"Lice Capades" is episode 1103 (#156) of Comedy Central's animated comedy series South Park. It originally aired on March 21, 2007. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 595 pixel Image in higher resolution (1065 × 792 pixel, file size: 61 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Cartman holding a blowtorch in episode 3 of season 11. ... is the 80th day of the year (81st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... is the 66th day of the year (67th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... With Apologies to Jesse Jackson is episode 1101 of Comedy Centrals animated comedy series South Park and the premiere of the shows 11th season. ... Cartman Sucks is episode 1102 of Comedy Centrals South Park and the second episode of the shows 11th season. ... The Snuke is episode 1104 of Comedy Centrals animated comedy series South Park. ... Fantastic Easter Special is episode 1105 (#158) of the animated series South Park. ... D-Yikes! is episode 1106 (#159) of Comedy Centrals animated comedy series South Park. ... Night of the Living Homeless is episode 1107 (#160) of Comedy Centrals 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. ... is the 80th day of the year (81st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...

Plot

Ms. Garrison announces to the class that the school has a head lice problem, and every student must now be checked. During the check Clyde discovers that he has lice, much to his horror. The nurse gives him a note and he goes to the doctor to get a special shampoo to deal with the problem, but Clyde remains very embarrassed by the situation. The head louse Head lice (Pediculus humanus capitis) are one of the many varieties of sucking lice (singular louse) specialized to live on different areas of various animals. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ...

Meanwhile, from on top of Clyde's head, one of the lice, named Travis, starts to warn the other lice that the "earth is angry" with them. During Clyde's examination, Travis witnesses the nurse parting Clyde's hair, and sees his (the male nurse's) giant eye-in-the-sky gazing at Travis. Already suspicious about what has been happening, Travis goes back to his village and tells the head lice that their world has become conscious of them, and that their involvement has led it to want to get rid of them, but is ridiculed. Suddenly, it begins to rain at an unusual time (Clyde taking a shower in the afternoon) and Travis, sensing danger, takes his wife, Kelly, and unhatched baby and runs to safety. As the other lice are playing in the rain, a green slime (the shampoo) comes and begins to kill them all. Kelly and many others perish, though Travis and his unhatched baby (which he names Hope) survive. The following is a list of characters who have only been used once as a main episode character on South Park. ...

The next day in class, Mrs. Garrison tells the children that someone had lice but will not reveal who, because of the potential embarrassment. The kids become upset, and want to know who it is so they can avoid them and make fun of them. This begins a subplot involving Cartman trying to expose who in the class has head lice.

Back on Clyde's head, the few survivors of the disaster gather and Travis tells them that they must flee the world (Clyde's head) for another one, and to do so they must go to the "Forbidden Zone" (The back of Clyde's neck.) This is the only place where they have a chance to spot another world. Only two lice agree to follow him, but Travis is betrayed and left for dead.

After a series of accusations and conspiracies, Cartman eventually devises a test to tell who had head lice, by taking a sample of everyone's blood and heating it, claiming the remaining lice saliva will make the blood jump. Kyle says that he merely stole the idea from The Thing and that it will not work. However, all the boys agree to go through with it (including Kyle, so as not to be accused) as well as Clyde, who is still terrified that he will be discovered. However when Cartman heats Kenny's blood, he intentionally splashes it all over himself making it look like it worked, and then Kenny flees in terror. The Thing is a 1982 science fiction film, directed by John Carpenter. ...

The boys manage to track Kenny down to the park, where they intend to punish him for lying about his lice; by giving him a "sock bath." They tell Clyde to come, but before he does, he calls Mrs. Garrison to warn her of Kenny's danger. Kenny is caught and stripped naked. His parka is thrown to one side and his naked body is washed with soap and dried with the socks. Then Kyle says that he cannot go through with it and admits that he was the person who had lice. Stan, surprised, says that this isn't true and he was the one with lice. Even Cartman admits that he had lice and was just trying to frame Kenny. Mrs. Garrison shows up and tells them that everyone in the class had lice. Upon this revelation, the boys realize that this includes Kenny, and they proceed to continue with the sock bath for his denial. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

As the episode ends, Travis is almost dead and sees an apparition of his dead wife in the sky. It turns out to be a fly, and Travis grabs on to it, still holding his child. The fly finally lands on another body and Travis is welcomed by larger, red-colored lice (revealed moments later to be crabs, which are a type of lice) who live there, and is told they have lived in peace for "generations." The episode's ending reveals that this place is in fact Angelina Jolie's pubic hair. Binomial name Pthirus pubis (L., 1758, originally Pediculus pubis) Crab lice (singular, louse) commonly called crabs due to their resemblance to a crab, are one of three kinds of human lice in the large group of lice families, the others being head lice and body lice, which live in clothing. ... Angelina Jolie (born June 4, 1975) is an American film actress, a former fashion model and a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. ... Pubic hair is hair in the frontal genital area, the crotch, and sometimes at the top of the inside of the legs; these areas form the pubic region. ...

Trivia

• A promotion image for the episode shows Cartman wearing his normal clothing while holding a blow torch. In the actual episode, while performing a test for lice, Cartman wears a jacket similar to the one worn by the character R.J. MacReady in The Thing.
• In the first airing of this episode, Clyde's last name is Harris, though in previous episodes, it was Donovan. Furthermore, it had originally been "Goodman" in early South Park merchandise. When this episode re-aired two days later, his last name was corrected to "Donovan". To make matters even more confusing, on the May 9th 2007 airing of this episode, it was Clyde Harris again.^{[citation needed]}
• The music that plays when Travis is rescued by the fly is the Pie Jesu from Fauré's Requiem, performed by the Oxford Camerata.
• It may be said that this episode represents the South Park creators' concession that global warming may in fact be a real threat, perhaps because of the extremely unseasonable warmth of the winter of 2006-2007.

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Cultural references

• The subplot and dialogue involving Travis' point of view, a "world" that interacts with the lice and rejects them, and an over-the-top "evil" Vice President who refuses to believe that theory, makes Parker and Stone's third noteworthy parody of the movie The Day After Tomorrow. The other two are "Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow" and "Die Hippie, Die."
• The scene in which Travis is flown away by the fly is a reference to the scene from The Lord of The Rings: The Return of the King, in which Frodo and Sam are flown away from near death on Mount Doom by giant eagles, complete with similar "heavenly" music, and a close-up on Travis's face (Frodo's face in the film) as he hovers on the edge of unconsciousness.

The Day After Tomorrow is a 2004 apocalyptic science-fiction film that depicts catastrophic effects of global warming and boasts high-end special effects, although the science the story is based on has little mainstream credibility. ... Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow is episode 908 of the Comedy Central series South Park. ... Die Hippie, Die is episode 902 of Comedy Centrals South Park. ...

External links

• "Lice Capades" at South Park Studios
• Teaser for "Lice Capades" (quicktime)
• Lice Capades at TV.com