Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo classic Christmas specials with their own irreverent "South Park" twist, and so they watched the famous 1965 "Peanuts" special, "A Charlie Brown Christmas", repeatedly during the production process. Parker said, "At this point, we just sort of wanted to do a Charlie Brown Christmas "South Park" version. That [special] was definitely a huge part of my life growing up." The episode was considered the first "South Park" musical episode, and included such songs as "Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo", "A Lonely Jew on Christmas" and "Kyle's Mom is a Big Fat Bitch". Parker and Stone were initially concerned about making
Peanuts (TV series) Peanuts (TV series) Peanuts is an Italian-French-American animated television series based on the franchise of the same name. The series first aired in France on November 9, 2014, and later aired on Discovery Kids in Latin America in 2015 and in the United States on Cartoon Network and Boomerang on May 9, 2016 as segments of shorts that plays on a theme, and as interstitial shorts played only on Boomerang a few times during some hours. The series briefly aired on Cartoon Network in May 2016, despite this, it remains present on the Cartoon Network streaming app. In June 2018,