Editing That's My Bush! (section)

===Filming===
Each episode was shot in two days. The weeks were spent in writing and pre-production while the cast rehearsed.<ref name="Parker6">{{Cite video | people=[[Trey Parker|Parker, Trey]]| date=October 2006 |title=That's My Bush! The Definitive Collection: "Mom "E" D. E. A. Arrest" |id=Audio commentary |medium=DVD|publisher=[[Paramount Pictures#Paramount Home Entertainment|Paramount Home Entertainment]]}}</ref> Like ''South Park'', in which Parker would be able to write a scene and see it animated a short time later, he and Stone could walk to rehearsals and see the cast rehearsing their script.<ref name="Parker6" /> Each episode commenced with a [[cold open]], with a "cheesy" joke that segued into the theme song. The duo recalled that, with stupid titles, these scenes were often the hardest to write.<ref name="Parker7">{{Cite video | people=[[Trey Parker|Parker, Trey]]| date=October 2006 |title=That's My Bush! The Definitive Collection: "Trapped in a Small Environment" |id=Audio commentary |medium=DVD|publisher=[[Paramount Pictures#Paramount Home Entertainment|Paramount Home Entertainment]]}}</ref>

The episode "SDI-Aye-AYE!" features the first utterance of the word "Lemmiwinks", which Parker and the writers intended to be a parody of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''. The word was later famously used in the ''South Park'' episode "[[The Death Camp of Tolerance]]".<ref name="Parker4">{{Cite video | people=[[Trey Parker|Parker, Trey]]| date=October 2006 |title=That's My Bush! The Definitive Collection: "S.D.I. -Aye-Aye!" |id=Audio commentary |medium=DVD|publisher=[[Paramount Pictures#Paramount Home Entertainment|Paramount Home Entertainment]]}}</ref> The show's first episode set a Comedy Central ratings record (at the time) for highest debut with over 2.9 million viewers tuning in; however, ratings dropped after this, with an average of 1.7 million viewers.<ref name="sun">{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ZwFHAAAAIBAJ&pg=5498,471464&hl=en|date=August 3, 2001| title=''That's My Bush'' cancelled|publisher= AP Newswire|work=Sun Journal|access-date=March 14, 2010}}</ref>

During the production of "Fare Thee Welfare", the series finale, producers knew the end was near as it would be very expensive.<ref name="Parker8">{{Cite video | people=[[Trey Parker|Parker, Trey]]| date=October 2006 |title=That's My Bush! The Definitive Collection: "Fare Thee Welfare" |id=Audio commentary |medium=DVD|publisher=[[Paramount Pictures#Paramount Home Entertainment|Paramount Home Entertainment]]}}</ref> For example, for the episode "Eenie Meenie Miney Murder", Parker and Stone used a live bear, an animatronic bear, an actor in a bear suit, and a puppet bear, which ended up breaking their budget.<ref name="Stone3" /> Although the show received a fair amount of publicity and critical notice, according to Stone and Parker, the budget was too high, "about $1 million an episode."<ref name="herald">{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1876&dat=20010803&id=yCUfAAAAIBAJ&pg=4871,422240| title=Comedy Central Cancels "That's my Bush"|author=Lynn Elber|publisher= AP Newswire|work=Spartanburg Herald-Journal| date=August 3, 2001|access-date=March 14, 2010}}</ref>