The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka
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| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 19 | ||||||
| Original airdate | June 10, 1998 | ||||||
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"The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka" is episode 206 of Comedy Central's series South Park. It originally aired on June 10, 1998.
Spoiler warning: Plot details follow.
[edit] Plot synopsis
In this episode, the boys are assigned to interview Vietnam War veterans, and interview Stan's Uncle Jimbo and his friend Ned. The two tell a story of American camps having amusement park rides and claim that they single-handedly defeated the entire Viet Cong army. When their report gets them an "F-", they plot revenge, and make bogus videos of the legendary Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka, which the two then show on their show, Huntin' and Killin.
The show becomes successful, which leads to a decline in ratings of their competitors, the talk show Jesus and Pals, starring Jesus. The show begins to alter because of the actions of one of the show's producers, despite Jesus' cynicism of the idea. Meanwhile, Jimbo and Ned go searching for the Staring Frog, which according to legend can kill with a glance; Ned sees the fake frog the boys set up and becomes comatose from pure fear, and when in the hospital the boys confess their misdeed. This leads to Jimbo, Ned (though still comatose), and the boys all being shown on Jesus and Pals, arranged by the show's producer.
Without Jesus' knowledge, the producer arranges for them to lie on the air to improve ratings, having Jimbo claim that Stan is a drug-addicted Satan-worshiper, and having Stan claim that Jimbo molested him, etc. When chaos breaks out on the show, Jesus screams "Shut the fuck up!" at everybody and discovers the truth about everything; he patches everything up with Jimbo, Ned and the boys, and as punishment to his producer, sends her to Hell. There, she meets Satan and with him, Saddam Hussein, foreshadowing events that will unfold in South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, and later the two-part episode "Do the Handicapped Go to Hell?"/"Probably".
[edit] Trivia
- South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker met while the latter was making a film called The Giant Beaver of Southern Sri Lanka.Clarify
- The book that Jimbo is reading to Ned in the hospital is The Outsiders.
- During the taping of Jesus and Pals, a black man with a jheri curl continually interrupts Jesus, calling him "Montel", and defends Michael Jackson against his child molestation charges. This is a possible reference to funk singer Rick James.
- This episode, through Jesus and Pals, lampoons daytime talk shows, most particularly The Jerry Springer Show.
- This episode introduced Saddam Hussein as Satan's lover in hell.
- During the detention scene in which the boys think up their plan, you can see a poster with an alien head that says "Have you seen me?"
- When the general shows Jimbo the map of the area of Vietnam that they are stationed, it is just a map of Italy.
[edit] Kenny's Death
- During the riot on Jesus and Pals, two people pull on Kenny until he gets ripped in half. Later, a rat comes and drags Kenny's upper body away.
| Preceded by: "Conjoined Fetus Lady" | South Park episodes | Followed by: "City on the Edge of Forever" |
