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"Super Fun Time"
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Episode no.	Season 12; Episode 7
Production no.	1207
Original airdate	April 23, 2008
Episode chronology
"Over Logging"	"The China Probrem"
	List of all South Park episodes

Revision as of 01:53, 21 October 2010

General

Trivia

"Super Fun Time" is the seventh episode of the twelfth season of South Park. It originally aired on April 23, 2008 and in Canada, it originally aired on May 9, 2008. It was the final episode of the first half of the season. The second half started on October 8th.

Spoiler warning!
Plot details follow.

Synopsis

While the kids are on an educational field trip to a living museum, Cartman makes Butters sneak away from the class to go to the amusement center located next door.

Plot

Mr. Garrison takes the fourth grade class on an educational field trip to "Pioneer Village" (based on the Hiwan Homestead Museum in Evergreen, Colorado) where dedicated workers act as their counterparts from 1864 and never break character. Mr. Garrison tells the students to move in pairs and hold hands. Stan and Wendy match up and Stan admits to them dating once again. Cartman is forced to take Butters as his partner and Mr. Garrison tells Butters not to let go of Cartman's hand until they were both back on the bus.

Cartman forces Butters to ditch the field trip and go to the amusement center located two blocks away, "Super Phun Thyme", based on the Littleton, Colorado entertainment complex called "Fat City" (fomerly "Fun Plex"), located off of Kipling.[3]. Butters refuses to let go of Cartman's hand, and they are forced to cooperate until back on the bus. While the rest of the kids are bored in the village, a group of trigger-happy thieves led by a man called Franz (modeled after Alan Rickman's character Hans Gruber from Die Hard) have robbed a Burger King and fled to Pioneer Village, taking everyone hostage. Stan, Wendy, Jimmy and Kyle flee with two townspeople to an office where Kyle calls the police. The thieves find a mine shaft door in the back of the park that is locked. They start to interrogate the workers to find the code to the lock, but none of them will break character, not even to save their own lives. One of the townsfolk gets killed by Pioneer Paul for breaking character in the attempt to give the lock code.

Meanwhile, Cartman and Butters are at "Super Phun Thyme", and Butters still won't let go of Cartman's hand. This leads to Butters sullenly being dragged around as Cartman plays arcade games, rides bumper cars, plays Air hockey with himself, and ride a coin-operated motorcycle ala the handcuffed motorcycle chase in Tomorrow Never Dies. When they finally decide to return, they see the police and assume that they are searching for the two of them. They attempt to sneak back in but become stuck on a traffic light. By then, seeing that interrogating the workers isn't going to work, Franz threatens to kill the kids instead, starting with Kenny, but the workers still refuse to break character. In a last ditch effort to save Kenny's life, Stan makes "the ultimate sacrifice" (looking like a dork in front of Wendy) and assumes a disguise portraying an out of towner and manages to give the workers an in-character way to divulge the door code, 1864.

Cartman and Butters jump the fence into the village, where one of the thieves sees and attacks them. In an attempt to capture the two he tries to make them put their hands on their heads. A very dedicated Butters simply will not let go. Upon threatening to shoot their hands off Butters uses Cartman as a weapon, bodily flinging him at the robber, and running away. Cartman and Butters, in their attempt to flee, are knocked out by a grenade. The confusion allows the police to raid the camp, killing and capturing some of the thieves. Finally a bell rings, signaling the end of the work day, and all of the village workers break character and head off to T.G.I. Friday's for some jalapeño poppers. As Franz is being arrested, he "learns something", that people in 1864 didn't have the conveniences that people in modern times take for granted. The episode ends as Butters drags an unconscious Cartman all the way back into the school bus, firmly stating, "Teacher, my partner is back on the bus," finally letting go of his hand before passing out from exhaustion.

"[[Over Logging]]"

"Super Fun Time"

"[[The China Problem]]"

1207: "Super Fun Time"

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Story Elements

Pioneer Village • Super Phun Thyme • Pioneer Paul • Storehand • Murderin' Murphy • Sheriff McLawdog • Franz • Vosky • Domino • The Burger King Bandits • "Super Fun Time"

