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* Mooning: When the boys create their video of the Mexican Staring Frog, Kenny faces away from the camera and pulls down his pants, revealing his bare butt.

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* Mooning: {{Mooning}}: When the boys create their video of the Mexican Staring Frog, Kenny faces away from the camera and pulls down his pants, revealing his bare butt.
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* Mooning: When the boys create their video of the Mexican Staring Frog, Kenny faces away from the camera and pulls down his pants, revealing his bare butt.

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* AssholeVictim: The producer for Jesus & Pals is sent to Hell for being a corrupt ratings-chaser.



* CharacterizationClickMoment: Satan initially acts like the CardCarryingVillain he appeared to be in the first season, then switches to LighterAndSofter once it's revealed he's Saddam Hussein's boyfriend. This would continue in ''Bigger, Longer & Uncut'' and every subsequent appearance.



* InsaneTrollLogic: The women in the audience who think that a woman on stage with her husband who managed to survive a near fatal accident should dump her husband.

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* InsaneTrollLogic: InsaneTrollLogic:
** Jimbo tells the audience that shooting wildlife assists in keeping populations to a manageable number, which he sums up as "we need to kill them or they'll ''die''."
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The women in the audience who think that a woman on stage with her husband who managed to survive a near fatal accident should dump her husband.



* OxymoronicBeing: Whoever named the Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka [[ArtisticLicenseGeography must have failed geography]].
* PrecisionFStrike: How Jesus gets the audience to stop rioting and fighting.

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* OxymoronicBeing: Whoever named the Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka [[ArtisticLicenseGeography must have failed geography]].
geography]]. To say nothing of the fact that it was apparently sighted in the snowy region of South Park when both Mexico and Sri Lanka have much warmer climates
* PrecisionFStrike: How Jesus gets the audience to stop rioting and fighting.fighting first by yelling "[[BigShutUp Shut the fuck up!]]", then by taking his own name in vain.



* StylisticSuck: The video the boys send to Uncle Jimbo, with a toy frog, Cartman dressed as an old lady, and Kenny {{Mooning}} the camera. Jimbo and Ned fall for it anyway.

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* StylisticSuck: The video the boys send to Uncle Jimbo, with a toy frog, Cartman dressed as an old lady, and Kenny {{Mooning}} the camera.camera for added laughs. Jimbo and Ned fall for it anyway.
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Mr. Garrison assigns his class a paper on Vietnam, so the boys go see Jimbo and Ned, since they were in Vietnam but the story they tell gets the boys an F– and a week's detention. In retaliation, the boys send in false tapes to Jimbo and Ned's local access hunting show about the Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka, which makes ''Jesus and Pals'' producer try to make her show hipper.

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Mr. Garrison assigns his class a paper on Vietnam, so the boys go see Jimbo and Ned, since they were in Vietnam but the story they tell gets the boys an F– and a week's detention. In retaliation, the boys send in false tapes to Jimbo and Ned's local access hunting show about the Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka, which makes the producer of ''Jesus and Pals'' producer try to make her show hipper.
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'''Original airdate:''' June 10, 1998

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'''Original airdate:''' June 10, 1998
air date:''' 6/10/1998

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* BlatantLies: The producer claiming she couldn't help but overhear Stan and Jimbo confessing to their lies would've been believable if she hadn't still been wearing the device she used to eavesdrop

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* BlatantLies: The producer claiming she couldn't help but overhear Stan and Jimbo confessing to their lies would've been believable if she hadn't still been wearing the device she used to eavesdrop eavesdrop.
** Then there's Jimbo's claim about defeating the entire Viet Cong army.
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* StylisticSuck: The video the boys send to Uncle Jimbo, with a toy frog and Cartman dressed as an old lady. Jimbo and Ned fall for it anyway.

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* StylisticSuck: The video the boys send to Uncle Jimbo, with a toy frog and frog, Cartman dressed as an old lady.lady, and Kenny {{Mooning}} the camera. Jimbo and Ned fall for it anyway.
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* HeroicBSOD: Well, maybe not heroic, but Ned is catatonic due to a psychosamatic effect after staring at the fake frog the boys used to send in the tapes.

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* HeroicBSOD: Well, maybe not heroic, but Ned is catatonic due to a psychosamatic psychosomatic effect after staring at the fake frog the boys used to send in the tapes.
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* BrownNote: The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka is said to kill you immediately if you so much as look into its eyes. It's unknown if this also applies to video recordings, so Jimbo and Ned always avert their eyes when they play supposed sighting of it on their TV.

