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south Park, the podcast where we always have ourselves at time discussing one of
the most monumental episodes in the history of South Park. It is Chef Aide,
I am Dando, I am going. Yes, they've got a monumental
episode. Just two seasons, fourteen episodes into their second season, they're now
what how many how many seasons are they? Are we up to? Now?
Six? Yeah? My goodness, it's old enough for me to date
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here to discuss Chef Aide, an episode that I've compared to Bartolmnia from the
early nighties of The Simpsons. This is chefer Mania. This episode was huge.
It was massive in regards to It was so big, not just because
they had a lot of guest stars, but to promote the episode, they
had a Chef Aide behind the menu filmed in the same style as a VH
one style behind the music, kind of like the behind the Laughter episode of
The Simpsons, and they had all the guest stars talking about Chef as if
he's a real person and all the impact he's had on his career, kind
of like when they had the who Shop Mister Burns episode oft of The Simpsons,
when they had all these people discussing it like it's a real thing.
I reckon this person shot him in all that kind of thing, treading it
like it's a real thing. So these were you had like meat Loaf,
and you had some people who didnt actually appear in the episode. So we
didn't have um twisted sister in the episode, did we? But we had
Dee Snyder was on the special, um you know as Osbourne was on special
as well, things like that, just talking about how, you know,
Chef music wouldn't be the same without Chef and it was. It was funny,
but by like ten minutes and you're like, oh, this is all
it is. Really, it's not really anything. But it was nostalgia though,
because it's just if it made you feel like, oh, this was
this was a moment for pop culture. This was like a really big deal.
I remember as a kid, this episode felt like a really big deal.
I was promoted it heavily. Um. You know, you heard a
lot about in the radio and things like that, particularly because of the guest
starts, because you look at the guest start lineup and you think Alton John,
Meet Loaf, Rick James, like like all these huge names, Osborne,
Rancid, Joe Strummer, all that. That's a huge fucking list of
iconic rock legends all appearing. And that just goes to show the power of
South Park halfway through the second season, Like to get out in John to
appear on a show like South Park I think is probably the biggest deal of
the lot in my opinion. Like outon John. You look at his I
mean, he's a charismatic guy, but for him to appear on south Park,
that's a pretty big deal if you asked me, Oh god, yeah,
I mean, as I said, yeah, fourteen episodes into its second
season, it just it speaks volumes about how much the show had, Yeah,
really got a grip of the of the culture, of the popular culture.
I mean, yeah, that people were just lining up to be part
of it. It was it was the you know, it was the in
crowd. You were in with the in crowd if you were appearing in South
Park. I think it wouldn't be wrong to say that it was on the
level of Bartomania, don't you think, Oh yeah, you'd have to know,
you'd have to agree with that. I mean that's as it is such
an amazing linement of talent. I mean also, it's just pure nineteen ninety
eight. If you want an absolute pop culture history lesson for that particular era,
Yeah, just tune into this and it's like, oh my god,
Well, yeah, these are the You've got a lot of vintage, classic,
you know, timeless artists, but if you've also got some that are
very much of the era, it's a it's a great it's a great snapshot
of a particular moment in time. I love the way they handled the album
as well, so they treated it like it was an actual live concert.
So the songs that were being performed live, you've got Chef discussing like you
saw like the host of the event on the album and things like that.
I remember that album being huge in the school yard in Australia. Now I
looked it up on the wiki pace. So Chef aid the album, which
is it was one of the biggest albums of the nineties for Australia. It
hit number one in a show. It was sitting at number one on the
ARIA charts here in Australia. It didn't hit number one anywhere else but Australia.
We loved us some, Chef aid, Absolutely we did. Yeah,
I mean it's not really that hard to understand why. I mean, if
you if you have an album with this lineum of talent on it, you
know, well, yeah, of course I want a bit of this I
mean, because it's got a bit of everything for everyone, and you know,
it's a great sampler as well. And it wasn't just a flash in
the pan either, because it was on the overall charts for nineteen ninety eight
in Australia it was thirteenth when it came to sales because it was really so
later in the year, the sales carried over to ninety ninety nine, where
it still was in the top thirty for sales for nine ninety nine as well.
Like it was huge, but like you were saying, though, it's
just a great album of music. It's not like it's a takeoff event thing,
like this is genuine punk rock music. It's a comedy album in some
ways, but it's not a joke album. No, no, it's not
at all. No, you got your plus you get your Chef songs as
well. This is before the Internet, before streaming and Spotify and things like
that. Owning it felt like owning music from the show was a big deal
in ninety ninety eight. Like now it's like you can just gone on YouTube
and watch anything you want. But to be able to own these South Park
songs listen to them whenever you wanted to. That was huge as a as
a world a ten year old kid in nineteen ninety eight. Oh look,
as as just a fan of the show, any I mean yeah, because
I remember not this album so much, but certainly the bigger, longer and
uncut sound the next year. I mean that just as entertaining, just as
much of a jam really means so many people driving around listening to Uncle Fucker
in ninety ninety nine in their cars, just singing along to what would Brian
Boitano do? Absolutely yes. But this actually had three versions, So you
had the standard version of Chef the album, you had the explicit, and
you had the believe It was called the extreme version. So the clean version
had everything censored, the explicit one had some words sensored someone not and Extreme
was just you know, both of the war We're just let and lose here.
