, scratchers, shoulder-jumpers, mess-makers, and vomiters that are our feline friends? Besides inspiring me to play a game of "Hey, my cat's horrible like that" this is one of those funny-sweet episodes where Fry gets to expose his gentle-dumb side, being the only one who has faith in the truly good nature of his beloved pet. Read more...

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Mirror, mirror Mark makes a great bowler, is a terrible counselor.
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A four dimensional space mammal plagues intergalactic delivery's most calamity-prone crew.
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I just got the extra Mia Farrow joke in the title.

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