No, writing musicals is the hardest thing in the world. And it was really funny, because I remember when the South Park movie came out, there were some critics that said, ’Well it’s obvious that in order to get it to be 90 minutes they filled some time with music.’

Parker pushes back against the common assumption that songs in a film are padding or an easy way to stretch runtime. By calling musical-writing “the hardest thing in the world,” he emphasizes the technical and structural demands of the form: songs must advance plot, reveal character, and land jokes while still functioning as satisfying music. The reference to critics’ reactions to the South Park movie highlights a recurring bias against musicals—treating them as ornamental rather than integral. Implicitly, Parker is defending the craft behind comedic musical storytelling and reframing the South Park team’s songwriting as deliberate narrative work, not filler.