Movie Parodies on South Park

In the episode "Medicinal Fried Chicken," Cartman becomes a black market KFC underlord when the fast food is banned from South Park. His rise to power follows that of Tony Montana in "Scarface."

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On the surface, "Dances With Smurfs" parodies the mega blockbuster "Avatar" by comparing them to Smurfs, but the episode largely revolves around Cartman's Glenn Beck-style rhetoric and public lunacy.

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As if "The Lord Of The Rings" trilogy was not already pervasive when the movies came out, South Park did an elaborate parody of the series in their episode "The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers."

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This episode, a parody of "300", is probably most notable for introducing "scissoring" into the mainstream lexicon.

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The episode "Major Boobage," where the kids of South Park discover a new way to get high, results in sending Kenny into a cat urine-induced trip that parodies this the stoner classic "Heavy Metal."

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Trey Parker and Matt Stone pay homage to George A. Romero's zombie movies in the episode "Night of the Living Homeless."

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"Cloverfield" got the "South Park" treatment in the season 12 episode "Pandemic" where the town was infested with Peruvian flute bands.

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In "You Got F'd in the A," the boys unintentionally are "served" by some other kids and must learn how to "serve" them back at a dance-off. (It's a parody of "You Got Served" in case you couldn't tell.)

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Cartman paid homage to dark superhero movies like "The Spirit," "The Dark Knight," and "Watchmen" with his superhero, The Coon.

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After the falling out with Isaac Hayes, voice of Chef, the show killed off Chef and then brought him back as Darth Chef, scientist Richard Dawkins' creation. (Fun fact: Darth Chef is voiced by "Look Around You" and "Running Wilde" star Peter Serafinowicz.)

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In another controversial episode, the boys see "The Passion of the Christ," which most of them hate (calling it a "snuff film") but inspires Cartman to start a Nazi-esque movement before Stan convinces his followers to follow Christ's teachings and not his ultra-violent death.

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Stan may be no John Cusack, but that doesn't prevent "Asspen" from being one of the better '80s movies parodies ever made.

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Most shows wouldn't think to use "The Terminator" as the main source of parody in an episode called "Trapper Keeper," but "South Park" isn't most shows.

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In the episode, Stan and Mr. Mackey suffer a hoarding disorder. In an attempt to find the cause for it, they get trapped in Mr. Mackey's dream.

Stan, Kyle and Kenny have had enough of Cartman and ignore him, which leads him to think he has died and has become a ghost. Cartman tries to get into heaven by doing "good deeds", but fails in the end.

Kyle gives voice to what most of us are thinking when viewing "High School Musical": "Are we the only ones here who are completely confused?"

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The movie parody doesn’t play a huge part in “Insecurity,” but the Bane mask certainly comes in handy when the wives of South Park are *allegedly* getting banged or raped by the UPS man. When Randy and Cartman are trying to strike fear into the heart of their Amazon-package delivering enemy, the chilling Bane voice and creepy mask does the trick.

And for yet another Stephen King tip of the hat, Matt and Trey finally got around to spoofing the Stanley Kubrick and Jack Nicholson classic, The Shining.

In “A Nightmare on Face Time,” Randy Marsh gets the bright idea to buy a Blockbuster video store just in time for Halloween. This was also just in time for relevancy, because the real final Blockbuster video stores closed for good about a year later. But in South Park’s world, they’ve been closed for many decades before that. Haunted by 1940s WWII-era ghosts who have come to rent comedies from the ‘80s, the intentionally disorienting setting leaves everyone laughing but Randy. In fact, Randy has nothing but anger in this one as he becomes increasingly unhinged and obsessed with making sure Stan takes his medicine…or at least his order for some McNuggets after his video store is destroyed.

At a gathering of Apple employees, Steve Jobs unveils the new product for which Kyle and the other two were kidnapped: the HUMANCENTiPAD (based on The Human Centipede), comprising the three kidnapped subjects on all fours and sewn together mouth to anus. The Japanese man is in front, with an iPhone attached to his forehead; Kyle is in the middle; and the woman is at the rear, with an iPad attached to her anus and powered by the trio's defecation. However, Jobs is disappointed when Kyle continues to sign agreements that are put in front of him without reading them first, and puts the "device" through tests in an attempt to make it read.

Cartman likes to play with dolls. We’ve known this for a while now. He also has a sick, imaginative mind so it’s not surprising that he spends his free time acting out the chilling scene in The Silence of the Lambs when Buffalo Bill is asking his victims to lotion up.


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Back when Officer Barbrady actually did things on South Park, he found himself at the center of a confounding toilet paper mystery that was far, far outside of his aptitude. To catch a child who would dare toilet paper a house, he needed to think like such a monster, this is why he enlists Josh, Hannibal Lecter in a Charmin’ loving eight-year-old’s body. Josh helps Officer Barbrady bring the culprits (the boys) to justice, but at a very, very high cost: his escape, which leads to a chilling end-credit sequence of Josh heading over to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for some master class TP’ing. However, the best part of the episode had to be when Matt and Trey switched gears for a moment and the episode became The Godfather Part II.

Cartman takes a guilt-ridden and ready to confess Kyle on a quiet boat ride into the mist, and as Kyle spills his guts, Cartman prepares to spill his brains with the use of a whiffle bat. Not as effective as what Al Neri used on Fredo, but it might have eventually got the job done. A nice parody of Nino Rota is also here.

It’s not so hard to change the lyrics to songs for AIDS benefits, Jimmy Buffet. In “Tonsil Trouble,” South Park borrows from the 1993 drama Philadelphia, one of the first mainstream films to tackle the issue of HIV, AIDS and its impact on the LGBT community. Of course Cartman isn’t an AIDS-stricken lawyer like Tom Hanks’ character, he’s just a fat little shit that gives AIDS to Kyle but is able to rectify the situation by finding a cure through Magic Johnson’s money.