Raisins (South Park)

Parker and co-creator Matt Stone based Stan's breakup on their memories of elementary school "relationships", and the episode's use of licensed music is also representative of their upbringing.

His friends take him to the restaurant Raisins—where all of the employees are young preteen girls wearing heavy make-up, and are all named after luxury car brands—hoping to cheer him up.

Parker noted in the episode's commentary that the crew at South Park Studios began getting nervous, as a day's worth of animation work had been lost.

[3] Co-creator Matt Stone noted the way in which Stan is broken up with in the episode is the way he remembered kids in elementary school going about relationships.

[5] The concept of the Goth kids drinking coffee at Benny's (a spoof of American-based diner chain Denny's) comes from Stone's own experiences.

He remembered the Goth kids from his adolescence hanging out at his local Perkins drinking endless cups of coffee for hours at a time.

[6] Parker's favorite moment in the episode involves the character Jimmy, who has a speech impediment, telling Wendy that she is a "continuing source of inspiration" for Stan but stuttering on the first syllable, causing it to be misheard as "cunt".

Parker remembered the writers spent time attempting to come up with words they could use in that scenario; Stone dubbed the end result a "reach of a joke.

[9] The episode further uses "Living in America" by James Brown, "All Out of Love" by Air Supply, "Shock the Monkey" by Peter Gabriel, and "YMCA" by Village People.

[12] Tim Cain of the Herald & Review considered Butters' speech at the episode's conclusion "one of the most heartful and sincere soliloquies in the show's history", despite it not strictly being a soliloquy.

[13] "Raisins", along with the thirteen other episodes from South Park's seventh season, were released on a three-disc DVD set in the United States on March 26, 2006.