Did South Park Predict Brokeback Mountain?

Slash Film ^ | 03/03/2006 | Jon Mezzera

[Panerai]

South Park has done several great episodes lampooning popular films. One of my personal favorites involves the children dressed up like Lord of the Rings characters taking a pornography tape back to the video store while avoiding the temptation of watching it and trying to escape some older kids who want the tape for themselves. While I’ve never been a big fan of the show, I have grown more fond of it lately, and I’m pretty sure I watched every episode this season. Series creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker are capable of being very topical in that they can write, record, and animate a show in about a week, unlike a show like The Simpsons which takes much longer. For this reason, I was a little surprised that they didn’t do a show this last season about Brokeback Mountain. But now I realize that they did, six years ago!

I was watching a syndicated rerun last night of an episode that didn’t look familiar. I was interested because the plot involved a Sundance-like film festival coming to town and how that affected everyone. Part of the plot involved Mr. Garrison having his students go to see one independent film at the festival to write a paper about it. While the kids are trying to figure out what “independent film” means, Stan is afraid it means films like Independence Day because it sucks, which I found very funny. Cartmen then claims that independent films are usually black and white hippie films about “gay cowboys eating pudding.” I thought to myself, “I must have missed this episode this year.” But I had a feeling based on the animation and voices which have changed over the years that this was not a recent episode. Plus I was fairly sure I had seen them all last season.

Later in the show, Stan and Wendy go to a film at the festival and sure enough, when the cowboys are finished eating their pudding they decide to explore their sexuality with each other. I was amazed and really curious as to when the episode aired. After the credits, I found that it was from 1998! I know that Brokeback Mountain is based on a story, but could it be that the writers of the story as well as the movie had seen an episode of South Park several years ago and thought to themselves, “Hmm. Gay Cowboys. Cut out the pudding and we’ve got ourselves an Oscar winner.”

[FreedomPoster]

Nicely done, with the pic.

BTW, this is from episode 209, Chef's Salty Chocolate Balls.

Transcript here: http://www.planearium2.de/scripts-209.htm

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

I heard on a radio show the best explanation for the movie being made. Moives with Cowboys riding horses have been done to death but Cowboys riding Cowboys was an open table.

Went to the Internet Movie Database ( IMDB ) message board for BBM. Before the Oscars, the movie was hailed as the greatest of all times. The fruit displays who posted there treated it as the second coming. A mandate for all things gay in the mainstream. After it lost out to "Crash" for Best Picture, the Nancy boys there cried so much one would have thought that conservatives spiked the nation's KY Jelly supply with broken glass and Icy Hot. Many there don't realize that it's only a movie.

[MarkL]

That was a great episode. Except the part where the cubs watched abortions being performed. I didn't like that part.

They didn't just watch. They learned how to perform abortions!

Mark

[Spyder]

South Park also had Cartman pretend to be retarded to enter the Special Olympics a couple years ago

I remember that episode - hilarious!

[sully777]

Tweak

[sweet_diane]

"30-second Bunnies alert! http://www.starz.com/features/brokebackmountain/"

ROFL..that was funny. Showed Hubby and he's rofl as well.

Here's a parody for you... Carl (Slingblade) and Forrest (Gump) do a remake of Brokeback Mountain.

Carl: "I don't know how to quit you mm mmm."

Forrest: "We ain't queer, ya know."

[sweet_diane]

"I've been calling it Snackpack Mountain since I first heard about it...."

"Snackback Pudding...don't leave home without it!"

[skinkinthegrass]

they would have done an episode on the Muslims freaking out over the Danish cartoons, but so far no luck. Can you imagine? Cartman draws a picture of Mohammed and gets a Fatwah on his head and instead Kenny gets killed. "Oh s**t dude!

hehehe, the season not over yet!, dude. :D
Thx, for the ping ES.

[higgmeister]

You are Back! Welcome back!

HairOfTheDog covered for you but you saw, it just wasn't the same!

[Screamname]

Hey did you read the latest about SP? These guys crack me up!

http://www.variety.com/VR1117939918.html