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A winning season and overzealous parents threaten to ruin the entire summer, when the boys of South Park head to the State Championship. The kids desperately want an end to the boring baseball season. The problem is they've won so many games that now they're in the playoffs. Just one loss would mean the season's finished and they'd be free from America's favorite pastime for the entire summer. |
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| Originally Aired |
6th April 2005 |
| How Kenny Dies |
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| Guest Starring |
Juan Kimmelini (Voice of Unknown) |
| Mini Commentary |
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| Trivia |
- The episode contains numerous references to the Rocky series of films:
- Randy's attempted training montage is a reference to the 1976 film, Rocky.
Randy wakes up early wearing a hooded sweatshirt and sweatpants. He cracks open some eggs and pours them into a blender as if to drink them like Rocky did, but then he pours them in a frying pan to make an omelette.
- An off-key version of "Rocky's Theme" can be heard playing at certain parts throughout the episode.
- The conversation between Randy and Sharon in the bedroom closely matches that in the 1982 film Rocky III, in which Rocky say he isn't going to fight.
- The fight between Randy and Bat Dad is references the 1990 film Rocky V: When Randy gets knocked out fighting Bat Dad, he sees Mickey, Rocky's dead trainer, yelling at him to get up.
- The blond-haired boy sitting next to Kyle in the restaurant is Kenny. This is the first time since The Jeffersons he's been seen without his hood on.
- The song Randy trains to is You're the Best by Joe Esposito, the training montage song used in The Karate Kid.
- The pitcher on the Denver team (with the mustache) resembles Danny Almonte, a fourteen year old who pitched a "perfect game" in a little league game. It subsequently emerged that Almonte was registered as being two years younger than he actually was, thus disqualifying him from competing in little league competitions.
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