 Parker and Stone had trouble deciding how to resolve the episode and bring the zombie characters back to life . Although they ultimately settled on having Kyle kill the " main zombie " to bring back the others , Parker did not feel the resolution made sense and described it as a deus ex machina . Parker said of the ending , " This was another big one of those episodes where we were sort of ( like ) , ' How do we get out of this one ? ' " Parker also described the ending of the episode as " a bloodbath , ( which ) is what a good zombie movie should be " . " Pinkeye " was the first South Park episode Parker and Stone felt unsatisfied with once production was complete . Parker said , " We were pretty bummed out , and we kind of thought , well , we 're going to have a bad episode go on the air , and hopefully it won 't alienate too many people , and we 'll try to get our viewers back for Thanksgiving . But we were totally wrong , people totally loved it . " 
