# "South Park" 3/26/08: Auto-erotic Asphyxia **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 27, 2008, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-3-26-08-auto-erotic-asphyxia/442873 "2008-03-27T02:04:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-3-26-08-auto-erotic-asphyxia/442873/41 "2008-03-28T04:06:33Z")
I walk by Nyberg Locksmith every day. Every time I think, ‘Oh, wow! _Good_ nyborg!’ ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-3-26-08-auto-erotic-asphyxia/442873/42 "2008-03-28T05:24:54Z")
Loved the _Heavy Metal_ scenes. Haven’t seen it in years, I’ll watch it again now. Thought the ep could’ve been a little funnier, though. Especially the Cartman storyline. ---
**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-3-26-08-auto-erotic-asphyxia/442873/43 "2008-03-28T06:55:25Z")
[QUOTE=SHAKES] Call me a sentimental old fool but this one is going down as one of my favorites. [/QUOTE] Agreed. When the Heavy Metal sequence started my reaction was “_Nooo Waaaay! I can’t believe it!_” I remember skipping school in Grade 6 (1982?) with a buddy and stealing his dad’s pot. We parked ourselves in front of the TV and threw on Heavy Metal on VHS, which, it turned out, would be very, very hard to find for years prior to its mainstream release and digital proliferation. Man, that takes me back. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-3-26-08-auto-erotic-asphyxia/442873/44 "2008-03-28T07:29:34Z")
Wish I’d grown up in the late seventies. All the nostalgia! ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-3-26-08-auto-erotic-asphyxia/442873/45 "2008-03-28T12:07:59Z")
[QUOTE=The Scrivener] What is this “Heavy Metal”\* referenced by the show? A movie, a video game, a YouTube phenomenon, or what? - Aside from a genre of hard rock. I knew that much, at least. [/QUOTE] Sorry about that “ignorant youngsters” remark upthread. Being old makes me crabby. I remember watching Heavy Metal with a bunch of my stoner friends, and during a scene where the girl is making some clothing adjustment, one of them saying reverently, “Man, that guy could _draw_.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-3-26-08-auto-erotic-asphyxia/442873/46 "2008-03-28T15:29:16Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] The Trans-Am flying down from the sky was right out of the opening scene of the movie as well (with the same background song). [/QUOTE] As was the B-17 Mr Broflovsky flew in his “cheese” trip (although in the movie I don’t believe it had a pinup girl with the caption “Jewish Princess” as it’s nose art) Growing up in the 80s, the kids in the house behind ours were huge commic book nerds about my age. In addition to thousands of comics, they always had bootleg tapes of all kinds of Japanese anime like Akira and American animated films like Heavy Metal, Wizards and other stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-3-26-08-auto-erotic-asphyxia/442873/47 "2008-03-28T15:36:15Z")
Of course in _Heavy Metal_ the car was an old Corvette. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-3-26-08-auto-erotic-asphyxia/442873/48 "2008-03-28T15:42:35Z")
I was quite amused at the Heavy Metal homage, though it brought back my frustration with the wobbliness of the animation in that and indeed in Wizards and Fire and Ice. Is that supposed to make it seem more dynamic, or what is the aesthetic rationale? In any case, South Park captured it perfectly. I also dug the explanation for why they called it cheesing: because it’s fon-to-due. ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-3-26-08-auto-erotic-asphyxia/442873/49 "2008-03-28T16:22:54Z")
Now I have to watch _Heavy Metal_ again. If they do [Fantastic Planet](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic_Planet) next, I might have to start watching South Park again. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-3-26-08-auto-erotic-asphyxia/442873/50 "2008-03-28T17:40:14Z")