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Mr. Garrison assigns his class a paper on Vietnam, so the boys go see Jimbo and Ned, since they were in Vietnam but the story they tell gets the boys an F and a week's detention, so the boys get back at them by sending in false tapes to Jimbo and Ned's local access hunting show about the Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka, which makes the producer for Jesus and Pals nervous as she tries to make Jesus and Pals hipper.

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'''Original airdate:''' June 10, 1998

Mr. Garrison assigns his class a paper on Vietnam, so the boys go see Jimbo and Ned, since they were in Vietnam but the story they tell gets the boys an F F– and a week's detention, so detention. In retaliation, the boys get back at them by sending send in false tapes to Jimbo and Ned's local access hunting show about the Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka, which makes the ''Jesus and Pals'' producer for Jesus and Pals nervous as she tries try to make Jesus and Pals her show hipper.



* AccidentalMisnaming: The man in the "Jesus and Pals" audience who calls Jesus Montel, since he seems to think he's at a taping of ''The Montel Williams Show''.

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* AccidentalMisnaming: The man in the "Jesus ''Jesus and Pals" Pals'' audience who calls Jesus Montel, since he seems to think he's at a taping of ''The Montel Williams Show''.



* BlatantLies: The producer claiming she couldn't help but overhear Stan & Jimbo confessing to their lies would've been believable if she hadn't still been wearing the device she used to eavesdrop

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* BlatantLies: The producer claiming she couldn't help but overhear Stan & and Jimbo confessing to their lies would've been believable if she hadn't still been wearing the device she used to eavesdrop



* {{Foreshadowing}}: The episode's ending depicts Satan and Saddam Hussein as lovers, setting up the events of ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut''.
* HeroicBSOD: Well maybe not heroic, but Ned is catatonic due to a psychosamatic effect after staring at the fake frog the boys used to send in the tapes.

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The episode's ending depicts Satan and Saddam Hussein as lovers, setting up the events of ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut''.
''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'', which wouldn't be released for another year.
* HeroicBSOD: Well Well, maybe not heroic, but Ned is catatonic due to a psychosamatic effect after staring at the fake frog the boys used to send in the tapes.



* LaserGuidedKarma: Jesus sends his producer to hell for screwing up the show and making the boys and Jimbo lie for the sake of ratings.

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* LaserGuidedKarma: Jesus sends his producer to hell {{Hell}} for screwing up the show and making the boys and Jimbo lie for the sake of ratings.



* MistakenForProfound: The producer of "Jesus and Pals" thinks Jimbo and Ned's hunt for the titular frog is a brilliant ratings stunt

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* MistakenForProfound: The ''Jesus and Pals'' producer of "Jesus and Pals" thinks Jimbo and Ned's hunt for the titular frog is a brilliant ratings stuntstunt.



* RealityIsUnrealistic: In-universe; while Mr. Garrison dismisses the entirety of Jimbo's story as "some ridiculous lie," in a conversation that Jimbo and Ned later have with their cameraman it's implied that the story was actually mostly true, aside from the bit about defeating the entire Vietcong army.

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* RealityIsUnrealistic: In-universe; while Mr. Garrison dismisses the entirety of Jimbo's story as "some ridiculous lie," lie", in a conversation that Jimbo and Ned later have with their cameraman it's implied that the story was actually mostly true, aside from the bit about defeating the entire Vietcong army.



* ShoutOut: Uncle Jimbo read Ned ''Literature/TheOutsiders'' in the hospital.

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* ShoutOut: Uncle Jimbo read Ned ''Literature/TheOutsiders'' in the hospital.
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* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The map shown during the Vietnam flashback is actually a map of Italy. This might be intentional, considering Jimbo embellished at least part of the story. (Or it may simply be a case of FreezeFrameBonus, as the map isn't on-screen that long.)
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Mr. Garrison assigns his class a paper on Vietnam, so the boys go see Jimbo and Ned, since they were in Vietnam but the story they tell gets the boys an F, so the boys get back at them by sending in false tapes to Jimbo and Ned's local access hunting show about the Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka, which makes the producer for Jesus and Pals nervous as she tries to make Jesus and Pals hipper.

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Mr. Garrison assigns his class a paper on Vietnam, so the boys go see Jimbo and Ned, since they were in Vietnam but the story they tell gets the boys an F, F and a week's detention, so the boys get back at them by sending in false tapes to Jimbo and Ned's local access hunting show about the Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka, which makes the producer for Jesus and Pals nervous as she tries to make Jesus and Pals hipper.
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* WarHasNeverBeenSoMuchFun: Jimbo and Ned tell the boys that their camp in Vietnam had a water park, and a conversation later in the episode seems to confirm that. Also, Mr. Garrison fantasies about being in the war and getting washed by other soldiers, an early example of his latent homosexuality.

