Crack Baby Athletic Association
"Crack Baby Athletic Association" | |
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The Black Eyed Peas | |
Production code | 1505 |
Original air date | May 25, 2011 |
"Crack Baby Athletic Association" is the fifth episode of the
Plot
While watching an episode of Terrance and Phillip, Stan and Kyle see the "saddest commercial ever" presented by
The business quickly prospers, and the group prepares to cut a deal with EA Sports for a video game based upon their sport. Despite Cartman insisting that they are a nonprofit organization, Kyle tells him that he is uncomfortable with the idea of selling the babies' likenesses to EA Sports while giving them nothing, so Cartman promises to find out how "other companies get away with it". He goes to the athletic department at the University of Colorado dressed as a Southern planter and referring to the university student athletes as "slaves", but gets no advice on how to treat his own "slaves" from the affronted president. Kyle comes up with a plan to compensate the crack babies by spending 30% of the money from the deal on a state-of-the-art orphanage and presents it to Cartman; much to Kyle's surprise, Cartman actually approves of the scheme, due to the public goodwill it will generate. Meanwhile, Clyde and Craig try to get in touch with the guitarist Slash in an attempt to have him perform a halftime show at an upcoming crack baby fight. However, they discover that Slash is actually a make-believe character based on a Dutch legend named "Vunter Slaush", and that the various incarnations of Slash they have encountered are just their parents in costume. This explains why Slash appears to be everywhere at once, even playing a show in Moscow and in Colorado Springs in the same afternoon.
When the deal with EA Sports is signed, the boys learn from their contract with
Reception
Ramsey Isler of IGN gave the episode a rating of 7.0 of 10, stating that it was "an average episode – not terribly bad, but not very good either". He criticized the show for its lack of depth regarding the controversy with the NCAA not compensating its players.[3]
Sean O'Neal of The A.V. Club gave the episode a B+ rating, saying that while the satire was a bit too preachy, the episode was redeemed by the "cartoonishly ludicrous" notion of Slash as a Santa Claus figure.[5]
The morning after the episode aired, Slash tweeted "I'm not......real?" followed by a sad emoji.[6]
References
- ^ "Crack Baby Athletic Association (Season 15, Episode 5) - Episode Guide". South Park Studios. 2011-05-25. Retrieved 2011-05-29.[permanent dead link]
- ^ South Park. Emmys.com. Retrieved November 3, 2011.
- ^ Isler, Ramsey (May 26, 2011). "South Park: "Crack Baby Athletic Association" Review". IGN. Retrieved March 12, 2022.
- Whitlock, Jason. "True reform isn't part of NCAA's agenda" Archived 2012-06-02 at the Wayback Machine. Fox Sports. August 11, 2011
- ^ O'Neal, Sean (May 25, 2011). "South Park: Crack Baby Athletic Association". The A.V. Club. Retrieved March 12, 2022.
- ^ @Slash (26 May 2011). "I'm not......real? : (" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
External links
- "Crack Baby Athletic Association" Full episode at South Park Studios
- "Crack Baby Athletic Association" at IMDb