Parker and Stone, alongside producers Anne Garefino, Vernon Chatman, Bill Hader, and Susan Arneson, discuss ideas for the episode.

The film covers various aspects of production, including voice acting, animation, lip sync, communication with standards and practices, character design, and editing.

The episode is completed the following morning just after 7am, with audio and picture lock lasting until the afternoon, after which supervising producer Frank C. Agnone II takes the master tape to a nearby uplink facility, where it is sent to Comedy Central in New York hours before it airs nationwide.

Stone initially declined Bradford's suggestion of documenting the South Park production process, as they disliked having cameras in the studio, among other reasons.

Club was positive in his assessment of the special, noting, "As they stress out and cocoon in their offices and forget what combs are for, you realize how much they must love what they're doing, because nobody would do this just for the money, so long as they already had carfare back home.