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* WarHasNeverBeenSoMuchFun: Jimbo and Ned tell the boys that their camp in Vietnam had a water park, and a conversation later in the episode with another veteran seems to confirm that. Also, Mr. Garrison fantasies about being in the war and getting washed by other soldiers, an early example of his latent homosexuality.
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* BlatantLies: The producer claiming she couldn't help but overhear Stan & Jimbo confessing to their lies would've been believable if she hadn't still been wearing the device she used to eavesdrop
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* MistakenForProfound: The producer of "Jesus and Pals" thinks Jimbo and Ned's hunt for the titular frog is a brilliant ratings stunt
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* TheDreaded: The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka. So much that thinking he's seen one sends Ned into catatonic shock.


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* OxymoronicBeing: Whoever named the Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka [[ArtisticLicenseGeography must have failed geography]].


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* StylisticSuck: The video the boys send to Uncle Jimbo, with a toy frog and Cartman dressed as an old lady. Jimbo and Ned fall for it anyway.


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* TerrifyingPetStoreRat: Spoofed with the Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka in the boy's video, which isn't even a real frog, just a stuffed toy on a string.


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* WarHasNeverBeenSoMuchFun: Jimbo and Ned tell the boys that their camp in Vietnam had a water park, and a conversation later in the episode seems to confirm that. Also, Mr. Garrison fantasies about being in the war and getting washed by other soldiers, an early example of his latent homosexuality.
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* PlotHole: The boys confess to sending in all the footage of the staring frog to get back at Jimbo for lying to them, however the first video of the frog was shown before Jimbo lied
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* PlotHole: The boys confess to sending in all the footage of the staring frog to get back at Jimbo for lying to them, however the first video of the frog was shown before Jimbo lied
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* ShoutOut: Uncle Jimbo read Ned TheOutsiders in the hospital

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* ShoutOut: Uncle Jimbo read Ned TheOutsiders ''Literature/TheOutsiders'' in the hospitalhospital.
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* ShoutOut: Uncle Jimbo read Ned TheOutsiders in the hospital
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* TheyKilledKenny: Kenny's pulled apart by audience members at Jesus and Pals rioting.

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* TheyKilledKenny: TheyKilledKennyAgain: Kenny's pulled apart by audience members at Jesus and Pals rioting.
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* PrecisionFStrike: How Jesus gets the audience to stop rioting and fighting.
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* TheyKilledKenny: Kenny's pulled apart by audience members at Jesus and Pals rioting.
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* AccidentalMisnaming: The woman in the "Jesus and Pals" audience who calls Jesus Montel, since she seems to think she's at a taping of ''The Montel Williams Show''.

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* AccidentalMisnaming: The woman man in the "Jesus and Pals" audience who calls Jesus Montel, since she he seems to think she's he's at a taping of ''The Montel Williams Show''.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The episode's ending depicts Satan and Saddam Hussein as lovers, setting up the events of ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut''.


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* RealityIsUnrealistic: In-universe; while Mr. Garrison dismisses the entirety of Jimbo's story as "some ridiculous lie," in a conversation that Jimbo and Ned later have with their cameraman it's implied that the story was actually mostly true, aside from the bit about defeating the entire Vietcong army.
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* AccidentalMisnaming: The woman in the "Jesus and Pals" audience who calls Jesus Montel, since she seems to think she's at a taping of ''The Montel Williams Show''.
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Mr. Garrison assigns his class a paper on Vietnam, so the boys go see Jimbo and Ned, since they were in Vietnam but the story they tell gets the boys an F, so the boys get back at them by sending in false tapes to Jimbo and Ned's local access hunting show about the Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka, which makes the producer for Jesus and Pals nervous as she tries to make Jesus and Pals hipper.

!!This episode contains the following:
* HeroicBSOD: Well maybe not heroic, but Ned is catatonic due to a psychosamatic effect after staring at the fake frog the boys used to send in the tapes.
* InsaneTrollLogic: The women in the audience who think that a woman on stage with her husband who managed to survive a near fatal accident should dump her husband.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Jesus sends his producer to hell for screwing up the show and making the boys and Jimbo lie for the sake of ratings.
* LoopholeAbuse: Since they can't use "It's coming right for us!" to justify their hunting anymore, they now have to "thin out their numbers." or else the animals they hunt will die.
* YoungerAndHipper: What the producer of Jesus and Pals tries to do to the show.

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