Pink Eye (South Park episode)
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| South Park episode | |
| "Pinkeye" | |
The boys in their Halloween costumes: Hitler, Chewbacca, Raggedy Andy, Edward James Olmos |
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| Episode no. | 7 |
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| Airdate | October 29, 1997 |
| South Park - Season 1 August 13, 1997 – February 25, 1998 |
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"Pinkeye" is the seventh episode of Comedy Central's animated series South Park. It originally aired on October 29, 1997.
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[edit] Plot
The Mir space station crashes into Kenny at the bus stop on October 30, killing him (after only 25 seconds into the show). He is taken to the morgue where he is drained and filled with embalming fluid, however, the coroner's bottle of Worcestershire sauce falls into the embalming fluid and turns Kenny into a zombie. He breaks out of the morgue, biting the two coroners on his way out.
The next morning, Kenny shows up at the bus stop as normal while the boys are waiting to go to school. Each boy is dressed up for the costume contest at school (for which the top prize is two tons of candy).
- Stan is dressed up as Raggedy Andy (Wendy is supposed to dress as companion Raggedy Ann, making them a shoo-in for the candy).
- Kyle has on a store bought Chewbacca costume.
- Cartman is dressed in a Hitler costume he says his mom made him. Needless to say, Kyle, who is Jewish, is very unhappy with Cartman's costume choice.
At the local doctor’s office, the morgue workers have apparently turned into zombies, however the doctor diagnoses it as pinkeye.
The kids arrive at school only to discover everyone in the class, including Mr. Hat and Wendy, have dressed as Chewbacca save Mr. Garrison who is dressed as Marilyn Monroe. Seeing Wendy as Chewbacca angers Stan, who is now forced to go around as Raggedy Andy all day long.
Meanwhile, at the Cartman house, Eric’s mom decorates the house and yard for Halloween, completely oblivious to the zombies attacking people on the street.
Back at school, Kyle, disgruntled that he has the same costume as everyone else, decides to work up a new costume for the contest while Principal Victoria and Chef are upset over Cartman’s costume. Principal Victoria makes Eric a ghost costume to amend the problem (however it ends up looking like a Ku Klux Klan robe instead). Meanwhile, Kenny attacks and bites Clyde when he walks past him.
Kyle arrives at the costume contest in the gym with a new costume, a working model of the solar system, but Wendy’s Chewbacca costumes earns her first place and the two tons of candy (which she promptly gives to starving children in Nairobi). The judge awards gives Kenny second place for his "Edward James Olmos" costume (his zombie state) and Stan "worst costume ever" for his "stupid little clown thing". As Mr. Garrison says "Let's bob for stupid apples" zombie Clyde drowns Bebe who is bobbing for apples as the zombies run out of control.
Across South Park the zombies continue to attack, although everyone still believes it is simply pinkeye. As night falls on South Park the boys prepare to go trick-or-treating, with Kyle now dressed as Count Dracula, just as Chef realizes that the pinkeye epidemic is actually a wave of the living dead. Wendy tries to apologize for humiliating Stan, but Stan rejects her. "Trick or treat with yourself Wendy! I wish you were dead!" Ironically, Wendy herself is later turned into a zombie.
Chef goes to the doctor seeking help and attempts to explain what’s going on, but the doctor doesn't believe him. Chef leaves (and the doctor is eaten by zombies) for the Mayor's office to warn her and Officer Barbrady (who are up to something kinky), but they don't believe him either.
As the zombies continue to ravage the town, the boys, also oblivious of the zombies, head off to go trick-or-treating. However, Kenny keeps biting everyone before they can get any treats, so the boys ditch him on the way to Chef’s house. Chef pulls the boys inside and after some discussion head to the morgue to get to the bottom of the zombie matter.
While at the morgue they discover the bottle of Worcestershire sauce as well as an issue of "Crack Whore Monthly" magazine with a picture of Cartman's mom on the cover. The zombies eventually find a way into the morgue and turn Chef into a zombie (who then goes into Michael Jackson's "Thriller" mode). The zombies then pursue the boys, who are forced to fight them off. Through the commotion, Kyle calls the hotline number on the bottle of Worcestershire sauce for assistance. He is put through to the hotline number's offices.
The hotline operator tells Kyle not to "start decapitating zombies left and right", but to kill the original zombie (Kenny), to turn all the other zombies back into humans. As Zombie Wendy heads towards Stan he can't bring himself to kill her, but she is returned to normal when Kyle quickly cuts Kenny in half with a chainsaw. All around them the dead limbs of the towns people begin to turn back to normal flesh tones.
