Elementary School Musical
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| South Park episode | |
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| “Elementary School Musical” | |
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| Episode no. | Season 12 Episode 13 |
| Guest stars | None |
| Original airdate | November 12, 2008 |
| Season 12 March 12, 2008 – November 19, 2008 | |
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| List of all South Park episodes | |
"Elementary School Musical" is the thirteenth episode of the twelfth season of South Park. It aired on November 12, 2008[1] In Canada, the episode aired on November 21, 2008.
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[edit] Synopsis
The boys must embrace the latest fad to hit South Park Elementary or risk their status as the coolest kids in school.
[edit] Plot
The boys are at lunch and while Eric Cartman taunts Kenny's lunch, Butters announces he's going to see the movie High School Musical 3 again. The boys question what this is and realize they're clueless about the newest fad. Wendy Testaburger, along with other girls and a handsome Zac Efron look-alike third grader named Bridon Guermo, begin singing in the cafeteria in the High School Musical fashion. Soon the boys are the only children present who aren't singing and they go home. After watching the movie, the boys hate it, and vow never to become a part of it, and Cartman attempts suicide due to frustration concerning this fad (at school, he explains that he tried to induce carbon monoxide poisoning by sleeping in his mother's running car, but failed, explaining "Frickin' hybrids man, they just don't do the trick anymore").
The next day at school the boys find everyone singing again in class, and Stan fears that Wendy is becoming very close with Bridon because they are close together during songs. He confronts Wendy, who tells him that he's being ridiculous and that she wouldn't leave him because Bridon could be with any girl he wanted. Stan is still uneasy, believing that Bridon will develop a crush on Wendy. After refusing to sing his own HSM-style song to several kids as he walks through the hallways, he talks to Bridon in hopes of directing him away from Wendy, and finds out Bridon would prefer to play basketball instead of singing. However, Bridon's overly flamboyant theater-crazed metrosexual father (it is assumed that he is only metrosexual due to him being married to a woman) refuses to allow him to play a "sissy" sport. Stan convinces Bridon to stand up for himself, but Bridon's father slaps his mother after she suggests Bridon should be allowed to play basketball (his very weak flamboyant slaps are depicted as a painful deterrent).
Stan prods Bridon to try out with the basketball team anyway by going up to Mr. Garrett, but Bridon's father finds out and drags him away. Stan reports this to Child Services, but Bridon's father slaps them until they flee. Later, Bridon tries to run away, but his father stops him and threatens to slap him. In retaliation, Bridon punches his father in the nose, causing him to cry, and his mother, never realizing that it was an option, begins beating his father senseless as well. The next day, Bridon plays at a basketball game and does well; his father enjoys the musical aspects and choreographed cheering to Rock and Roll Part 2 by Gary Glitter and We Will Rock You of Queen.
Meanwhile, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny are hanging out with an unpopular boy named Scott Malkinson, who is ridiculed by fellow students for no particular reason other than his lisp and diabetes. At school, the kids try to persuade Stan to sing again, but instead of performing a modern impromptu pop song, he sings off-key versions of old folk songs, making a fool of himself. Despite having vowed against it, Stan then decides to join the trend and studies the High School Musical series intensively. The boys try to convince him otherwise, reminding him of their vow, but he counters by explaining that things are changing and that Butters is now more popular than they are.
The next day Wendy asks Bridon where he was and he explains he was at basketball. Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny then successfully perform a song along with an equally elaborate dance routine about Bridon following his own dreams, but everyone else is uninterested and goes to watch Bridon play Basketball instead. Scott stops them after their long dance routine and explains the school kids just liked Bridon and not the fad itself. Stan begins to complain that they had put forth so much effort to become good for no reason at all, and this lasts into the end credits.
[edit] Trivia
- In this episode, the boys rip on Scott Malkinson for having diabetes, yet Kyle also has diabetes.
- The school hall in which the kids dance is the same as the one in Middle Park Elementary, as seen in Quest for Ratings.
- In this eposide it should be noted that Kyle didn't get ripped on for having diabetes because they already rip on him for be a Jew this can be proven because this is said in Here Comes The Neighborhood which the boys tell Token they all rip on each other for something or he didn't get ripped on because onlys Stan knows that he has diabetes and Stan would never hurt Kyle's feelings as they are bbfs and this would make Cartman have more dirt on Kyle .
- At one point when the boys are eating lunch during the High School Musical number you can see a poster of a vistor(alien) which says: "Have you seen me?"
[edit] Continuity
- At the beginning when Jimmy Vulmer asks the boys where the hell they have been, Craig replies "Peru", referencing Pandemic and Pandemic 2: The Startling.
- The Marshes appear to have a Television in this episodes despite Cartman stealing it in About Last Night, although this may have simply been that they bought a new T.V.
[edit] Popular Culture
- The episode parodies High School Musical, a movie produced by Disney.
- The 'Go with the Status Quo' song is a parody of the High School Musical song 'Stick to the Status Quo.'
- Bridon's wish to play basketball is a reversed reference to Zac Efron's High School Musical character, Troy, because Troy plays basketball but wanted to be in the school musical
- The moves of 'Go with the Status Quo' are of the High School Musical song 'All For One'
- Also the 'We're so happy to be in school again' song is a parody of 'We're all in this together.'
- Kyle's hair is redesigned from his normal jewfro, to look like Corbin Bleu's hairstyle, who played the supporting part of Chad in High School Musical.
[edit] References
| Preceded by: "About Last Night" | South Park episodes | Followed by: "The Ungroundable" |
[edit] Quotes
Wendy: East Side? West Side? Whatever side that you're on.
Bebe: As long as we have each other, we can still get along.
Kyle: Oh, man.
