South Park does Ghost Hunters, Billy Mays and “Chipotlaway”

Check one item off the list I made earlier this week. Not that it was much of a surprise coming from Parker and Stone, but they went ahead and spoofed Michael Jackson right from the get-go. Actually, they went ahead and spoofed the slew of celebrity deaths from the past year, including Walter Cronkite, Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett and, of course, Billy Mays.

I’m not sure you could easily (or at least quickly) explain to someone how this episode was able to parody Michael Jackson’s ghost along with creepy little girl pageants, but that’s just what happened. Has there been an episode that’s parodied so many things at once that wasn’t Imaginationland? Let’s see, they had:

• The aforementioned celebrity deaths. Y’know, I almost put “deaths in threes” on my previous list, and this seemed close enough to satisfy that.
• Ghost Hunters. Man, they were spot-on with the way they looked. I watch that show and definitely got a laugh out of their scene.
• Poltergeist
  
• The Sixth Sense
• Chipotle, with “Chipotlaway” to clean the blood stains out of your underwear. Holy shit, I love Chipotle but … ah hell, yeah, I might resort to Chipotlaway over giving that shiznit up. Plus, Billy Mays!
• Creepy, little girl beauty pageants, complete with judges rubbing blown kisses on their naughty places.

I can’t remember Ike saying so much before in an episode, and with bleeped out profanity to boot! I know Parker and Stone do the voices for quite a few of the characters, including some of the kids, but Ike is clearly, really a small child’s voice. That’s enough to make him creepy and funny at the same time.

… but not as creepy as seeing Ike and Kyle’s parents going at it. Even animated, that was damn disturbing. Does Chipotlaway work to clean that image from my eyes? I’d believe Billy Mays, if he said it would.

Clacked by Keith McDuffee
on Oct 07, 2009 @ 22:44 EST5EDT