The Secrets of 'Mecha Streisand'

by Wild Willie Westwood, with sources from all over the Web

Site B: the archeological dig

1. Site B - The name of In-Gen's laboratory installation on Isla Sorna in The Lost World: Jurassic Park
2. Black History Month continues… - Cartman sings a slavery song as he digs for arrowheads.
3. roshambo - a game of chance, like Rock Paper Scissors. The way Cartman plays it, you claim the prize, you take your chances with him. The definitive story for this kind of roshambo comes from The Tonight Show, starring Johnny Carson, during one of Buddy Hackett's appearances:

   A duck hunter shot a duck, but it landed in another guy's yard. So, the hunter climbs the fence to get the duck, and the land owner said that the way they settle disputes in his country was to take turns kicking each other in the nuts, and whoever was the last one standing got to keep the bird. [Buddy plays the landowner going out to roshambo for the bird. He winds up for the kick] The guy kicks the hunter square in the nuts, and the hunter goes down. [Buddy now plays the hunter, writhing in pain. He does this for two minutes, and then gets up] The hunter finally got up and was preparing to kick the landowner, but the landowner said abruptly, "No that's ok..you can keep it."

   The story makes clear that the last one standing got to keep the bird. Since the hunter went down, the landowner got to keep the bird, but the hunter's reaction was so pathetic that the landowner decided the bird wasn't worth the pathos. This is Cartman's decision as well, especially since Pip didn't even try to get up.
4. An anthropologist studies living societies, an archeologist studies the remains of dead societies. Thus, it is an archeologist who leads the dig, not an anthropologist.

The quadraplegic Swiss man on a pony

1. He's not a quadraplegic, he's a quadruple amputee.
2. He has a very good American accent for a Swiss man.
3. Is tha anchor named Dave or Tom?
4. The interviews with the kids must have been taped just prior to broadcast, which is why the footage can be considered 'live.' And Cartman pops up just after the anchor refers to him as a little tubby.

Kyle's house

1. A picture of Ike in his crib hangs over the sofa.
2. A Terrance and Phillip poster is on Kyle's door
3. Do all the boys sleep in their clothes? - Kyle goes to sleep in his parka and winter hat, just as in Mr. Hankey. Stan did this in Volcano, but that instance was understandable.
4. More on Kyle: When Kyle is first seen asleep in his bed he has his mittens on. After Cartman cuts a hole through the ceiling the mittens are off. Soon, Kyle wakes up and walks to Cartman with the mittens on.

BARBRA STREISAND'S
FOUR MILLION DOLLAR CONDO
IN THE MOUNTAINS

1. The "condo" is modelled after the house (a real one) that Woody Allen goes to in the futuristic movie Sleeper. Look to your left as you leave Denver towards the ski resorts on R-100.
2. He knew about the Symbol of Krewluck! - those two snakes on the Triangle of Zinfar make up the Symbol of Krewluck.
3. A cop showed up - he's a clever one - Barbrady, clever?

The search for the boys, Part I

1. Real footage is used for the background when Chef and Leonard Maltin look for Barbra's condo
2. Barbra Streisand is supposed to have found the first triangle during the shooting of My Fair Lady, but she did not star in it. She first appeared in Funny Girl and then in Funny Lady.
3. …her mother was a jackal… - in The Omen Damien's mother was a jackal. Is Barbra Satan's love child (see the note on the poster below)?

Direct to Video Studios

1. Direct to Video Studios - A spoof of Paramount Studios on Melrose. Paramount has two arches at its Melrose gate, these studios have just one.
2. Sally Struthers has made it back from Africa in one piece.
3. Instead of EXIT, the stage door reads SHHH.
4. In Poitier's room hangs a poster for In the Heat of the Night 5 the fifth in the series of films in which he plays Mr. Tibbs. On the poster there are three Klansmen behind a surprised Mr. Tibbs. This movie was never actually made, but these studios being direct-to-video…
5. The Japanese princesses are the ones whom Mothra has to rescue in Tokyo in his first film.
6. a small pissant white-bread mountain town - Same thing the Mayor called it in Weight Gain 4000

Barbra's Condo Revisited

1. On the wall behind her is a poster of her and Satan, with Satan's autograph:
   Love, mi amore
   Satan

   Stan has a new catchphrase: Dude this is pretty fucked up right here. He's used it in The Spirit of Chrsitmas: Jesus vs. Santa, and in Mr. Hankey - The Christmas Poo.

The Battle Against Mecha Streisand

1. Mecha Streisand signs Sheila's autograph book with her nickname, Babs. And Sheila's book is generic: it reads, "My Autograph Book."
2. A new sushi bar opens up two doors from Tom's Rhinoplasty. Mecha Streisand crushes the Post Office underfoot. Mecha Streisand rips the sushi bar's roof open for something to eat. She crushes it with her foot (and the sign falls away), but the next scene has it whole again, just burning (the sign is back on, but the address number falls away). She grabs the building between it and Tom's Rhinoplasty and shakes the people out of it. Later the Post Office is restored, and sign has its P and e missing when Mr. Garrison appears. Later, she kicks the sushi bar away. Lenardu Marutin uses the building next to it against her. When Kenny dies, the post office is again crushed. She swats Tom's Rhinoplasty away with her tail, but when Sidney Poitier arrives, these three buildings are back in their places. The post office sign is restored when Jesus jumps for joy next to the boys.
3. Kenny has a way of attracting his own death: in Tom's Rhinoplasty he was the only student standing when the sword came his way, and here he heads to the tetherball for unknown reasons.
4. When Robert Smith transforms, Mecha Streisand is headed for a gas station with, appropriately enough, a dinosaur for a logo. The name of the station? Dynaco.
5. Since when does a small town like South Park have skyscrapers?
6. My mom always said there were no monsters, but there are, aren't there, Chef? - a paraphrase of Newt's comment to Ripley in Aliens
7. Jesus hails Robert Smith as 'our Savior.' Ususally, Jesus is our Savior!
8. Disintegrtion is the best album everrr! - The Cure's breakthrough 1989 album, and the birth year for the third graders. Disintegration describes pretty much what the four monsters did to South Park.
9. The sunset Robert Smith walks into may evoke the Japanese flag, but the same sunset is seen in earlier episodes, like Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride.

Homage to Japanese Science Fiction

1. Barbra Streisand becomes Mecha Barbura Sturaisanda (Mecha Godzilla - Mechanical Godzilla)
2. Leonard Maltin becomes Ultura Lenardu Marutin (Ultraman)
3. Sidney Poitier becomes Megara Poatia (Gamera)
4. Robert Smith becomes Robartu Smitu (Mothra - with shades of Johnny Sokko's Flying Robot, thanks to the walkie-talkie Smith handed Stan)