Asspen
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| Episode no. | Season 6 Episode 81 | ||||||
| Production no. | 603 | ||||||
| Original airdate | March 6th, 2002 | ||||||
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Asspen is episode 603 of the Comedy Central series South Park. The episode parodies many 80's summer family movies including Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo and Better Off Dead.
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[edit] Plot
It starts off with the Marshes, Broflovskis, Cartmans, and Stotches planning a weekend vacation skiing at Aspen. They express concern over the cost of the trip, until Chris and Linda point out that, in exchange for attending a half-hour timeshare meeting, they get a free two-day trip there. The parents then make up their minds to go that weekend, and they take their children with them.
On their first day in Aspen, they awake to find two timeshare salesmen, named Phil and Josh, waiting at the door. They urge them to attend the meeting, but the parents are a little reluctant, as they had hoped to attend it later, and ski right at the moment. In the boy's room, Cartman gives Butters a "Hitler" while he's sleeping. He describes it as "Putting your finger up your butt, then wiping on the person's upper lip and giving them a little Hitler mustache".
They next are at the bunny slope, and an instructor, called "Thumper", is teaching them the two primary feet positions in skiing: the pizza, (skis wedged together in an angle) and the French fries (skis are parallel). When Ike attempts to ski down the slope he crashes through the wall of the lodge. During the boy's practice, a teenage skier, named Tad Mikowsky, comes by and starts ripping on Stan's name, saying that rather than "Stan Marsh", he ought to be called "Stan Darsh". After this moment, the main plot of the story parodies classic teen and sports films from the 1980's; the only difference is that Stan and the other boys aren't really concerned.through the timeshare presentation, as it has been three hours instead of thirty minutes. The salesmen are having no progress in persuading the adults to rent any of the condominiums there. At last, Randy and Gerald tell the men that the whole group is now leaving. Phil and Josh seem to go along with this decision, and merely ask for the adults to turn over their table place cards. They agree to do so. As it happens, these place cards have the "red sticker" on them; which can be redeemed for one of three prizes. The parents, not wanting to waste anymore time, refuse, and the salesmen start crying. The parents then agree, in tired tones, to claim their prize. It is an exclusive ski lift. They are relieved that they can finally go skiing, and climb aboard. To their horror, however, the lift simply carries them right back to the meeting room.
The boys are still practicing their skiing, until Tad comes by again. Now he has with him Stan's supposed older girlfriend, Heather (whom he's never even met before.) Tad then challenges Stan to a little skiing race, despite Stan being only a beginner and Stan even admitting he couldn't beat Tad. On the condition that Tad will leave him alone if he wins, Stan accepts the challenge. Stan loses the race, however, (but he had predicted that that would happen). Then in true ten movie fashion dorky-looking yet somehow hot redheaded teenage girl approaches him and says that he was really brave. She then invites him to dance at the teen youth center. That evening, at the youth center, the boys discover that Tad's father plans to bulldoze the center, though Stan once again expresses no concern.
Tad goes on stage, and sings a song about Stan. Stan is irritated by it, and Tad mistakes Stan's annoyance to be a request for a rematch. The rest of the teens want to keep the youth center, and they make a condition on this new competition: If Tad wins, his father can bulldoze the youth center down. If Stan wins, however, the youth center stays. Tad agrees. HE then arranges for the race to be held on the K-13, which is considered "the most dangerous run in America". Kyle tries to talk Stan out of it; he's already lost one friend (Kenny), and he doesn't want to lose another (especially on his best friend). Stan coldly replies that this isn't about what Kyle wants. Even when the old mechanic from Butters's Very Own Episode tells Stan about the history of the mountain, Stan is still determined to attend this race. For some reason, Stan automatically considers it important to beat Tad from this point onward. He asks the trainer, Thumper, for special training, and he happily agrees. Even the redheaded teen pitches in, and instructs Stan, accompanied to the ideal song Montage. In the scene, Stan trains and studies, the parents are forced to sit through their timeshare meeting and a tearful Kyle stares at the K-13 holding a picture of himself and Stan.
Even the next day, the parents are still trapped at the timeshare meeting, and, unable to bear it any longer, they look to the police for help. They get no support from them, however, and they are forced at gunpoint to agree to rent some condos after all.
When the big race begins, Tad has an advantage over Stan, despite Stan's heavy training he is still n match for Tad's several years of skiing. He still stops along the way now and then to sabotage Stan's efforts. Stan is moving very slowly, though, that he easily gets around all of the obstacles. They redheaded teen really wants Stan to win, so the youth center will survive, so she distracts Tad by lifting up her shirt and showing him her breasts. Stan makes it through the finish line first, and the youth center is saved. Kyle is relieved that Stan survived the slope. Ironically and quite humorously, if Tad had merely run the course without trying to sabotage Stan, he would have won the race by a large margin just like the first time. Heather then comes over to Stan and says she wishes to be his girlfriend "again". The redhead is a little put out by this, as she has a crush on Stan. She tries to be a good sport, though, and encourages Stan to accept Heather's offer.
The tension ultimately builds upon whether Stan will accept, or choose the redheaded girl, but at that moment, the parents are finally freed after having rented some property. They then ask the boys how they enjoyed skiing, to which they respond that they hated it, and are upset that now they'll have to come every year. They then leave to return home to South Park. As the episode ends, the redheaded girl reveals to thumper what's really under her shirt: Instead of breasts, she has 2 Kuatos from the movie Total Recall, who then says the line "Quaid.......start the reactor."
[edit] Trivia
- The name Tad calls Stan, Darsh, is a race of ugly desert people in Jack Vance's series of fiction novels Demon princes.
[edit] Hidden Visitor(s)
Two visitors appear in this episode:
- When [[Cartman joins in for breakfast a visitor replaces Kyle's chair support.
- One looks at Thumper teaching, then skis off.
[edit] Goofs
- After losing the first race, Stan puts his skis and ski poles down in the snow. In the next shot of the boys, the skis and poles have disappeared.
- Stephen is misnamed as 'Chris' once again in this episode.
[edit] The video montage
In this episode, a song called “Montage” is performed by Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s band DVDA. A video montage is shown as Stan trains to become a better skier. The song was later reworked and used by Parker and Stone in Team America: World Police. A similar scene appears in the episode “Up the Down Steroid,” where Cartman works on his handicapped act at the Special Olympics, using “Push it to the Limit” by Paul Engemann, the montage song from Scarface.
The same song was used in Matt and Trey's Team America Movie.
