 "Starvin' Marvin in Space" was produced around Thanksgiving 1999, and the duo decided to write a sequel to the season one episode "Starvin' Marvin".The duo thought of it as not a regular episode of "South Park", but something wholly its own.After completing the dialogue for the aforementioned episode, Mary Kay Bergman, the voice actress behind many of the female characters on "South Park", was found dead of suicide.