Erection Day
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"Erection Day" is episode 907 in the Comedy Central series South Park. Its original airing date was April 20, 2005.
Plot
In this episode, Jimmy faces a dilemma because he begins to experience spontaneous premature erections (although they only occur when Jimmy is the focus of attention) despite the fact he is only nine years old. This makes him afraid to enter the South Park Elementary Talent Show for fear that he would be embarrassed in front of the entire school. He consults Butters, the only kid in town whom he expects would be unlikely to make fun of him. Butters explains to him that if a man's penis is erect, he puts it into a woman's vagina, and it will 'sneeze some milk'. After this, he says, the penis will weaken again. Jimmy concludes that if he doesn't want to get an erection during his performance, he should have intercourse before he goes up. He attempts to arrange a date with a girl from school, with Cartman's help. Jimmy ruins his date when he says, "I am so glad you think so Shauna, because I really want to stick my penis into your vagina." When this ultimately fails, he goes to the red-light district of town (based on a suggestion from Officer Barbrady), trying to get laid while at the same time, the Talent Show starts back at school.
While a string of bad performances occur at the school (including Butters forgetting the words to his apple song and subsequently wetting himself, Cartman doing a dead-on impersonation of Tony Montana from the 1983 film remake of "Scarface", and the Goth Kids performing "Talent Shows Are For Fags"). Jimmy picks up an obese, STD-riddled prostitute who goes by the name 'Nut-Gobbler'. The naive Jimmy attempts to woo her by taking her to a restaurant; but her pimp, 'Q Money', comes in and, thinking she is betraying him, grabs her and goes off to kill her. Jimmy follows after in a bizarre car chase. In the end, Jimmy manages to subdue the pimp with his comedy routine, while Nut-Gobbler clubs him on the back of the head. Jimmy then picks Nut-Gobbler up and carries her, with prostitutes on each side applauding, into a building on which the sign reads Ho-Tel. At the last moment Jimmy hurries onstage at the Talent Show. He begins his routine, but then he suddenly gets another erection. The episode ends with him exclaiming, "You gotta be kidding me," and the credits begin before the viewer is able to discern the consequences of what happened.
Pop culture references
- When Jimmy imagines everyone laughing at him onstage, the kaleidoscopic views resemble the scene in Carrie where she is being laughed at onstage.
- "Colfax Point," the red light district mentioned in the episode, refers to a seedy strip of Colfax Avenue in Denver. The establishing scene at "Colfax Point" alludes to "Hookers at the Point," one of several documentaries by Brent Owens, originally aired on HBO, about prostitutes working the streets of Hunt's Point, the Bronx, New York. Nut-Gobbler is a caricature of one of the prostitutes in this series.
- The ending of the episode spoofs An Officer and a Gentleman.
- Cartman's act in the talent show is that of reciting the "Say Goodnight to the Bad Guy" scene from the movie Scarface.
- Billy Turner plays "Frère Jacques" on the saxophone. Frère Jacques was sung by a little French boy at the beginning of Team America: World Police.
- Jimmy's line "Let's get to r-r-rammin'" is actually a lyric from the 1980s Prince/Sheena Easton song "You've Got The Look".
Goofs
- When Q Money interrupts his dinner with nutgobbler, Jimmy mentions that he spent all his money on her. However, he is later seen paying and tipping a taxi driver.
Censorship
- At the beginning of the episode, while the kids are in (what seems to be a) health class, Mr. Mackey reads a (joke) private note that says "Dear Mr. Mackey, sometimes my parents beat me and you are gay." The syndicated version replaces "beat" with "hit".
Isaac Hayes
Although Isaac Hayes had provided the voice of Chef for the final time in Die Hippie, Die previously in the season, he voices Nut Gobbler's pimp in this episode, making it his last work for the show. Chef, in his final appearance, in The Return of Chef, at the start of the next season, with the creators using sound clips from previous episodes instead of a real voice actor.