Media

Images • Script • Extras • Watch Episode

Release

South Park: The Complete Twelfth Season • South Park: The Cult of Cartman

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 "'''Super Fun Time'''" is the seventh episode of the [[Season Twelve|twelfth]] season of ''[[South Park]]''. It originally aired on April 23, 2008 and in Canada, it originally aired on May 9, 2008. It was the final episode of the first half of the season. The second half started on October 8th.
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+==Synopsis==
+While the kids are on an educational field trip to a living museum, Cartman makes Butters sneak away from the class to go to the amusement center located next door.
 ==Plot==
 [[Mr. Garrison ]]takes the fourth grade class on an educational field trip to "[[Pioneer Village]]" (based on the Hiwan Homestead Museum in Evergreen, Colorado) where dedicated workers act as their counterparts from 1864 and never break character. Mr. Garrison tells the students to move in pairs and hold hands. Stan and Wendy match up and Stan admits to them dating once again. Cartman is forced to take Butters as his partner and Mr. Garrison tells Butters not to let go of Cartman's hand until they were both back on the bus.
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 Cartman and Butters jump the fence into the village, where one of the thieves sees and attacks them. In an attempt to capture the two he tries to make them put their hands on their heads. A very dedicated Butters simply will not let go. Upon threatening to shoot their hands off Butters uses Cartman as a weapon, bodily flinging him at the robber, and running away. Cartman and Butters, in their attempt to flee, are knocked out by a grenade. The confusion allows the police to raid the camp, killing and capturing some of the thieves. Finally a bell rings, signaling the end of the work day, and all of the village workers break character and head off to [[T.G.I. Friday's]] for some jalapeño poppers. As Franz is being arrested, he "learns something", that people in 1864 didn't have the conveniences that people in modern times take for granted. The episode ends as Butters drags an unconscious Cartman all the way back into the school bus, firmly stating, "Teacher, my partner is back on the bus," finally letting go of his hand before passing out from exhaustion.
-==Goofs==
-* While Pioneer Paul came to Colorado in 1864 with his mom and pop, which means he was a child, he welcomes the children to 1864 short after that, which doesn't make sense.  It would mean that Pioneer Paul should be a child at that point in time. This could, however, be meant as a joke.
-* At the Super Phun Thyme, there is a "special" for 2 kids for $12, although the normal admission price for a child is $6. Chances are this is a joke as well.
-* When looking for a partner Cartman, accidentally calls Clyde, Craig.
-* Near the start of the episode, Pioneer Paul calls Smithy, Chad. Later on, Smithy's name is David Palmer as noted on his file sheet.
-* Wendy's voice sounds like Stan's voice when they are hiding behind the wooden crate.
-* Before the pioneer village worker was shot he said the code began with 5 and then 2 when the code was actually 1864
-==Trivia==
-* Most of the people in the Pioneer Village resemble characters from ''Little House on the Prairie''.
-* The criminals parody the gang of thieves from ''Die Hard.''
-* When Cartman and Butters ride the motorcycle it parodies a scene from the James Bond movie ''Tomorrow Never Dies, ''where Bond is driving a motorcycle with Wan Lin handcuffed.
-* The "I learned something today" part is parodying the same sentence [[Kyle Broflovski|Kyle]] or [[Stan Marsh|Stan]] would say at the end of the earlier episodes.
-*If you look closely, a girl resembling [[Mark and Rebecca Cotswolds|Rebecca Cotswolds]] is present at the Pioneer village.
-*[[Kevin C.|Kevin]] and [[Rebecca]], two students who did not appear at the beginning of the episode, are present during the final scene.
-*When Cartman and Butters got to Super Phun Thyme a clear homage to Sigue Sigue Sputnik's "Love Missle F1-111" is played in reference to ''Ferris Beuller's Day Off''.
-*When the students buddied up they were with:
-**[http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/Stan_Marsh Stan] and [http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/Wendy Wendy]
-**[http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/Kenny_McCormick Kenny] and [http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/Craig_Tucker Craig]
-**[http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/Kyle_Broflovski Kyle] and [http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/Jimmy_Vulmer Jimmy]
-**[http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/Eric_Cartman Cartman] and [http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/Butters_Stotch Butters]
-**[http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/Clyde_Donovan Clyde] and [http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/Token_Black Token]
-**[http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/Millie Millie] and [http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/Heidi Heidi]
-**[http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/Bebe Bebe] and [http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/Lola Lola]
-**[http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/Tweek_Tweak Tweek] and Red hat prop boy
-**[http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/Anne Annie] and Brown hair prop boy
-**[http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/Timmy Timmy] and Orange hair prop boy
-**[http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/Blonde_Girl Blond Foley Girl] and Brown hair prop girl
-**[http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/Headband_Girl Headband Girl] and Grey frizzly hair prop girl
-**[http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/Nelly Nelly] and Another prop kid
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+{{SP navigation|[[Over Logging]]|[[The China Problem]]}}
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