History Recap / SouthParkS2E7CityOnTheEdgeOfForever

* ShoutOut: The literal RedShirt kid is obvious, but the title is also the same as one of ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''' [[Recap/StarTrekS1E28TheCityOnTheEdgeOfForever most famous episodes]].

* AdultFear: All of the kids on the bus have vanished and their parents have no idea where they are and think they've run away.

* AdultsAreUseless: All of the parents immediately come to the idea that all of their kids just ran away, and set up a campaign begging them to come home. The kids lampshade why they didn't just try searching for them.

'''Airdate:''' June 17, 1998

* ShoutOut: The literal RedShirt kid is obvious, but the title is also the same as one the original ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''' [[Recap/StarTrekS1E28TheCityOnTheEdgeOfForever most famous episodes]].

* ShoutOut: The literal RedShirt kid is obvious, but the title is also the same as one the original ''Series/StarTrek'''s [[Recap/StarTrekS1E28TheCityOnTheEdgeOfForever most famous episodes]].

* AllJustADream: The episode twists the conventional ClipShow by having each clip end with a completely different situation from its original episode, ending every time with [[RunningGag a reference to ice cream]] among other things. This was all {{fram|ingDevice}}ed with the kids telling stories while the bus lies on the edge of a cliff. At separate points, they flash back on a [[Series/HappyDays Fonzie]] stunt they witnessed (which never happened on the show) and an earlier moment in the framing device itself. When the bus finally falls into the chasm, it inexplicably lands on a giant tub of ice cream. All of this, including an unrelated subplot surrounding Ms. Crabtree, were all part of a dream by Cartman which ended with him eating beetles and ice cream once again being brought up, thus revealing that the entire episode was a dream within a dream conjured by Stan. ("Dude. That's a pretty fucked up dream." "Yeah, I must be having some real emotional problems.") After ''that'' is established, however, the episode returns one last time to Ms. Crabtree's subplot, where her love interest Marcus -- [[IHaveManyNames or was it Mitch?]] -- tells her that he can't stay, as everything on her side of the story was just a kid's dream. Her response? "I know, but let me just pretend as long as I can." (Aha! So ''Miss Crabtree'' was imagining [[IKnowYouKnowIKnow that Stan was imagining that Cartman was imagining]] that the bus was teetering on the edge of a cliff! [--[[SarcasmMode Clear as mud.]]--])
** DreamWithinADream: It turns out that Cartman's dream is actually Stan's dream. Stan thinks that he must have some real psychological problems because he had a dream of Cartman dreaming about a clip show and eating beetles.

* {{Jerkass}}: Ms. Crabtree. She screams at the kids and threatens to shoot a bunny to keep them quiet.

* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Kenny is killed by the monster outside the bus (the kids later remember this as the monster giving them all ice cream). He's also killed in a flashback about [[{{Series/HappyDays}} the Fonz]] riding a motorcycle over buses and crashing into Kenny after landing, which Stan and Kyle say can't have happened since Kenny just died earlier. (Although, since it's AllJustADream, [[AvertedTrope Kenny doesn't technically die in this episode]].)

* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Kenny is killed by the monster outside the bus (the kids later remember this as the monster giving them all ice cream). He's also killed in a flashback about [[{{Series/HappyDays}} the Fonz]] riding a motorcycle over buses and crashing into Kenny after landing, which Stan and Kyle say can't have happened since Kenny just died earlier. (Although, since it's AllJustADream, Kenny doesn't technically die in this episode.)

* StockFootageFailure: The points where the clips depicting events from the previous episodes diverge from the original animation can easily be detected in that the old footage is brighter than the new animation.

* AllJustADream: The episode twists the conventional ClipShow by having each clip end with a completely different situation from its original episode, ending every time with [[RunningGag a reference to ice cream]] among other things. This was all {{fram|ingDevice}}ed with the kids telling stories while the bus lies on the edge of a cliff. At separate points, they flash back on a [[Series/HappyDays Fonzie]] stunt they witnessed (which never happened on the show) and an earlier moment in the framing device itself. When the bus finally falls into the chasm, it inexplicably lands on a giant tub of ice cream. All of this, including an unrelated subplot surrounding Ms. Crabtree, were all part of a dream by Cartman which ended with him eating beetles and ice cream once again being brought up, thus revealing that the entire episode was a dream within a dream conjured by Stan. ("Dude. That's a pretty fucked up dream." "Yeah, I must be having some real emotional problems.") After ''that'' is established, however, the episode returns one last time to Ms. Crabtree's subplot, where her love interest Marcus -- [[IHaveManyNames or was it Mitch?]] -- tells her that he can't stay, as everything on her side of the story was just a kid's dream. Her response? "I know, but let me just pretend as long as I can." (Aha! So ''Miss Crabtree'' was imagining [[IKnowYouKnowIKnow that Stan was imagining that Cartman was imagining]] that the bus was teetering on the edge of a cliff! Clear as mud.)

--> '''Stan''': Oh my god, Kenny... killed Death.
--> '''Kyle''': You... bastard?

* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Kenny is killed by the monster outside the bus. He's also killed in a flashback about [[{{Series/HappyDays}} the Fonz]] riding a motorcycle over buses and crashing into Kenny after landing, which Stan and Kyle say can't have happened since Kenny just died earlier. (Although, since it's AllJustADream, Kenny doesn't technically die in this episode.)

* AllJustADream: The clip show episode turns out to be a dream of Cartman's.

* AdultsAreUseless: All of the parents immediately come to the idea that all of their kids just ran away.

--> '''Kyly''': You... bastard?

* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Kenny is killed by the monster outside the bus. He's also killed in a flashback about [[{{Series/HappyDays}} the Fonz]] riding a motorcycle over buses and crashing into Kenny after landing, which Stan and Kyle say can't have happened since Kenny just died earlier.

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** DreamWithinADream: It turns out that Cartman's dream is actually Stan's dream. Stan thinks that he must have some real psychological problems because he had a dream of Cartman dreaming about a clip show.

* TheyKilledKenny: Kenny is killed by the monster outside the bus. He's also killed in a flashback about [[{{Series/HappyDays}} the Fonz]] riding a motorcycle over buses and crashing into Kenny after landing, which Stan and Kyle say can't have happened since Kenny just died earlier.

* TheyKilledKenny: Kenny is killed by the monster outside the bus. He's also killed in a flashback about [[''Series/HappyDays'' the Fonz]] riding a motorcycle over buses and crashing into Kenny after landing, which Stan and Kyle say can't have happened since Kenny just died earlier.