Dead Celebrities
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"Dead Celebrities" is the premiere episode of the second half of the thirteenth season of the animated television series South Park, and the season's eighth episode overall. It first aired on Comedy Central in the United States on October 7, 2009.[1] The episode will air in the UK on Friday 9 October, 2009.
Plot
For a while, Ike has been seeing ghosts of dead celebrities. Because of this, the boys call the Ghost Hunters to find the problem, but the Ghost Hunters end up peeing and crapping themselves. A psychic then comes to help the boys, but she gets thrown out a window by the ghosts. Ike then wakes up, possessed by Michael Jackson. While he is in Ike, the rest of the ghosts are stuck in purgatory, which is like an airplane stuck on the runway. Michael then enters a beauty pageant because he always wanted to be accepted as a little white girl. After Michael's singing performance, the two male judges love him. The police then come and take the two judges away for masturbating, leaving the female judge to decide the final outcome. Cartman sees her eating Chipotle and bribes her by giving her a tool used to clean blood from underwear. Michael then wins and his spirit leaves Ike's body and goes back to purgatory. Purgatory then lifts off and takes all of the people to their destination, Hell. A side plot involves Kyle trying to figure out why people would eat Chipotle if it makes them deficate blood.
Cultural references
- Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson from The Atlantic Paranormal Society and Ghost Hunters are called in to investigate.
- Some of the ghosts that Ike sees or are waiting on the plane in Purgatory are Billy Mays, who is advertising various products, Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Patrick Swayze, Natasha Richardson, Dom DeLuise, Ted Kennedy, Bill Sparkman, John Hughes, Walter Cronkite, Ed McMahon, Adam Goldstein, Arturo Gatti, Bea Arthur, Steve McNair, Ricardo Montalbán, David Carradine, Les Paul, and Oscar G. Mayer, Jr..[2]
- The episode also refers to The Sixth Sense when Ike tells his therapist that he sees dead celebrities, reminiscent of the quotation, "I see dead people."
- The episode features a spiritual medium reminiscent of Tangina Barrons from the film Poltergeist.
- The episode parodies the movie "Little Miss Sunshine" with the children's pagent in the last part of the episode.
- The episode references Continental Express Flight 2816, 47 passengers were stuck in a grounded jet for 6 hours. The passengers were not allowed to leave the plane while it was grounded.
References
- ^ "South Park episode guide". South Park Studios. 2009-10-04. Retrieved 2009-10-04.
- ^ Confirmation needed.