Night of the Living Homeless
From South Park Archives
| South Park episode | |
|---|---|
| “Night of the Living Homeless” | |
| |
| Episode no. | Season 11 Episode 7 |
| Original airdate | April 18, 2007 |
| Season 11 March 7, 2007– November 14, 2007 | |
| |
| | |
| ← Season 10 | Season 12 → |
| List of all South Park episodes | |
"Night of the Living Homeless" is the seventh episode of the eleventh season of South Park. The title is a play of the movie title Night of the Living Dead, but the episode itself is a parody of Dawn of the Dead which was released in the same year.
Spoiler warning: Plot details follow.[edit] Synopsis
An increasing amount of Homeless people in South Park worries it's residents, and the boys decide to solve the problem on their own.
[edit] Plot
Stan, Cartman, Kyle and Kenny are annoyed to see that a large group of Homeless people are taking over their Basket Ball court. Kyle feels sorry for them, and wants to do something about it. The other boys misunderstand him, and they set up a show where Cartman jumps over the Homeless people with his skateboard. The increasing amount of Homeless people is noticed by the City Council who have a meeting of what they should do about it. Several of the suggestions are to give the Homeless people make overs and designer sleeping bags to make them more pleasant to look at and to turn them into tires to make use of them. Wendy Testaburger's mom is the only one who is appalled at their offensive ideas saying that the homeless are people just like them, the council takes this as meaning the homeless have found a way to copy their d.n.a. They are then told by the Homeless Adviser of the meeting that they must be extremely careful with the situation and not give out any money to them, which would only bring more.
Kyle doesn't realize the threat though, and still feeling sorry for the Homeless, he goes out late at night to give twenty Dollars to one beggar, but feels like his gesture is unappreciated when the man immediatly asks for more, then goes off begging for more money without a thank you. The next morning Kyle realizes a large group of Homeless have mustered outside his home, which is noticed by his friends. Kyle confesses to them that he gave one twenty dollar bill but doesn't believe thats the only reason why they are all there, while Cartman still thinks Kyle wants him to jump them with his skateboard. Randy Marsh is on his way home for work when he is swarmed by Homeless people. He gives some to make them go away but more keep on coming, including the one he just gave change. He runs to the Community Center where Gerald Broflovski, Jimbo Kern and Steven and Linda Stotch are and barricades themselves inside and go on the roof.
The Homeless overrun the town making getting around almost impossible. Stan and Kyle see their fathers on the roof of the Community Center in a news report before the station is cut off by the Homeless. The four boys go out to help them, where they are picked up by one of the Mayors Aids. He tells them of the Homeless Adviser from the Council meeting and how he can help them before their car is hit by a truck and he is killed. The boys escape from the car and go down into the sewers where they head to the scientists house. At the Community Center Gerald decides to make a run for it, planning on getting to a bus station and going for some help. When outside, he gives away his change to the Homeless to get them off his back but realizes he doesn't have any change for the bus anymore so he begins to beg for change, making the rest of the adults think he's one of them.
The boys reach the scientist's house, where Cartman comes up with the plan to jump over all the Homeless people to save those on the Community Center, which irritates Kyle who is sick of him talking about jumping over Homeless people, though Stan tells Kyle to stop talking about jumping over homeless people like it's his plan. The scientist interrupts them and explains that the Homeless live off of change like food and no matter how much you give them they'll always want more, and that the nearby city of Evergreen faced the same problem. The Homeless break into the house though and the boys escape while the Scientist kills himself (after shooting himself repeatedly to no effect despite several of the shots going in his chest and brain).
At the Community Center a whole new group of people reach the roof while fleeing from the Homeless. As time drags on for them things become more tense. They run out of non cherry pop-tarts (Their only food supply), but there is hope when Glenn, a member of the City Council, is able to get a signal on his cell phone. He calls his wife to find out what is happening when he learns property rates in South Park have gone down so low because of the homeless his house is being put on mortage, which makes him homeless which makes none of the others trust him. He starts to panic and starts asking for change so he can put his things in storage which leads Randy to blow his head off with a shotgun.
The boys make it to Evergreen which is totally destroyed. They meet three men dressed in camouflage who initially want the boys to leave, since being children they couldn't own homes. Fortunatly the boy's convince them to tell them how they solved their Homeless problem. They explained they had the same Homeless problem as them until the Homeless got enough change to rent apartments and soon buy houses, which apparently 'caused' fights that destroyed the town because you "wouldn't know if the person living in the house right next door to you was homeless or not." not realising of course that owning houses would have no longer left these people homeless. One of the men tells them that he had to kill his own wife who he had been living with for 20 years because she was 'Homeless', because she was not the home owner in the marriage. Kyle then finds a pamphlet on the ground the advertises South Park as a great place for the Homeless. The people of Evergreen didn't solve their problem, they just sent it somewhere else, like the town before did with Evergreen.
In a following confrontation the wife the man had killed is actually still alive (albeit horribly burned) and attempts to kill him, resulting everyone dying except the boys. They then customize a bus to drive into South Park and lure the Homeless out by singing, sending them to California like how Evergreen had sent them to South Park.
At California, Cartman jumps the homeless as Stan tells Kyle he can't see how it helps, to Kyle's annoyance...
[edit] Trivia
- This episode parodies Dawn Of The Dead
- Zombie films were originally parodied in "Pink Eye".
- Mayor McDaniels' assistant Ted, apparently dies in this episode.
- The song the boys sing is a parody of "California Love".
- During the song, Cartman says "Right by Matt's house, you can chill if your homeless". One of the creators.
- The woman jogging in California is the lesbian that Mrs. Garrison has sex with in the episode D'Yikes
- Ironically, the woman encountered in Evergreen looks exactly like a zombie.
| Preceded by: "D-Yikes!" | South Park episodes | Followed by: "Le Petit Tourette" |
