Go God Go XII
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| "Go God Go XII" | |
 Terror in the far future. |
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| Episode no. | 152 |
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| Airdate | November 8, 2006 |
| South Park - Season 10 March 22, 2006 – November 15, 2006 |
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"Go God Go XII" is episode 1013 (#152) of Comedy Central's South Park, which aired on November 8, 2006. The episode is a continuation of the previous episode, "Go God Go".
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[edit] Plot
In the previous episode, Eric Cartman froze himself in an attempt to make his three-week wait for a Wii pass instanteously. A freak accident landed him 540 years in the future—and now he's stuck there. The future is a tumultuous place with warring atheist factions (intentionally ironic because in the previous episode Richard Dawkins mused that without religion the world would be less violent), angry sea otters and no video games.[1]
[edit] Plot Summary
Cartman has been trapped in the future for even more time since the end of the previous episode (this episode is the 12th episode of "Cartman 2546," thus the name of the South Park episode). He is now being held captive by The Sea Otter faction—Allied Atheist Alliance (AAA)— and he tells them he will cooperate with them in exchange for them helping him get the Wii. After helping him obtain one from the abandoned technology museum in New New Hampshire, Cartman manages to warp back to the United Atheist Alliance (UAA) headquarters. The ancient Wii is not compatible with the futuristic Float Screen, and Cartman gives up hope until he and his robotic dog K-10 discover the Crank Prank Time Phone, which allows people to crank call the past. Cartman plans to use it to call himself in the past to convince himself to be patient and wait three weeks for the Wii instead of going through with his plan.
Meanwhile, it is learned that Richard Dawkins was the founder of worldwide atheism. Mrs. Garrison, whom he eventually married maintained that mere logic doesn't work; you must also be "a dick" to others who disagree with you. As a result, atheism split into three factions. The three groups differ on what they perceive to be the answer to the "Great Question," each believing the other groups' answer to the Question is "illogical" and thus unacceptable (the AAA also objects to humans for illogically cutting down trees to make tables, instead of just eating off of their "tummies" and ironically reveres Dawkins.). The Otters have set up false clam fields, which the UAA plans to attack, leaving their own city defenseless from a Unified Atheist League (UAL) attack, thus leaving both the UAA and UAL vulnerable to an attack from the AAA. When one Otter—the "Wise One"—asks if the war is truly just, and implies that perhaps it is acceptable to believe in something supernatural and/or paranormal, he is lynched by a mob of otters.
Cartman uses the Time Phone to call himself in the past; however, past-Cartman doesn't believe him, dismissing him as Kyle playing a prank. He then tries to call Butters and Kyle to convince both to prevent his past-self from freezing himself. Both attempts fail, and the latter call prevents Kyle from catching a ride, which somehow slightly alters certain aspects of the future (Cartman's clothes change, and his robotic dog turns into robotic cat called Kit-9), illustrating the Butterfly effect.
The massive battle between the three atheist groups begins. Cartman goes to the main control hub of the UAA. The war is over "the Great Question", which is revealed to be what atheists should call their respective groups. Kit-9 then tells Eric to call Mrs. Garrison with the Time Phone. He calls her while she is having sex with Dawkins. Dawkins answers and through his conversation with Cartman discovers that Mrs. Garrison in fact used to be a man. Dawkins gets so disgusted and disturbed over the fact he had sex with a transsexual that he immediately leaves. Mrs. Garrison calls him an "atheist faggot" and reverts to her old ways.
With the split between Garrison and Dawkins the future world becomes altered once again. Cartman suddenly finds himself in a room with members of all three factions. In this new version of the future, the three groups are not at war with each other (in actuality, at war with the French-Chinese for Hawaii). The whole world has decided to get rid of "-isms," because they say though "-isms" are good for people who are rational, in the minds of irrational people they cause violence. The leaders reveal that Cartman's purpose has been fulfilled, though neither Cartman nor the viewer learn what that purpose was, and he is returned to his own time.
Cartman is transported back in front of the EV Games and merges with his past self. His mom appears and tells him he needs to be patient in waiting for the Wii. Apparently learning his lesson, Cartman says that he will wait. Cartman then learns that the future inhabitants sent him back slightly too far, to September, changing his initial waiting time of three weeks to two months. Angry once again, he is told by an EV Games employee that there is a call for him inside. He picks it up and on the other line is another future Cartman, pleading with him to not to do what he is thinking (implying he freezes himself once again because he cannot wait two months for the Wii). Cartman assumes it to be a prank call from Kyle, showing that he learned absolutely nothing during his extensive ordeal in the future and created a time loop from which he can't escape.
[edit] Goofs
- When Richard and Garrison are having "monkey sex" in Go God Go, there is no phone next to Richard, but in the same scene before Cartman calls Garrison, there is a phone right next to Richard on the shelf in that scene.
- In Go God Go, the AAA stood for "Allied Atheist Allegiance". In this episode, AAA stands for "Allied Atheist Alliance".
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[edit] Cultural references
- The opening segment and music, as in the previous episode, is a direct parody of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, right down to the time meter, theme music, and logo.
- New New Hampshire was shown as similar to Washington D.C. from the dystopian film Logan's Run. The name is a satire on the habit of adding the word 'new' to existing place names to name a new place, a joke already made with "New New York" used in Futurama (as well as "New New Jersey" in the episode Bendin' in the Wind). It could also be a reference to New Chicago from Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.
- A few of the evolved sea otters are seen in hovering thrones resembling those of the Halo series' Covenant High Prophets; the Wise One's headdress also resembles that of the High Prophets in Halo 2.
- The M41A Pulse Rifle from the 1986 sci-fi/action movie Aliens is seen in the hands of the sea otters.
- One of the evolved sea otters appears to be wearing a Saiyan Scouter from Dragonball Z.
- The army of ostrich-riding otters, along with the horn-blast music, is reminiscent of the ape cavalry in Planet of the Apes.
- The uniform Eric Cartman is wearing while stealing the prank calling device resembles the uniform worn by the electrical engineers in the futuristic sci-fi movie Brazil (1985).
- The robot dog K-10 is reminiscent of Dr. Who's K-9. In addition, the numbers from Kit-9 and K-10 swapped round say K-9 (canine) and Kit-10 (kitten). Kit-10 later becomes a robotic bird named Kok-A-3.
- Cartman's future robot sidekicks are also based on the robot character Twiki from Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
- The background sound used in the future after Cartman breaks up Mrs. Garrison and Richard Dawkins is the background ambience from the holographics room on seaQuest DSV.
- The Crank Prank Time-Phone is made by Zazbro, likely a parody of Hasbro, a real-life toy company.
- In the scene with the close-up of the Crank Prank Time-Phone box, the phrase "Mike Hunt" can be seen on the box.
- The XII at the end of the title refers to the fact that time had obviously passed between the end of the last episode and the beginning of this one. It implies that there are ten other adventures between that episode and this one which were skipped for obvious reasons.
- Cartman crying out that he has been sent back too far is reminiscent of the director's cut of Army of Darkness when Ash (Bruce Campbell) has been sent too far into the future (into a post-apocalyptic wasteland).
- One of the boys who are using the time-phone Cartman eventually steals tells the man who he is prank calling, "I'm a pepper, and I was wondering if you would like to be a pepper too." This is a direct reference to the classic slogan used for Dr Pepper soft drinks.
- After Cartman steals the time-phone, one of the boys who had been using the phone exclaims "Science H. Logic" a reference to the phrase Jesus H. Christ.
| Preceded by: "Go God Go" |
South Park episodes | Followed by: "Stanley's Cup" |
