“Die Hippie, Die”
South Park episode
Cartman in jail.
Episode no.	Season 9 Episode 127
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Original airdate	March 16, 2005
Season 9 episodes
South Park - Season 9 March 9, 2005 – December 7, 2005
Mr. Garrison's Fancy New Vagina Die Hippie, Die Wing Best Friends Forever The Losing Edge The Death of Eric Cartman Erection Day Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow Marjorine Follow That Egg! Ginger Kids Trapped in the Closet Free Willzyx Bloody Mary
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"Die Hippie, Die" is episode 902 of Comedy Central's South Park. It originally aired on March 16, 2005. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... March 16 is the 75th day of the year (76th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 68th day of the year (69th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 341st day of the year (342nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Mr. ... Wing is episode 903 of the Comedy Central animated series South Park. ... Best Friends Forever (also known as Kennys PSP) is episode 904 of the Comedy Central series South Park paralleling the Terri Schiavo controversy. ... The Losing Edge is episode 905 of the Comedy Central series South Park. ... The Death of Eric Cartman is episode number 906 of the Comedy Central series South Park. ... Erection Day is episode 907 in the Comedy Central series South Park. ... Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow (a. ... Marjorine is episode 909 of Comedy Centrals South Park. ... Follow That Egg! is episode 910 of the Comedy Central series South Park. ... Ginger Kids is episode 136 of the Comedy Central series South Park. ... Trapped in the Closet is episode 912 (#137) of the Comedy Central series South Park, originally aired on November 16, 2005. ... Free Willzyx is episode 913 of the Comedy Central series South Park. ... Bloody Mary is episode 914 of the Comedy Central series South Park. ... Good Times with Weapons is episode 801 of South Park. ... The Return of Chef! episode 140 of Comedy Centrals animated series South Park and aired on March 22, 2006. ... The following is an episode list for the Comedy Central animated television series South Park. ... Comedy Central is an American cable television and satellite television channel in the United States. ... This article is about the TV series. ... March 16 is the 75th day of the year (76th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Plot summary

Cartman runs a "pest control" service to try and rid the town of hippies, a foe he has feared and hated for most of the series, mainly because all they do is smoke pot and smell bad. Having studied hippies in his quest to eradicate them, Cartman deduces that the hippies are about to start a music festival in South Park. His attempts to warn the town council are futile, and he is arrested soon afterwards for imprisoning 63 captured hippies in his basement. Eric Cartman on his tricycle Eric Theodore Cartman, voiced by Trey Parker, is a fictional character in the animated series South Park. ... Singer of a modern Hippie movement in Russia The hippie subculture was a youth movement that began in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread around the world. ...

The town of South Park is soon invaded by the largest population of hippies in the history of man, and the music festival threatens to destroy the town. They manage to convert Stan, Kyle and Kenny to their cause with talks of corporate evils, and the trio get caught up in the massive hippie crowd, who spend their time listening to jam band music and doing drugs. Stanley Stan Marsh is a fictional character in the animated television series South Park. ... Kyle Broflovski, also spelled Kyle Broflofski, Kyle Broflowski, Kyle Brovlofski, Kyle Broflofki, or in the earlier episodes, Kyle Brosloski, is a fictional character in the animated series South Park. ... Kenneth Kenny McCormick is a fictional character in the animated series South Park. ... The term jam band is commonly used to describe psychedelic rock-influenced bands whose concerts largely consist of bands reinterpreting their songs as springboards into extended improvisational pieces of music. ...

Cartman pleads with the mayor to stop the festival, but it turns out that the mayor was the one who permitted the music festival in the first place. After seeing the chaos that the hippies are creating, however, the mayor is ridden with guilt and shoots herself in the head (she survives and appears later in the strategy room when Cartman is enacting his plan). The rest of the town then pleads with Cartman to rid the town of the hippies. Cartman eventually agrees to help, but only after Randy promises to offer a Tonka radio controlled bulldozer, as well as Kyle's mother assuring that Kyle would never have one and instead have to watch Cartman having fun with the bulldozer. Randall Gilbert Marsh (born April 8, 1949 in Covington, Kentucky) is an umpire in Major League Baseball who has worked in the National League from 1981 to 1999 and throughout both major leagues since 2000. ... For the rocket fuel, see Tonka (fuel). ... Sheila Broflovski is the mother of Kyle and Ike (Ike is adopted) in the animated series South Park. ...