What I thought was interesting though, apparently on the explicit version they don't
sensor out fuck, but they sensor out shit, okay, which is not
an odd choice. But I never owned the album obviously, Mum would never
let me own the South Park Chef aid the album They're never going to happen.
But my mate Michael at the time he owned it, and he had
I know what album he had, but he definitely had when I had the
word fucking it. But he either had the extreme or he had the explicit.
Imagine it's Christmas Morning. Yeah, it was that CD shaped you rip
it up, you go like the top left hand. God, it's the
south buck up. It's the clean version. It's the keen version. There's
no parental advisory stick at man Man parental advisory ticket. It's just the mark
of quality. I remember you know that movie White Men Can't Jump the Woody
Well, yes, of course, yes, of course there's a terrible I
shouldn't say terrible. I'm pre empty. But it looks like a terrible remake
coming up. Oh yeah, but you can't say terrible. You you're watching
you go. This just does not contain the same vibe as what the visional
had. This feels like two guys trying to be the visional as opposed to
just having natural chemistry. Yeah yeah, I mean but no, Wesley Snipes,
Woody Howisse, and chemistry is up there with like but Mel Gibson and
Danny Glover or something incredible but which you would never would have expected before though,
like you would have thought put those two together, we'd create such chemistry.
Yeah. Well, apparently they were in a movie before White Men Can
Do. We're in another one after they were in Money, But they're in
a Goldie Horn comedy called Wildcats back in the back in the mid eighties.
Whether they had many scenes together, I don't know, but I mean apparently
they Wesley and Woody were friends, became friends on that set. But yeah,
then they were put together for White Men coun Jump. But Woody Harrelson
in that movie is wearing a T sir that's got the parental advisory explicit content
on it. Ah. I was just searching high and low for that as
like this, Yeah, Skinny White Cannon Geelong Early Night just got Yeah,
I'm going to the badass in advising you guys around me. There's gonna be
some coarse language communities caviar is. How'd you ad? Yeah? I wonder
if like parents would have added to come to birthday parties wearing that, not
wearing that so you're not coming in your buddy mouth. But you see that
sticker and you just you just reminds you of just being a child and thinking,
oh, that's dangerous. Yoh, yeah, that's naughty. I'm not
allowed. I'm not supposed to listen to that. But yeah, Chef the
album, it was there. Obviously, it was huge, very much so,
very much so, and all sprang from this episode. Yeah. So
the special aired as a way to promote the episode. The Behind the Menu
air beforehand, and it's, um, it's just got like I said,
a bunch of slivers from from the episode some I'm not just talking it up,
like Chef's a real person. But it also had the premiere of a
film clip for the song by I think it was Master P a rapper at
the time. He had a song called Kenny's Dead, and they played the
film clip for it, and it's actually worth a watch because it's a film
clip that incorporates all the south Park character. So they go to south Park
and Chef's driving around with a south Park version of this master Pe guy and
the iconic lyrics from this song, right, I've got to find them,
Hang on, Adam, here here we go. So the lyrics are and
it was to the to the tune of Freddy's Dead. Buy Curtis Mayfield,
Yes, exactly, Yes, the great Curtis may Fit. We got to
ride tonight, my little homie Kenny die tonight, just on repeat, a
little Hall mc candy Dad Tonight and that like Games the driving in the Last
Vegas. So the basically the story of the film clip is that Kenny's dad
gives him a quarter like their last quarter, and he says, now,
fuck off the Las Vegas and go win some money. And he goes to
Las Vegas, Las Vegas and wins him some money and unfortunately Chef and master
p run him over at the end of the episode, end of the clip
and they kill him. M Yeah, it's it's worth watching just for that.
You can find it on YouTube. Yeah, it's just type chef aid
behind the menu. It's worth watching just for that. But there is one
guy in there who is just a famous comedian playing a producer. What was
his name? He would go Fred Goss. Do you know fred Goss?
I do not know fred Goss. Yeah, well Fred Goss. He plays
a guy called Rory Schuster, and he's watching it and you're like, this
guy can't be a real person. It's like he's too he's too flamboyant,
and he's and I dare I see like he's he's quite funny at times,
but it's like, you can't be this naturally funny. He don't look like
it kind of god be naturally funny. But yeah, it's worth watching just
to skim through anyway, check it out chef aid behind behind them any But
again, like I was saying, it's just another way of just proving how
big this episode was at the time. But I think you needed to.
When you've got that many huge stars being on your show, you've got to
get the word out somehow, And this is the kind of way we did
it back in nineteen ninety eight. Absolutely. By the way, quick thing
about Fred Gosts, if you look at him, it's like, let's just
go remind me of and yeah, who reminds me Trey Parker? He does
look like Trey Parker. Actually you say that, yeah, yeah, but
in this in this show, he had long black hair, and he's wearing
like the sleeveless shirt and the nineteen ninety eight chain around his neck and everything.
