Little bunny Foo-Foo(The Official Version)
Little bunny Foo-Foo, hoppin' though the forest,
"Little bunny Foo-Foo, I don't want to see you
I'll turn you into a goon." So the next day… [return to top]
Coda: And the moral of this story is . . . 'Hare today and goon tomorrow.' (The Attitude Version) Replace "I don't wanna see you" with "I don't like your attitude." (The PC Version, first stanza)
Little Bunny Foo-Foo, hopping thru the forest, The HistoryThere are definitely two separate literary traditions at work here. According to the OED2, the earliest reference for Bunny/Rabbit Foo Foo is Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, "The Knight's Tale:"
And in the grove, at tyme and place yset, But from the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library, we get this:
1635: And in the grove, at tyme and place yset, Arcite was Bunny Fewfew, and Palamon the field maus, and they were fighting over Emily. The bunny wins the battle but later loses both Emily and his life. The British Tradition — The next reference is from Shakespeare, in a sonnet believed to have been written in 1609, or 1613 with John Fletcher (The Two Noble Kinsmen) (about the time he was hacking the Bible):
"Clear wells spring not, sweet birds sing not, The American Tradition — H.L. Mencken's History of the American Language, however cites a 1623 manuscript from the Plymouth colony that claims John Alden sang a "lullabye about Bunnie Foofoo" to his children. |
Here are three songs along the lines of the one Wendy sang;
Took My Girl To The Baseball GameTook my girl to the baseball game, sat her in the frontAlong came a foul ball and hit her in the- Country boy, country boy, sitting on a rock Along came a bumblebee and stung him in the- Cocktail, ginger ale, five cents a glass If you don't like it, shove it up your- Ask me no questions, tell me no lies A man was hit with a pile of shit, right between the eyes A Sailor Went To Sea Sea SeaA sailor went to sea sea seaTo see what he could see see see But all that he could see see see Was the bottom of the deep blue sea sea sea
Oh, Helen had a steamboat. The steamboat had a bell Miss Susie Had A SteamboatMiss susie had a steamboat, the steamboat had a bellMiss susie went to heaven, the steamboat went to Hello, operator, please give me number nine, And if you disconnect me i'll chop off your Behind the fridgerator, there was a piece of glass, Miss susie sat upon it and broke her little Ask me no more questions, please tell me no more lies, The boys are in the bathroom zipping down their Flies are in the city, the bees are in the park Miss susie and her boyfriend are kissing in the D-A-R-K-D-A-R-K, dark Dark is for the movies, a movie's like a show, A show is like a tv show and that is all i know I know i know my mother, i know i know my father, I know i know my sister and her eighty-mile bra. |
The boy playing the piano at the auditions is Schroeder, the Beethoven aficionado from Peanuts.
Stores in the Mall: KY Penny, The Electric Eye, The Fun Group, DINER.
The Beverly Center in Los Angeles used to have a stage in front of three elevators, and a medium-sized seating area in front of that. It is currently being refurbished. The mall stage and the elevators behind it remind me of the Center's. The glass railings are also the Center's. Of course, this being a show based on Colorado, the mall could be Cherry Creek Mall instead.
Cartman and the $10 million — this episode is the second one in which he wants $10 million. The story behind this is that he also asked for $10 million before he would give his kidney to Kyle. But the story goes further back. In the preview to "Cherokee Hair Tampons" Cartman was asking for $10 million so he could make Britney Spears his sex slave, and then he'd give his kidney to Kyle. And that was based on a story that a businessman offered Britney $11 million to have sex with him, a story that later proved to be false. So the Britney Spears reference was removed from the episode.
Randy was 18 before he entered 12th grade.
Randy wears a Maniac shirt during recordings. This could be a reference to Flashdance, which came out in 1983. If Randy was 18 in 1983, he's turned 35 in 2000. But his father looks quite young for a man in his 80's at the time.
"Ghetto Avenue" and "Avenue Ghetto Street" parody Backstreet, and "Fingerbang" (F*ngerbang) parodies *N Sync.
Orange smoothie — what Jesus offered Santa after they made up in "Spirit Of Christmas: Jesus v. Santa"
Basketball reference — The mall manager talks like Baxter from Basketball.
Star Trek reference — In Star Trek: First Contact, Lily enters and tries to persuade Jean-Luc Picard to blow up the starship Enterprise so the Borg have no Starfleet data or technology to assimilate. Jean-Luc responds with a couple of "NOOO"s and by throwing his phaser at a display case in which hang various starship models. The glass and one or two ships break, and Jean-Luc, in a voice full of emotion, explains his response. (From this scene comes the Captain Ahab reference in "Conjoined Fetus Lady") When Stan asks his dad to allow him to sing with his friends at South Park mall, Randy responds the same way Jean-Luc did, but using his head on a china cabinet instead of a phaser on a display case and, in a voice full of emotion, telling the cautionary story of his stint as boy band member.