Talk:Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow

Peas and carrots?

I always throught they were saying "Decrease in pirates" instead of the normal rable rable and I interpreted this as a reference to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster which beleives global warming directly correlates to a decrease in pirates in the world. Can anyone else confirm?

Listen closely, and I think you'll hear "peas and carrots." Professor Chaos 21:22, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Goofs Randy Marsh says that the temperature will fall to 70 million degrees below zero. The minimum reachable temperature is the absolute zero, 0 K or -273°C. However, since South Park is not a science educational program, but is actually a satirical comedy, this line was most likely a joke.

seriously this should be removed. only the most simple person would not understand this outright so i will remove it. it is not a "goof"

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References to pop culture

I removed a couple of the "citation needed" tags, as anyone who has seen both The Day After Tomorrow and this episode would know they are true. --Mike | Contrib 08:43, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

If you can cite those references, please do so! Alastairward (talk) 09:43, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Since Mike hasn't referenced anything, I've moved a series of references to this talk page, if they can be cited, they can return to the main article;

References to Hurricane Katrina

This episode parodies the response to Hurricane Katrina, particularly the various ad hoc explanations for the increased level of suffering from the hurricane and its aftermath, including accusations that global warming may have been a cause of violent hurricanes. Similarly, the episode seems to parody the misplaced anger and unwillingness to negotiate between all the parties in the Katrina relief effort, the distorted media coverage that occurred during the hurricane's aftermath, and the Houston mass evacuation during Hurricane Rita.

• When the people conclude that George Bush was the cause of the beaver dam being broken, someone says "George Bush doesn't care about beavers!" in a parody of Kanye West saying "George Bush doesn't care about black people."
• In the scene where citizens are evacuated by helicopter only white people are rescued, while a black man can be seen left stranded. This is based on accusations of selectively racist rescue efforts and media coverage during the Hurricane Katrina crisis.
• In contrast to scenes during Hurricane Katrina, people trapped in Beaverton are polite, mild-mannered, and patient, if a little ironic in tone.
• The giant penis Randy Marsh draws on the map of America is an obvious parody of a scene from The Day After Tomorrow but can also likely be based on a real National Weather Service wind distribution map for Hurricane Rita, which bore a resemblance to a giant penis. [1]
• When the townspeople are scrambling around in the town, a man is seen rushing a cart full of beer, which is a reference to an infamous photograph of a man stocking up on beer during Hurricane Katrina. [2]
• When news reports state that rape, looting, and cannibalism are occurring it is revealed that nobody has seen this and that they are just reporting it. This is most likely a parody of numerous and various news reports from the Katrina aftermath which either knowingly or unknowingly gave exaggerated claims of violence and danger, particularly from survivors themselves, being present in the area. [3] Such reports caused the officials for several relief and rescue groups, the greater majority being unarmed volunteer civilians, to keep rescuers from entering unescorted into the Katrina disaster areas out of fear for their personnel on occasion.

References to pop culture

• The fate of Beaverton is very similar to the actual potential fate of the Colorado town of Leadville, where water trapped in the collapsed Leadville Tunnel is threatening to break free and flood parts of the town.
• The panic scene after the announcement that global warming caused the flood parodies similar scenes in many disaster movies such as War of the Worlds, Independence Day, Godzilla, and The Day After Tomorrow.
• The scene where global warming is following the inhabitants of South Park and Randy Marsh slams the door shut, is very similar to the Evil Dead scenes where the evil spirit follows Ash and he slams back the door of the cabin (the spirit is never seen, just as global warming isn't in the episode). This is also a spoof of a similar scene in The Day After Tomorrow, in which the main characters have to outrun a gust of cold air that instantly freezes everything in its path, from skyscrapers to helicopters in flight to live people. It also ends dramatically as the door to a New York library is slammed just as the cold air reaches the building.
• The scene where Stan calls his father on the phone while the water level rises is another reference to a scene in The Day After Tomorrow.
• The final scene where everyone says "I broke the dam" is a reference to Spartacus where the title character comes forward as Spartacus, and the crowd all stand saying the same in an effort to protect him.
• The scene where Cartman forces Kyle to hand over his "Jew-gold" at gunpoint is very similar to the finale of Marathon Man.
• In the end of the episode, where the townspeople believe it was Crab People who broke the dam, the Crab People can be heard chanting "Cra-a-ab people, cra-a-ab people" just like they did in their episode of origin, South Park Is Gay!

Alastairward (talk) 11:51, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, no references here. I just removed the ones that I thought a reference for was rather unneeded. The phone scene is clearly a direct rip off, and if you watch the episode, you can hear the crab people chant. As trivia sections are discouraged anyways (though I'm not sure why), I suppose it doesn't really matter. --Mike | Contrib 08:40, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

plot only

• non-plot section very small.--Pokkimon (talk) 19:23, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

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