Asspen
 |
The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's general notability guideline. Please help to establish notability by adding reliable, secondary sources about the topic. If notability cannot be established, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. (June 2011) |
|
|
This article may contain original research. Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding references. Statements consisting only of original research may be removed. More details may be available on the talk page. (June 2011) |
| "Asspen" | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| South Park episode | |||
 Tad challenges Stan |
|||
| Episode no. | Season 6 Episode 3 |
||
| Directed by | Trey Parker | ||
| Written by | Trey Parker | ||
| Production code | 603 | ||
| Original air date | March 20, 2002 | ||
| Episode chronology | |||
|
|||
| South Park (season 6) List of South Park episodes |
|||
"Asspen" is the 3rd episode of the sixth season of the Comedy Central series South Park.[1] It originally aired on March 20, 2002. It parodies several sports movies of the 1980s.[2]
Contents |
[edit] Plot
The episode opens with the parents of Stan, Kyle, and Butters deciding to take an offer of a two-day stay in Aspen, Colorado for free in return for attending a 30-minute timeshare presentation.
On their first morning in Aspen, two timeshare salesmen immediately coax the parents into attending the 30-minute presentation to get it over with. Cartman gives the sleeping Butters a "Shitler" (by wiping his feces under Butter's nose to give him an Hitler-like mustache). An instructor shows the boys how to ski using a "Pizza, French Fries" skill. An older skier, Tad, starts to accost Stan for absolutely no reason, calling him "Stan Darsh".
The parents refuse to be enticed by the timeshare presentation and try to leave. They are told that the meeting they just attended was not the 30-minute meeting, but their free lunch was the meeting. They ask to leave during lunch but are told to turn over their place cards, which reveal a prize of an exclusive ski lift. They board the ski lift, thinking it will give them quick access o the slopes but find it takes them straight back to the presentation room.
While the boys are practicing, Tad returns and demands that Stan race him for "stealing" his girlfriend Heather, whom Stan has never met until that moment. Stan agrees fully that since he is a complete amateur, Tad will most certainly beat him, but reluctantly races and loses as he expected to do. Afterwards he is approached by a teenage girl wearing glasses who invites him to the Aspen Youth Center to dance. There the boys discover that Tad's father plans to bulldoze the Aspen Youth Center, and while Stan agrees that it is a shame, he isn't particuarly troubled. Tad then appears on stage to sing an off-key song called "Stan Darsh" where he repeats that one line until Stan snaps and asks what his problem is. Simply to get Tad to shut up about it, they agree to another race, this time on a far more advanced and dangerous slope. It is agreed that if Stan wins, the Aspen Youth Center will be saved. Kyle tries to talk Stan out of it, but Stan refuses and starts training for the race.
The next day, the parents try to leave the timeshare meeting only to be held there at gunpoint by the police. It is soon learned the police and other relevant authorities are under control of the timeshare organization, and they have no choice. Meanwhile the race down the K-13 mountain proceeds and Tad tries to sabotage Stan's efforts by blocking his path - the irony being that he could have won the race handily without stopping for any tricks. Still an inexperienced beginner despite the training montage he has just gone through, Stan skis so slowly that he is not even affected by the traps, while the teenage girls who invited Stan to dance distracts Tad by lifting up her shirt. Stan wins and the Aspen Youth Center is saved.
Everyone celebrates and Heather asks to be Stan's girlfriend again, much to his incredulity. The teenage girl from the youth center says he should let her date him, while suggesting that she would like to date him, but Stan isn't interested in either of them. Just then, the boys' parents return having been bullied into buying some timeshare property. The boys tell them that the ski resort sucks and they all return to South Park.
[edit] Cultural references
The episode parodies several movies of the 1980s, including Hot Dog... The Movie, Ski School, Ski Patrol, Aspen Extreme, Total Recall, Pet Sematary and Better off Dead.[2]
As Stan trains to become a better skier, a song called "Montage", similar to the motion picture Scarface montage song, is performed by Trey Parker and Matt Stone's band DVDA. The song was later reworked and used by Parker and Stone in Team America: World Police (2004).[3]
[edit] References
- ^ "South Park Episode Guide - 603". http://www.southparkstudios.com/guide/603/. South Park Studios. Accessed November 17, 2008
- ^ a b "Southparkstudios FAQ". http://www.southparkstudios.com/fans/faq/archives.php?id=6783.South Park Studios. Accessed November 17, 2008
- ^ "Southparkstudios FAQ". http://www.southparkstudios.com/fans/faq/archives.php?id=17520.South Park Studios. Accessed December 2, 2008
[edit] External links
 |
Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Asspen |
|
|||||
