South Park Secrets
South Park Secrets
Spirit of Christmas
During the beginning of the JC and Santa fight, Jesus executes a flawless Three Stooges eye gouge to Santa?
As Jesus and Santa Claus fight, they play song taken from the Mortal Kombat 3 game.
Before Jesus and Santa begin fighting, Santa stands up and says, "There can be only one." This is a reference to the Highlander
movies.
The scene when the statue falls on the children is very much like the scene at the end of Monty Python opening credits in which the foot squishes the chicken/man.
Cartman Gets An Anal Probe
On the side of Office Barbrady's vehicle is the slogan "To Patronize and Annoy"
"Make like David Caruso's career" - Caruso was the breakout star of NYPD Blue during its first season. He left the show after that
first season to make films.
The Alphabet doesn't have it's lowercase letters backwards in this episode.
The song "I Love to Singa" is from an old cartoon by the same name.
At one point, the blackboard reads:
Johnny threw the red ball.
I ate to much cous-cous.
Don't make fun of my grandpa.
I'm not positive, but I think Kathy Lee Gifford is much older then she claims to be.
Chef's apron says "CHEF" one second and "chef" the next. It switches back and forth several times.
Weight Gain 4000
The Rainbow sequence with Cartman doesn't refer to anything. One day Matt and Trey were eating in a restaurant and they heard some girl say that she hated rainbows and that is where they got the idea.
Mr. Hat's spinning head was from the movie Exorcist.
Kathie Lee's song is the one she sang on the Carnival Cruise lines.
"It is... too late for me, young Wendy" was paraphrased from Darth Vader in Return of the Jedi.
Mr. Garrison's "Are you looking at me" line is from a movie called "Taxi Driver."
The Book Depository is the location (according to popular theory)
from which Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated John F. Kennedy.
Spanish profanity on the blackboard behind Mr. Garrison (sometimes it's upside down)
CHUPE MIS CHI CHIS-Suck my tits.
NO ME TOQUEN LOS HUEVOS-Don't touch my eggs (balls).
MI VERGA ES FEA Y MURENA-is ugly and dark.
Mr. Hat's "I would have gotten away with it if it hadn't been
for those meddling kids!" - Scooby Doo!
The "Bunny-fish" are hanging on the wall in Jimbo's gun store.
Also, Jimbo's store has a poster of a seal that says "Guns. Buy one."
When Mr. Garrison is carrying around his gun and everyone is saying, "Nice gun," it's not the gun he supposedly bought. It's the one with the gray handle, not the wood. Later, in the book depository, when talking to Wendy, the wood handle is there.
When Cartman says " Beefcake- beefCAAKE!" it sounds like that Torrence kid from "The Shining" when he yells "Redrum-redRUUM!"
When Wendy is trying to stop Mr. Garrison, before wendy gives the moral, Mr. Hat is in the picture, but when he says "You're right" notice something: Mr. Hat is on neither hand, but shows up again when he says "The bitch must die!"
As Wendy searches through the papers. Her gloves come off and on.
When Wendy sneaks into the classroom, there is a picture of Cartman and a gold star on the wall behind her, that says "Student of the Week".
Volcano
"Lava and You" (black and white movie) - This is a parody of the
1950's movies about nuclear safety. The government convinced
people that if they were nuked they could 'duck and cover' for
safety.
The three clocks on the wall behind Randy Marsh read: NY time 8:00, LA time was 11:00, and South Park time was 10:30.
The lava traveled through the ditch, and it wouldn't have even hit Ned, Jimbo, Cartman, Kenny, Kyle, Stan, or Scuzzlebutt.
After the boys are "saved," the Mayor hops
right across the ditch, as does Stan, in order to kill Scuzzlebutt.
When Cartman told the story of Scuzzlebutt, the celery was supposed to be his left hand, but when he actually showed up, it was his right hand.
Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride
Brian Boitano (of SOXMAS fame) makes a guest appearance on Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride.
The Boat Ride is a mixture of Disney's Jungle Cruise ride and Disney's It's A Small World ride.
The Village People appear in the Big Gay Boat Ride.
"Loving You" was a number one hit for Minnie Ripperton in 1975. She was also the writer (or co-writer) of the song. It was sung again (albeit poorly) by John Stamos's (John Stamos was the Uncle Jesse character on the television show 'Full House') older brother Richard.