Meanwhile, Stan, Kyle, and Kenny realize that the hippies are doing nothing to oppose the corporations that they have demonized and that their idea of a perfect society is the same as the currently existing one. They try to leave but the crowd is 7 miles in radius and Stan's efforts to talk sense into the hippies only make matters worse. In the end, Cartman, with the help of a scientist (Randy Marsh), an engineer (Linda Stotch), and "a black man to sacrifice himself in case anything goes wrong" (Chef), builds a giant drill (a reference to the movie The Core) -- the "Hippie Digger" -- to bore through the hippie crowd (effectively killing the hippies getting in its way). His plan is to upload a Slayer CD, because "hippies can't stand death metal". The plan works and the hippie crowd starts to disassemble, saving South Park, after which Cartman spots Kyle, and Kyle is forced to watch Cartman having fun with his Tonka bulldozer in the school parking lot. “Miles” redirects here. ... Randall Randy Marsh and Sharon (previously Carol) Marsh (née Kimble) are fictional characters in the animated series South Park. ... Stephen (previously Chris) and Linda Stotch are recurring characters in the animated series South Park. ... Jerome Chef McElroy was a recurring character on the Comedy Central series South Park. ... The Core (2003) is a science fiction disaster film very loosely based on the novel Core by Paul Preuss. ... For other uses, see Slayer (disambiguation). ... This article is about the musical genre. ...

Trivia

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• When Cartman plays the Slayer song, we can see he has other music on his computer like "Muhhhrtallicaz - Ride The Thunder" and "Motorface - Death From Behind" which are obviously spoofs of Metallica's Ride the Lightning and Motörhead, other famous metal bands.
• Originally, this episode was meant to be a parody of A&E's Dog the Bounty Hunter, but the creators decided that not enough people had seen the show to understand the references. The parody of the show was later implemented into the season 10 episode, Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy.
• This episode marks the last time Isaac Hayes recorded new dialogue for his character Chef, before Hayes quit the show in March 2006.

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Cultural references

• The term "little Eichmanns," which the neo-hippies often use in the episode, is a reference to the controversy over a Ward Churchill article titled Some People Push Back. In the piece, Churchill referred to the people who worked at the World Trade Center in New York City as "little Eichmanns." Even though the piece was over three years old, it was just being discovered and discussed by the mainstream media shortly before this episode aired. Churchill was a professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, which is near South Park and is where the show's co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone first met.
• The scenes involving the plan constructed by Cartman to use a drill to reach the center of the music festival is a parody on the film style of the Bruckheimer/Bay producer/director team, including The Core and Armageddon.
  • having to drill to save the town (world)
  • the mayor (government) wanting to nuke as soon as the drilling was put to a halt
  • Chef (Lev) climbing outside the Drill (Virgil) to restore power as well as the music and the astronaut suits.
• At the beginning of the episode Cartman's hippy-busting gear resembles the gear worn by the characters in Ghostbusters.
• The drill machine featured in the episode bears strong resemblance to the Gotengo warship from the Japanese movies Atragon, The War in Space, and Godzilla: Final Wars.
• The drill crew's red suits and the scene where they board the drill is a spoof of astronauts boarding the Space Shuttle in the movie Armageddon.
• The red car driven by the "college know-it-all" hippies closely resembles the facelifted 6th generation Honda Accord.
  • The car has a Darwin fish on it.
• Kyle wears a Che Guevara t-shirt.
• The scene where Cartman warns the City Council of the incoming danger of the hippies is a spoof of The Day After Tomorrow, which South Park parodied more heavily in the episode "Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow".
• The song that Cartman plays is Slayer's "Raining Blood", from their Reign in Blood album.