In a 2:15 video (that's 2 minutes, not two hours), half of which is just setup, Matt Stone and Trey Parker talk about this in the context of writing South Park.

In a 2:15 video (that's 2 minutes, not two hours), half of which is just setup, Matt Stone and Trey Parker talk about this in the context of writing South Park. One of the reasons I hold modern Hollywood in open contempt right now is that so much of their output fails this basic test, at scale. Not only is Hollywood largely not writing at a Writing 101 level, they're not writing at a first day of Writing 101 level. It is so sad seeing all the other professionals in the industry get utterly crippled by writers hired for every reason other than whether they can tell even a competent story, let alone a good one.