Simpsons Already Did It
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| “Simpsons Already Did It” | |
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| South Park episode | |
 The Sea People build a statue honoring their big-boned god. |
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| Episode no. | Season 6 Episode 86 |
| Written by | Trey Parker Glasgow Phillips Matt Stone |
| Directed by | Trey Parker |
| Production no. | 607 |
| Original airdate | June 26, 2002 |
| Season 6 episodes | |
| South Park - Season 6 March 6, 2002 – December 11, 2002 |
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"Simpsons Already Did It" is the seventh episode in the sixth season of the Comedy Central series South Park. It originally aired on June 26, 2002. This episode debuts an alternate version of the opening sequence for season 6. It is mostly the same as the one used up until the episode Professor Chaos, except for inclusion of clips from that episode, and the inclusion of Tweek in the spot of Butters. Butters, as Professor Chaos, comes in and knocks down the “South Park” sign at the end.
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[edit] Plot
Cartman excitedly shows Kyle, Stan, and Tweek an advertisement he found for "Sea People" (a parody of Sea-Monkeys). Cartman (led along by images from the advert) imagines them to be a race of fish-form people similar to mermaids who will "take me away from this crappy god damn planet full of hippies." He convinces everyone, including a very skeptical Kyle, to chip in so they can buy them.
That night, Cartman dreams (and sings) about going to live among the Sea People, so that by the time morning comes he is very worked up about it and thus quite disappointed when the Sea People turn out to be nothing more than brine shrimp. In order to get at least some amusement from their purchase, the boys decide to put them in Ms. Choksondik's coffee. She then dies (as had been announced in the previous episode two months before).
Upon hearing on TV that semen had been discovered in the teacher's stomach, the boys come to the conclusion that they inadvertently killed Ms. Choksondik with their "sea men." That night, they go to the morgue to steal the sea men evidence, fearful that they'll "find the women too!" Eventually, Chef explains to them that there is a difference between "sea men/semen" and "Sea People", and that the brine shrimp couldn't have killed their teacher. By this time, the semen they recovered had been added to the Sea People remaining in Cartman's aquarium. To his extreme surprise, when Cartman wakes up the next morning he discovers that the semen have caused the Sea People to rapidly evolve into a thriving society of about Sumerian or Babylonian technological advancement, which leads him to propose his own Theory of Composite Dynamics: "Sea-People + Sea-men = Sea-Ciety."
Meanwhile, Butters, in his evil alter-ego persona Professor Chaos, is still trying to figure out a way to bring disarray to the town. When he plots to block out the sun, his assistant, General Disarray, informs him that it mirrors a plot of Mr. Burns' from The Simpsons. Frustrated, Butters abandons the idea and instead decides to cut the head off of the town's central statue — which mirrors Bart Simpson's decapitation of Springfield's Jebediah Springfield statue. On the news report, the newscaster interprets Butters' vandalism as a homage to The Simpsons and even reports that the police are not going to investigate the crime because they want the statue to remain headless as a tribute to The Simpsons. Butters continues to devise other, increasingly outlandish, evil schemes, but Dougie keeps pointing out that every one of Butters' plans have also already been done on The Simpsons.
In an attempt to come up with an original evil plot, Butters watches every single episode before introducing his newest evil plan: build a machine that replaces the cherry centers of chocolate covered cherries with rancid mayonnaise (a plot that Dougie/General Disarray dismisses as being too unorignial to appear on The Simpsons). Right as Butters is about to put his device into use, a Simpsons commercial announces that Bart is going to do the exact same thing in that night's episode. Butters has a nervous breakdown and begins to picture the town in the animation style of The Simpsons.
Back at the Cartman household, the boys have bought more Sea People, a larger aquarium, and several gallons of semen. Their Sea-Ciety continues to evolve, into an Ancient Greek-esque civilization, and much to Cartman's delight they begin to worship him as a god, even building a statue.
Stan and Kyle invite Butters, along with others, to come see the aquarium. Hysterical, Butters realizes that the Sea-Ciety plot is very similar to that of the Treehouse of Horror VII short "The Genesis Tub", wherein Lisa Simpson brings to life a civilization in a tooth. The boys don't see much problem with this, noting that in its 20-season run The Simpsons has done everything, so worrying about that is pointless. Chef then points out that they in turn borrowed their ideas from elsewhere. Butters understands and everyone quickly returns to their normal appearance. Meanwhile the Sea People on the other side of the aquarium begin to worship Tweek, leading to a holy war, complete with suicide bombings. Only minutes later they develop nuclear weapons and completely destroy themselves and the tank. (Which is similar to the Futurama episode Godfellas which predated this episode by a few months)
[edit] Censorship
- When Cartman explains how he got the semen from the guy on the street, his line "He just made me close my eyes and suck it out of a hose" was cut from syndicated showings, along with a later discussion between Cartman and Stan about the same incident.
[edit] Cultural references
- In the beginning of the episode, Stan, Kyle, and Tweek make a snow man, up until Tweek refuses to put on the snowman's nose because he fears it might come to life and kill all of them, Stan comforts him by saying, "C'mon, when has that ever happened, except for that one time?" This is a reference to the very first South Park animated short, "The Spirit of Christmas: Jesus vs Frosty."
- In the morgue is a fetus labelled 'Hitler'.
- Tweek sings MC Hammer's famous song to remember the code word, Hammertime, when they are breaking into the morgue.
- Cartman's exclamation of "Oh, the humanity" when the sea people destroy their tank following the suicide bombings, is a direct quotation from Herbert Morrison, in his commentary at the destruction of the LZ 129 Hindenburg.
- Cartman's 'Sea People' shows striking resemblance to the short story "Sandkings" by George R.R.Martin (Omni August,1979) about a race of insect like creatures in a terrarium who fight wars and "worship" their owners by carving faces in the sides of their castles.
[edit] Simpsons references
Butters’ schemes and The Simpsons episodes they reflect:
- Block out the sun — “Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)”
- Cut off the head of the town statue — “The Telltale Head”
- Offer to build the town an unsafe monorail and skip town with the money — “Marge vs. the Monorail”
- Start a website that spreads rumors about the townspeople — “The Computer Wore Menace Shoes”
- Plant a fake angel skeleton as an artifact — “Lisa the Skeptic”
- Bring the World Cup to South Park so the fans riot — “The Cartridge Family”
- Shake up all the beer cans as to cause a massive explosion — “So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show”
- Forget world domination and just run away and join the circus — “Homerpalooza" and "Bart Carny”
[edit] References
[edit] External Links
- Simpsons Already Did It on the South Park Studios Episode Guide
| Preceded by “Professor Chaos” |
South Park episodes | Followed by “Red Hot Catholic Love” |
