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{{Infobox Television episode |
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| Title = Imaginationland Episode II |
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| Series = South Park |
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| Image = [[Image:Cartman-1111.jpg|200 px|{{deletable image-caption|1=Saturday, 10 November 2007}}]] |
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| Caption = [[Eric Cartman]] dreams about how [[Kyle Broflovski|Kyle]] has not fulfilled his agreement to suck his [[testicle|balls]]. |
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| Season =11 |
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| Episode = 164 |
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| Airdate = [[October 24]], [[2007 in television|2007]] |
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| Production = 1111 |
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| Episode list = [[List of South Park episodes|List of ''South Park'' episodes]] |
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| Season list = {{Infobox South Park season 11 episode list}}| Prev = |
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"'''Imaginationland Episode II'''" is episode 1111 (#164) of [[Comedy Central]]'s [[South Park]]. It originally aired on [[October 24]], [[2007]].<ref>[http://www.southparkstudios.com/show/episodes/display_episode.php?episodeid=1111| Episode at SouthParkStudios.com]</ref> |
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==Plot== |
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{{Plot|date=November 2007}} |
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[[Butters Stotch|Butters]] has a dream that he is home in his bed, but is quickly jolted out of it to find himself still in Imaginationland, having blacked out just as the evil imaginary creatures are invading through the destroyed Barrier. Creatures, including horror movie murderers [[Pinhead (Hellraiser)|Pinhead]], [[Freddy Krueger]] and [[Jason Voorhees]], [[Imperial stormtrooper|Imperial Stormtroopers]], [[Cylon (Battlestar Galactica)|Cylons]], [[Christine (film)|Christine]] and monsters, quickly attack the [[Al-Qaeda|terrorists]] who freed them, and then attack the good imaginary characters, including the Mayor, who is fatally wounded by a [[Xenomorph_%28Alien%29|Xenomorph]]. Prior to his death, the Mayor tells everyone to flee into the Gumdrop Forest, and to find the Castle of Sunshine. Butters flees with the others into the woods, as the monsters quickly conquer the destroyed Imaginationland. |
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Meanwhile, [[Kyle Broflovski|Kyle]] and [[Stan Marsh|Stan]] have been taken by [[the Pentagon]] and are being interrogated about their trip into Imaginationland. The boys, however, are not aware of how the Mayor managed to bring them there, and thus cannot help them. During the interrogation, one of the interrogators lets slip that the American government has a [[stargate|portal constructed]] that leads to Imaginationland, originally built during the [[Cold War]], but which has never worked. The generals show the portal to the boys, and during further questioning, mention that the Mayor had sung the "Imagination Song" on their trip to Imaginationland. As the two sing the song (which Stan remarks was "really long and really stupid"), the portal begins to respond, and after carefully remembering the song exactly (though the lyrics were simple, the exact intonations were required), the portal activates, and the military plans to go through it to attack the terrorists, unaware that they themselves have already been defeated by the various evil imaginary creatures. |
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Back in Imaginationland, the various evil creatures debate what to do, and invade the Lollipop Forest, beginning to attack the remaining good imaginary creatures; Butters and his companions manage to evade them. The most disturbing of the evil creatures are revealed to be the [[Woodland Critter Christmas|Satanic Woodland Critters]], who were imagined for a story by [[Cartman]] himself in another episode, [[Woodland Critter Christmas]]. Meanwhile, back in the real world, Cartman has arrived in [[Washington, D.C.]], and calls the Pentagon to demand to know Kyle's location. The same agent that had slipped the secrets to the boys winds up telling him, and Cartman goes to get Kyle. He finally manages to burst in, and shows the generals their contract. The generals then allow Cartman to take Kyle to a conference room to suck his balls. Cartman spends a great deal of time gloating, however, while Kyle simply wants to do it quickly so he can find out what is happening; finally, Cartman takes so long that a red alert is called, and the boys have to flee back to the Portal Room. |
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The American government sends in a group of soldiers, as well as [[Kurt Russell]] (because he was in "[[Stargate (film)|that one movie that's kind of like this]],") into Imaginationland. They radio back information that they found a group of "talking woodland Christmas critters;" Stan, recognizing them from Cartman's story, quickly tries to warn them to flee, but the soldiers are [[Types_of_rape#Group_rape|gang rape]]d before he can. A moment later the [[ManBearPig]] monster, breaks through the portal into the Pentagon, and begins to kill numerous workers before grabbing Kyle. A surviving government worker finally manages to reverse the portal so that it sucks ManBearPig back into Imaginationland, but it sucks Stan in as well. ManBearPig drops Kyle in the confusion, but he is badly [[asphyxia]]ted, and is pronounced dead. Cartman, in a way which evokes a similar scene from the film [[The Abyss]] screams at Kyle and attempts to perform [[Cardiopulmonary resuscitation|CPR]] in a desperate struggle to revive him. With Cartman on the verge of tears, Kyle weakly begins to move and is taken to the medical ward. |
