Chickenlover
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| Season | s02 |
| Episode | e03 |
| Written By | Trey Parker |
| Production Code | 0203 |
| Original Air Date | 1998-05-20 |
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Story
When Barbrady resigns, anarchy ensues and the boys pitch in to help.
Description
The boys are intrigued by the local bookmobile (called the Booktastic Bus), until they get look at its bizarre-looking operator. Meanwhile, the town is up in arms because someone is having sex with all the local chickens.
Officer Barbrady, charged with finding the culprit, must first confront the fact that he can't read. He resigns his post and enrolls in the boys' class at school, where he deputizes Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny. Cartman in particular enjoys this new honor, patrolling town on his Big Wheel, dealing out violent justice and admonishing anyone who will listen to "Respect my authoritah!"
The chicken "person" is apprehended at the local petting zoo while wearing a Richard Nixon mask. It turns out to be the Booktastic Bus driver, who says his chicken molesting rampage was all part of a scheme to help Barbrady learn to read. He then gives him a copy of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. How molesting the chickens figured into is plan isn't adequately explained.
Cartman promptly begins clubbing the bookmobile guy in the shins. Officer Barbrady helps, beating the man's head until he dies. Barbrady then takes a crack at Atlas Shrugged, but the experience convinces him that reading "totally sucks ass." He vows never to do it again.
What I Learned Today
"Wow, I guess reading really does suck ass!"
Memorable Quotes
- "Keep your eyes peeled, boys. Someone's going to make love to this chicken any second now." Officer Barbrady
- "Respect my authoritah!" Cartman
- "Reading sucks ass." Cartman
- "This ain't no podunk little town!" Officer Barbrady
- "I need to go poopies." Officer Barbrady
- "Bzzzzd. WRONG! Try again, dumbass!!" Mr. Garrison
- "Poor people tend to live in clusters." Cartman
Characters
Kyle Broflovski
Eric Cartman
Kenny McCormick
Kevin McCormick
Herbert Garrison
Randy Marsh
Booktastic Bus Driver
Officer Barbrady
Mayor McDaniels
Johnson (Mayor's Aide)
Ted (Mayor's Aide)
Mayor's Aide #3
Mrs. McCormick
Stuart McCormick
Body Count
The bookmobile guy and, of course, Kenny. He takes an extraordinarily long time to die, cheating the Reaper on several occasions before finally being crushed by a tree. During each near-death experience Stan starts uttering the famous "Oh my God, they killed Kenny!" line before realizing his friend survived. Ironically, when Kenny finally dies Stan doesn't say a word.
Locations
Fran's National Bank
Behind The Scenes
Pop Culture References
Shout Outs
During a set of fake closing credits, a picture of Dukes of Hazard star Tom Wopat appears. And speaking of closing credits, when Officer Barbrady freezes while the credits flash over him, he's offering an homage to numberless '60s and '70s cop shows that used this lame technique each week. The fact that he's the only person who freezes, while other cast members continue moving, is a nod to the short-lived cop show satire Police Squad.
"COPS", the popular reality TV show, follows Officer Barbrady around. Later, they follow Deputy Cartman, and the show is called "Cartman".
While trying to teach Officer Barbrady to read, Mr. Garrison writes "Oprah Winfrey has huge knockers" on the chalkboard.
For Cartman's book report on The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe he recaps that "a bunch of, uh, hippies walk around and paint stuff. They eat lunch, and then they find a magical camel, which they have to eat to stay alive." He gets an F on the report. Officer Barbrady reads Go Dog Go, an easy-reading book, and gets an A.
Pwn'd
Author and philosopher Ayn Rand, whose immense novel Atlas Shrugged single-handedly turns Officer Barbrady off of reading forever.
Bonus Factoids
Pointless Observations
There's a poster at the back of the classroom for Trey Parker's short animated film, American History. It also appears in several other episodes.
This is the second time that "Halfie" (a hippie-looking man with no legs) has vouched for sexual activity that he's not responsible for, the first being in "Cartman's Mom is a Dirty Slut". Both times he's been scolded for not having legs, to which he responds "Oh yeah".
This episode features a pretty infamous scene in which Cartman dresses up like a hooker. It will happen again (for different reasons) when he dresses up as Ming Lee, a Vietnamese prostitute, in "Cow Days", as well as "Freak Strike".
Robert T. Pooner is credited at the fake ending as the Executive Producer. This fake alias will be used in future episodes.
Matt and Trey originally wanted to call the episode "Chickenfucker."
During the scene with all of the animals, behind the horse a Visitor is found.
Season 2
- e1 Terrance and Phillip in Not Without My Anus
- e2 Cartman's Mom Is Still a Dirty Slut
- e3 Chickenlover
- e4 Ike's Wee Wee
- e5 Conjoined Fetus Lady
- e6 The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka
- e7 City on the Edge of Forever (Flashbacks)
- e8 Summer Sucks
- e9 Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls
- e10 Chickenpox
- e11 Roger Ebert Should Lay Off the Fatty Foods
- e12 Clubhouses
- e13 Cow Days
- e14 Chef Aid
- e12 Spookyfish
- e13 Merry Christmas Charlie Manson!
- e14 Gnomes
- e15 Prehistoric Ice Man