Kenny was wearing number 13 (the superstitious number of bad luck), but the ref called him by number 23 (the number of the Illuminati)
Also, Stan had #4, Kyle is #12, and Cartman had #68.. 4-12-68 ..
Someone's birthday? Additionally, Pip wears #00. One of the other kids was standing there with #29.. That would make that person.. 29..
Kyle's football uniform number alternates between 12 and 14.
Some Middle Park kids have negative numbers such as -1 and -3
Big Gay Al's right nipple is pierced.
The conversation between Mr. Garrison and Chef, "I just act that way to get chicks, dumbass" is a blatant reference to the "Bloodhound Gang" song, "I wish I were gay so I could get chicks"
The 'Sports Bar' was not a bar, it was a Sports Book.
Mr Garrison is in the crowd placing bets behind Jimbo.
When Stan & Sparky are leaving Big Gay Al's, Al says "When you get back to town, tell them about us, will you? Tell them there are gay animals here who need homes, desperately.", and Stan says that he will. This is a direct lift from the old 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer'.
An Elephant Makes Love to A Pig
The last line of the show "That'll do, pig." is from the movie
"Babe" after he wins the contest.
One of the kids has an "Elway" lunch box.
Pig-Pen from "Peanuts" definitely appears in the front row of the
classroom.
The Special Ed. bus driver is wearing a surgical mask.
The end of the Genetic Engineer's cane is, you guessed it, an ass.
The genetic engineer is very much like the character that Marlon Brando played in the movie,"Island of Dr. Moreau"
South Park Genetic Engineering ranch had those fish/bunnies on the sign.
The first science project was "Casey and his Weed". That has GOT
to be a pot joke, maybe Casey Jones by The Grateful Dead, but we're not sure.
A small editing mistake, the first prize button is on Fluffy's cage, BEFORE she is awarded the prize,
The idea for Pip's name is completely taken from "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens. In "GE", the main character's name is Pip, because "his fathers family name was Pirrup and his Christian name was Phillip, and all he could make of both as a baby was Pip".
The part where Terence(?) yells "Daddy, Nooooooooo!" when his dad shoots the genetic clone of Stan, comes from "The Omen". It's the next to last scene when Gregory Peck is in the church and is going to stab Damien.
When Stan's clone breaks free of the bubble he is in, he reaches into a box connected to the bubble and takes a frog out and throws it against the wall. This is an allusion to Jurassic
Park when they needed to use frog DNA in order to complete all the Dinosaurs' genetic codes. Remember how the scientist asked for a hair from Stan? Because he didn't get the hair he needed something else to complete the genetic code, hence the frog.
Death
The cafeteria is serving "Chinese Duck Salad w/Gravy"
The song Grandpa plays on the tape deck for Stan is obviously a parody of Enya's "Orinoco Flow"
The first person they fling into the side of Cartoon Central is Mr. McKormick, Who is the father of Kenny McKormick.
Both Stan and Kyle's moms are named Carol.
In the beginning of the show Grandpa's cake is missing from the table in one shot and then back in the next.
The TV show Terrence and Philip is about fart jokes. If you take their initial you get TP which is the abbreviation for Toilet Paper popularized by Beavis's Cornholio alter-ego.
When the kids take temporary sanctuary in Stan's room, you can see a picture of Shelley, wearing her headgear.
When Grandpa takes Stan into the other room to play him the song, he inserts a cassete tape into the stereo, but the stereo shows "CD" on the front as if a CD is currently playing.
While Cartman is watching Terrence and Phillip, you can see a picture of him and his mother at Mount Rushmore.
The black board contains a fairly intricate explanation of a white dwarf star. The writing on the black board refers to this in a way which would only be seen in high school physics class (at the earliest).
Damien
When Cartman first gives Stan the invitation to his birthday party, he tells Stan that he is to buy a "Green Mega-Man". However, When Cartman opens Stan's gift at the party, it is a "Blue Mega-Man". Cartman doesn't seem to notice the difference. In fact, the Blue Mega-Man was never one of Cartman's requests (he asked for Red, Yellow, and Green).
At the pre-fight weigh-in, Jesus weighs 135 lbs, 1 oz. However, when the fighters are announced, Michael Buffer says that he weighed in at 140 lbs.
In the first classroom scene, one of the equations on the blackboard equals 666.
In the classroom scenes, the numbers 666 often appear in red on the back wall.
