You Got F'd in the A
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| “You Got Fucked in the Ass” | |
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 Butters, after his tap-dancing tragedy |
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| Episode no. | Season 8 Episode 115 |
| Written by | Trey Parker |
| Directed by | Trey Parker |
| Original airdate | April 7, 2004 |
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| South Park - Season 8 March 17, 2004 – December 15, 2004 |
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"You Got F'd in the A" or "You Got Fucked in the Ass" is episode 805 of the Comedy Central series South Park. It originally aired April 7, 2004. It is a spoof of the 2004 movie, You Got Served.
Because of the title, this episode is often shortened to "You Got..." or retitled to "You Got Served" in more family friendly media, such as on TV Guide and on digital cable and satelite listings.
[edit] Plot synopsis
Stan and his friends are hanging out and playing with R/C cars when a group of kids from Orange County come and dance in front of them, thus "serving" them. The group of kids leaves after trash-talking Stan and the boys, who are left confused by the entire confrontation. The kids talk to Chef, themselves unaware of what being "served" entails. Chef immediately shows concern, and calls their parents to inform them about the ordeal. Later, over dinner, Randy Marsh gets upset that his son, Stan, was served and 'teaches' him to dance back - a few very basic line dancing steps to the tune of Billy Ray Cyrus' "Achy Breaky Heart".
The next time Stan gets "served" by the Orange County kids, he promptly "serves" them back switching CDs on the boombox so he can dance to "Achy Breaky Heart." Cartman informs the Orange County kids, "You just got F'ed in the A." The Orange County kids then declare that "it's on," meaning that there is now a dance contest to be played, the Orange County kids versus the best dancers in South Park. Mrs. Marsh pressures Randy over telling his son to dance back, thus leading to it being on, and therefore he goes to the Orange County team to apologize and make it clear that "it's not on". Instead, the Orange County coach takes this as a challenge and "serves" Randy with exceptional dance moves. Randy winds up in the hospital with the worst case of "being served" that the doctors have ever seen.
Stan goes out to find the town's best dancers: the leader of the goth kids' gang; an Asian kid, Yao, who is a Dance Dance Revolution expert (yet allegedly can't dance without the machine); and Mercedes, the Raisins girl. Needing a fifth member for the group, Mercedes suggests Butters, who was once state tap-dancing champion. Yet when they ask him to join, he runs away screaming. It is revealed via flashback that, two years previously, his shoe had flown off during the national Tap-Dancing Finals, hit a stage light in the rafters and led to an extremely gruesome chain of events that left eight people in the audience dead (eleven in total because one woman was pregnant, and two others committed suicide after the tragedy). This was all to the upbeat (and risqué) tune of "I've Got Something in My Front Pocket For You". Butters flatly refuses to participate in the show, even after further pressing, and instead the team has to settle for a dancing duck named Jeffy from a local farm. Jeffy hasn't danced to any rock songs, only songs about drug abuse that the farmer plays, all to modified lyrics of the song "The Crawdad Song" (ie. the lyric "You get a line and I'll get a pole" is now "You do a line and I'll do a line", and "You snort K and I'll snort K, honey").
On the day of the performance Jeffy's leg gets injured during practice, and the team looks like it would be forced to forfeit without a fifth member. Just in time, Butters suddenly shows up in his tap-dancing outfit, and the kids are able to perform. However, when they do, Butters' shoe flies off again and hits a stage light, causing the rafter of lights to fall on and kill the entire Orange County team and their coach. Though Butters is horrified by this, the South Park team wins by default, and a blood-stained, screaming and horribly traumatized Butters is carried off and hailed as a hero.
[edit] References to pop culture
- This episode lampoons the derided 2004 movie, You Got Served (the dance-off), as well as elements of Save the Last Dance (Butters quitting dancing because of the accident he caused, like Julia Stiles' character quitting ballet because her mom died in a car crash) and 8 Mile (a snippet of a song that sounds like Eminem's Lose Yourself plays for a few seconds in the hospital scene with Stan and his father). According to the audio commentary, South Park co-creator Matt Stone met Served producer Billy Pollina at a bar after this episode aired, where Pollina said that he loved the spoof.
- The name of the arcade, Flynn's Sinistarcade, is a reference to Flynn's, the one Jeff Bridges' character owned in the movie Tron. Sinistar is also the name of an early 1980s video game that was similar to Asteroids.
- The posters at Lamont's Dance Studio (in the scene where Chef tries to train Stan and his dance troupe) are: "Vive Ballet" (a reference to "A Chorus Line"), "Felines" (a reference to "Cats"), and "Le Cirque Soleil" (a reference to "Cirque du Soleil", only done in grammatically incorrect French).
- The deaths of the people in Butters' flashback are similar to the deaths shown in the films Ghost Ship (the man and woman getting cut in half by a swift-falling cable), Saving Private Ryan (the bisected man collecting his organs as he bleeds to death), Carrie (the woman getting electrocuted by the stagelight that fell on her husband, everyone running and screaming out of the auditorium, a man getting trampled as everyone evacuates, and Butters standing in the center of the stage covered in blood), and Final Destination (the man getting crushed by the stagelight and the woman getting impaled by the rafters).
- The episode makes reference to Charles Whitman and the Texas Clock Tower Massacre, when Butters is informed that one of the women killed in the accident was pregnant, and two of the survivors later committed suicide.
- The final lines of the episode where Butters is screaming "No, no...!" whilst being praised, is similar to the final scene in Evil Dead II, complete with the "Raimi-Cam" shot into Butters' mouth.
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