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In Imaginationland, Butters arrives at the Castle of Sunshine. However, the guard is suspicious that, as someone from the real world, he was likely involved with the terrorists. When Butters mentions that he was involved with capturing a leprechaun in the real world, the guard arrests him and leads him to the Council of Nine. The Council is a group made up of the wisest of all good fictional characters. The council consists of [[Aslan]], [[Gandalf|Gandalf]], [[Glinda|Glinda the Good Witch]], [[Jesus (South Park)|Jesus]], [[Luke Skywalker]], [[Morpheus (The Matrix)|Morpheus]], [[Popeye]], [[Wonder Woman]], and [[Zeus]]. This council, meanwhile, has apparently been offered by the evil creatures to flee unharmed, and are debating whether or not to trust the promise. When Butters walks in, the council decides that the Mayor may have brought Butters into Imaginationland to help them fight the terrorists, and declare that he must be their hero. He is reluctant, but forced to accept. |
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Back in the real world, the American government has determined that the only way to stop the terrorists is to launch a nuclear missile into the imagination portal, thus "nuking our imagination," not realizing (or not caring) that both Stan and Butters are still inside. Meanwhile, Kyle lies sleeping in a hospital bed after his near-death experience. Cartman is standing by Kyle's side as he wakes up, holding their contract and anticipating Kyle making good on their agreement. |
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==Reception== |
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The episode drew in 3.6 million viewers for Comedy Central.{{Fact|date=November 2007}} |
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==Goofs== |
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The first several showings were different from recent reruns. In the scene when Kyle nearly died, Cartmen screams, "Nooo!!" However, the voice was left uneditied. Instead of Cartmen's normal, high-pitched voice, it was Trey Parker's voice that was heard, who does Cartmen's voice. Later runs have his voice edited. Also, Alsan's voice is deepened in later runs. |
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==Allusions== |
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*The scene where Cartman is walking through the wheat field makes reference to ''[[Gladiator (film)|Gladiator]]'' when the character [[Maximus]] walks through the tall wheat of his homeland, the quote "every night the dream is the same" comes from [[Terminator 2: Judgment Day]]. |
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*The Mayor of Imaginationland telling Butters mockingly to click his heels three times to return home is a reference to ''[[The Wizard of Oz (adaptations)|The Wizard of Oz]]'' where the same method is used by Dorothy and Toto to return to Kansas. |
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*The whole scene with the gate way to imagination land is a reference to [[Stargate]] |
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*The scene where Cartman revives Kyle is taken from another similar resuscitation scene in the film ''[[The Abyss]]'' even using the same dialog from the movie ''"You never backed away from anything in your life! Now fight!"''. |
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*Butters' meeting with the Council of Nine is a direct reference to the scene in [[Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]] , where Frodo is taken to [[Rivendell]]. |
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*When [[Butters Stotch|Butters]], [[Snarf]], and [[The Lollipop King]] are fleeing through the Gumdrop Forest, the path they are using is the exact same walkway from the [[Candyland]] boardgame. |
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==Character references in Imaginationland II== |
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*[[Aslan]]<ref name="named">Mentioned by name in the episode.</ref> |
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*[[Akuma (Street Fighter)|Akuma]] |
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*[[Little Shop of Horrors (musical)|Audrey II]] |
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*a [[Ghosthunter#Ghosts|Blue Spook]] |
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*a [[Care Bear]] |
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*[[Cerberus]] |
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*The [[Creature from the Black Lagoon]] |
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*[[Charlie Brown |Charlie Brown]] |
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*[[Christine (film)|Christine]] |
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*[[Cthulhu]] |
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*[[Cylon (Battlestar Galactica)|Cylons]] |
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*a [[Cyclops]] |
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*[[Darth Maul]] |
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*a [[Winged monkeys|flying monkey]] |
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*[[Frankenstein's monster]] |
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*[[Flash (comics)|The Flash]] |
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*[[Freddy Krueger]]<ref name="named"/> |
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*[[Fu Manchu]] |
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*[[Freeza]] |
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*[[Gandalf|Gandalf the Grey]] |
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*[[General Otmin]] |
