Rainforest Schmainforest

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“Rainforest Schmainforest”
Episode no.	Season 3 Episode 32
Production no.	301
Original airdate
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South Park - Season 3 April 1999 - January 2000
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"Rainforest Schmainforest" is the first episode of the third season of South Park.

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[edit] Synopsis

The boys are recruited for a rainforest saving choir by Mr. Mackey after showing poor behavior. Unfortunately for them, the group get lost in the forest...

[edit] Plot

Miss Stevens is in Mr. Garrison's class recruiting students for a tree saving choir tour called "Getting Gay With Kids." The boys cause trouble calling the choir names and belittling their cause and are sent to the office. Kenny has fallen for one of the girls in the choir, Kelly, so when Mr. Mackey punishes the boys by forcing them to join the choir, he is the only one who is happy about it.

The children are on their way to San José, Costa Rica. Kenny meets with Kelly, who calls him Lenny, Benny and any other name that rhymes with Kenny (not calling him Kenny). Miss Stevens also tells Cartman that she plans on changing him; she's got a lot of work ahead of her. Upon arriving, the children meet the Costa Rican President and do a preview dance routine, but Miss Stevens is dismayed by Kyle's lack of co-ordination.

On their tour of the Rainforest, the children see the 'wonders' of the Rainforest, which Cartman keeps trying to beat with a stick. Then their tour guide is killed when he is eaten by a man-eating snake. Miss Stevens and the children are on their own in the jungle. They run into a group of revolutionaries, and try to recruit the revolutionaries to their cause, to which the rebel leader replies: "We're not getting gay with any kids" and have to run away when government troops arrive and start a battle. With the group still wandering aimlessly around the rainforest, Cartman deciding to leave "this hippie", walks off and finds a friendly crew working on a deforestation project.

Back in San José, the concert is about an hour away from starting. The President stalls for time by telling Polak jokes. Meanwhile, Miss Stevens and the remaining children find a group of natives intent upon killing them, and sacrificing Miss Stevens. At this point, she finally changes her mind, and decides the rainforest is not such a good place after all, just as Cartman and the construction workers arrive to save everyone. Miss Stevens and the children are so happy to be out of the forest that they literally change their tune about the Rainforest. They do a different version of the original song, which rebukes the rainforest rather than praising it as the original did.

[edit] Trivia

• Miss Stevens, the Choir Teacher, was voiced by Jennifer Aniston.
• Kenny almost dies when he lies to Kelly and is struck by lightning. She actually revives him, while Stan and Kyle are dumbfounded. This marks the first time someone has ever tried to resuscitate Kenny, and the second time Kenny survives the whole episode.
• The natives using the choir teacher as a sacrifice is very reminiscent of the scene in King Kong where Ann Darrow is put out as a sacrifice for Kong.
• Some of the choir members would return in subsequent episodes to become recurring background classmates: Bradley, an unnamed black-haired boy, Millie, Heidi (shown with black hair for most of this episode, with her hair appearing in its usual light brown color in a few shots), Esther, and Sally.
• Though Jake appears to be eaten by a carnivorous flower, he's shown alive in a few shots afterward due to an animation error.
• After Cartman leaves, he's mistakenly shown running from the Yanagopa with the rest of the group, also due to an animator's error.
• During the first GGWK number, Sally loses her hairclip for a shot, and Heidi's hair shifts from black to brown and back.
• In the final GGWK number, an unnamed orange-haired boy is shown in Jake's spot. He quickly disappears.

• Kelly sat by Kenny for most of the trip.However whenever the children looked out of the window she could be seen two seats behind Cartman

Preceded by: "Prehistoric Ice Man"

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Followed by: "Spontaneous Combustion"