City on the Edge of Forever

South Park episode
“City on the Edge of Forever”
Episode no.	Season 2; Episode 7
Production no.	207
Original airdate	June 17, 1998
Episode chronology
"The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka"	"Summer Sucks"
	South Park - Season 2; April 1998 - January 1999
	Terrance and Phillip in Not Without My Anus ; Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Slut ; Chickenlover ; Ike's Wee Wee ; Conjoined Fetus Lady ; The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka ; City on the Edge of Forever ; Summer Sucks ; Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls ; Chickenpox ; Roger Ebert Should Lay Off the Fatty Foods ; Clubhouses ; Cow Days ; Chef Aid ; Spookyfish ; Merry Christmas Charlie Manson! ; Gnomes ; Prehistoric Ice Man ;
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"City on the Edge of Forever" (a.k.a. Flashbacks) is the seventh episode of the second season of South Park.

Spoiler warning: Plot details follow.

[edit] Synopsis

When the school bus becomes trapped on the edge of a cliff, Ms. Crabtree must leave to get help.

She meets a truck driver who takes her to the nearest town where she unwillingly ends up as a stand-up comedy act.

Meanwhile, back on the bus, all is not well. A big black monster is slowly harvesting the kids (i.e. Kenny) while the boys have flashbacks on previous events in their lives, they are however all incorrect and have a recurring theme of ice cream.

Ms. Crabtree has now found love with the truck driver and has completely forgotten about the kids.

Eventually, the bus goes over and ends up in a giant ice cream. Cartman suddenly wakes up and realizes it was all a dream. His mom comes to his aid and she reassures him. They then eat a meal of beetles. Stan suddenly wakes up and realizes everything so far was in fact his dream. He rings Kyle up and explains what happened.

Back in the fantasy, Ms. Crabtree says to her new found love she wishes she could stay in the dream forever.

*clips used*

Episode name	how it was "remembered"	What actually happened
Weight Gain 4000	Mr. Garrison claims Kathie Lee Gifford is an alien, he hits her, and it turns out she was an alien. Stan and Wendy start to make out, and Cartman is muscular. (possible the most radical of the bizzare memories)	Mr. Garrison is jealous of Kathy Lee and attempts to assassinate her, he fails to kill her (but manages to kill Kenny by mistake,) Kathy Lee runs away, and Cartman was a huge blob of fat
City on the Edge of forever	The monster tore open the bus, but gave ice-cream to the children	The monster tore open the bus, abducted Kenny, then ate him

[edit] Trivia

"City on the Edge of Forever" is the name of a Star Trek episode. One of the kids on the school bus (the first victim of the monster) was wearing a Starfleet badge, and a red shirt. On Star Trek, characters in red shirts (referred to as 'redshirts') are often killed when a situation needs to seem dangerous.
In one flashback, where the Fonz jumps several buses with his motorcycle, Cartman recalls Kenny dying, however, Stan and Kyle object stating that Kenny couldn't have died then, because he just got eaten by the monster( a reference possibly by the creators about using Kenny dying as a running gag .
When all of the adults are out hanging up posters with pictures of their missing children, a poster with Macaulay Culkin can be seen among the lost children.

Preceded by:
"The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka"

South Park episodes

Followed by:
"Summer Sucks"

[edit] Hidden Visitor(s)

Though there aren't any hidden visitors in this episode, they are seen getting ice cream.

[edit] Goofs

Clips of the exterior of the shaking bus were often reused when the bus shook. So, after Kenny died in the episode, Kenny is mysteriously seen through the window.

[edit] Censorship

When this episode airs on syndication networks, when Ms. Crabtree told Marcus to suck her ass, the word: ass was completely censored, due to that it was offensive.