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*[[Glinda|Glinda the Good Witch]]<ref name="named"/> |
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*[[Gremlins|Gizmo]] |
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*[[Goro (Mortal Kombat)|Goro]] |
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*[[Green Goblin]] |
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*The [[Headless Horseman]] |
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*[[H.R. Pufnstuf]] |
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*[[Imperial stormtrooper|Imperial Stormtroopers]] |
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*[[Jason Voorhees]]<ref name="named"/> |
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*[[Jesus (South Park)|Jesus]]<ref name="named"/> |
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*[[SpaceCamp|Jinx]] |
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*[[Joker (comics)|The Joker]] |
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*[[Jiang Shi]] |
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*[[Joseph Smith]] |
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*[[Khan Noonien Singh]] based on his [[Star Trek II]] appearance |
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*[[Kraken]] from [[Clash of the Titans]] |
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*[[King Ghidorah]] |
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*[[Link (The Legend of Zelda)|Link]] |
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*Lollipop King<ref name="named"/> |
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*[[Luke Skywalker]]<ref name="named"/> |
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*[[Mario]] (wearing a hat with an E instead of a M) |
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*[[ManBearPig]] |
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*[[Medusa]] (as depicted in the movie "[[Clash of the Titans]]" |
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*[[Legend (film)|Meg Mucklebones]] |
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*[[Mighty Mouse]] |
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*[[Mordred]] (as depicted in the movie ''[[Excalibur (film)|Excalibur]]'') |
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*[[Morpheus (The Matrix)|Morpheus]]<ref name="named"/> |
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*[[Mr. Men]] |
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*[[Orko]] |
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*An Orc (Animated version, "[[The Hobbit]]")<ref name="named"/> |
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*[[Perseus]] |
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*[[Pinhead (Hellraiser)|Pinhead]] |
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*[[Popeye]]<ref name="named"/> |
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*[[Red Hot Catholic Love|The Queen Spider]] |
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*[[Robin Hood]] |
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*[[Ronald McDonald]] |
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*[[Sagat]] |
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*a [[List of programs and machines in the Matrix series#Sentinels|Sentinel]] |
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*a [[Skeksis]] |
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*[[ThunderCats#The Snarfs|Snarf]]<ref name="named"/> |
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*[[Strawberry Shortcake]]<ref name="named"/> |
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*a [[Terminator (character)|T-800]] |
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*Tooekneee |
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*Ō-Totoro from ''[[My Neighbor Totoro]]'' |
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*a [[Tripod (The War of the Worlds)|Tripod]] (from ''[[War of the Worlds (2005 film)|War of the Worlds]]'') |
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*[[Tron (character)|Tron]] and [[Tron (film)|Flynn]] serve as guards in the Castle of Sunshine, although their uniforms also sport some tetrominoes on the chest (a reference to ''[[Tetris]]'') |
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*[[Ogre (Tekken)|True Ogre]] |
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*[[V.I.N.CENT]] |
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*[[Violator (comics)|Violator]] |
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*[[Wario]] (with a V on his hat rather than a W) |
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*[[Woodland Critter Christmas|The Woodland Critters]]<ref name="named"/> |
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*[[Wonder Woman]]<ref name="named"/> |
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*a [[Xenomorph (Alien)|Xenomorph]]<ref name="named"/> |
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*a [[Predator (alien)|Yautja]]<ref name="named"/> |
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*[[Zeus]]<ref name="named"/> |
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*Zylyn from [[Space Rangers (TV series)]] |
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==References== |
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{{Reflist}} |
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{{Episode navigation|parent=[[List of South Park episodes|''South Park'' episodes]]|prev=[[Imaginationland]]|next=[[Imaginationland Episode III]]}} |
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[[Category:South Park episodes: Season 11]] |
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[[Category:Crossover fiction]] |
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[[Category:United States popular history]] |
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