Imaginationland Episode II

Infobox Television episode
Title = Imaginationland Episode II
Series = South Park


Caption = ManBearPig tears apart a scientist.
Season =11
Episode = 164
Airdate = October 24, 2007
Production = 1111
Writer = Trey Parker
Matt Stone
Director = Trey Parker
Guests =
Episode list = List of "South Park" episodes
Season list = Infobox South Park season 11 episode list| Prev =
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"Imaginationland Episode II", or "The Drying of the Balls" (as it appears on DVD), is episode 1111 (#164) of Comedy Central's animated TV series "South Park". It originally aired on October 24, 2007. [ [http://www.southparkstudios.com/show/episodes/display_episode.php?episodeid=1111 Episode at SouthParkStudios.com] ] It's the second episode in a three part story arc which won the 2008 Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program for One Hour or More.

Plot

At the beginning of the episode, Cartman says "Previously on "Battlestar Galactica", much like the opening titles of the mentioned program. Butters briefly hallucinates he is home, but finds he is still in Imaginationland. A variety of evil creatures, including monsters, horror movie murderers, and comic book super-villains burst through the destroyed barrier gates and kill the terrorists who freed them before turning their attention on the good creatures. The Mayor urges everyone to flee to the castle in the Gumdrop Forest. Before he can try to get Butters home, the Mayor himself is impaled by an Alien. Before the Mayor dies, he tells Butters to go to Castle Sunshine and to watch out for the evil characters.

Butters is then on the run from one evil character after another. When the evil characters have finally ended their rampage and argue about their next move, Butters ends up on the run with the Lollipop King and Snarf from "Thundercats". The three encounter the evil creatures who have captured Strawberry Shortcake and view from a safe distance. They assault, torment and jeer her and Jason Voorhees gouges out one of her eyes. Just as the Minotaur orders to kill her, the Christmas Critters from Cartman's story in the episode "Woodland Critter Christmas" appear, claiming they can do better. They want to make her eat her eye, then give her AIDS by urinating in her eye socket. They set off to find some AIDS in the forest, much to the stunned surprise of the other evil characters (Jason mutters "Man, I would not like to meet the kid who dreamt those things up!").

Meanwhile, Kyle and Stan are being interrogated at The Pentagon. The kids learn of a portal into Imaginationland, controlled by the government. The portal powers up when the boys sing the Mayor's Imagination song; it is difficult because exact intonations are required.

Cartman breaks into the Pentagon and convinces the officials to let him drag Kyle away for the promised oral sex in the conference room. Cartman gloats too long and an alarm interrupts them. The American government had sent in a group of soldiers, as well as Kurt Russell (because he was in "that one movie that's kind of like this"), into Imaginationland. They radio back information that they found a group of "talking woodland Christmas critters." Stan, recognizing the critters from the Christmas story written by Cartman in the "Woodland Critter Christmas" episode, quickly tries to warn them to flee, but the Woodland Critters gang rape the soldiers before he can. A moment later, ManBearPig breaks through the portal into the Pentagon. He kills two workers and grabs Kyle by the neck. An injured employee reverses the portal, and Manbearpig and Stan are sucked in. Due to the way ManBearPig held Kyle, he is asphyxiated and pronounced dead, as not even two zaps from a defibrillator gets his heart going again. Cartman, realizing Kyle won't suck his balls if he's dead, gets shocked and angry by this and manages to revive Kyle via CPR (in a scenario reminiscent of the resuscitation scene in the movie The Abyss). However, Kyle, once again, remains unaware that Cartman saved his life.

In Imaginationland, Butters, the Lollipop King, and Snarf arrive at the Castle (which has a very strong resemblance to Rivendell from "Lord of the Rings"). The guards suspect Butters is connected with the terrorist attack and bring him before the Council of Nine, consisting of the nine most revered of all imaginary characters: Aslan, Gandalf, Glinda, Jesus, Luke Skywalker, Morpheus, Popeye, Wonder Woman, and Zeus. The council meets with Butters, and determine that he is "The Key", a legendary boy who will save them all, much to Butters' disappointment. Butters doesn't like this, but Luke says to him that he has no choice but to do it if he ever wants to get home again. The good characters of Imaginationland prepare for battle with the evil characters.

Back in the Pentagon, the general, seeing that their imaginations have gone running wild, orders for a nuke to be launched through the portal. At this time, Kyle awakens in the hospital with Cartman at his side, whose plans for him are still going forward as the episode ends.

Council of the Nine

* Aslan from "The Chronicles of Narnia"
* Gandalf of "The Hobbit" and "Lord of the Rings"
* Glinda of "The Wizard of Oz"
* Jesus of the Bible
* Luke Skywalker of "Star Wars"
* Morpheus from "The Matrix"
* Popeye of the comic strip and cartoon series
* Wonder Woman of DC Comics
* Zeus of Greek Mythology

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