It's quite funny. But yeah, so I got to kick out of
watching that. But did you think though this episode it's basically crusty gets canceled.
I don't find anywhere online anyone talking about this. It's Crusty needs money,
you know, he's he's lost his job, Gabo's taken over. But
in Lisa round up a bunch of celebrities who are friends of his from the
past to put on a show to get him back on the air. It's
the same story. Now that you say that, I'm kind of slapping myself
in there, going oh of course. Yeah. It was so much of
the point where I'm like, this must have been in a marge to it.
I'm like, this, this is just too blatantly Crusty gets cancel.
Surely that's what they're going for, but I don't know. I think it's
a bit of a sitcom trope though as well that occasionally have an episode where
someone a character's down in the dumps, so hey, we're going to bring
all their friends together to sort of pay tribute to them and celebrate. I
mean, yeah, this is almost two yea. It is very very close
to Crusty got canceled into in in that way in terms of the breakdown and
all that kind of business. But yeah, I hadn't I hadn't thought of
it until just now, and now I can't unsee it. I'll yeah,
be looking at it that forever. It just needed a gabbo. Everything needs
a gabbo, it does, indeed. But did you enjoy the episode?
I did, Actually, Yeah, there were bits and pieces. I mean
there were bits and pieces in this that I was like, oh, this
is from that, you know. I mean, of course, only the
basic setup of this with as we said, you know, chefs in trouble
is the industry mates have to come to the rescue. But I've forgotten about
the whole Johnny Cochrane Chewbacker defense kind of deal. I've forgotten about the evil
record company exec and his catchphrase, all of which all of which made me
I forgot the chef had to hit the hall trail jiggle out to earn a
little cash. Yeah, a whole lot to enjoy in this, and I
did have one of um, I would say, one of my favorite Carpon
moments, but certainly a very funny cartman riff, the Chewbacca defense. As
someone who grew up in the nineties, I knew what it was referencing.
I always as a kid, I don't really know who OJ was, but
he was talked about so much in different shows. You know, OJ got
off. I'm like, who is this? O Jane? What is it?
And I wanted about that when I got older. But it feels kind
of dated now, doesn't it. Johnny Cochrane doing the Chewbacker defense, it
does. Yeah, I mean, it's like a lot of things surrounded this
episode. It's very much a flash back to the nineties as opposed to something
that continued to be in the public consciousness and just sort of cycling cycles.
It's like, oh no, this is a trip back in time to Yeah,
a very specific incident, but still, I mean, I wasn't saying
any way either, by the way, I'm just saying this is literally just
anything to this epitomizes nineteen ninety eight. This is like as nineties as it
gets. Really, it really does. You're not You're not wrong. What
were your favorite moments from the episode? I did like when Chef was basically
teaching Elton John how to be Elton John. He's doing his dreadful song.
Was a cheddar cheese girl or something was the name of it. Yes,
yeah, like, no, your lyrics are shit out. Plus you know,
here's a guy might be fixed up your look, get some slick glasses
and ship, which that ship I thought that was fantastic. Chef hitting the
hall trail I thought was great, but just the funniest part of that.
Actually, there were many funny parts of the one that maybe love was the
most. After Chev's done servicing, shall we say Siller Provolovski, Gerald Gunson?
How was it, Honey? I watch this, I'm like, Okay,
is this going to end up with him not wanting to be his lawyer
anymore when he finds out? And no, no, he set it up.
How was it, Honey? What a terrific husband. He's just there
to help exactly what I expected. Oh, I'm speaking of Elton John.
I love that when he actually showed him in South Park he gave them mister
hanky gritty, hardy hill kids. Yes, I thought I was so impressed
with Elton in this episode, thinking that you know, he hasn't I mean,
I guess he can't do. When you're on South Park, you've just
got to like, have no shame. I guess. Well, I don't
think Elton could ever be accused of having having shame about anything, although I
think in the in the late nineties and in the two thousands, I don't
know, he started to maybe mellow out of it. Do you think do
you think that was a case of pr just going all right, we're gonna
appeal to a younger demo now like it was your your demo who originally listened
to you. They're now older. We need to appeal to their children.
It's a good way putting it. Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if that
actually was the case. And maybe he's just a South Park fan, maybe
he'd been watched the first three episodes, because I mean, it's hilarious that
you've got people in the music industry and particularly the musical theater and musical comedy
kind of sphere who really view Trey Parker maybe not Matt Stone, but maybe
the both of them. But I think I think mainly Trey as kind of
an equal. I mean, I think they realized straight oh, this guy's
a talent, straight out of the gate. I mean, there's um a
great letter that you can find on the internet from you know, one of
the greats of American musical theater, Stephen Sondheim, who basically said, Trey
Parker, you're fantastic, Which would you ever consider working with me? It's
like, holy shit, that's Stephen Sondheim. And then they pay tribute to
him in later episodes. It's like, I mean, that's like Gary Abbott
coming here. I'll explain a second. That's like Gary Abbott coming to your
house and say you want to go kick to kick? Yeah, obviously Gary
Abott one of the kind of a fa footballs of all time. Yes,
indeed, be like Ronaldo is saying you want to go, you know,
have a few kicks at that down to the field. Yes, yeah,
be like MJ that's Michael Jordan, Michael Jackson, Yeah, coming up and
say yeah, I want I want to go play horse. Yeah. I
mean you mentioned it and ropped up to your house. I I think i'd
ship pant, I'd slammed the door and I'm sorry, but you I'd take
that personally, you're coming to my house. But I think my favorite,
sorry, my favorite moment I'm inclined to like Ozzy Osbourne, but him just
biting the head off Kenny. That's that was so funny. Well, that's
we've we've laid now that that never happened. Right, Apparently, isn't true.
