Imaginationland Episode II

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“Imaginationland Episode II”
South Park episode
Episode no. Season 11
Episode 164
Written by Trey Parker
Matt Stone
Directed by Trey Parker
Production no. 1111
Original airdate October 24, 2007
Season 11 episodes
South Park - Season 11
March 7, 2007 – November 14, 2007
  1. With Apologies to Jesse Jackson
  2. Cartman Sucks
  3. Lice Capades
  4. The Snuke
  5. Fantastic Easter Special
  6. D-Yikes!
  7. Night of the Living Homeless
  8. Le Petit Tourette
  9. More Crap
  10. Imaginationland
  11. Imaginationland Episode II
  12. Imaginationland Episode III
  13. Guitar Queer-o
  14. The List
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"Imaginationland Episode II", or "The Drying of the Balls" (as it appears on DVD), is episode 1111 (#164) of Comedy Central's animated TV series South Park. It originally aired on October 24, 2007.[1]

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[edit] Plot

At the beginning of the episode, Cartman says "Previously on Battlestar Galactica", much like the opening titles of the mentioned program. Butters briefly hallucinates he is home, but finds he is still in Imaginationland. A variety of evil creatures including monsters, horror movie murderers, and comic book super-villains burst through the destroyed barrier gates and repay the terrorists who freed them by killing them before turning their attention on the good creatures. The Mayor urges everyone to flee to the castle in the Gumdrop Forest. Before he can try to get Butters home, the Mayor himself is impaled by a Xenomorph. Butters is then on the run from one evil character after another, (a Predator, Jason Voorhees, Freezer, a 1978-style Cylon, an army of Imperial stormtroopers and Medusa from Clash of the Titans all have a go towards him) When the evil characters have finally ended their rampage, Butters ends up on the run with the Lollipop King and Snarf from Thundercats. The dying Mayor tells them to go to Castle Sunshine and to watch out for the evil characters. They view the evil creatures from a safe distance who have captured Strawberry Shortcake. They assault, torment and jeer her and Jason gouges out one of her eyes, and just as the Minotaur orders to kill her, the Christmas Critters from Cartman's story in the episode Woodland Critter Christmas appear, claiming they can do better. They want to make her eat her eye, then give her AIDS by urinating in her eye socket. They set off to find some AIDS in the forest, much to the other evil characters' stunned surprise.

Meanwhile, Kyle and Stan are being interrogated at The Pentagon. The kids learn of a portal into Imaginationland, controlled by the government. The portal powers up when the boys sing the Mayor's Imagination song, which they quickly realise is difficult to sing (because, even though the lyrics are simple ("Imagination"), the exact intonations are required).

Cartman breaks into the Pentagon and convinces the officials to let him drag Kyle away for the promised oral sex in the conference room. Cartman gloats too long and an alarm interrupts them. The American government had sent in a group of soldiers, as well as Kurt Russell (because he was in "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 the critters from the Christmas story written by Cartman in the Woodland Critter Christmas episode, quickly tries to warn them to flee, but the Woodland Critters gang rape the soldiers before he can. A moment later, ManBearPig breaks through the portal into the Pentagon. He kills two workers and grabs Kyle on the neck. An injured employee reverses the portal, and Manbearpig and Stan are sucked in. Due to the way ManBearPig held Kyle (by the neck), he is asphyxiated and pronounced dead, as not even two zaps from a defibrillator gets his heart going again. Cartman, realising Kyle won't suck his balls if he's dead, gets shocked and angry by this and manages to revive Kyle via CPR.

In Imaginationland, Butters, the Lollipop King, and Snarf arrive at the Castle (which has a very strong resemblance to Rivendell from Lord of the Rings). The guards suspect Butters is connected with the terrorist attack and bring him before the Council of Nine, consisting of the nine most revered of all imaginary characters: Aslan, Gandalf, Glinda, Jesus, Luke Skywalker, Morpheus, Popeye, Wonder Woman, and Zeus. The council meet with Butters, and determine that he is "The Key", a legendary boy who will save them all, much to Butters' disappointment. Butters doesn't like this, but Luke says to him that he has no choice but to do it if he wants to get back home again.

Back in the Pentagon, the general, seeing that the imaginations have gone running wild, orders for a nuke to be launched through the portal. At this time, Kyle awakens in the hospital with Cartman at his side, whose plans for him are still going forward as the episode ends.

[edit] Council of the Nine

[edit] References to popular culture

  • The scene where Cartman is desperately trying to resuscitate Kyle, screaming "Dammit, you've never walked away from anything in your life, now FIGHT!" is drawn from the science-fiction movie The Abyss - specifically, the scene where Ed Harris' character is attempting to resuscitate Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio after she has drowned in water near freezing point.
  • Cartman's dream sequence is similar to the dream sequences from Gladiator and from Final Fantasy.
  • The portal to Imaginationland looks like a stargate from the Stargate franchise. The scene where the portal is introduced even has music like the one from Stargate. When the portal is finally activated, Kurt Russell is sent through as the leader of the special unit tasked with reclaiming control of Imaginationland from the terrorists. When Russell questions why he is part of the team, the general says that it's because he's "in that one movie that was kind of like this".
  • When Butters insists he must return home, the Mayor instructs him to tap his heel together in the same fashion as The Wizard of Oz.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Episode at SouthParkStudios.com


Preceded by
“Imaginationland”		 South Park episodes Followed by
“Imaginationland Episode III”