The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka
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| "The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka" | |
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| Episode no. | 19 |
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| Airdate | June 10, 1998 |
| South Park - Season 2 April 1, 1998 – January 20, 1999 |
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"The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka" is episode 206 of Comedy Central's animated series South Park. It originally aired on June 10, 1998.
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[edit] Plot synopsis
In this episode, the boys are assigned to interview Vietnam War veterans, and interview Stan's Uncle Jimbo and his friend Ned. The two tell a story of American camps having amusement park rides and claim that they single-handedly defeated the entire Viet Cong army. When their report gets them an "F-", they plot revenge by making bogus videos of the legendary Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka, which Jimbo, Ned and Eric then air on their show, Huntin' and Killin.
The show becomes successful, leading to a decline in ratings for their competitors, the talk show Jesus and Pals, starring Jesus. Its producer decides to change the show's format, despite Jesus' lack of enthusiasm for the idea. Meanwhile, Jimbo and Ned go searching for the Staring Frog, which according to legend can kill with a glance. Ned sees the fake frog the boys set up and becomes comatose from pure fear. While visiting him in the hospital, the boys confess their misdeed. This leads to Jimbo, Ned (though still comatose), and the boys all being shown on Jesus and Pals, arranged by the show's producer.
Without Jesus' knowledge, the producer arranges for them to lie on the air to improve ratings, having Jimbo claim that Stan is a drug-addicted Satan-worshiper, and having Stan claim that Jimbo molested him, etc. When chaos breaks out on the show, Jesus screams "Shut the fuck up!" at everybody and discovers the truth about everything; he patches everything up with Jimbo, Ned and the boys, and as punishment to his producer, sends her to Hell. There, she meets Satan and with him, Saddam Hussein, foreshadowing events that will unfold in South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, and later the two-part episode "Do the Handicapped Go to Hell?"/"Probably".
[edit] Kenny's Death
- During the riot on Jesus and Pals, two people pull on Kenny until he gets ripped in half. Later, a rat comes and drags Kenny's upper body away.
[edit] Pop Culture References
- The book that Jimbo is reading to Ned in the hospital is The Outsiders, which also features a scene of one character reading to another in a hospital.
- During the taping of Jesus and Pals, a black man with a jheri curl continually interrupts Jesus, calling him "Montel", and defends Michael Jackson against his child molestation charges. This is a possible reference to funk singer Rick James.
- This episode, through Jesus and Pals, lampoons daytime talk shows, most particularly The Jerry Springer Show.
- The title of the episode is a reference to "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", a short story by Mark Twain.
[edit] Miscellanea
- South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker met while the latter was making a film called The Giant Beaver of Southern Sri Lanka[1].
- This episode introduced Saddam Hussein as Satan's lover in hell.
- During the flash back, there is a scene were Jimbo is on a white horse with a golden mane and tail. This is the same horse Cartman rode in Wendy's dream when she and Cartman fell in love in Chef Goes Nanners.
- During the detention scene in which the boys think up their plan, you can see a poster with an alien head that says "Have you seen me?"
- In the first flashback to Vietnam, the general shows Jimbo a map of Vietnam. It is actually a map of Italy with "Ho Chi Minh City" replacing Rome, names such as "future land" and "mystery land," and the word "China" where Croatia is located.
[edit] Goofs
- When everyone is first seen outside the studio near the end, Ned has returned to normal. But when the camera cuts back to Ned, he has returned to his catatonic state.
- When the boys are in detention, in the first shot of them at the table, you can see Craig behind them on a different table. In the next shot, however, Craig is gone, as is his table.
- In this episode, Stan says that Jimbo molested him (which is why he presumably takes drugs and worships Satan), but in The Wacky Molestation Adventure, he doesn't know what molested means. But it could be possible that Stan either forgot by then, or he never knew what molested meant.
| Preceded by "Conjoined Fetus Lady" |
South Park episodes | Followed by "City on the Edge of Forever (South Park episode)" |
