You Got F'd in the A

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"You Got F'd in the A"
Butters at "the tragedy".
Episode no.	115
Airdate	April 7, 2004
South Park - Season 8 March 17, 2004 – December 15, 2004
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"You Got F'd in the A" is episode 805 of the Comedy Central series South Park. It originally aired April 7, 2004.

1 Plot synopsis
2 Trivia
3 References to pop culture
4 Goofs
5 External links

[edit] Plot synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Stan and his friends are hanging out and playing with R/C cars when a group of kids from Orange County come and dance in front of them, thus "serving" them. The group of kids leaves after trash-talking Stan and the boys, who are left confused by the entire confrontation. The kids talk to Chef, themselves unaware of what being "served" entails. Chef immediately shows concern, and calls their parents to inform them about the ordeal. Later, over dinner, Randy Marsh gets upset that his son, Stan, was served and tells him to dance back.

The next time Stan gets "served" by the Orange County kids, he promptly "serves" them back - and in doing so, it is declared that "it's on", meaning that there is now a dance contest to be played, the Orange County kids versus the best dancers in South Park. Mrs. Marsh pressures Randy over telling his son to dance back, thus leading to it being on, and therefore he goes to the Orange County team to apologize and make it clear that "it's not on". Instead, the Orange County coach takes this as a challenge and "serves" Randy with exceptional dance moves. Randy winds up in the hospital with the worst case of "being served" that the doctors have ever seen.

Stan goes out to find the town's best dancers; the leader of the Goth Kids' gang, an Asian kid, Yao, who is a Dance Dance Revolution expert (yet allegedly can't dance without the machine), and Mercedes the Raisins girl. Needing a fifth member for the group, Mercedes suggests Butters, who was once state tap-dancing champion; however, when they ask him to join he runs away screaming, and it is revealed via flashback that, two years previously, his shoe had flown off during the national Tap-Dancing Finals, hit a stage light in the rafters and led to an extremely gruesome chain of events that left 8 people in the audience dead (11 in total because one woman was pregnant, and two others committed suicide after the tragedy), all to the upbeat (if risqué) tune of "I've Got Something in My Front Pocket For You". Butters flatly refuses to participate in the show, even after further pressing, and instead the team has to settle for a dancing duck from a local farm.

However, the day of the performance the duck's leg gets injured during practice, and the team looks like it would be forced to forfeit without a fifth member. Just in time, Butters suddenly shows up in his tap-dancing outfit, and the kids are able to perform. However, when they do, Butters' shoe flies off again, hits a stage light... and the whole rafter falls, killing the entire Orange County team and their coach. Though Butters is horrified by this, the South Park team wins by default, and a blood-stained, screaming Butters is carried off and hailed as a hero.

[edit] Trivia

The Butters Death Toll: 17.
In the original airing, the hat that one of the Orange County kids wears has "Lil Shiit" written across it. All subsequent airings (even on the Season 8 DVD) have the hat reading "Lil Sheep.".
When Jimbo, Mr. Garrison, Ned and Mr. Mackey celebrate in the crowd, a vistitor is seen.
Because of the vulgar title, this episode is often shortened to "You Got..." or retitled to "You Got Served" in more family friendly media, such as on TV Guide and on digital cable listings.
Raunchy rapper Lil Kim makes an appearance in this episode as a miniature parody of herself. Her only line is a high pitched, "Wassup Niggas!"
The Season 8 DVD commentary for this episode was recorded during production of the season ten episode Tsst.
In the background of the arcade (in the scene where Stan recruits Yao (the Dance Dance Revolution whiz), the game Thirst For Blood can be seen in the shot of the DDR kid getting more quarters for the game. Thirst for Blood was the game the boys played on the Okama Gamesphere in the episode Towelie.
Both songs that the farmer sings to the dancing duck make references to the use of illegal drugs, which is to be followed by a night of sex and violence. In the first tune, the substance is vaguely stated as "doing a line" (most likely cocaine), while the second song makes a blatant reference to Ketamine (snorting K).
The muffled male voice who sings "I've Got Something in My Front Pocket For You" sounds similar to the one who sang the Sexual Harassment Panda theme from the season three episode of the same name.
Of everyone in the episode, the only characters who don't know the meanings (and implications) of the terms referenced from the movie (such as "getting served" and "it's on") are Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny.