There was a sign in Jesus' dressing room that said, "Bleessed Art Thou Ratings".
There is an alien (or someone with an alien doll) in the crowd at the boxing match.
Bill and Faussy's dads (or at least the grown-up version of the two kids) show up in the bar behind the priest after the priest makes his comment "What the hell, does he think we're all crazy?!" They both make a "Huh, huh, he's gay" comment (or something similar to that).
When Damien is wreaking havoc, there is a close up on his eyes, and chanting. At several points, you can hear the chanting say "Cheesy Poofs".
The glaring look that Jesus gives the crowd as they cheer for Satan is identical to the one he gives the kids as they cheer for Santa in Spirit of Christmas.
The referee for the fight is supposed to look and sound like Mills Lane, the famous boxing referee.
Ok, a lot of people sent in a DYN pertaining to what was flying through the cafeteria to beef-cake.com. However, none was more impressive than what "GreatFoxx" sent:
When Damian flies stuff all around the cafateria this is what flies by:
1. 26 milk cartons
2. Pip’s hat
3. 22 food trays
4. 3 happy face bags
5. Signs
a. "School food is good food"—3
b. "Hot"—2
c. "Food"—8
d. "The Four Food Groups"—2
e. Alien "Have you seen me?"—3
f. "Zoop"—3
6. Box of "Snacky Cakes"
7. Yellow Backpack
8. Clock reading 12:05 showed 5 times
9. 8 Bunny-Fish
10. 11 desks
11. 3 footballs
12. 6 telephones
13. 5 red fire alarm switches
14. 5 benches
15. 2 shotguns
16. Mr. Hankey
17. Kid with black hair, red gloves, and light blue shirt
18. brown cow
19. 2 beer cans
Pink Eye
That's not Real Russian that the Cosmonauts are speaking
After Kenny gets carried away by the ambulance, the cosmonauts are still in the Mir (which is still on fire).
How the hell did the EMTs get to Kenny so quickly?
Kenny got right up and walked off from the embalming table. The thing about that is that according to a prank call once made to a
Green Bay morgue by a pair of Boston DJs.
There's an alien embryo in a jar behind the embalming table.
Jackie Collins isn't a horror writer.
10465 (The number on Chef's house)-This must be something similar to the Football Jerseys from "Big Gay Al's..." someone who works on the show must have been born on October 4, 1965.
In the Principal's office, there's a shelf that holds a framed picture of Kathie Lee Gifford.
Also in the principal's office is a poster of a (fully-grown) gorilla that says "Hang in there, baby."
The Mir Picture on the news doesn't look very much like the one at the start of the show.
Chef's car is clearly visible in a wreck behind the bikini-clad midget reporter
The fat dude that Kenny bites is wearing a "let's get physical"
shirt--get the sarcasm?
I do believe that that's Stan's house that the zombies are shown
destroying for a split second in the background.
A KKK meeting at a typical Suburban house?!?
Jimbo and Ned are on the roof of the left-side store (Jimbo's Guns?) while the zombies are rioting downtown.
I've never heard of there ever being a morgue in the middle of a
cemetary, that's supposed to be a mausoleum in that spot.
The bottom-right corner of Crack-Whore Magazine reads "five-on-one action!"
A pay-phone in the middle of a cemetary?
The Phone # on the back of the Worse....Worstoo....Wor...Aah, screw it! Bottle is an -800 # which is only usable in the US, while the company is obviously based in Britain. In real life, Kyle would've had to dial about 30 numbers to get connected, whereas here he only dialed 5.
Cartman and Stan are shredding up dozens of Zombies, there's blood everywhere, yet there's not a single stain on Cartman's
ghost costume.
Wendy is surrounded by dismembered corpses, and she says "Barf is
gross" I guess that America's youth really is desensitized to violence.
Starvin' Marvin
Kyle was eating ham, but he's Jewish.
The board in class reads:
Analogy & Comparison
1. Trees are to raisons as Buildings are to houses
2.David Duchovny is to tampons as Nougats are to chocolate
What's an Ethiopian doing with a suitcase? The stickers read: GB (Packer fan?) AJA Club Med.
The second board reads: ___?___, Beeforama, Spam, Creamed Corn,
Sausages
Broccoli Florets in Mango ___?___, Pork.
All the animals in the Genetic lab are upside down.
