# South Park references I've missed. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 4, 2004, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-references-ive-missed/278068 "2004-12-04T16:23:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [December 4, 2004, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-references-ive-missed/278068/1 "2004-12-04T16:23:52Z")
Lemmiwinks. Never saw that episode. I gather from posts that it’s to do with Mr. Slave’s colon. The Frog Prince. From the Lemmiwinks episode? Butters dressed as a bear (in this week’s episode). Does Paris Hilton do something with teddy bears? Jewbilee. I don’t remember: Was that Moses, or the Metron? Was the voice a ST:TOS reference? ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2004, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-references-ive-missed/278068/2 "2004-12-04T16:48:11Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > Jewbilee. I don’t remember: Was that Moses, or the Metron? Was the voice a ST:TOS reference? Moses was a reference to _Tron_. He’s modeled after the Master Control Program. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2004, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-references-ive-missed/278068/3 "2004-12-04T16:50:45Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > Lemmiwinks. Never saw that episode. I gather from posts that it’s to do with Mr. Slave’s colon. > > The Frog Prince. From the Lemmiwinks episode? Correct on both counts. It’s one of the funnier and grosser episodes ever, and also owes a debt to the old animated film of The Hobbit. ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2004, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-references-ive-missed/278068/4 "2004-12-04T18:08:11Z")
In the Paris Hilton episode, the pre-school teacher was kept alive in a box and could only communicate by beeping. I saw that reference on Futurama twice. What’s it from, then? ---
**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:** [December 4, 2004, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-references-ive-missed/278068/5 "2004-12-04T18:11:36Z")
> [@Tentacle Monster](#): > > In the Paris Hilton episode, the pre-school teacher was kept alive in a box and could only communicate by beeping. I saw that reference on Futurama twice. What’s it from, then? Christopher Pike, from ST:TOS, ‘The Cage’. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecccb3/32.png) [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2004, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-references-ive-missed/278068/6 "2004-12-04T18:12:41Z")
> [@Tentacle Monster](#): > > In the Paris Hilton episode, the pre-school teacher was kept alive in a box and could only communicate by beeping. I saw that reference on Futurama twice. What’s it from, then? That was the pre-school episode, not the Paris Hilton episode. Anyway, so far as I can tell it’s a reference to Davros, the leader of the Daleks in Doctor Who. ---
**Author:** ![Berkut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@Berkut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Berkut)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2004, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-references-ive-missed/278068/7 "2004-12-04T18:13:07Z")
Hmmm. Maybe to the old Star Trek:TOS episode with Christopher Pike? He was severely crippled and could only communicate by beeping yes or no. ---
**Author:** ![Berkut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@Berkut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Berkut)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2004, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-references-ive-missed/278068/8 "2004-12-04T18:14:09Z")
That was the geekiest triple-simulpost I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![todd33rpm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@todd33rpm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/todd33rpm)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2004, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-references-ive-missed/278068/9 "2004-12-04T20:34:52Z")
In an amusing way that no one IRL catches, the “Cheesy Poofs” song is the theme to NPR’s _All Things Considered_. It always kills me that no one seems to pick up on it. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2004, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-references-ive-missed/278068/10 "2004-12-04T21:49:57Z")
> [@todd33rpm](#): > > In an amusing way that no one IRL catches, the “Cheesy Poofs” song is the theme to NPR’s _All Things Considered_. It always kills me that no one seems to pick up on it. Calculate, for a moment, the possible number of people who both watch _South Park_ and listen to NPR. Then calculate the odds of running into such a person. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2004, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-references-ive-missed/278068/11 "2004-12-04T21:53:23Z")
The “Stan Marsh??? More like Stan _Darsh_!” from the Asspen episode. Cracks me up… I still don’t get it. I started a thread a while back, and the general consensus was that it wasn’t supposed to make sense. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2004, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-references-ive-missed/278068/12 "2004-12-04T23:01:30Z")
> [@chaoticdonkey](#): > > The “Stan Marsh??? More like Stan _Darsh_!” from the Asspen episode. > > Cracks me up… I still don’t get it. I started a thread a while back, and the general consensus was that it wasn’t supposed to make sense. The entire “Asspen” episode was based on Hot Dog: The Movie, a teen comedy from the '80s. ---
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2004, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-references-ive-missed/278068/13 "2004-12-04T23:23:37Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Calculate, for a moment, the possible number of people who both watch _South Park_ and listen to NPR. Then calculate the odds of running into such a person. I’ve watched _South Park_ for years and listened to _ATC_ for years, and I never noticed. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Cheatem_Undhow)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2004, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-references-ive-missed/278068/14 "2004-12-04T23:26:40Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Calculate, for a moment, the possible number of people who both watch _South Park_ and listen to NPR. Then calculate the odds of running into such a person. _nervously raises his hand_ Like **JeffB** , I’ve never noticed, either. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2004, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-references-ive-missed/278068/15 "2004-12-04T23:52:27Z")
To elaborate on **Big Bad Voodoo Lou** ’s post, there’s an exchange in _Hot Dog_ in which one kid calls out another kid (named Garnisch) by calling him “Garshit.” Part of the joke is that in _Hot Dog_, it’s one of the underdog protagonists that does this to a stuck-up hot-dogger, and from the context it’s clear that we’re expected to take it as a withering and incredibly witty insult. The exaggerated weakness is ripping on the crappy screenwriting. (It should be noted that there are some references to _Aspen Extreme_, as well as _Hot Dog - The Movie_, in _Asspen_. Although _Aspen Extreme_ is from the early nineties, it tracked the eighties into the decade like so much melting snow in a ski-lodge.) ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-references-ive-missed/278068/16 "2004-12-05T00:21:36Z")
> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#): > > The entire “Asspen” episode was based on Hot Dog: The Movie, a teen comedy from the '80s. Maybe, but I recognized an AWFUL lot of references to “Better off Dead” in there… perhaps the films are similar, both being ablout skiing… G ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-references-ive-missed/278068/17 "2004-12-05T00:49:23Z")
> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#): > > The entire “Asspen” episode was based on Hot Dog: The Movie, a teen comedy from the '80s. I thought a bit of it was a parody of “Better off Dead” ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-references-ive-missed/278068/18 "2004-12-05T01:10:16Z")
Agreed, and I’ve actually seen Better Off Dead, so that’s what I thought originally. I’ve never had the guts to sit through Hot Dog: The Movie, but from what I’ve read, it is the closest for source material for that episode. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-references-ive-missed/278068/19 "2004-12-05T02:53:31Z")
[From the South Park Studios FAQ](http://www.spscriptorium.com/SPinfo/SPStudiosFAQ4.htm): > [@](#): > > Q: In the “Asspen” episode, was the whole ski race bit a parody of “Better off Dead,” or am I just an idiot? > > A: We parodied several 80’s ski movies in the “Asspen” episode, like “Hot Dog: The Movie,” “Ski School,” “Ski Patrol,” “Aspen Extreme,” and “Better off Dead.” Huh-- I’ve never even _heard_ of _Ski School_ or _Ski Patrol_. It’s funny that they list _Aspen Extreme_ as an eighties movie. Apart from the release date, it _is_ an eighties movie. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-references-ive-missed/278068/20 "2004-12-05T03:56:30Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > Christopher Pike, from ST:TOS, ‘The Cage’. \ Actually, it was a reference to Christopher Pike from ST:TOS “The Menagerie”, which was a re-packaging of “The Cage” with some extra “bumper” story set around it. Christopher Pike was never burned or disabled in “The Cage.” \ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-references-ive-missed/278068.md?page=2)