American Idol Parody Clip Show

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American Idol Parody Clip Show
Drawn Together episode

The housemates enjoy their "safe" status.
Episode no. Season 3
Episode 14
Written by Stacey Deddo
Directed by Frank Marino
Guest stars Billy West
Jason Huber
Production no. 314
Original airdate November 14, 2007
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"American Idol Parody Clip Show" (entitled "The Elimination Special Part II: The Elimination" on the DVD) is the thirty-sixth and final episode of the animated series Drawn Together.

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[edit] Storyline

In the series finale, the housemates find themselves in an American Idol type competition as they look back at the highlights from the series. The Jew Producer hosts, promising that at the end of the show, one of the housemates will be sent home. Midway through the episode, the producer shoots himself (but only after shooting a few others), prompting former American Idol co-host Brian Dunkleman (As an out of work and despised alcoholic) to take over emcee duties. In the end, it is revealed that Munchkin Mouse is being sent home and everyone else has been fired.

[edit] Musical numbers

  • The cast sings "Drawn Together", the show's original rejected theme song. This is the only song in the show not to have appeared in a previous episode.
  • Wooldoor sings a heavy metal version of "Black Chick's Tongue", a song originally featured in "Hot Tub".
  • Ling-Ling sings a slow piano solo version of "Ling-Ling Battle Song", a song originally featured in "Hot Tub" and later used in many episodes.
  • Spanky sings a spoken word version of "I Wanted You to Know", a song originally featured in "Little Orphan Hero".

[edit] Notes and inside references

  • This episode makes numerous references to the show's possible cancellation. First when the Jew Producer is reading the paper, one headline he reads says "Popular Comedy Central Toon Cancelled". One pop up says "This is a very disappointing series finale" and another pop up says "When this line was written the show had not yet been cancelled" which popped up right after Clara said they were all coming back for a fourth year. The last reference is the end where all the housemates of Drawn Together walk sadly into the unemployment office.
  • This episode was originally scheduled to air on November 15, 2007 but Comedy Central moved it up a day earlier airing it alongside the season finale of South Park.
  • In the last shot of the episode, when everyone is walking into the Unemployment Office, Wooldoor is nowhere to be seen. This was most likely a coincidental error, as the animators probably forgot to draw him in, or he could have already been inside the office at the time that the scene was shot.
  • The music that played in 'In Memoriam' was Ave Maria by Giulio Caccini

[edit] Animated cameos

  • Totoro from My Neighbor Totoro plays piano during Ling-Ling's song. Totoro is the signature mascot of anime producer Studio Ghibli. Totoro is now the only character that has four cameos.

[edit] Cultural references

  • Being a clip show this episode makes multiple reference to previous episodes from the past season.
  • The tiny bubbles of information that randomly appear on screen is a parody of VH1's music video informational show Pop-Up Video. The sound effect used in this episode is exactly the same as the one used in the show.
  • One of the pop-ups claims the writers of this episode spent most of their time playing Halo rather than writing lines for characters; the pop-up specifically singles out Captain Hero as an example.
  • The Jew Producer reads a magazine called Vanity, a reference to the entertainment trade publication Variety.
  • The 'In Memoriam' portion of the episode parodies a similar portion of the Emmy Awards, Academy Awards and most other annually televised award shows.
  • Foxxy and Clara's nude on-stage guitar duet is a parody of a scene from Forrest Gump where actress Robin Wright Penn performs a similar scene. The scene matches many of the camera angles used in the film.
  • Toot grabs herself in the crotch and flips off the audience. This is a reference to rapper Eminem.


Preceded by
Toot Goes Bollywood
American Idol Parody Clip Show
November 14, 2007
Succeeded by
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