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TIL that while working on the sound mix for Orgazmo, Matt Stone and Trey Parker ordered food from City Wok, which actually served City Chicken and City Beef and had a guy with a thick accent. They called and ordered from them all the time just to hear “Shitty wok” and “Shitty chicken”.

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