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It's Christmas in Canada "It's Christmas in Canada/Trivia" "Good Times with Weapons/Trivia" "Up the Down Steroid/Trivia" Up the Down Steroid

This page contains trivia for "Good Times with Weapons". Remember, trivia must be factual, provable, and it is always best to cite your source for not-so-obvious trivia. If you would like to dispute a trivia point, please discuss it in the talk page.

Trivia[]

  • This is the first episode to have April Stewart as part of voice cast.
  • One of the knives on display looks like a "Klingon" knife (called "D'k tahg") from Star Trek. A "Bat'leth" (Klingon Sword) is also for sale.
  • At the beginning of the episode, the two Star Trek Nerds from "Fourth Grade" are looking at the knives.
  • This episode was the first episode to be remastered in High Definition, however, the High Definition version was only available on Xbox Live[1] and on an HD DVD/DVD combo disc included with some Xbox 360 HD DVD Players sold at Best Buy.
  • The style is based on the anime Ninja Scroll and similar styles of Japanese animation.
  • This episode aired almost a month after Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" at the thirty-eighth Super Bowl. At the end of the episode, the townspeople are enraged that their children saw Eric Cartman naked, rather than the gory scene of Butters with a ninja star lodged in his eye; Trey Parker and Matt Stone's intention was to satirize the American public's ludicrous concern towards nudity and sexuality in entertainment rather than gratuitous violence and gore. Sheila Broflovski's comment "This is what happens when the moral fabric of society breaks down" could be self-reflective of the meeting itself.
    • Sheila's comment is also a reference to Trey and Matt's vision behind the show: "People are born bastards and society barely keeps them inline."
  • The song "Let's Fighting Love" was later used in both The Stick of Truth and The Fractured But Whole video games.
  • This is the second time Kenny's irises have been shown. The first being in "Starvin' Marvin".
  • This is the first episode where there is no Comedy Central logo at the end, there is instead a copyright notice that appears before the Braniff plane logo appears.
  • It is never revealed what Cartman's punishment was for walking across the stage naked.
  • This was the first episode of Season Eight, which Trey Parker and Matt Stone have referred to the year in which it was made as "The Year From Hell". This was due to the fact that their film Team America: World Police was filmed, finished and premiered while they worked on this season, which caused a huge amount of writer's block among the staff.
  • Below is a table with each of the boys compared with their ninja name and weapon wielded:
Character Kyle Cartman Kenny Stan Butters Craig Clyde Jimmy Tolkien
Ninja Name Bunraku Bulrog Kensuke/Kenny (unintelligible) Shadow Hachi Professor Chaos Ginza Not Given Not Given Black Chaku
Weapon Nunchaku Sai Shuriken Tonfa Energy Blasts Katana Kama, or sickles Eskrima, (also known as Kali Sticks) Nunchaku

References to Popular Culture[]

  • With the exception of Kenny's attack on Butters, the boys do not actually fight with the very dangerous weapons they have purchased. They are content to pretend to fire energy bursts from them, mimicking the Hadoken from the Street Fighter series.
  • The tattoo on Cartman's left arm 味 (aji) means "taste", and the subtitle 珍棒 (chin bou) means "rare stick", possibly a reference to a penis. This is a crude translation of the American insult "Suck my dick".
  • The fight scene between the eight boys mimics clips from various anime movies, mostly the Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie and some from Street Fighter Alpha: The Animation. Some proof of this is when Clyde charges up his power, he looks exactly how Ryu did charging up his power in Street Fighter Alpha: The Animation.
  • It is also worth noting that the anime scenes look and move in a manner extremely similar to Toei studio's godfather of fighting anime, Fist of the North Star (Hokuto no Ken). Professor Chaos in particular looks and behaves especially like Raoh the Conqueror. Though his name and outfit pay particular homage to Doctor Doom, who is not an anime character.
  • The song, "Let's Fighting Love", may be based on the second opening of Dragon Ball Z.
  • Each character's "ninja" state bear heavy similarities to characters from the Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat series.