You didn't bite the head of a bat, right or was it a
dead bat? It was It wasn't a live bat. Are we gonna have
to We might have to do some research on this. The story was that
a bat was thrown up on the on the stage and he bit the head
off the bat. Right, let's did Ozzie bite head off bat's? Let's
lets let's put this to bed because the Internet won't lie to us. So
apparently he did do it. It remains on rock and Roll's most well known
rock and roll stories. Nothing better explains I was his legacy. Here's a
short version. The rocket bit the head off of a real bat that may
one have been alive while on stage at a concert. Okay, so maybe
you did do it. I thought it was Oh, may no actually know
that what it was was? There was once a story going around when I
was growing up that Marilyn Manson slaughtered a pig on stage. Remember that one?
No, I never heard that one. I mean, there's a lot
you should go around with the kids that, like Marilyn Manson used his snow
Scary guy to kids at the time, that he killed a Piglets someone put
a pig on stage and he killed it on stage and like drank its blooded
and stuff like that. That's obviously wasn't true. Um, but apparently yeah,
saying here that he actually did do it, well, he did do
it, and I love that he was just played up in this episode as
well. Yeah, I mean print the legend. That's exactly how that is.
But what it is too is he can tell that the Tray and Matt
were like fans of everyone they got on the show as well, like it
just it just suits them everyone they got on the show, except for Alton.
You watch, you like, Alton doesn't fit with all these other people,
you know, but but he does. But he doesn't like he's he's
punk rock, but he's not punk rock in the way that the you know,
dmx R and that kind of no. No. But I mean he's
a bit of a groundbreaker, yeah, John in a lot of ways.
I think when we think of say the glam rock seventies, you know,
you think of Bowie, you think of Mark Bowl and all those guys,
Elton John was, you know, just as flamboyant. I mean, just
he was just a little more sort of audience friendly or user friendly. I
mean, you weren't exactly scared of Elton John, but he was. But
he was kind of confrontational in his way. He wasn't just sort of you
know, getting up there in a three piece suit or you know, slacks
and a polo shirt. I mean he was you know, he was a
showman and he was showing off. So but you're right. I mean he's
not quite as quote unquote hardcore as say Rick James or Joe Strummer, but
he fits. He fits in there. You know. It's not an uncomfortable
for it's a slightly awkward fit. But no, I think he's I think
he's earned his spot. I think of all the people that had on this
episode, he's he's the name, right, He's the one he got.
I was the Osiblen like they're all big names, but and then meat Leaf
and stuff. But Alton John is the get, don't you reckon? Oh
yeah, very much? So yeah. I mean I think if you you
land him first and then then he's the sort of bait you go around.
So we know we've signed Elton John for this you have Oh you guys are
legit. Okay, That's how I used to get guest stars on this show.
I'm like, can we to you this guy that like you have?
Well, that guy gave me some time and then maybe I better. But
yeah, so, yeah, my favorite moments. Where As you said,
I liked n Gerald, how was it, honey, I also liked the
fact that they called meat leaf cuscus and he was thin. Yeah, so
obviously the oppositely opposite of big fat meatloafs, and obviously the one that you
mentioned before. I'm above the law. The law. I don't know where
that comes from, because the first time I and I'm like riffing on it
can't have come from this, but maybe it did. I am about the
law. It happens every once in a while. I mean, you'll have
in the writer's room or in the recording booth or whatever, someone just started
doing a funny voice and it'll either work from the get go, or you
know, someone will try to top it, and then I'll just keep going
up and up and up levels and levels until it just becomes South Park's great
for that is, and it Trey Parker in particular, Oh yeah, watching
him do the the human Centipede that I'm sure Kyle, I've seen that clip,
right. That's one of my favorite things on the internet, the cottle
fish. Okay, now, let's try to get an answer from someone who's
not a complete retard. All right, they were starting a new segment.
Here, I'm going in the south. Up, mister Davis. Each episode,
I'm gonna give you the air the episode. So this was October believe
October seventh. Let me get October seventh, nineteen ninety eight. This originally
aired right, think back, right, you're the movie man, You're the
movie guy. Right, you review movies, movie is your movies are your
thing. In the week of October seventh, nineteen ninety eight, what do
you think was number one at the US box office? Oh? Gosh,
early October nineteen ninety eight. Almost I don't want to say Scream two.
No, not Scream two. I've got the top three here. Would you
want to give you a hint of what number one was? Sure? I
would. It was a children's film, animated animated Disney. I don't believe.