From the bag, Cartman yells: "I'll kick you in the nuts" and "guy's, seriously, you're pissing me off"
Ned was shooting a gun even though he gave them up in "Volcano"
In the 14th part of the Terrance and Phillip Thanksgiving special,the Indians have i's on their shirts.
Marvin has a pot pie while watching TV.
Mr. Hat has a little butcher knife
The veil roll ups look like phalluses with cow heads
"Every Turkey dies, but not every turkey truly lives" is another
Braveheart Parody
Sparky is chasing a dog in front of Kenny's, Sylvester is there too!
Kenny's house looks a lot like Stan's, Kyle's and Cartman's.
Kenny's dad looked nothing like when he was killed in "Death".
When the episode switched to "Braveheart Mode", the screen was letterboxed.
The couple that got mauled by turkeys at Stark's Pond in the beginning of the episode are back in the battle scene.
Mr. Hankey
Kenny is wearing a white angel suit, but it has the exact same hood as his regular coat.
The "VISIT SANTA" stand is the same one from Spirit of Christmas.
In Kyle's house, there is a painting of one of the hebrew characters you'd find on a dreidel.
There's a "go cows" poster in Kyle's bedroom just like the one in the football game from "Big Gay Al's".
As the townspeople are removing offensive Christmas decorations from the town square, someone rips Santa's head off of a figurine and throws it to the street.
There are BioHazard and Nuclear Radiation signs in the "Research Center".
There's a Catatonic kid in the background when the kids walk into the insane asylum.
And, of course, what Christmas Episode wouldn't be complete without references to Spirit of Christmas:
Kyle sings the dreidel song in the asylum
Mr. Hankey's "this is the one time of the year" speech is similar to Brian Boitano's to the boys.
Of course, any kid who used to watch or still watches the Charlie Brown Christmas Special will see alot of references in Mr. Hankey:
1) The Biblical quotation that Stan recites at the
beginning of the showis the same one that Linus Van Pelt's does near the end of Charlie Brown's Christmas Special.
2) The kids are all outside "eating Christmas snow" and even the music is the same.
I don't know why Kyle's mom is so about Kyle playing Joseph, since Joseph, Mary and Jesus were all Jewish.
Cartman's "Kyle's mom is a stupid bitch in D minor" isn't in D minor.
Mr. Hankey leaves "skid marks" on everything he touches, yet his gloves and hat stay clean the entire episode.
Throughout the entire show, Mr. Hankey is constantly leaving his "mark" on Kyle's gloves. However, each time in the next scene his gloves are clean.
We see all of Pip's old English family when Kyle sings his "It's hard to be a Jew..." song. (They're decorating a Christmas tree)
Of course, Cartman thinks he is getting his mom's vibrator.
Mr. Hankey is taking a bath with bath cap and brush in the Guidance Counselor's coffee.
Chef sings a remixed version of his first song from Cartman gets an Anal Probe.
After Mr. Hankey comes out of his box on stage, he fails to leave stains wherever he walks...only when he kisses Kyle.
During the big fight scene, Sheila Broslofski actually punches her husband in the stomach before it cuts to commercial.
Why were the townspeople wishing Kyle a Merry CHRISTMAS anyways?
When Kenny is eating "Christmas Snow", an eagle craps in his mouth. If you watch closely (before the scene cuts away), it looks like you can see his mouth.
Tom's Rhinoplasty
The modeling agency where Mr. Garrison has his modeling photographs taken is the "Photo Dojo".
Ms. Ellen being a lesbian may very well be a reference to actress Ellen Degeneres, a well-known lesbian.
The diner where Ms. Ellen and Stan go to eat is called "Jimmy's Buffet"...could definitely be a reference to everyone's favorite singing beach-bum Jummy Buffett.
At the end of the show, Wendy and Bebe are at Wendy's party in two-piece bathing suits while Kenny and Kyle are still in their winter clothing. Could winter finally be over in South Park? I doubt it.
The credits mention the guest voice supplied for Ms. Ellen not by her name, by by refering to her as "That Chick from Species". Her real name is Natasha Henstridge.
When Stan finally pukes on Wendy again at the end of the episode, he actually pukes in her mouth.
Before Mr. Garrison's bandages are taken off, he has his usual gray hair and glasses. AFTER the bandages are removed we see him in the mirror with his "David Hasselhoff look".
Mr. Garrison has his nose done at Tom's Rhinoplasty in South Park but in "Death", Tom's Rhinoplasty is right next door to Cartoon Central in New York.