Continuity[]

Goofs[]

  • At one point, Kyle claims to be eight years old, though he stated that he was nine in "Cartmanland", a much earlier episode.
  • When the boys are looking at the weapons on the counter, the red nunchakus under the yellow ones keep disappearing when the camera angle changes.
  • Kyle's anime counterpart has black hair, whereas he really has auburn hair, as shown in "How to Eat with Your Butt". However, this may be excusable because the boys are imagining their ideal selves and Kyle does not like his hair.
  • During the boys' fight with Professor Chaos, Cartman claims that Kyle took his powers away (after he tried to obtain unlimited powers), however it was Stan who told Cartman that he could no longer have his powers.
  • After Stan tries to pick out the ninja star with a pair of pliers, a black line in the shape of Butters eyebrow can be found on the snowy tree at the right side of the screen closest to Kyle, moving exactly like the eyebrow on Butters when he moves his head.
  • When Craig, Tolkien, Jimmy, Clyde, Cartman, Kenny, Kyle and Stan are fighting in anime, Jimmy can be seen jumping. He should not be able to do this since he is crippled but could have done this using his hands for support. It could also be a similar circumstance where Kyle imagines his anime counterpart with black hair instead of his natural curly red color - It could just be an imagination of their ideal selves.
  • When the boys are walking away from Butters (after they told him he cannot be a ninja), the red cloth on Cartman's right arm is not there.
  • Stan already knew who Professor Chaos/Butters is, he learnt that secret in "My Future Self n' Me" but still seemed confused on who he is. However, he may have simply forgotten, as he believes that Butters was telling him that he was gay.
  • At the end in the community center, Randy and Sharon appear behind a man to the left. When the man stands up, Randy and Sharon have moved to the right, with the man being in between them. When it switches to most of the people again, it goes back to normal.
  • On the third left chair on the first row, you can see Wendy. After the first person close up, she is replaced by Red, and before Mr. Garrison speaks, no one is there.
  • When Cartman is walking across the stage, his hair looks normal but when Cartman is shown from the back, some of his hair is sticking up.
  • Despite Skeeter mentioning that he does not know how to explain sexual matters to his daughter, he never mentions his daughter again. Also, unlike the other parents who are seen sitting next with their children, his daughter is not seen next to him.

Dubbing Changes[]

International Titles[]

Language Title Translation
Czech Malí nindžové Little Ninjas
French Les Armes, c'est rigolo Weapons are fun
German Spiel und Spaß mit Waffen Play and fun with weapons
Hungarian Egy kellemes nap fegyverekkel A nice day with weapons
Italian Divertirsi con le armi Having fun with weapons
Japanese キケンなニンジャごっこ
(Kiken'na ninja-gokko)
Dangerous ninja play
Polish Bombowa zabawa z bronią Fun with weapons
Portuguese (Brazil) Bons Tempos com Armas Good Times with Weapons
Ukrainian Чудово проведений час зі зброєю
(Chudovo provedenyy chas zi zbroyeyu)
Great Times with Weapons

German[]

  • The scene in which Kyle attempts to throw his nunchakus away is partially censored; Cartman's lines mocking Kyle for succumbing to a Jewish stereotype are cut, skipping straight to Kyle gripping the nunchakus above the well in frustration and walking back to his friends dejectedly.

Japanese[]

  • All mentions of "ninja star" are replaced with "shuriken" for standardization throughout the episode.
  • Instead of the "Thomsons", Linda instructs Butters to deliver a pie to the "Simpsons".

Portuguese (Brazil)[]

  • All of the English lyrics in "Let's Fighting Love" are translated into Portuguese.

References[]

  1. South Park High Def on Xbox. Comedy Central (March 5, 2007).


  801: "Good Times with Weapons" edit
Story Elements

Professor Chaos • "Let's Fighting Love"

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South Park: The Complete Eighth SeasonSouth Park The Hits: Volume 1

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