So. Okay, but you're on the same you're on the right track
that I reckon with what you're saying there. Okay, then think of Big
CGI Kids film nineteen ninety eight that lives in the shadow of a one that
was similar. It's Ants, isn't it. It's Ants? Yes, it's
funny. Yeah. Ants has got this incredible voice. Cast. Admitly the
leaders not quite the doesn't quite carry the same casual as he used to.
It's Woody Allen in the lead, but Sylvester Stallone, Sharon Stone I think,
is doing a voice in it as well. But hey, Kevin spaces
in A Bug's Life, mate, that's true. Oh my god. The
dueling animated insect movies of nine to ninety eight are both canceled. Yeah,
they've both been canceled, unfortunately. But Aunts was number one, a film
that I have never seen. When that ad for that movie used to come
and it used to scare me. It looks scary to me when I was
a kid. I don't know why. Sounds silly. I would have been
ten, but I was just like, hey, look fucking freaky. I
didn't like it. They do the animation. I mean, of course A
Bug's Life was out at roughly the same time, or they were kind of
dueling. As I said, animated insect movies kind of Bug's Life had that
that lovely sort of curved childlike Pixar animation. It's like, oh, this
is all smooth edges and you know nothing's going to hurt me here. Yeah,
But ants they kind of like this is angular and odd and dark.
It was so dark and brown, and it wasn't colorful and bright and outside.
It was just it just it came on the screen. I remember the
trail at the movies and I was like, I don't like this. It
is scammy. It was just dark. Yeah. I'm trying to recall what
the actual plot of ANTS is. I can't. I don't really remember much
about it at all. I just remember that it just had this this big
name cast. Yeah, and it was a bad ANTS A better Bugs Live.
Yeah. I mean it's basically the story of you know, seven Samurai
or the Magnificent Seven, but with Bugs. I always thought it was um
it was not successful Ants. But no, it was number one at the
box office, you know, early October ninety eight. Now do you want
to try and guess what the next two? Way, I'll give you a
couple of hints for the next two. They were. Number two was a
Robin Williams film, which I had never heard of until I did this little
research. Oh was it What Dreams May Come? Correct? Yeah? I
never is that a good film? I've never seen it. I think I
only saw it once and it was yeah, kind of an odd fantasy with
some dark elements. I mean, basically, Robin Williams's wife commits suicide and
his subsequently goes to hell, and he sort of goes to hell defined her
and follow it, and to follower and defined her and to bring it back.
I read the description was that the children die in a car accident,
then he dies and he doesn't know. Maybe I'm thinking of something entirely different.
I think you must. I just knew that there was death in it.
Yes, there was death, but it doesn't sound like a movie that
I would really enjoy it. And the third one was a budding cop comedy
I think we got might never seen it, but um, Jackie Chan,
oh it's rush hour, rush Hour. Yes, yes, I rewatched that
not long ago because I'm like, I'm in the move for some junkie late
late nineties nostalgia. Yep, how far wrong going to go with Jackie Chan.
And then I watched it. I just did this. This is Chris
Tucker before he sort of you know, I came to appreciate Chris Tucker a
little more as time went by, but early on it was like, oh
man, you're just really going for it and not in the way there's necessarily
all that appealing to me. Kind of like when we rewatched the Fifth Element
recently, you kind of hurt me. I was like, I've had enough
of him by this point. It's just too much. Fifth Element has got
just enough Chris Sucker. You know I haven't had any more. You be
gone? Can we get back? Can we get back to their blue opera
sing a lady? Can we get back to anything else than this? Okay,
well, thank you for that. I flunked that quiz, but we'll
keep doing it, and I'm gonna one of these days I'm gonna stump you
out. Get them all. Yes, but don't you do any research though.
Oh absolutely, We're okay. So for now, side for some trivia.
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Davis, what's your first question? My first question you what is the name
of the record label that released Stinky Bridgets? Is the Capital? It's capitalist
capitalist. Oh I didn't notice that, nice little play on words. My
first question is what's the name of the judge for the court case? It
is the honorable misspelling honorable Judge Moses correct according to Johnny Talk Johnny Cochrane,
how tall it's chewbaccup eight feet He's eight feet doll eight feet tall. And
my final question, when you got two here, because I've the first question
is obviously the box office one. My final one is how much did Chef
make from horn himself out? Chef made four hundred and ten thousand, three
hundred dollars. I love that. That is absolutely ridiculous. Like I only
made one hundred and ten thousand, three hundred and no, no one neither
two million. But like that's a word of money. Particularly he was,
you know, selling that chef goodness for like a hundred bucks a shot.
I'm gonna do the maths here, So that's that's a lot. I believe
it would be four thousand, one hundred and three right, I don't know
whatever that sounds about it? Right? Would you like any more quick?
I can give you one. Give me one more, Give me one more.
We'll get into our room view. Okay, Hinch with one more?
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The original air date of Chef Aid was October nineteen ninety eight. It
was written by Trey Parker and Matt Stone and directed by Trey Parker. So
the episode kicks off with cartmen singing Stinky Riches by Alanis Morrissett. Another nineties
are sort of I mean, she's still people still know who she is now.
