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Kenny is skipping school and the other boys are sure it's because he's hooked on the latest drug craze that's popular with the junior high and under crowd. Meanwhile, Kyle's parents become concerned that their son is getting high when they find contraband in his room. To illustrate just how high you can go, "South Park" pays homage to the 1981 movie, "Heavy Metal." |
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| Originally Aired |
26th March 2008 |
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| Trivia |
- As an homage to the 1981 film Heavy Metal, this episode is, unsurprisingly, awash with references to the movie. Here are just a few of the more obvious ones:
- The songs Heavy Metal (Takin' a Ride) by Don Felder, Heavy Metal by Sammy Hagar, and Radar Rider by Riggs are played when Kenny and Gerald are high. These songs were all on the soundtrack to the movie.
- Kenny drives a car in a barren landscape just as the astronaut does in the film's opening credits sequence.
- The bird-like creature that Kenny rides during his second hallucination is modelled after Taarna's mount.
- The B-17 flying fortress that Gerald is flying is reminiscent of that in the film.
- A statue supporting the breasts of the girl that Kenny and Gerald are fighting for is referred to as the Loc-Nar, the same name as the green stone that plays a role in each of the segments in the film.
- The original film, like many other animated films of the era, had numerous hidden breasts drawn into scenery like clouds. This episode satirizes this by having virtually all of the structures, inhabitants and geography of the the fantasy world sport breasts.
- Cheesing is a parody of the outbreak of cheese heroin in Texas.
- Throughout the series, it is implied that Cartman's cat Mr. Kitty is male, but in Cat Orgy from Season 3, it is established that Kitty is female and in heat.
- When Cartman hides Mr. Kitty in the attic and tells him to write a diary, it is an allusion to Anne Frank, a young Jewish girl that hid in an attic with her family during the Nazi Holocaust.
- Moreover, Cartman taking in cats and hiding them, whilst keeping the diary in mind, is a reference to Schindler's List. When Cartman goes to rescue Rufus and his kittens, he's dressed as Oskar Schindler. Like Oskar Schindler, Cartman also reluctantly takes in more cats even though he cannot accommodate them.
- Gerald taking part in a practice that he was publicly fighting against, accompanied by his sorrowful speech with his wife at his side, is a reference to disgraced former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer. During his time as New York's Attorney General (1999-2006), Spitzer openly and vehemently fought against prostitution rings; in 2008, it was discovered that Spitzer himself was in fact a client of such a ring.
- This is the first time we have seen Gerald without his yarmulke.
- The portrait in Cartman's attic is that of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories.
- When Gerald mentions "getting high off fermenting human feces", this is a reference to the hoax hallucinogenic drug Jenkem, said to be composed of noxious gas formed from fermented human sewage.
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