Super Fun Time
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"Super Fun Time" is episode 1207 (#174) of the animated series South Park. It was broadcast on April 23, 2008.[1] It was the mid-season finale for season 12.[2]
Plot
Mr. Garrison takes the fourth grade class on an educational field trip to Pioneer Village where dedicated workers act as their counterparts from 1864 and never break character. Mr. Garrison tells the students to move in pairs and hold hands. Stan and Wendy match up and Stan admits to them dating once again. Cartman is forced to take Butters as his partner and Mr. Garrison tells Butters not to let go of Cartman's hand until they were both back on the bus.
Cartman convinces Butters to ditch the field trip and go to the amusement center located two blocks away, "Super Phun Thyme". In a parody of The Defiant Ones Butters refuses to let go of Cartman's hand, and they are forced to cooperate until back on the bus. While the rest of the kids are bored in the village, a group of trigger-happy thieves led by a man called Frans (a man clearly resembling Hans Gruber from Die Hard) have robbed a Burger King and fled to Pioneer Village and taken everyone hostage. Stan, Wendy, Jimmy and Kyle flee with two townspeople to an office, where Kyle calls the police. The thieves find a mine shaft door in the back of the park that is locked. They start to interrogate the workers but none of them will break character, not even to save their lives.
Meanwhile, Cartman and Butters are at "Super Phun Thyme," in a montage parodying Ferris Bueller's Day Off, including version of Love Missile F1-11 sung by Cartman. When they decide to return, they see the police and assume that they are searching for the two of them. They attempt to sneak back in but become stuck on a traffic light. At this point, the thieves threaten to kill the kids, starting with Kenny, but the workers still refuse to break character. In a last ditch effort to save Kenny's life, Stan makes "the ultimate sacrifice" and assumes a disguise portraying an out of towner and manages to give the workers an in-character way to divulge the door code, 1864.
Cartman and Butters jump the fence into the village, where one of the thieves finds them and threatens to attack them. Butters still refuses to let go, and uses Cartman as a club to knock the thief out before he and Cartman are knocked out by a grenade. The confusion allows the police to raid the camp, killing some thieves and capturing the others. Finally, a bell rings, signaling the end of the work day, and all of the village workers break character and head off to T.G.I. Friday's for some jalapeño poppers and Wendy praises Stan for his bravery and tells him he looked like a dork during his act. The episode ends as Butters drags an unconscious Cartman all the way back to the school bus, finally letting go of his hand before passing out from exhaustion.
References
- ^ "Episode 1207 Press Release". South Park Studios. 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-20.
- ^ "Summer Does Not Suck". South Park Studios. 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-20.