Cartman cries at Kenny's grave while with Stan and Kyle. He then stops and Stan and Kyle say they're going to Cartman's house to find more naughty pictures of his mom.
Kenny suddenly comes out of his grave but a statue from another grave crushes him, then a jet smashes into it.
[edit] Kenny's Deaths
- Kenny dies a total of three times in this episode, depending on the definition of death.
- Crushed by Mir; revived as a zombie via Worcestershire sauce
- Cut in half by Kyle to end the zombie curse
- Kenny rises from the dead only to be crushed by a statue and crashed into by a plane
[edit] Trivia
- This is one of the first episodes to change the title sequence in some way or manner, inserting a halloween theme into proceedings.
- This episode features the news reporter who is a midget wearing a bikini. He returned in the same role in the movie "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut".
- A visitor can be seen in the morgue in a glass jar behind the boys after zombie Pip breaks through the window, also a UFO with a visitor in it can be seen crashed through the Cartman's roof when Cartman's mom is decorating.
- The Kenny figure of the series 1 Mezco Toyz line of South Park figures is most likely from this episode. Coincidentally, the Officer Barbrady figure from that same series has the "dropped draws" from this episode.
- Zombies of the following South Park regulars were shown:
- Kenny — Kenny is the original zombie. He was the first after the MIR space station landed on him. At the morgue, Worcestershire Sauce poured into the embalming fluid, causing him to awake.
- Chef — Chef was caught by zombies and sung a song to the tune of Thriller, with him acting as Michael Jackson. He turned back to normal when the curse was gone.
- Clyde — Kenny bit Clyde after he walked past. Clyde transformed during the costume contest and drowned Bebe while she bobbed for apples.
- Pip — Pip was caught by zombies and shown breaking into the morgue.
- Wendy — After Wendy was left behind by Stan, zombies emerged from the trees and killed her. Later, she appeared as a zombie. Cartman tried to get Stan to kill her saying how she ditched him at the costume contest, but he couldn't bring himself to do it. She turned back to normal when the curse was broken.
- This is one of the first mentions of Cartman as a Nazi sympathizer.
[edit] Costumes
- Stan: Raggedy Andy
- Kyle: Chewbacca, Solar System, Dracula
- Cartman: Hitler, Ghost at the request of Principal Victoria (resembling a Ku Klux Klan member)
- Kenny: Zombie, "Edward James Olmos" (actually a zombie)
- Wendy, Mr. Hat and everyone else in the third grade class: Chewbacca
- Chef: Evel Knievel, Michael Jackson (from the Thriller video)
- Mr. Garrison: Marilyn Monroe
[edit] Goofs
- The title of "Crack Whore" magazine briefly changes to "Naughty Moms" while Chef is talking to Stan. In the next scene, it is changed back.
- The flags on the Russian cosmonaut jumpsuits are actually Dutch. The Russian flag has the same colors, but in a different pattern.
- Despite Kenny's arm falling off in the classroom, the scene which follows in the lunch room, Kenny has both his arms. In the rest of the episode, the arm is gone.
[edit] Pop Culture References
- Tina Yothers: Gave out the costume awards (and thought to be dead by everyone in South Park)
- Michael Jackson: Chef turns into a dancing, singing Jackson from the Thriller music video, after being bit by a zombie
- Howdy Doody, Pippi Longstocking & Holly Hobbie: Cartman making fun of Stan's costume
- Edward James Olmos: Mistaken as Kenny's costume
- In the scene where Chef is watching the news in his house, a poster of Isaac Hayes (the voice of Chef) can be seen.
- The entire Zombie aspect of this episode is an homage to the movie Return of the Living Dead. Everything from the doctors describing the zombies symptoms to the emergency hotline number on the "embalming fluid" container is a throwback to the plotline of Return of the Living Dead.
- Olivia Newton-John: The fat man who gives the boys treats before Kenny bites him is wearing a T-shirt that reads, "Let's Get Physical," which was a 1982 song by Newton-John.
- Jackie Collins: Garrison mentions that she is a famous horror writer. Collins actually writes fiction centering around the seedy underbelly of fame and glamor, often including lurid scenes of sex and violence.
- In the final scene, a tombstone statue of Orgazmo can be seen in the background.
- Kenny's arm popping out the grave at the end mocks cliché surprise endings such as that of Carrie.
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