Die Hippie, Die
| "Die Hippie, Die" | |
|---|---|
| South Park episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 9 Episode 2 |
| Directed by | Trey Parker |
| Written by | Trey Parker |
| Featured music | "Raining Blood" by Slayer |
| Production code | 902 |
| Original air date | March 16, 2005 |
"Die Hippie, Die" is the second episode in the ninth season of the American animated television series South Park. The 127th episode overall, it originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on March 16, 2005. The episode is a parody of the 2003 film The Core, and is the subject of the opening chapter of David Sirota's 2011 book Back to Our Future. Sirota argues that Cartman's character can be read as encapsulating the 1980s conservative backlash against 1960s popular culture.
Cartman runs a 'pest control' service to rid the town of hippies. Having studied hippies in his quest to eradicate them, Cartman deduces the hippies are about to start a music festival in South Park, but his attempts to warn the town council are futile, and he is arrested soon afterwards for imprisoning 63 hippies in his basement.
The town of South Park is soon invaded by the largest population of hippies in history, and the music festival threatens to destroy the town. They manage to convert Stan, Kyle and Kenny to their cause with talks of corporate evils, and the trio get caught up in the massive hippie crowd where they all listen to jam band music. Cartman pleads with the mayor to stop the festival, but it turns out that the mayor was the one who signed the permit for the music festival in the first place thinking it would make the town some money.
After seeing the chaos that the eccentric hippies are creating, the mayor is ridden with guilt and shoots herself in the head (she survives, and appears later in the strategy room when Cartman is enacting his plan). Stan's parents know where the kids are, but when they realized what they did in (which was very embarrassing), they go to save Stan. Randy tries to get through the crowd, but fails early due to excessive marijuana smoke exposure. The rest of the town then pleads with Cartman to rid the town of the hippies; Cartman eventually agrees to help, but only after Randy promises to offer a Tonka radio-controlled bulldozer and Kyle's mother assures Cartman that Kyle will never have one, instead having to watch Cartman playing with the bulldozer.
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