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Stan's dog, Sparky, turns out to be gay, and runs
away after overhearing Stan say he wants a butch dog. The boys practice
for their game agains the Middle Park Cows. Stan misses practice and
most of the game looking for his dog, and finds Big Gay Al. Sparky won't
return with Stan until Stan learns a thing or two about tolerance towards
homosexuals. |
| Originally Aired |
3rd September 1997 |
| How Kenny Dies |
Killed on the football
field |
| Guest Starring |
George Clooney (Voice of "Sparky") |
DVD Commentary |
Download here |
| Trivia |
- This was the first episode to feature Token, but here he was white.
- The song that plays over the end credits is "Now You're a Man" by DVDA, which is also the theme song from Trey and Matt's movie Orgazmo.
- This episode was nominated for an Emmy Award. One year before, The Simpsons won an Emmy for the episode "Homer's Phobia", which also dealt with homosexuality.
- When this episode first aired on Comedy Central, one of the sports announcer's lines was, "And the South Park Cows are absolutely getting molested by the Cowboys. I haven't seen this many children molested since Michael Jackson came to town". On all re-runs, video, and DVD versions of this episode, the line is cut to remove "Michael Jackson".
- The disappearance of Big Gay Al at the end of the episode is a spoof of Dr. Lao's disappearance at the end of the movie 7 Faces of Dr. Lao.
- The real John Stamos has no brothers.
- In the classroom, bogus mathematic equations are written on the blackboard such as "pi radius squared equals two pi radius" which is not correct.
- In this episode we see the first appearance of Butters. He's seen
jumping up and down when Stan is going up on the podium to give his
speech about gayness
- Sparky being gay comes from a gay dog Isaac Hayes (Chef) and his
friends used to tease when they were teenagers.
- Brian Boitano (of Jesus vs. Santa fame) makes a guest appearance.
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