The Secrets of
"Here Comes the Neighborhood"

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


Whoa! As Butters gives his report on volcanoes, you can see another Butters seated at his desk.

"I'll make you eat your parents!" - reference to "Scott Tenorman Must Die!"

"...ten million dollars." Well, if Cartman can't get $10 million in real life, guess a fake ten million will do.

The Lion King hasn't made it to DVD yet, though the Lion King II has. Still, the cover refers to the Circle of Poo from "A Very Crappy Christmas," with the lion where Mr. Hankey stood, atop Pride Rock.

"Oh, well, let me take this disk up to the Enterprise and see if Captain Kirk can decrypt it." - in Star Trek: The Original Series, there's an episode, "All Our Yesterdays", in which Capt. Kirk goes to the moon Sarpiedon and meets a librarian, Mr. Atoz, who shows him how to use the disks found in the library there - the planet it revolves around is to explode in three hours. Kirk retrieves a disk very similar to the DVDs we have today. He stands it up on a reader and it begins to spin around. As it does, a video appears on its surface. The video activates a time portal, an atavachron, nearby, keyed to the time period the video is showing. Kirk can thus escape to other time periods depending on the disk he uses. There's more to the story here (this site, by the way, determines the number of episodes to be 79, not including the pilot). Cartman's statement just means that a DVD player is alien to the boys, as alien as that machine Kirk used to read his disk, and that the disk is useless without it.

Token and his parents finally have a last name: Williams

Token's family drove a Lexus RX300 to the mall. Mr. Broflovski could easily afford this.

Token wears a uniform similar to thsoe of the Arizona Diamondbacks, but carries a bat signed by Barry Bonds.

In Token's room: an Okama Gamesphere, a Chuchunezumi poster, a picture of his father on the wall.

"And I can finally live like a cowboy" — a reference to the 1999 film, Wild Wild West, which was a box-office flop despite beating South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut at the box office. SP:BLU enjoyed a $31 million profit, while WWW suffered a $61 million loss, greater than SP:BLU's total $52 million gross.


On the cover of Forbes:
move your
cash.

COUNT YOUR
MONEY FASTER

And a yacht and sone light green $'s in the background


In the ad Will Smith reads:

WEALTHY
MOVE TO

SOUTH PARK

BRAND NEW HOMES
SUPER LARGE MANSIONS
EXTRA HUGE LOTS!!!!!!!!

LIKE ASPEN
WAS
20 YEARS
AGO


As you can tell from the info above, Jada read the ad wrong.

Token is a spiritual person, if not a religious one. He thanks God even though God didn't seem to play much of a role in getting the rich kids to move in. Token did all the work in creating the ad and sending it to Forbes, but there was no guarantee Forbes would publish it. That it did, and that rich families finally came to town, was enough for Token to believe God granted his wish.

"It's in the Rockies, but totally undiscovered." — You'd think Will Smith wouild have heard about the first annual South Park Independent Film Festival, huh? And that was three years ago.

Jimbo takes a page out of Skeeter's book: He doesn't take too kindly to richers.

We Shall Perservere = We Shall Overcome

Quick Harry Potter Reference: Token is as surprised to hear the lions talk to him as Harry Potter was to know the snake could hear and understand him. In both cases, this discovery took place at a zoo.

Lions 1 and 2 switch positions in a flash as they escort Token to Aslan.

All the rich people happen to be black, and talk ghetto only in acting or singing roles. Otherwise, their voices take on the cultured tones of upper-class whites.

Aslan and the other lions come from the Chronicles of Narnia. In those Chronicles, Aslan created the land of Narnia first of all, and then the animals who were to live there. And Aslan breathes on some of them to make them Talking Beasts, much as the Talking Lions in the episode. The way Aslan talked, though, came from King Moonracer, the ruler of the land of Misfit Toys from the original Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer..

A billion billionaires? Their ranks sure did grow, as well as the wealth represented. Spoof on the Million Man March, and a few other marches with the word Million in them.

Mr. Hat, who once went off on his own to join the KKK, has finally converted Mr. Garrison to the Dark Side, as Mr. Garrison finally got rid of all the Ni-. Indeed, the other men didn't know Mr. Garrison had a hidden agenda until the very end. You see, whites can be as rich as black celebrities (which is something the other townsfolk didn't want to be), but they can never be black. So they chased the blacks out, except for Token and his family. And Chef.

Parodies on Names
Bertha Stewart
J mart
Parkopoly
Guys In Dark Sutis
The Legend of Baggy Pants
GD2
richer
cashchucker
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Martha Stewart
K mart
Monopoly
Men In Black
The Legend of Bagger Vance
ID2
nigger
spearchucker

Recurrent themes in this episode:

1. The racial undertomes come from "Chef Goes Nanners" and "Pink Eye," and some from "Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000."
2. The town ridding itself of certain people, and its depiction as an undiscovered town, both come from "Chef's Salty Chocolate Balls."