The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka

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“The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka”
South Park episode
Jesus hosts his show "Jesus and Pals"
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 19
Written by	Trey Parker Matt Stone
Directed by	Trey Parker
Production no.	206
Original airdate	June 10, 1998
Season 2 episodes
South Park - Season 2 April 1, 1998 – January 20, 1999
Terrance and Phillip in Not Without My Anus Cartman's Mom Is Still a Dirty Slut Chickenlover Ike's Wee Wee Conjoined Fetus Lady The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka City on the Edge of Forever Summer Sucks Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls Chickenpox Roger Ebert Should Lay Off the Fatty Foods Clubhouses Cow Days Chef Aid Spookyfish Merry Christmas, Charlie Manson! Gnomes Prehistoric Ice Man

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"The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka" is the 19th episode of Comedy Central's animated series South Park. It originally aired on June 10, 1998.

1 Plot synopsis
2 Pop culture references
3 Trivia
4 External links

[edit] Plot synopsis

The boys are assigned to interview Vietnam War veterans, and interview Stan's Uncle Jimbo and his friend Ned. The two tell a story of American camps having amusement park rides and claim that they single-handedly defeated the entire Viet Cong army. Mr. Garrison thinks they made the whole report up the night before and gives them an F-, and the boys plot revenge on Jimbo and Ned by making bogus videos of the legendary "Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka", which Jimbo and Ned then air on their show, Huntin' and Killin.

The show becomes successful, leading to a decline in ratings for their competitors, including the talk show Jesus and Pals, starring Jesus. Its producer decides to change the show's format to resemble the "trash TV" format, despite Jesus' lack of enthusiasm for the idea. Meanwhile, Jimbo and Ned go searching for the Staring Frog, which according to legend can kill with a glance. Ned sees the fake frog the boys set up and becomes comatose from pure fear. While visiting him in the hospital, the boys confess their misdeed. This leads to Jimbo, Ned (though still comatose), and the boys all appearing on Jesus and Pals, arranged by the show's producer.

Without Jesus' knowledge, the producer arranges for them to lie on the air to improve ratings, having Jimbo claim that Stan is a drug-addicted Satan-worshiper, and having Stan claim that Jimbo molested him, etc. When chaos breaks out on the show, Jesus screams "Shut the fuck up!" at everybody and discovers the truth about everything; he patches everything up with Jimbo, Ned and the boys, and as punishment to his producer, sends her to Hell. There, she meets Satan and with him, Saddam Hussein, foreshadowing events that will unfold in South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, and later the two-part episode "Do the Handicapped Go to Hell?"/"Probably".

[edit] Pop culture references

The book that Jimbo is reading to Ned in the hospital is The Outsiders, which also features a scene of one character reading to another in a hospital.
The Jesus and Pals audience parody the Jerry Springer chant his audience does.
Jesus' first guest on his TV show is Bob Denver, TV's Gilligan. During the interview, the show's band ("The Disciples") plays Nothing From Nothing, originally by Billy Preston.
During the taping of Jesus and Pals, a black man with a jheri curl continually interrupts Jesus, calling him "Montel", and defends Michael Jackson against his child molestation charges.
During the end of the episode, reference to Frank Zappa's song "Titties and Beer" is made by Jimbo.
The song playing during Jimbo's fictional flashback is "Time of the Season" by The Zombies.
The title of the episode is a spin-off of the Mark Twain short story "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"

[edit] Trivia

At the end of the episode, as Stan, Kyle, Cartman, Jimbo and Ned are standing outside the TV-studio, Ned is back to his normal self for a second only to have his beat-up look return in the next shot. This clearly seems to be a mistake by the animators.