Bill Hader Recalls South Park Creators’ Inspiration for “Fishsticks” Episode That Mocked Kanye West: Watch

South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone care deeply about emotion in their shows, Bill Hader told the crowd during the induction speech for the duo at the Television Academy Hall of Fame. They care so deeply that for South Park’s 2009 “Fishsticks” episode, “They want you to feel how badly Kanye West wanted to fuck that fish,” Hader said. At the Thursday event, Hader recalled how the notorious “Fishsticks” episode, which, after its release, West angrily rapped about, came together, and it all began with watching salmon trying to get it on. Stream the whole speech below. Hader recollected back to 2008 when he was invited by Parker and Stone to Seattle for a South Park writers’ retreat. While there, Parker really wanted to go to a viewing area where people can see various species of salmon swimming upstream to mate. Watching the salmon swim by gave Stone an idea. “’Imagine if one of these fish was on a motorcycle and just Evel Knievel-ed all the other fish,’” Hader remembered Stone saying, with Parker adding, “’And he has a big fish dick.’” “’Are you saying fish stick like those sticks of fish you bake and eat, or are you saying fish dick like a fish’s penis,’” Stone asked, and...