Towelie/Trivia

Origins of Towelie
On the South Park The Hits: Volume 1 DVD, Trey and Matt explain that the origin for Towelie began on a boat trip they took with several writers and friends, where people were constantly telling each other “don’t forget to bring a towel” and the phrase eventually morphed into “Towelie says to bring a towel.” Matt and Trey have asserted (in the VH1 special and elsewhere) that they were becoming increasingly aware as to how heavily merchandised and exploited their creations were becoming. Towelie was their way of poking fun at themselves. They designed Towelie as a shallow, two-dimensional (both literally and figuratively) character who has no real purpose except to spout catch phrases and merchandise the hell out of. This is why they threw in the fake commercial during the show, and also why Cartman calls him the “worst character ever.”

Trivia and Pop Culture References

 * Episode has lots of references to the android movies, such as 6th Day
 * Cartman says a few lines from the movie Sling Blade (“You shouldn’t done that, he’s just a boy” and “poor little feller“) with an accent and all, when referring to Stan’s mom’s tampon he found in the trash.
 * During the development of the show, in the original script, the game console was a PlayStation 2[1]. This was later changed to the Okama Gamesphere. Other video game systems in the show have been referred to directly by name, including the Sega’s Dreamcast, Microsoft’s Xbox and Xbox 360, Sony’s PSP, and Nintendo’s Wii have a strong plot point of various later episodes.
 * Okama is a Japanese word for homosexual.
 * The Okama Gamesphere is a parody of the Nintendo Gamecube, So the English name would be, the Gay (Homosexual) Gamesphere.
 * The original version of this episode has Comedy Central’s actual phone number (1-800-4-COMEDY) at the end of the Towelie fake commercial. In all reruns and on the DVD version, it is changed to a fake number (1-800-555-TOWL).
 * The fictional military research developer of Towelie is Tynacorp, a take-off on DynCorp, a major supplier to the US Military.
 * The deformed Towelie clone says “Kill me”. This is a nod to a similar scene in the movie Alien Resurrection when the mutated Ripley/Queen fetus says the same thing. The scene was parodied later in "Douche and Turd".
 * There is an instance in the scene when the boys get Towelie to bring him to the military where you can see his arm off to the right of the screen just before he appears.
 * At the end of the episode when the boys are seen playing Okama Gamesphere with Towelie, Towelie is the only one who is not actually doing anything with the controller.

Goofs

 * The boys seem to know nothing about tampons in this episode, even though they used them in a previous episode “Are You There God? It’s Me, Jesus” when they mistakenly thought they were having their periods.
 * During one scene when the boys play the Okama Gamesphere, the wire on two of their controllers disappeared.
 * The leader of the military group in the episode says to kill all towels in a 1000 mile radius, but later the reporting soldier declares that they had killed all towels in a 100 mile radius.
 * Even though the name of the company that made Towelie is named "Tynacorp" there are several instances where the characters say "Dynacorp" instead.
 * The first game the boys play on the Okama Gamesphere called Thirst for Blood is shown as a two-player fighting game, yet all four of the boys appear to be playing.
 * When they first meet Towelie, the boys say "What?" but their mouths don't move at all.

Hidden Visitor(s)
A black visitor appears on of the mutant Towelies in the tube to the man's left.(check by the stripes)