She still does things, but she's a very she's very much nineties you
think of when you think of Alanis Morrisset, it's nineteen ninety five onwards,
you know it is. I mean, I don't think then many people are
talking about the new Alanis Morrissette album, if in fact one actually exists,
but they are sort of talking about, Hey, it's the twenty thieth anniversary
of Jagged Little Pill, which is one of the first albums I remember hearing.
I used to have a next door neighbor named Danielle. Danielle, if
you're right there listening, shout out to you. She used to babysit me
and always looking after me. Great great person. But I remember going to
her room and she just had like she was like, they're so cool because
she had like the albums that you know, we're more for teenage but you
know, she had never mind and she had jacked a little pill sit now,
remember she put it on and I was like, it was my first
little introduction to real music. I was like, this is different. And
now whenever I hear the music, it takes me back to being in Danielle's
room listening to the actual seed at the time. And it's a great album.
It is it is. I mean I wasn't wasn't a huge Atlantis fan,
but you just it just seeped into you by Osmosis because I mean it
was everywhere back of that time. And yeah, the more you hear it's
like a pretty good song, run it pretty good singer, It's a pretty
good song. Yeah, I mean you ought to know was overplayed. But
if you look at the other songs on the album, like you know,
Ironic is a great song. You've got um, what's the handover? Is
a hand over head over feet, head over head over feet, Yeah,
songs like that, Like, yeah, they're they're fucking to me. A
great song is but yeah, so he in here they taking the piss out
of her because she's singing stinky beaches or Cartman's sing Niccolat stuck in his head
and Kyle asked, mister Garrison here, but mister Tweig still here. That's
a sort of the substory We've got to mention. Actually the substory was the
Garrison getting mister Hat back. But how do you think they handled that before
we get into the full review. Look, it was kind of slight,
a little inconsequential, but I've got a few laughs out of it. And
yeah, the whole Fatal Attraction show app with them. Yeah, and just
the mind games that are being played, you know with the mister Twiggie the
ending, I'm Anna Potter or any I've been big with bits broken off him.
He knew where it was going, didn't you? Yeah? You did?
You did? I don't know. I think mister twigg he didn't have
any staying pad. We need to get Hat back. Hello there, children,
What did you say? He's saying some new hit song? Eric,
Why didn't you hear that song? If I'm having a place on a radio
in TV anywhere, will I'll be sodomized on Christmas? Children? I wrote
that song twenty years ago. You at it? Yeah, back when I
used to be in the rock business. And now it looks like some big
record company that has published one of my songs. Wow, then used to
get money for it. Oh, I don't want any money. I just
like to see my name on the credits. That's all can reach. You
go to the record company. My dad's a lawyer, dude, he tells
me about this stuff all the time. Well, all right, mane,
I will go. I'll play them my version of the song. I loved
the line here, well, I'll be sodomized on Christmas. Chef can't believe
it's a song that he wrote is actually an error in this episode, So
he says here, I wrote it twenty years ago, and Johnny cochrane later
on, I had to go back and in the episode ago didn't get my
notes. Ron Johnny Cochin says he wrote it forty years ago, ten years
ago to ten years ago. Yes, but Chef says twenty years ago.
I'm like, when was it? Guys, when was it? Maybe it's
just another way of Johnny Cochlin's way of confusing everybody that doesn't go yeah,
it just keeps you, keeps you on your toes. This does not make
sense. But Chef just you know, he's a great guy. He doesn't
want any money. He doesn't give a shit about that. He just wants
his name on the credits. He just wants to be credited to you know,
he helped write that song. He wrote the song. Well, good
luck with that, chef, because the guy, yes, the Jungleman of
Capitalist Records. By the way, did we get his name? I don't
believe so. I don't believe so. Yeah, But the evil comb Over
executive at Capitalist Records is not having any of that, is he Dano.
If there's one way of disc of portraying weasel esque villain, it's the comb
Over, isn't it. It is the guys who were a little bit overweight,
slightly sweaty, and yeah, definitely trying to cover up that ball spot
with whatever they've got left uptop. It's kind of like Gary Oldman and Fifth
Element. It is it is. We haven't recorded that yet, have we
We haven't recorded that yet. No, but we'll get to it. We're
gonna get Yeah, we'll get to it. Yeah. I love a little
tidbit before we get into the south Park here, the little tease for our
Fifth Element reviews. Gary Oldman hates that movie. Only did it because he
felt like he had to wait. What felt we had to because why because
Gary Oldman did a film that he directed, he wrote and directed, and
the guy who produced Oh Fifth Element helped fund the movie. So Gary Olmand
felt like he owed the guy. Well that yeah, Gary Oldman and lucas
On, the director of The Fifth Element, had worked together previously on The
Professional a few years earlier. And then yeah, then the Lucason and his
company bankrolled a very nasty movie called Nil by Man, which is basically just
about the worst family ever m and their adventures in domestic abuse and all that
kind of stuff. Not exactly yeah, a lot of Friday night pizza and
beer viewing. But anyway, we'll talk about that when we talk about Fifth
Elmon. But right now, Chef Aide. We had to talk about Chef
Aide. And yes, they go to I'm to Capitalist Records. As he
said, I've got Capital Records, but you've you've explained to me it's Capitalist
Records, which is even funnier. And Carl says, his dad's a lawyer,
so that's what he goes within bitches you all, you see, mister
big record producer. Stinking Bridges was something I wrote several years ago. I
really see no resemblance between that song and Stinky Bridges by our artist Atlantis.