The song that plays while Mr. Garrison is strutting around after his nose job is "Shadow Dancer" by Andy Gibb.
The name of the laundry detergent that Chef gives Kyle is "Whitey's Laundry Detergent".
Some of the names of other noses at Tom's Rhinoplasty are "The Dictator, The Hooker"
Several of the Stan puke scenes are not from old South Park episodes.
Taking the highest scoring student out to dinner was also done by Michelle Pfeifer's character in the movie "Dangerous Minds".
Wendy's address is "28201".
Stan doesn't throw up when Wendy talks to him until the end of the show.
The picture on the wall of Tom's Rhinoplasty (after Mr. Garrison's bandages are taken off) is of a guy with an elephant's nose.
Kenny's gift of a sausage could mean that he can say he "gave his sausage to Ms. Ellen".
While the kids are talking to Chef during lunch, the lunch menu reads:
Hot Lunch Menu
1. Cous Cous with Goose
2. Cream Cheese Surprise
3. Beef Jerky A La Hercules
Nobody mentioned anything about Hasselhoff being connected to some of the other characters.
1. Principal Victoria, an obvious play on Victoria Principal who once dated Hasselhoff.
2. The song SHADOWDANCING is sung by Andy Gibb, who also dated Victoria Principal, it's also said that Hasselhoff despised Gibb and that Gibb despised Hasselhoff.
Mecha-Streisand
Our Christmas friend Mr. Hankey makes an appearance on the front page of the newspaper that Mr. Garrison is covering himself up with to sleep at the artifact dig.
When Barbara Streisand is torturing the kids in her torture chamber, there is a picture of her and Satan on a back wall that is signed "Love, Satan".
As Chef and Leonard Maltin are driving to find Streisand's hideout, the background scenery is real footage, not animated.
When Streisand's helicopter is about to land Cartman yells, "Aliens!" and covers in reference to the first episode, "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe".
When Streisand shows up in disguise to trick the boys, all she's wearing a Groucho Marx Nose/Mustache/Glasses.
Sally Struthers is shown acting with Sidney Poitier when he first appears on the show.
There is a poster for "In the Heat of the Night 5" in Sidney's dressing room.
Of course, the characters that each actor turned into are from famous Japanese monster movies: Barbara (Mecha) Streisand--Mecha Godzilla (originally created to destroy the original Godzilla)
Leonard Maltin--Ultraman (may also be Jet Jaguar)
Sidney Poitier--Gamera
Robert Smith--Mothra
The archaeological site that the kids are digging at is named "Site B"--the name of In-Gen's laboratory installation on Isla Sorna in the movie "The Lost World".
When Robert Smith finally defeats Mecha-Streisand, Jesus praises him as "Our Savior" just as the children usually praise him.
The picture that Cartman knocks off of Kyle's desk is of Kyle and his elephant from "An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig".
The twin Japanese fairies who appeared to Sidney Poitier (in the clamshell) are two characters in the Mothra movies who are the only people able to summon Mothra back to their homeworld when they need his help.
After Barbara Streisand joined the two triangles, she speaking Japanese and said: "Sugoi! Kono ima... atarashii hajimaru da! Ima kara...atashi no na mae wa... MEKKA-BARUBARA SUTORAINSANDO da!". This translates into English as, "Wow! This is a new beginning! From now on,...my name will be,... MECHA-BARBARA STREISAND!"
Rochambeau was the French General who helped Washington at Yorktown defeat Conwallis.
The incidents the reporter talks about South Park induring are: Episodes 105: An Elephant Makes Love to A Pig, 107 Pink Eye, and 109 Starvin Marvin.
Barbra Streisand is supposed to have found the first triangle during the shooting of "My Fair Lady". Babs was not in My Fair Lady, which you would really expect a film critic to know. The closest movie title to that which Streisand was actually in is "Funny Girl" (1975).
The house on the side of a mountain that Barbra Streisand stays at is modelled after the house that Woody Allen goes to in the futuristic movie Sleeper. The house actually exists! Its on the road out of Denver heading up towards the mountains (Vail, Breckenridge, Keystone) You can see it up on the left as you go out on Route 100. Pretty true-to-life reference since South Park is also near Denver. Note also that when Chef and Leonard Maltin are driving up to find her, they refer to it as her condo in the mountains....hardly a condo.