Talk:Cancelled (South Park)

where in the universe are the klingons?

This is a reference to popular science fiction works such as Star Trek in which each alien species seems to exist on a world without (or at least extremely limited) additional animal life. For example, Alien species such as the Vulcans, Klingons, and Romulans all come from worlds named exclusively after themselves.

Klingon's are in fact from Qo'noS. Other life forms on that world include kolar beasts, lingta, Sark, targs, and t'gla.

Sounds from the game DooM are used in this episode (the door open and close sound)

Sounds from the DOOM games are used in a lot of media(especially that of the DOOM 2 final boss firing). It's kind of irrelevant. --Anarchy_Balsac

It's not really from Doom but from the old Sound General Series 1000 sound effects libraries. id software didn't really make any of the sounds from scratch so nope. CheapAlert 05:32, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Well, that just strengthens my case that the trivia "fact" shouldn't be there. --Anarchy_Balsac

"Jargon" scene cut

Actually, no. I saw them sucking each other's "jargons" on Comedy Central. --66.218.13.155 04:07, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Pardon?

No, it's pronounced Jagon, a huge penis on their shoulders. (See this). Jagon has no r pronouncing.

Simpson's

Does it really count as "Simpson's already did it if the episode aired months before the Simpson's video game came out? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 130.85.241.76 (talk) 17:03, 14 December 2006 (UTC).

I added that little nugget to the article, and will grant it's a little on the lame side. It takes months, if not years to develop a video game. Compared to the days that Matt and Trey need to put together an episode, I'm pretty sure the Simpson's plot was already laid out before this one. However, even if the Southpark episode was "first", I thought it was at least another link between the two shows as was illustrated in the Southpark episode The Simpsons Already Did It. This is as much as I'm willing to defend my addition. Feel free to remove it if you think it's dumb/inaccurate. Now if Bart Simpson had tried to replace the chocolate candy filling with mayonnaise... Hoof Hearted 14:02, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

starving marvin reference

Do the South park kids make a south park reference when they say it is their second time in space? -QX100 3:04 31 March, 2007 (UTC)

I think so. And Cartman references his other anal probe adventures when he says it's his fifth time. Hoof Hearted 15:45, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Trivia vs Pop Culture

I deleted the 'too much trivia' tag (maybe a bit hastily) because I don't think that references to pop culture is the same as trivia. I think we should clarify it now, though, instead of just deleting it and replacing it back and forth. For me, I think it's different because while trivia is just a list of bits and pieces of the episodes one may have missed, references to pop culture is stuff you wouldn't know unless you've heard of the references, and it's not exactly 'facts' that can be worked into the article. So really the only options would be to leave them in their own section, or delete them. And deleting them is no good because wikipedia is the site a lot of people go to to read about these things that they'd otherwise never know about- it's what makes the episodes articles interesting.

Since there's no policy on wikipedia about cutting down on references to pop culture, and it'd be almost impossible to work such things into the plot synopsis (without making it extremely awkward, anyway), I think they should be left in their own section. And as long as that's the case, why have that annoying (and IMO wrongly placed) trivia tag?

Columbo2 23:11, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Just to add to that, if anything, it should be the "Miscellaneous" section that should be tagged as trivia, not the "References to Popular Culture." Columbo2 23:12, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Miscellaneous it is, then. ≈ The Haunted Angel 23:20, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

I've no idea what Columbo2 means, if something can't be cited then it leaves the article. You can cite "cultural references" with interviews in magazines, DVD commentary etc. And trivia, miscellaneous and "cultural references" are all the same thing, little bits of the plot that have been expanded greatly for no apparent reason. Alastairward (talk) 17:09, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

space

kyle says this is only their 2nd time in space. wat was there fist?Д narchistPig 03:52, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Starvin Marvin in Space. ≈ The Haunted Angel 11:57, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

kyle goes into space in episode 1 season 1 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 222.154.153.196 (talk) 21:50, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Uncited material

Cite the following and it can be returned to the main article;

• Jeff's method of figuring out puzzles seems to resemble the one utilized by Nicolas Cage in National Treasure, which came out the same year that this episode was aired.

