The Secrets of
"Chef Aid"

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

Again, Chef's letters switch between uppercase and lowercase.

TODAY'S HOT LUNCH

  1. MEATLOAF
  2. CREAM OF BROCOLLI
  3. CHOCOLATE PUDDING
  4. MILK 25¢.

Mr. Big Record Producer sounds like Ned.

Capitalist Records = Capitol Records, on Vine St. and Yucca Ave., Hollywood, CA.

All the doctors' name tags are blank, even Dr. Doctor's. But his tag has lettering again when Garrison is arrested.

The video which has Alanis Morissette singing "Stinky Britches" in a car is based on the "Ironic" video from Jagged Little Pill

In both trials, why did Johnny Cochran use any kind of defense (and in the first one, say "the defense rests") when he is the prosecuting attorney? And how did jurors from the first trial end up as jurors in the second one?

The jury foreman in the first trial is on the operating table in Hell's Pass Hospital when Mr. Garrison enters carrying Mr. Twig. Must've had a heart attack from all that testimony.

Um, in a news report, drawings of a trial are used when the trial itself is not televised. If the trial is televised, stills of the trial, if not actual clips, are used. But you get to see how the storyboards are drawn up, and you get to see Johnny Cochran dressed as a buffoon, a clown.

Cartman is of German ancestry. Last year, he dressed as Hitler. Here, he wears lederhosen, sings a German song, and asks about a picture of Chef and a goat in Germany. He seems to be the treasurer of the group, even if he does suck at math, as he held the boys' funds for both the carnival and Chef Aid.

Is Mr. Garrison a Leonardo Di Caprio fan? A poster of Di Caprio hangs over the bed. Also, you'd have thought Mr. Garrison would be rid of Mr. Hat and any pictures of him, but no. There's one still hanging around.

Even Chef's coatrack has naked ladies for hooks.

In Chef's bookcase are videos from "Sanford & Son," a mid-1970's show about a shop owner and his son.

Are you Elton John? - Kyle doesn't remember what Elton John looks like. Nor do the others. But they saw his picture in Chef's book, and they saw him when Chef sang "Love Gravy" the year before.

Stan is now comfortable mentioning Wendy as his girlfriend.

Wow! Chef slept with Sheila with Gerald's permission.

Mr. Hat has returned! And with him, plenty of homoerotic subtext. The way Mr. Twig was boiled in a pot comes from the bunny in a boiling pot in Fatal Attraction.

It's over, children. I couldn't raise the $2 million to hire Johnny Cochran, and now I have to go to jail. - that's not why he was arrested. He was arrested for not raising the $2 million to pay the record producer. But he did lose Cochran's services. The slight beating Chef received is a small reminder of the Rodney King beating, of any police beating.

Jail Break

  1. Anything is possible (yeah, right). Mr. Hat drives Mr. Garrison's truck and breaks him out of jail. Notice that the jail cell walls are lighter now than in Cow Days.
  2. Notice the row of hearts around Mr. Garrison's brief's waistband. They are there for a second or two, then are gone, then are back on the waistband when Garrison takes the wheel.
  3. Mr. Garrison is arrested barefoot and escapes from jail that way. But before he stands up to escape he has shoes on. Then he stands and he's barefoot again.
  4. Mr. Garrison is dressed when Chef exits the Bronco, but is seen in his underwear again soon after.
Ozzy bit Kenny's head off, but Kenny stands next to the others at the ticket table soon after. Shades of The City On The Edge Of Forever. In subsequent airings of this episode, Kenny stays dead. He does not appear next to the boys at the ticket table.

And what happened then? Well, in South Park they say… - paraphrase from The Grinch Who Stole Christmas.

What about the actual time "Stinky Britches" was written?

Twenty years ago - Chef, to the boys back at school
Several years ago - Chef, to Mr. Big Record Producer
More than twenty years ago - Gerald, to the first jury
Ten years ago - Johnny Cochran, to the first jury
I'll stick with twenty.

Chef Aid: The Acts

RancidRick James
Members (1998) are: Matt Freeman (bass), Tim Armstrong (lefty guitar), Brett Reed (drums), and Lars Frederiksen (righty guitar)Funk singer. His hits include "Superfreak"
PrimusJoe Strummer
Provided the South Park Theme Song. Members are: Larry "Ler" LaLonde (guitars), Brian "Brain" Mantia (drums), and Les Claypool (bass, vocals)He and Ozzy Osbourne had studio musicians in their sets.
Ozzy OsbourneElton John
Hard Rocker famous for biting the heads off chickens and other fowl.The original lyrics to "Wake Up, Wendy" were too racy for South Park's crew, so they asked him to tone the lyrics down. Elton was surprised at the request.
Ween
The name comes from the combination of "wuss" and "penis" (some wusses fixate on their penises). The members of the group are Dean (Mickey Melchiondo, wavy hair) and Gene (Aaron Freeman, curly red hair), both born in 1971. They got together when they were 14 and dropped out of college to pursue their music career. The country album Ween made is 12 Golden Country Greats, in 1996. Listen to their music and you'll see why it's just right for South Park.
Matt Stone does the voice of the teen MC.

What about the money?

The kids would have done better to give Chef the money they used to purchase tickets to England and other places rather than go there and come back with $95. It's interesting that Chef would have to pay $2 million whether it is to pay the judgment against him in the first trial, or to pay Johnny Cochran for the second. In the end, the producer got what he could, and Johnny Cochran took up Chef's case for free.

The O. J. Simpson Connection

  1. O. J. had two trials. So did Chef.
  2. O. J. was acquitted in the first one, made to pay in the second one. Chef was found guilty in the first one, acquitted in the second.
  3. Mr. Hat drives up in a white Ford Bronco.