Die Hippie, Die
"Die Hippie, Die" | |
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South Park episode | |
Episode no. | Season 9 Episode 2 |
Directed by | Trey Parker |
Written by | Trey Parker |
Featured music | "Raining Blood" by Slayer |
Production code | 902 |
Original air date | March 16, 2005 |
"Die Hippie, Die" is the second episode in the ninth season of the American animated television series South Park. The 127th episode overall, it originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on March 16, 2005. In the episode, Cartman works to rid South Park from an infestation of hippies. The episode parodies the 2003 film The Core.
Plot
Cartman has begun to run a 'pest control' service to rid the town of hippies. Having studied them in his quest to eradicate them, he deduces they are about to start a music festival in South Park, but his attempts to warn the town council fail, and he is arrested soon afterwards for imprisoning 63 hippies in his basement.
The town of South Park is soon invaded by the largest population of hippies in history, and the music festival threatens to destroy the town. A few of them from the
After seeing the chaos that the eccentric hippies are creating, the guilt-ridden mayor shoots herself in the head (she survives, and appears later in the strategy room when Cartman is enacting his plan). Stan's parents know where the kids are, but when they realized what they did in
Meanwhile, Stan, Kyle and Kenny realize that the hippies are doing nothing to oppose the corporations that they have demonized and that their idea of a perfect society parallels the currently existing one. They try to leave but the crowd is 7 miles (11 km) in radius and Stan's efforts to talk sense into the hippies only worsen matters. Cartman, aided by a scientist (Randy), an engineer (
Production
According to the DVD commentary for "Die Hippie, Die", the episode is a spoof of the 2003 film The Core. Trey Parker and Matt Stone wanted to mix a "really terrible" movie like The Core with music festivals like Burning Man, Bonnaroo, and Woodstock.[1]
In the first segment of the episode where Cartman is rounding up hippies, Cartman was originally dressed as Duane Chapman from the television series Dog the Bounty Hunter. However, Cartman's appearance was overhauled at the "last minute" because Parker and Stone felt that not many viewers would understand the reference. Cartman would later be dressed as Chapman in the season 10 episode "Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy".[1]
This is the final episode of the entire series in which Isaac Hayes provided new dialogue for the character Chef.
Reception
The episode is the subject of the opening chapter of David Sirota's 2011 book Back to Our Future. Sirota argues that Cartman's character can be read as encapsulating the 1980s conservative backlash against 1960s popular culture.[2]
Slayer guitarist Kerry King found the episode humorous and expressed his interest in the show, mentioning it in an interview, saying "It was good to see the song being put to good use. If we can horrify some hippies, we've done our job."
References
- ^ a b Parker, Trey; Stone, Matt (2005). South Park season 9 DVD commentary for the episode "Die Hippie, Die" (DVD). Comedy Central.
- ISBN 978-0-345-51878-1.
External links
- "Die Hippie, Die" Full episode at South Park Studios
- "Die Hippie, Die" at IMDb