- Actually, I believe that Jeff's figuring out clues through random words with regards to alien activity is directly related to his role in the movie "Independence Day" where Jeff's character associates "catching a cold" with uploading a virus to the alien's computers to knock out their defense shields. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.163.183.227 (talk) 18:56, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

• The sound of the power shutting down when Jeff tries to reverse the polarity is the sound of opening and closing doors from the game Doom.
• The alien chase scene in the first act parodies the archetypal chase scene in The Dukes of Hazzard, including the freeze frame narration that would occur before fading to commercial. A caricature of Boss Hogg can be seen on a billboard during the chase scene, with the words “Eat Big Pig's BBQ.” The alien giving chase also impersonates the cackling laugh of Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane.
• The aliens’ car is a 1997 – 2005 Buick Century, complete with a mock Buick emblem.
• The Saddam Hussein form the shapeshifting alien takes on and the song he sings is a parody of the classic 1955 Warner Bros. cartoon One Froggy Evening.
• The other forms that Najix takes on aside from the ones described above are Santa Claus (which only Cartman is excited to see), Michael Jordan (in his Chicago Bulls uniform), Don King, Mr. Roarke and Tattoo of Fantasy Island (Cartman finds it impressive that a single shapeshifting alien can turn into two separate things at once), George Burns, J. J. Evans of Good Times (complete with "Dy-no-mite!" catchphrase), Saddam Hussein, Missy Elliott, and Frank Sinatra.
• The plot where aliens are using earth as a reality TV show and decide to destroy it in the season finale was previously done in Robert Rankin’s Armageddon.
• The scene where the Joozians suck on the phallic extensions on their shoulders is a reference to the Mugwumps of the movie “Naked Lunch” by David Cronenberg, which is based upon the novel of the same name by William S. Burroughs.
• Jeff claims during one of his Word Association bouts that sixty is the number of episodes they made of Punky Brewster before it was canceled (actually there were 88).
• The alien construction (and tearing down) of Earth is a reference to Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
• The opening of the decrypted alien reality-TV show resembles the initial opening of Star Trek: The Next Generation, that was only used during the first and second season.
• The episode makes reference to Klingons from Star Trek when it mentions the TV show Get Me Out of Here, I'm a Klingnanian.
• The children wake up aboard the alien ship, sealed into cubicles with a slimy substance. This is a reference to Fire in the Sky and the Alien movies. However, Cartman initially believes that he is stuck inside Helen Hunt’s ass.
• Jeff's puzzle solving is probably as much influenced by his character from The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension as much as Independence Day. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.15.126.237 (talk) 20:29, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
• The scientist, named Jeff, trying to help the boys and Chef looks like a South Park version of Jeff Goldblum. The last name on character's name tag on his lab coat even appears to read "Dr. Goldblum", although it is not clear enough to be totally certain. In a reference to Independence Day, when puzzling out alien technology and action, Jeff Goldblum’s character follows unlikely chains of thought to come to conclusions that, curiously, turn out to be exactly correct. Other Independence Day references is Chef’s yelling at the visitors, much like Will Smith’s character does after the aliens crash their ship and in the plot point about uploading a virus to the alien ships, which is pointed out to be ridiculous by Chef.
• The clip where people are running scared across a bridge is from the Danish monster horror movie Reptilicus.
• The scientist says that he can “reverse the polarity,” a reference to Doctor Who’s Third Doctor’s catchphrase.
• The television program is based on the slotscene of The Truman Show
• The idea of the episode is from the episode "Free Hat", in which Trey Parker and Matt Stone poke fun at the idea of remaking the first episode, to see how much things have changed in terms of the animation of the show.
• During Fognl’s television preview for Earth one can hear Trey Parker saying “derp”, a word popularized on the set of BASEketball, in the episodes “The Succubus” and “The Biggest Douche in the Universe.”
