The Ungroundable
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| “The Ungroundable” | |
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| Episode no. | Season 12 Episode 14 |
| Guest stars | None |
| Original airdate | November 19, 2008 |
| Season 12 March 12, 2008 – November 19, 2008 | |
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"The Ungroundable" is the fourteenth and final episode of the twelfth season of South Park. It aired on Nov 19, 2008.[1] In Canada, the episode aired on November 28, 2008.
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[edit] Synopsis
Butters is sure he’s seen a Vampire at school but he can’t get anyone to listen to him. Butters develops an alter ego and goes against his parent's every word that he normally wouldn't dare to do without the vampire mindset. Meanwhile, the Goth Kids are angry and frustrated when the other kids can’t tell the difference between a Goth and a Vampire.
[edit] Plot
The fourth graders are in a computer class being taught by Mr. Mackey, but nobody is paying attention(all of them are playing Call of Duty : World at War). Butters runs into the classroom claiming that he's seen vampires all around the school. None of the other kids believe him and Eric Cartman Cartman suggests that he go "document the vampires' movements"(simply to get rid of him).
The members of the South Park Vampires Club are sitting in the gym, discussing what type of vampire they are. Butters spies on them, documenting their activities in his tape recorder. One of the vampires suggests that they "feed," and they begin to drink Clammato (a mixture of clam and tomato juice usually served with certain cocktails). Butters' tape recorder malfunctions, and it begins to blare out another of Butters' recordings. The vampire kids suddenly appear, and Butters (beliving they are real vampires) pulls out a crucifix, attempting to repel them before running away.
The Goth Kids see the vampires and are horrified, wondering if they're trying to be goth. One of them tells the others that they're "vamp", and that they "wear plastic fangs and drink freakin' Clammato juice". They confront the vampire kids, who tell them that they're just as dark and sinister as the goths. The goth kids, meanwhile, point out that the vamps don't even smoke.
After a minor confrontation with his parents, Butters thinks aloud to himself that nobody listens to him, and that vampires probably don't get "hollered at" by their parents. The next day, Butters approaches the vamp kids, telling them that he wants to be a vampire. The vamp kids attempt to take over the spaces used by the goth kids who tell them to go away. As part of the initiation process, the vampire kids then take Butters to the South Park Mall, where they go to Hot Topic and buy Butters black clothing, hair dye, jewelry and plastic vampire teeth. They then make him drink Clammato juice to complete his "transformation".
Butters returns home to his parents, who are angry at him because of his lateness and his dyed hair. Butters responds that because he is a vampire, he is no longer subject to the rules of humans, stating that he is "ungroundable".
Butters sneaks into Cartman's room in the middle of the night attempting to feed of him (clearly saying if someone has to die to he can live then he chooses Cartman), failing to go through with biting him. Cartman tells his mom that Butters has tried to attack him sexually.
The goth kids kidnap the head 'vampire' and successfully threaten him into admitting he is not really a vampire. Afterwards, they decide to mail him to one place that he would be miserable and tormented - Scottsdale.
At home, Butters' parents explain that they got a call from Liane Cartman and ask him if he "got gay with one of his schoolmates tonight", to which Butters responds that he needs to eat and leaves out of his window. His parents comment that Butters has "become something we cannot ground".
Butters convinces the goth kids to burn down the local 'Hot Topic' store. At home, he is normal again and groundable, after his parents punish over incorrectly organizing the pantry. The goth kids hold an assembly to list the ways they are different from the vampire-wannabes. They then flip the audience off and say "fuck all of you" which makes the crowd cheer louder.
[edit] Goofs
- When Butters fist becomes a vampire, we can see his fang-teeth while he is laughing. The only problem is his fangs have only two other teeth between them instead of four, but we can assume this is just the cartoon-style, just like Eric Cartman has four fingers on each hand, like most people in South Park, but five toes on each foot (which can be seen in many episodes and also in this one, when Butters invades Eric's bedroom).
- Toward the end of the episode, where Butters comes home from the mall, Stephen Stotch asks his son, "Would you mind telling me why there's Rice-A-Roni in my coffee?!" He illustrates his point by pulling a spoonful of pasta from his coffee mug, but while holding the spoon in his left hand, another reappears in the mug. When he replaces the spoon, there is still only one in the coffee mug.
[edit] Trivia
- The Goth kids are once again mistaken for another group of people, just like the were called "Emo kids" in "Breast Cancer Show Ever"
- When Butters is scaring the vampires with a cross, we can see a logo resembling the one of the grunge band Nirvana on Vampir's jacket.
[edit] Quirks
This episode is relevant to the recent new movie and Book Saga Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer
In the beginning of this episode, the kids are seen in the computer lab playing Call of Duty: World at War on the Castle map.
The scene where the boy is asking where his ball is very similar to the scene where Craig was asking for football in the episode The List.
[edit] References
| Preceded by: "Elementary School Musical" | South Park episodes | Followed by: "The Ring" |