Moore said, huh, it's the same a game song. No. Look,
I'm trying to be cool about this, but you can't just rip people's
music off. It's against the law. I am above the law, mister
Chef. I'm afraid you leave me no alternative. We're going to sue you,
sue me. You stole one of my songs, and you're going to
sue me. Yes, I suggest you get a real good lawyer. We'll
have the best in the business. We'll get my dad to be Chef's lawyer.
Yeah, he's Jerry, the delivery from Trey. He just you know
for a fact that he would have said about it at least a thousand times
when they were recording this episode Above the Law. He said it around the
house whenever someone says, you know, pick your socks up, honey.
I would like to think that Trey still says that to his missus and she
still gets to chuck about it. And they threatened to sue Chef. That
backfired. Riley did countrast record companies when you have this many guest stars on
right, and admitally, when I was watching it. It never felt like
they were rushing through. But do you what do you think the purpose was
of having the Garrison storyline in there? Because surely when you got all this
many, you got this many guest stars, you'd have enough content to fill
out the twenty two minutes. What was the point of having the Garrison story
in here? I don't know. It didn't add anything to the chef's story,
not really, no, I mean, maybe they just felt compelled to
have some kind of b plot just because that's the rules, that's the conventions,
and there are only two seasons into their TV show. They mean there
maybe they're admittally Parker and Stone don't seem short of confidence or anything like that.
I mean, I think they haven't met a rule. They didn't want
to sort of bend or break. But at the same time, we probably
better have something just to break up the story and just have a little step
away and then we'll come back, then come back. I don't maybe that's
the case. Who knows. But Garrison here is watching Sticky Bitches on TV
and he goes and finds mister Twigg boiling in the pot. Mister Twigg,
is that you, mister Twigg mister twig. No, I'll get this to
you, mister twig. So we've got the court case now, and Jerald
tells Chef, don't worry about just keep quiet, I'll handle this, and
then he realized it's Johnny Cochrane. Oh what do you mean? Oh?
And it's a viewers these days, Johnny Cochrane. I mean, obviously nice
idea. Everyone's well aware the guy was terrifying when it comes to court cases.
But in like, how did he make this happen? How did he
get oj Off? But that name in two twenty three, twenty twenty three
doesn't really mean much, does it. No, No, I mean you
you basically have to follow. But it's lucky that this episode actually says he
got oh j Off. It's like, oh, okay, well in that
case, I'm home. Yeah, and he can't. You can't judge an
episode for feeling like nineteen ninety eight when it aired in nineteen ninety eight,
That is very true. You know. It would have been awesome though,
if they actually got Johnny Cochrane to voice this Rane doing the voice of the
of the fucking chewback of Defense, that would be peak South part. Don't
you Reckon oh yeah, if you had Johnny Cocker, it does not make
sense. You had him saying that, holy shit, it's hilarious. How
much Cochran sort of got hold of the as I said, the the collective
conscious is going to mean, there's the whole whole thing with Seinfeld, the
Jackie Charles character, who's basically a Johnny Cochrane rip off. Yeah, in
the night he was like, oh wow, yeah, this guy's a character,
Yes, exactly. But then we get Garrison once again. He's racing
mister tweaking to the hospital. They think it's the baby, but it's not
just over exaggerating. Everyone's like this, it was nice. I guess at
one point for everyone in the town, do just go, you know what,
Garrison, We've had enough. You're fucking crazy. We're you're putting you
away. Enough's enough. Funny. Tolerance only goes so far. So we're
at the fifteenth day of the trial, so it's long trial. I already
be done for two weeks, and he's wondering whether you'll use the two back
of defense. We think we get the kids watching first, and we get
Cartman saying, oh yeah, kick him in the nats. We just felt
like filler. We'll seen him do this a couple of times NATS. It's
always funny, but just sort of, yeah, just a way of getting
the kids on the screen, I guess, because you know for a fact
that when they're making these shows, it's like, all right, we can't
go more than like two minutes about Cartman being on the screen. We have
to get Cartman. We've got to have him tweaking into this, you know,
saying something, saying one of his catchphras. But it's true though.
I think I think, like you know, when you got to show a
character who was just taking pop culture by storm, you know, he's like
the rcle kind of thing. He's the fonz Would you compare it to Fonzi?
He was pretty beat. The Cartman character was massive. Yeah. Yeah.