[QUOTE=Dung Beetle] Sorry about that “ignorant youngsters” remark upthread. Being old makes me crabby. I remember watching Heavy Metal with a bunch of my stoner friends, and during a scene where the girl is making some clothing adjustment, one of them saying reverently, “Man, that guy could _draw_.” 😃 [/QUOTE] 's okay. I’m old enough to have caught **HM** the first time around, but I wasn’t into heavy metal, comic books, or pot, so this whole scene passed right under my radar. When **HM** came out, I was one of the preppy, nerdy, bespectacled goody two-shoes who was in the junior H.S. band and shlepping home her instrument every day for additional practice. A few years later, when I was in high school, I was still hanging out in libraries and band rooms, not Burger King- and 7-11 parking lots. My idea of a fake I.D. was the one I had for the local university library. Seriously. (And I felt like such a scofflaw every time I snuck in there to do research.) ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-3-26-08-auto-erotic-asphyxia/442873/51 "2008-03-28T17:54:05Z")
[QUOTE=The Scrivener] 's okay. I’m old enough to have caught **HM** the first time around, but I wasn’t into heavy metal, comic books, or pot, so this whole scene passed right under my radar. When **HM** came out, I was one of the preppy, nerdy, bespectacled goody two-shoes who was in the junior H.S. band and shlepping home her instrument every day for additional practice. A few years later, when I was in high school, I was still hanging out in libraries and band rooms, not Burger King- and 7-11 parking lots. My idea of a fake I.D. was the one I had for the local university library. Seriously. (And I felt like such a scofflaw every time I snuck in there to do research.) [/QUOTE] [Andy Clark] This is the worst fake ID I’ve ever seen! Do you realize you made yourself 64? What do you use it for? [/AC] [Brian Johnson] To vote. [/BJ] ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-3-26-08-auto-erotic-asphyxia/442873/52 "2008-03-28T18:08:04Z")
[QUOTE=The Scrivener] A few years later, when I was in high school, I was still hanging out in libraries and band rooms, not Burger King- and 7-11 parking lots. My idea of a fake I.D. was the one I had for the local university library. Seriously. (And I felt like such a scofflaw every time I snuck in there to do research.) [/QUOTE] See, that’s why I didn’t waste my time getting all edumacated. They leave out so much important stuff! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-3-26-08-auto-erotic-asphyxia/442873/53 "2008-03-28T23:32:02Z")
[QUOTE=msmith537] As was the B-17 Mr Broflovsky flew in his “cheese” trip (although in the movie I don’t believe it had a pinup girl with the caption “Jewish Princess” as it’s nose art) [/QUOTE] The original had “Pacific Pearl” as the nose art (I know, because I made a screengrab off the DVD—the behind the scenes special features, which had a clear production still, to be precise—so I could add it as nose art on a flight simulator. That’s the exactly the kind of man I am). And, as they say, [very timely.](http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=42950) ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-3-26-08-auto-erotic-asphyxia/442873/54 "2008-03-28T23:45:32Z")
[QUOTE=Ranchoth] And, as they say, [very timely.](http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=42950) [/QUOTE] I think I lost a dozen IQ points reading the comments there. I’m looking forward to this movie, though, since it seems to have revived the anthology aspect of the original. (Whatever other problems it had, that was, IMO, FAKK2’s biggest failing.) I wonder if they’re directly adapting any stories this time around… ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2008, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-3-26-08-auto-erotic-asphyxia/442873/55 "2008-03-29T00:58:12Z")
[QUOTE=Tengu] I think I lost a dozen IQ points reading the comments there. [/QUOTE] LETS BE POSITIVE AND HAPPY THEY WE ARE GOING TO BE ABLE TO SEE THESE MOVIES FOR OUR ENJOYMENT. ---
**Author:** ![CapnPitt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/edb3f5/32.png) [@CapnPitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CapnPitt)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2008, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-3-26-08-auto-erotic-asphyxia/442873/56 "2008-03-29T04:06:07Z")
When I saw the B-17, I said…“he’s not gonna be the ball gunner is he?” Need to get my hands on that movie! It’s been too long. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-3-26-08-auto-erotic-asphyxia/442873.md?page=2)