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Cartman's crank calling himself from the future. Cartman's stuck in a future where otters ride ostriches. Last week Eric Cartman froze himself in an attempt to make his three-week wait for a hot, new, gaming device pass quickly. A freak accident landed him over 500 years in the future and now he's stuck there. The future is a tumultuous place with warring factions, angry sea otters and no Nintendo. Will Cartman find a way back to his own time? |
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| Originally Aired |
8th November 2006 |
| How Kenny Dies |
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| Guest Starring |
Kyle McCulloch (Voice of Unknown), April Stewart (Voice of Unknown) and Juan Kimmelini (Voice of Unknown) |
| Mini Commentary |
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| Trivia |
- The opening segment and music, as in the previous episode, is a direct parody of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, right down to the time meter, theme music, and logo.
- New New Hampshire was shown as being similar to Washington D.C. from the dystopian film Logan's Run. The name is a parody of the (particularly American) convention of adding the word 'new' to existing place names to form a new place name.
- The XII may well be a reference to Final Fantasy XII which was a special corporate sponsor of the initial episode in the story arc Go God Go.
- A few of the evolved sea otters are seen in hovering thrones resembling those of the Halo series' Covenant High Prophets; the Wise One's headdress also resembles that of the High Prophets in Halo 2.
- The M41A Pulse Rifle from the 1986 sci-fi/action movie Aliens is seen in the hands of the sea otters.
- The army of ostrich-riding otters, along with the horn-blast music, references the ape cavalry in Planet of the Apes. This is also similar to the Ostrich Horses used by Earthbenders in Avatar: The Last Airbender.
- The uniform Eric Cartman is wearing while stealing the prank calling device resembles the uniform worn by the electrical engineers in the futuristic sci-fi movie Brazil (1985).
- One of the boys using the time-phone Cartman eventually steals tells the man who he is prank calling, "I'm a pepper, and I was wondering if you would like to be a pepper too." This is a direct reference to a slogan used to promote Dr. Pepper soft drinks.
- In the scene with the close-up of the Crank Prank Time-Phone box, the words "Mike Hunt" can be seen on the box.
- The Crank Prank Time-Phone is made by Zazbro, likely a parody of Hasbro, a real-life toy company.
- The background sound used in the future after Cartman breaks up Mrs. Garrison and Richard Dawkins is the background ambience from the holographics room on seaQuest DSV.
- Cartman has a dog robot that follows him around called K-10, which changes later in the episode to a cat called Kit-9. If the two ending letters of these names are switched, they make sense. K-10 would become K-9 (canine), and Kit-9 would become Kit-10 (kitten). K-10 is also reminiscent of Dr. Who's K-9.
- The New New Hampshire Museum of Technology resembles the ruined Delphi Museum in the Battlestar Galactica episode "Kobol's Last Gleaming".
- The ultimate question posed in this episode - what atheists should call themselves - is a take on a real movement wanting to call atheists "Brights".
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