Line #14 Recap/SouthParkS9E2DieHippieDie


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2	'''Original air date:''' 3/16/2005
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4	Cartman's worst nightmare comes true - hippies invade South Park in droves and start a music festival, and it's up to Cartman, running a hippie extermination business, to lead a resistance against them.
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7	!!This episode contains examples of:
8	* ADayInTheLimelight: Chef, whose role in the show had been [[DemotedToExtra increasingly diminishing]] for the past few seasons, gets one last big role in this episode before being KilledOffForReal in the Season 10 opener.
9	* ArtisticLicenseMusic: Cartman claims Music/{{Slayer}} is a death metal band. Slayer was actually a highly influential ThrashMetal band, though they have inspired many death metal acts.
10	* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Parodied. Cartman tells the townspeople he needs "a black man that can sacrifice himself in case something goes wrong". Since Chef is the only black guy around, he agrees. Later on when the drill stalls, Cartman starts acting as if Chef has volunteered to sacrifice himself to fix it at the risk of his life. Chef begrudgingly goes out to fix it and does so without dying.
11	* BumperSticker: "My karma ran over your dogma."
12	* CallBack: This was not the first time Cartman expressed his hatred for hippies, as he has done so in "[[Recap/SouthParkS1E2WeightGain4000 Weight Gain 4000]]" several years prior, as well as "[[Recap/SouthParkS8E1GoodTimesWithWeapons Good Times with Weapons]]" last year.
13	* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Mayor [=McDaniels=] signs off on the hippies' music festival thinking such a large event would bring in some money for the town's economy. Cartman points out that hippies don't ''have'' any money to spend and she's effectively doomed the town. She later realizes her error.
14	* DrivenToSuicide: After seeing the negative effects of the hippies on the town, Mayor [=McDaniels=] shoots herself in the head. Subverted, however, as she survives, and is later seen with a bandage around her head.
15	* DrillTank: The Hippie Digger.
16	* EndOfAnAge: This was the last episode of the show to feature Isaac Hayes recording original dialogue as Chef. He had been there since the series began, despite his character slowly getting DemotedToExtra at that point and he left after the episode "Trapped in the Closet", due to it mocking Scientology with Hayes himself being a Scientologist. Chef was then killed off in the next season premiere using Isaac Hayes’s earlier recordings. While Chef does appear in a few more Season 9 episodes after this, he doesn't speak in them.
17	* EvilIsPetty: What does Cartman want for saving the town from the hippies? Getting his own remote-control Tonka truck, preventing Kyle from ever owning one, and forcing Kyle to watch him play with it. It isn't really evil for him to save the town from being taken over by hippies, but it's still very petty.
18	* FullCircleRevolution: Stan, Kyle, and Kenny realize the hippies' views are complete bullshit when they propose creating a radical commune that basically amounts to a normal town.
19	-->'''Hippie:''' We'll have one guy who like, who like, makes bread. A-and one guy who like, l-looks out for other people's safety\
20	'''Stan:'''... You mean a baker and a cop?
21	* FormerTeenRebel: Randy and Sharon were hippies in the 60s and went to Woodstock. They ''both'' have the same flashback of them as crazy stoners screaming and vomiting from acid overdose and having sex in public... and both immediately [[ExplainExplainOhCrap become worried that Stan will become that if he stays at the festival.]]
22	* GodwinsLaw: The hippies constantly refer to corporations as "little Eichmanns", a reference to UCB professor Ward Chuchill's controversial essay regarding the victims of the 9/11 attacks.
23	* IgnoredExpert: Cartman knows everything about hippies and correctly predicts that they'll take over the town unless he deals with them immediately. No one believes him...and then everything he warned them about starts coming true.
24	* InsideAWall: During his inspection of the old woman's house at the beginning of the episode, Cartman finds a hippie inside one of her walls. Even the hippie isn't sure how he got in there.
25	* IWarnedYou: After trying to maintain the hippies and warn the townsfolk, Cartman gets ignored and thrown in jail for abduction. When the hippies actually start to take over, the rest of the town is left having to kiss up to a naturally very sour Cartman.
26	* JerkassHasAPoint: Cartman turns out to be right about the hippies being a threat to the town's existence and that they need to get rid of them.
27	* KnowNothingKnowItAll: The "college know-it-all" hippies. Their commune proposal basically amounts to a normal town.
28	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Mayor [=McDaniels=] says the last 4 words of this trope when she realizes what approving the Hippies' Music Jam Festival has done to South Park, [[DrivenToSuicide leading her to shoot herself in the head...]] And survive afterwards.
29	** Randy and Sharon have a simultaneous one when flashing back to their time at Woodstock [[FormerTeenRebel puking from too much acid, then having sex in it]]... and immediately realized that was ''the very environment'' they now know Stan went to. Randy, in a [[PapaWolf surprising display of care for his family]], ''immediately'' runs off to save him.
30	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The band on stage at Hippie Jam Fest are caricatures of the members of Music/{{Phish}}, particularly the red-headed, bearded, and bespectacled lead singer, who resembles Phish's own singer and guitarist Trey Anastasio.
31	* PleasureIsland: Stan, Kyle, and Kenny are at first interested in the hippie lifestyle, and they take up marijuana-smoking and guitar-playing. But then, they start to get bored, become sick from all the smoke, and realize that the views espoused by the hippies are total bullshit, and when they try to talk the hippies into actually doing something about the multinational corporations and capitalism they claim to hate, all they can get out of them is an enthusiastic agreement to try to change the world via the power of song. They try to leave right then, but the concert crowd has become so large and dense that they can't move.
32	* ProperlyParanoid: Cartman's hatred of hippies manages to save the whole town from becoming Hippie Capital of the World.
33	* ShoutOut
34	** Cartman's exterminator outfit is styled like that of the Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}.
35	** Cartman's speech to the town board parodies ''Film/TheDayAfterTomorrow''.
36	** The plot of Cartman drilling into the hippie crowd parodies ''Film/TheCore''.
37	** The four-member jam band kicking off the festival resembles the band Music/{{Phish}}.
38	** The scene where Cartman uploads a Music/{{Slayer}} CD into the loudspeakers parodies the uploading of the computer virus from ''Film/IndependenceDay''.
39	* SmartBall: Cartman, of all people. After all, he's considered to be an EvilGenius in the later seasons.
40	* StrawmanU: The main group of hippies has a University of Colorado-Boulder bumper sticker.
41	* SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat: Cartman says he'll need a team of three people for his drill: a scientist, an engineer, and a [[BlackDudeDiesFirst "Black person to sacrifice himself in case something goes wrong."]] While Randy's been a scientist since the show's beginning and Chef is one of the only Black people in the town, there seems to be no one to fill the second position--until Linda Stotch suddenly announces that ''she's'' an engineer and can thus complete the group. There'd never been any indication that Linda was an engineer before this moment.

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