Prehistoric Ice Man
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| Season | s02 |
| Episode | e18 |
| Written By | Trey Parker |
| Production Code | 0218 |
| Original Air Date | 1998-10-16 |
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Story
Description
After watching a TV show about a wild Australian tracker who sticks his thumb up wild animals' buttholes, the boys decide to hunt for crocodiles. Kyle falls down a very deep hole, and when Stan attempts a to rescue him, they discover a man frozen in some ice. The body is brought to Dr. Mephesto.
Stan and Kyle have a serious argument over what to name the Ice Man, the former favoring Gorak and the latter favoring Steve.
Mephesto discovers that the "Ice Man" is still alive, and thaws him out. He's from the year 1996 -- about 32 months earlier. Mephesto treats him like a discovery from another era and the ice man is displayed in a special habitat that fitted out to look like 1996. A conveyor belt trundles visitors past. It also drags Kenny to his death.
The Ice Man hates the way he's being treated, as do Stan and Kyle. They put aside their disagreement until later while they help him escape.
Meanwhile the Ice Man, whose real name is Larry, learns his wife has remarried and has two children -- ages 8 and 13. Realizing he can't survive in this new reality, he accepts the boys' suggestion to take a train to Des Moines, which is supposedly three years behind the rest of the world.
The boys free Larry and get him to the train station where chaos ensues. Kyle and Stan resume their argument and get into a fistfight. The FBI (with the aid of the Australian Outback Guy) attempt to capture Larry. The Australian Outback Guy actually does catch him and sticks his thumb in his butthole. Finally, Larry escapes by helicopter and Outback Guy is hacked to pieces by its blades.
Stan and Kyle finally bury the hatchet. Cartman tries to put his thumb in a cow's butthole, but the animal sits on him.
What I Learned Today
"You boys have really shown me the true meaning of friendship. You didn't care about anything but my happiness. You put me in front of yourselves, and that's what true friendship is all about."
Memorable Quotes
- "I'm gonna jam my thumb in its butthole now. This should REALLY piss it off!" Australian Outback Guy
- "Oh my God, they revived Gorak!" Stan
- "You suck as a best friend, Cartman." Kyle
- "Okay, First one to die loses." Stan
- "Good job, Cartman. You killed Kyle!" Stan
- "Little boy, sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable." (Man in Suit)
- "YOU'RE a dick, and I have had it with your dickdetry!" Stan
Characters
Kyle Broflovski
Eric Cartman
Larry/Steve/Gorac
Mayor McDaniels
Dr. Alphonse Mephesto
Kevin Mephesto
Bucky Bailey
Officer Barbrady
Body Count
Kenny and the Outback guy.
Kenny McCormick
Locations
Behind The Scenes
Pop Culture References
Shout Outs
The Outback guy is of course Steve Irwin, who was just beginning to catch on in the US as the Crocodile Hunter. Also Stan wants to call the ice man Steve because he thinks he looks like Steve Austin from The Six Million Dollar Man.
When the boys find the frozen ice man, Cartman says "this is just like that one movie where John Travolta and that French chick were doing it all summer long, and then they went back to school and sang songs about Grease Lighting " He's referring to the movie Grease, which has absolutely nothing to do with an ice man. Dr. Mephesto determines that the ice man's clothes are from Eddie Baur, which he hasn't seen anyone wear since 1996.
When trying to buy a train ticket, Kyle says "We have to get him to Des Moines or else he's gonna melt away." Stan yells back: "that's Frosty, you stupid butthole!"
Pwn'd
Music from the band Ace of Base is pumped into the ice man's habitat because, Mephesto states, " their primitive drumming soothed his people's tempers."
Bonus Factoids
Pointless Observations
Mephesto has an ass-shaped door buzzer. Also Marilyn Manson performs a snippet from Stinky Britches about halfway through the episode and during the closing credits. The ice man's enclosure is a couple of doors down from Mephesto's five-assed monkey, first seen in "An Elephant Makes Love To A Pig".
Kyle doesn't add his signature "You bastards!" after Kenny is killed, due to the fact that he's not talking to Stan.
There are movie posters for Fargo and ID4 (Independence Day), as well as a Hunchback of Notre Dame blanket in the ice man's "habitat". There's also a "Re-Elect Clinton" poster.
Season 2
- e1 Terrance and Phillip in Not Without My Anus
- e2 Cartman's Mom Is Still a Dirty Slut
- e3 Chickenlover
- e4 Ike's Wee Wee
- e5 Conjoined Fetus Lady
- e6 The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka
- e7 City on the Edge of Forever (Flashbacks)
- e8 Summer Sucks
- e9 Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls
- e10 Chickenpox
- e11 Roger Ebert Should Lay Off the Fatty Foods
- e12 Clubhouses
- e13 Cow Days
- e14 Chef Aid
- e12 Spookyfish
- e13 Merry Christmas Charlie Manson!
- e14 Gnomes
- e15 Prehistoric Ice Man