• The planet Marklar from “Starvin’ Marvin in Space” is mentioned by the Joozians as a source of subjects for their next show, along with the Horsehead Nebula, which is mentioned in “The Biggest Douche in the Universe” as one of the “biggest douche nominees” is from there. There is also a reference to the Gelgameks who were seen in “Red Hot Catholic Love.”
• When the boys first realize they are in space, Stan comments, "This is only the second time we've ever been in outer space." This references the episode "Starvin' Marvin in Space", where the boys went to outer space along with Starvin' Marvin. Cartman follows this up with, "This is like my fifth time", referring to his two abductions in "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe" and possibly the one recounted at the beginning of this episode.
• The first scene is reprised in virtually identical fashion as “Cartman Gets an Anal Probe” until the boys realize they’re stuck in a “repeat.” There is at least one change, however. In the original episode, when Ike is about to be kicked by Kyle, he says, "Don’t kick the baby." In Cancelled, he says, "Don’t kick the ''goddamn'' baby!." Also, instead of babbling, Ike says, “Suck my balls.” Also, the way Kyle hits Cartman with Ike is changed, in "Anal Probe", Kyle spins 360 degrees to hit Cartman. In "Cancelled", he hits him by turning only 90 degrees. Also, in "Cancelled", the boys share a laugh right before Cartman gets hit by Kyle when Cartman calls Ike a long stream of insults, while in "Anal Probe" they laugh after Kenny explains what a dildo is. Cartman then remarks "yeah, that's what Kyle's little brother is all right!", which causes Kyle to hit him.
• There are several inconsistencies between the episodes "Cancelled" and "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe". In "Cancelled", Kyle remarks that Cartman didn't get much sleep last night. In the first episode, it is Stan that says this. Also, right before Stan realizes that the events are repeating themselves, he says the line, "Visitors are real. They—" However, Stan never said the word "they" in the original scene. If the line after the original was to be believed, Stan would have said in this episode, "They abduct people and mutilate cows." This line was said by Kyle in the original episode.
• Some of the characters seen in the background are; the host from "The Biggest Douche In The Universe contest, the alien from the opening scene in "Spooky Fish", Several contestants from "The Biggest Douche in The Universe."
• As they[the boys] enter the Fognl studio, slips can be seen playing on the various monitors in the background.
• The “Joozians” who run the universe’s media are parodies of Jews and the charge that Jews secretly run the media; they are shown with a stereotypically Jewish appearance (such as their very large noses), speak with an exaggerated Bronx accent, and also use words that sound like Hebrew. When Kyle (who is Jewish) samples some of their food and likes it, the aliens claim that he seems to have “Joozian ancestry”; Cartman sarcastically replies, “Tell us about it.” Their symbol is a seven-pointed star reminiscent of the Star of David.
• The “Joozians” state that a show should never go past 100 episodes, because it then starts to contain "ridiculous plot lines and settings." This is followed by a pause. This is a joke because this is the 100th episode aired, and features a generally absurd plot.

Alastairward (talk) 17:05, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

If you can verify it by looking at the materials described, you don't need additional citations. –OrangeDog (talk • edits) 01:34, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

I beg to differ. Alastairward (talk) 12:38, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

You want citations for things like this? -> "Jeff claims during one of his Word Association bouts that sixty is the number of episodes they made of Punky Brewster before it was canceled (actually there were 88)" I don't get it. -- 217.230.247.43 (talk) 21:53, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Image:The-Joozians.jpg

Somebody removed this image from the page, recently. I tried to return it, but for some reason my computer won't let me edit this page. Will someone else add it in, please? Mess around with the guy in shades all you like - don't mess around with the girl in gloves! (talk) 07:15, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

It was removed with the uncited material above, sorry about that.Alastairward (talk) 18:08, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

That's okay. Thanks! Mess around with the guy in shades all you like - don't mess around with the girl in gloves! (talk) 19:38, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

MC Lyte?

One of the forms that Najix took appeared to resemble MC Lyte; is that supposed to be her?

I thought it was meant to be Missy Elliot? Mac Dreamstate (talk) 12:55, 29 December 2013 (UTC)