YMMV / South Park S 6 E 13 The Return Of The Fellowship Of The Ring To The Two Towers

• Alternative Character Interpretation: In the season 25 episode that reveals Token to actually be named Tolkien, he says he hates his name because of its association with J.R.R. Tolkien's work, and has general contempt of the fantasy genre. Him playing fantasy with the others and being open to watching the "cursed" version of the film in this episode has led to speculation that him watching Back Door Sluts 9 traumatized him so much that he now associates the works of J.R.R. Tolkien with the porno.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • The episode's insulting the Harry Potter franchise — which at the time had two movie adaptations out, both of which had been box-office hits but were generally considered markedly inferior to the two The Lord of the Rings films that had also been released up until that point — considering that over a decade down the line, South Park: The Stick of Truth would owe almost as much to Harry Potter as it did to The Lord of the Rings.
  • Tolkien (formerly known as "Token") flatly saying he doesn't want to play "Lord of the Rings" anymore. 20 years later and he doesn't want anything to do with the franchise because he was burdened with the name of its author.
• Unintentional Period Piece: The episode was made in the waning years of both VHS and video rental stores. Before the decade was over, DVD supplanted VHS as the preferred home entertainment format while video rental stores were rendered obsolete by mail-order rental service Netflix^note The company actually existed as early as 1997, making it as old as South Park itself and Redbox machines. Only a few years after that, DVDs would be supplanted by online streaming from Netflix and a steadily growing number of competitors. More than normal movies, however, streaming has also made viewing porn both more convenient and more private, making Randy renting a pornographic film on videotape which the kids can easily steal come across as him just asking for trouble.