The Mexican Staring Frog could not be from Southern Sri Lanka, since the latter is off the coast of India and nowhere near Mexico.
In Volcano Jimbo says that Ned picked up a grenade when it blew his arm off. But in this episode he says that Ned was about to throw a grenade at the Viet Cong soldiers when it blew his arm off.
The map the sergeant is using to tell Jimbo and Ned of their mission is one of Italy, not Vietnam (though the outline closely matches that of Laos and North Vietnam put together). And the names, except for Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh City (where Sleeping Beauty's Castle is located), are spoofs of Disney theme park areas:
Futureland = Tomorrowland
Wildernessland = Frontierland
Mystical Land = Fantasy Land
Jungleland = Adventureland
The lead singer and keyboardist for the Disciples looks like Paul Schaffer.
Behind Clyde, where Wendy can see it, is a picture that Stan drew of Ms. Ellen. Mr. Garrison gave him an A+ for it.
The plot surrounding the boys' fake staring frog of Sri Lanka (off India's coast) and Jesus' producer's subsequent involvement comes from that of the fake New Zealand (off Australia's coast) tribe of Shelmikedmu in Krippendorf's Tribe. A comparison:
| In the movie, Krippendorf's son Edmund has to provide something for Show and Tell at school, so he takes a video his father made of a costume festival in New Zealand and built a story around it. | In this episode, Stan has to interview Jimbo and Ned about Vietnam. He takes his uncle's tale and presents it to the class. |
| One of the parents, a reporter, takes the story seriously, and Krippendorf has to provide new and more elaborate videotape about the tribe and its rites of passage, even dressing up as a chief to show that the Shelmikedmu are real. | After their report gets an F-, the boys go after Jimbo to get even. They provide videotapes of the Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka to Jimbo, who presents the tapes to his viewers as fact. The boys continue this until the fake frog shows up in South Park, and Jimbo and Ned go after it. |
| A jealous rival researcher suspects that Krippendorf has made up the whole story of the Shelmikedmu and tries to expose him. | Jesus' producer suspects that Jimbo and Ned have made up everything about the Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka and tries to expose them. |
| At an awards dinner Krippendorf has to admit that the Shelmikedmu were fake, that the kids were the ones playing the Shelmikedmu. | On the Jesus and Pals show, Jimbo ends up admitting that he did make up much of what he told the boys about Vietnam. The kids admit to producing those fake videos. |
I want you all to find somebody in your own life who was in Vietnam, and interview them about it. - Mr. Garrison didn't count on the fact that several people could know the same Vietnam vets and so present their interview results as a group. Jimbo is not exactly a part of Kyle's life, or Cartman's life, or Kenny's life, though he did take them hunting last year.
Jesus' soundman is wearing a "TITANIC" cap.
Just so you know the address to write to for those Jesus and Pals' TOO HOT FOR T.V. videos,
| 100 S. AVE. DE LOS MEXICANOS SOUTH PARK CO 34753 Sorry, NO CODs |
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The Tet offensive was the massive, surprise attack on Jan. 31, 1968, the lunar New Year, on South Vietnamese cities by the Viet Cong and communist forces from North Vietnam. Tet is the lunar New Year in Southeast Asia.
…but Pony Boy was beat up pretty bad. He kept saying, 'stay gold.' - this is from Chapter 9 of The Outsiders, by S. E. Hinton, a short novel about four friends who were in a gang. Only there, it was Ponyboy's friend who was in the hospital, and Ponyboy was visiting him. His friend dies saying these words: "Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold."
I think- Danforth wanted the log ride more than anybody, but he… he had to settle with that lame dinosaur water adventure ride - Jurassic Park, the Ride, at Universal Studios theme parks. Danforth is mentioned once before, in Volcano, as part of Cartman's flashbacks.
Wasn't Ned supposed to be catatonic from the time he saw the frog to the end of the show? This shot is taken after their session with Jesus on his show, and Ned seems to have recovered. But the subsequent scenes have him catatonic again.
A question a child might ask, but not a childish question - Garrison's line comes from a Time-Life commercial in the '80s for its "History of the Vietnam War" book series. In the commercial, a man and his son stand before the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC. The son looks up, and asks "Daddy, what's Vietnam?". At which point, a voiceover somberly intones "A question a child might ask - but not a childish question." The commercial was soon parodied in Saturday Night Live after some of the Reagan administration's military activities in the Caribbean. In that parody the man and son are still standing before the Memorial, and the son looks up and asks "Daddy, what's Grenada?". The same somber voice intoned "not exactly a question you'd expect a child to ask..."