What Would Brian Boitano Do?
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"What Would Brian Boitano Do?" is a song from the film South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut written by DVDA (Trey Parker and Matt Stone's band) in which figure skater Brian Boitano is treated as a role model for all situations (which become increasingly ludicrous in the lyrics), in parody of the saying "What Would Jesus Do?".
[edit] In South Park
The song is also a reference to the original Christmas short "The Spirit of Christmas" which was the first appearance of the characters that led to the full-fledged "South Park" (1997) series. In the short, Stan asks Cartman, "What would Brian Boitano do?" as Jesus battles Santa Claus [1].
In the song, Boitano fights grizzly bears (in the Alps) with his fire breath, saves fair maidens, travels through time, fights an evil robot king, saves the human race (again), and builds the Great Pyramids of Egypt while beating up Kublai Khan, because he "doesn't take shit from anybody". During the middle of the song, a cartoon Brian Dennehy interrupts. It is then revealed that Boitano also has an apparently limitless appetite for spicy chicken wings.
A slightly modified version of the song was performed by Matt and Trey's band D.V.D.A. and featured in the official movie soundtrack.
[edit] Response from Boitano
In April 2003, Boitano answered the question in an interview. Brian Boitano skated to a slightly-modified version of the song as part of the 1999 Brian Boitano's Holiday Skating Spectacular television special.[citation needed]
[edit] External links
- "South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut" at IMDB
- San Francisco Chronicle interview with Brian Boitano about the song
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