[edit] References to pop culture

This episode lampoons the derided 2004 movie, You Got Served (the dance-off), as well as elements of Save the Last Dance (Butters quitting dancing because of the accident he caused, like Julia Stiles' character quitting ballet because her mom died in a car crash) and 8 Mile (a snippet of a song that sounds like Eminem's Lose Yourself plays for a few seconds in the hospital scene with Stan and his father). According to the audio commentary, South Park co-creator Matt Stone met Served producer Billy Pollina at a bar after this episode aired, saying he loved the spoof.
The song the OC kids play when they first "serve" Stan, Cartman, Kyle, and Kenny is a takeoff of the Splack Pack song "Shake That Ass, Bitch (And Let Me See Whatchu Got)".
The song Randy teaches Stan to dance to the next time Stan gets served is Billy Ray Cyrus' "Achy Breaky Heart".
The way the Goth kids dance is similar to how the Peanuts kids danced on "A Charlie Brown Christmas," only slower and drearier.
The name of the arcade, Flynn's Sinistarcade, is the same name as the one Jeff Bridges' character owned in the movie Tron. Sinistar is also the name of an early 1980s video game that was similar to "Asteroids".
The song that Butters danced to at the national Tap-Dancing Finals (and played in the closing credits of this episode) is I’ve Got Something In My Front Pocket For You, a cheerful, yet sexually-charged number implying an erection (or possibly pedophilia). This song itself is a pastiche of three other songs:
- the Harry Warren song "You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me" from the 1933 musical movie 42nd Street (this episode has another reference to the film "42nd Street", when the duck gets a sprained ankle before the dance-off and Butters replaces him [similar to the star of the show getting a sprained ankle moments before showtime and an unknown showgirl with dreams of being a star takes her place]).
- the Leon Redbone song "I Want To Be Seduced" (in tune and in the suggestive nature of the lyrics)
- Steve Martin's song from the 1979 comedy The Jerk called "I'm Picking Out A Thermos For You"
The way people died in Butters' flashback was similar to: Carrie (the woman who tries to rescue the man crushed by the stagelight gets electrocuted. Also: the man getting trampled by the crowd and Butters covered in blood as everyone in the auditorium runs away), Final Destination (the man in the audience getting his head smashed in by a stagelight and the woman getting impaled by a rod), Ghost Ship (two people are sliced in half by a swift falling wire and slowly fall to pieces) and Saving Private Ryan (the bisected man collecting his organs as he bleeds to death).
The posters at Lamont's Dance Studio (in the scene where Chef tries to train Stan and his dance troupe) are: "Vive Ballet" (a reference to "A Chorus Line"), "Felines" (a reference to "Cats"), and "Le Cirque Soleil" (a reference to "Cirque du Soleil", only done in grammatically incorrect French).
The episode makes reference to Charles Whitman and the Texas clock tower massacre, when Butters is informed that one of the women killed in the accident was pregnant, and two of the survivors later committed suicide.

[edit] Goofs

Stan says Kyle, Cartman and Kenny can't dance (which is why they hardly appeared in this episode), but they were part of the Getting Gay With Kids dance troupe in "Rainforest Schmainforest" (though Kyle was teased for not having any rhythm) and danced as part of Fingerbang in "Something You Can Do With Your Finger".
In the scene where Stan first meets the DDR kid, Yao, he is playing on the wrong side of the machine. The arrows are going up on the left side while he is dancing on the right.
The "The National Tap Dancing Championship" sign in the curtains didn't appear until Butters stepped out onstage in the flashback of why Butters stopped tap dancing.
Butters loses his left shoe when he accidentally kills the OC dance group, but after causing the accident and getting carried off, it's his right shoe that's missing.
There's no burning sizzle noise when the Goth kids are smoking and Stan approaches them. This has been fixed in reruns and for the South Park Season 8 DVD.
Stan's mom said that he got served in school when he actually got served in the parking lot of the True Value store.