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The Super Best Friends

Episode Number: 68    Season Num: 5    First Aired: Wednesday July 4, 2001    Prod Code: 504
The boys discover the “magic” of David Blaine, but Stan finds out that he isn’t all that he seems to be. He tries hard to convince the others that they have been brainwashed. Stan, with help from Jesus and a few of Jesus’ best friends take on Blaine on his followers in a showdown at the nation’s capital.

Cast and Crew

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Writer: Trey Parker
Director: Trey Parker
Star: Trey Parker (Voice of Stan Marsh; Eric Theodore Cartman; Herbert Garrison; Officer Barbrady; Terrance; Timmy; Ned Gerblanski; Satan; Randy Ma),  Matt Stone (Voice of Kyle Broflovski; Kenny McKormick; Gerald Broflovski; Pip Pirrup; Jesus; Jimbo Kearn; Phillip; Saddam; Various Others),  Isaac Hayes (Voice of Jerome "Chef" McElroy),  Eliza Schneider (Voice of Mayor McDaniels; Liane Cartman; Mrs. McKormick; Wendy Testaburger; Shelly Marsh; Sharon Marsh; Various Others [ episode),  Mona Marshall (Voice of Sheila Broflovski; Linda Stotch; Various Others [ episode 50+ ])
Recurring Role: Toby Morton (Voice of Unknown)

Notes

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Technically, "they" never killed Kenny. Kenny killed himself. (edit)
Even though he is later censored in episodes 10-3 and 10-4 "Cartoon Wars," the Muslim prophet Mohammed is shown as a member of the Super Best Friends. (edit)
This is the second time you see Kenny without his hood on. (edit)
When the other Superbest friends mispronounce Sea-Man's name, it appears in the script as "Semen". (edit)
The White House residents that appear briefly in this episode are the characters from the short-lived series created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone called That's My Bush. (edit)

Quotes

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Blaine: Damn you, Super Best Friends!
Jesus: Your magic is no match for our powers combined, Blaine!
Blaine: (gets in a rocket) Then I guess you win this time, Super Best Fools! But I'll be back! (launches the rocket and flies in the sky)
Jesus: Damnit!
Buddha: It's alright. Everything is as it should be.
Jesus: Oh, shut up, Buddha! (edit)
Kyle: (whispering) Cartman. Cartman, wake up. Cartman.
Cartman: (wakes up abruptly, knocking Kyle off his bed) No, Paula Poundstone! Leave me alone! Uh! Uh?
Kyle: It's just me.
Cartman: (Cartman realizes he's at the camp with Kyle and sighs) Brother Kyle? Why do you disturb my rest? (edit)
Mohamed: Jesus, come look at this. (Jesus, Stan, and the Super Best Friends move up to a monitor) After your distress call, we entered David Blaine in the super best friends' computer.
Sea-Man: (operating the monitor) Many interesting things showed up. He was raised in New York city by a decent family, but a freak washing-machine accident at the age of 12 made him learn the ways of the black arts.
Buddha: That's right, Semen.
(everyone laughs except for Sea-Man)
Sea-Man: (feeling insulted) Sea Man!
Buddha: Uh, that's what I said. Semen. (everyone laughs again)
Sea-Man: Stop it! (edit)
Jesus: Yea, take hold of my robe, Stanley, and do not open your eyes.
Stan: (closes his eyes) I am ready.
(scene changes to Jesus and Stan on an airplane, Stan is still holding on to Jesus and closing his eyes)
Jesus: Are you still keeping your eyes closed?
Stan: Yeah.
Jesus: Good. Want some peanuts? (edit)
(Stan asking Jesus for help with defeating Blaine)
Jesus: The miracle I'm most famous for is turning water into wine.
Stan: Can you do it again?
Jesus: Very well. I shall perform the miracle. Behold, here you can see ordinary water, clear, clean. Okay now turn around.
(Stan surprised)
Turn around.
(Stan turns around and Jesus replaces the jug of water on the table with a jug of wine)
It is now wine!
Stan: That's it? That's how you did that trick?
Jesus: Uh, well, yeah.
Stan: That trick sucks Jesus.
Jesus: Oh, I guess it worked a little better on people 2,000 years ago. (edit)

Trivia

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If Jesus and his super best friends flew up in the sky at the end of the episode, how come he couldn't fly with Stan while they were going to the Hall of Super Best Friends? Instead they were on a plane? (edit)
When everyone is in Washington, Jesus instructs the Mormon leader to freeze the water to stop the suicides. In the next shot of the water, it's liquid again. (edit)
After Kyle was put in the bubble, he called Cartman an asshole, to which Cartman said "At least I'm not the one in the plastic bubble!" Clearly, the bubble couldn't have been made of plastic or else it would have been so much simpler for Kyle to get out. Odds are it was made of glass. (edit)
How can your hair grow back like butters' did in one day? How did Stan know it was Kenny who drowned? (edit)
Buddha and Krishna or Krsna are the same person. Krsna had six incarnations.

One type is the purusa avatars of Visnu, two is the lila avatars that performs pastimes, three is the guna avatars which control material nature, four is manvantara avatars of the manus, five is yuga avatars for every millennium, and six is saktyavesa avatars of the specially empowered living entities for specific purpose.

"Then in the beginning of the kali yuga the supreme lord Krsna will appear as Buddha, the son of Anjana in the province of Gaya, for the purpose of deluding the atheists who are envious of the faithful theists."

- The Bhagavad-Gita / Srimad Bhagavatam, Canto 1, chapter 3, verse 24.

So ... Buddha was a lila avatar, and a form of Krsna. So having them as two different entities within each others company is illogical because they are one and the same, same being - different form. Just thought that might be interesting.

(NOTE: Only -some- Hindus believe that Buddha was an incarnation of Krishna. Buddhists contend that Hinduism's reverse-incorporation of the Buddha into their religion was to discourage conversion.) (edit)

Allusions

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Branch Davidian Cult:

The building in which the Blaine-tologists reside is the same building that eventually became the deathground in Waco, Texas for David Koresh and his Branch Davidian cult. (edit)
Power Rangers:

Moses as an analyst for the Super Best Friends is a reference to Zordon from the show "Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers". (edit)
Captain America:

While it probably had nothing to do with the creation of this episode, issue #222 of the Captain America comic also featured someone fighting the Lincoln Monument statue, in this case Captain America. Click 'More Info' to see the cover. (edit)
That's My Bush:

When George Bush was talking to Karl, a guy walks in and says this line from Trey and Matt's other show That's My Bush. (edit)
Paula Poundstone:

Cartman: No, Paula Poundstone, leave me alone!

Paula Poundstone is a stand-up comic that was convicted of felony child endangerment charges and misdemeanor infliction of injury on a child charges. She was also charged with lewd conduct on a girl under age 14, but those charges were dropped. (edit)
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Cults and religious prophets collide. Really a great episode.
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"Silly"
Super Best Friends!
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All religions are best friends!
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Controversial, even years after it aired.
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