And every market you got, there's always all the bootleg South Park merch
you'd see everywhere. It was just like gick ass written written underneath the quote
merchant with the quote merch. And well, likewise we're in the Simpsons first
out. I mean, you just had bart everywhere. Yeah, so I
never got to experience barte Mania, but I experienced Carton Mania cartemnia, because
you could say it and also it was just fun. It was a fun
time to be a kid watching this character. Who felt I can understand My
parents in nineteen ninety thought Bart was a rebel. But you compare him to
Cartman and you think, wow, you thought Bart was Well, don't they
say that at some stage down the line where you know, Bart makes appearance
on South Park or vice versa AND's like, I cut the head off the
st at you and yeah, yeah, I suppose that's pretty bad ass.
Is the Simpsons already did an episode? I think it might be? Comment
says, yeah, I killed this kid's parents, and then a fit the
gids parents whoa man? But um, yeah, so we get out the
court case. Now that's what I've got Cochrane, he says ten years ago
instead of twenty And I was a bit confusing. I thought I'd made a
mistake. But he uses the chewbacker defence, and just no matter how many
times he said, that does not make sense. It was funny to me.
It does not make sense, Ladies and gentlemen, this is Chewbaccer.
Chewbacca is a Whookie from the planet Kishik, but Chewbacca lives on a planet
Endoor. Now think about it. That does not make thin. Damn it.
He's using the Chewbacca defense. Why would a wookie, an eight foot
tall Whookie want to live on endoor with a bunch of two foot tall ewalks.
That does not make thin. But more importantly, you have to ask
yourself, what does this have to do with this case? Nothing, ladies
and gentlemen, It has nothing to do with this case. It does not
make sense. Look at me, I'm a lawyer defending a major record comedy
and I'm talking about Chewbacca. Does that make sense, Ladies and gentlemen.
I am not making any sense. None of this makes sense. And so
you have to remember when you're in that jury room deliberating and conjugating the emancipation
proclamation, does it make sense? No, ladies and gentlemen, of this
supposed jury, it does not make sin. If Jubacca lives on end or
you must acquit the defense rests. Oh okay, then wow, he's kid
in a turr yard courtroom. Johnny Cochrane has just finished his closing arguments,
and as was anticipated, he did use the Jupaka defense. Whether or not
it worked is up to the jury to decide. I'll find you the jury.
We find the defendant, Jerome Chef McElroy, guilty as charged. Whoops,
whoops, mister chef, you've been found guilty of harassing a major record
label. The full fee of two million dollars will be handed over within twenty
four hours. Do I look like I have two million dollars? Well,
you have twenty four hours to find it, or else you have to go
to jail for eight million years. It's actually for four years. Oh sorry,
you'll go to jail for four years. This can't be happening. By
the way, did we know Chef's full name before this episode? We've got
to mention at the start. Yeah, Jerome, Yeah, Jerome, Jerome
chef McElroy. Yeah, cool name, Jerome. If it it's Chef Jerome.
Jerome's not bad, is it. Yeah? I think if I was
Jerome, I think I'd be asked to be called Jerome all the time out
Hey, Jerry. So but now at Chef's placeness, seizing all of the
stuff and the kids come over to try and cheer him up. I wasn't
a fan of the cartman doing the German dance again because kind of felt like,
oh, you're just cramming Cartman in for the sake of it. Yeah,
it did. I mean, I've got to kick out of it.
I just admit. I mean I like I like all things German, mainly
just because the German accent is one of the funniest to laugh at. Um.
Like the way that a little later down the line, I think Stan
refers to it as the German Dons. He does. Actually, yes,
we're gonna get We're gonna get Carman to do the German Dons, which I
just gotta have to kick out of. Um. But you're right, I
mean it does feel like, let's get Cartman to do something, or you
know, Cartman, Dooce does his douce, his Cartman does his Cartman thing.
Okay, I mean then it's not always going to be a winner,
but no, no, I've got a bit little bit of a kick out
of it this time. One thing I did notice, not not Cartman,
but in this scene the record company guy, he's carrying a tube of something
called spooge, sponge or spooge or something. I was like, what is
this? There was a spoonge, and I thought, are they going to
make something in this? Is it chef's toothpaste? And he's stolen it is
it like condensed milk? What is it? My spoonge just sounds like a
random word to describe semen. Do you reckon it is a random word you
used to describe semen speech. But I did like the going through the photo
album and loving many many women, including a goat. Apparently I missed the
goat. I did see the two ladies on the Chinese Well, that was
the photo that they said, go back for a second. He's like,
don't worry about that one. And he goes onto that there was him with
a goat, and he takes the photo album as well because he's above the
law. And Chef says, don't worry. I'm going to raise the money
and I'm going to hire Cocrane and sue you. And then we get to
Garrison once again, and he has mister Twigg in bed or relaxed until he
realizes that he's been snapped in half. Chef now calls Cochrane. He's on
him on the phone. Cocran agrees he'll he'll do his case. He gets
the two million dollars. So the kids start suggesting bands that they saw in
his in his photo album, because you know, he used to be part
of the rock scene. And he goes, you guys do that. That's
fine, but I'm gonna go hol myself out. He puts on his whole
jacket. Yes, I think for me watching it, because I knew how
many guest stars were in it, I'm just kind of sitting there coin up
Millhouse, going when are they going to get to the celebrities? So the
kids they finally go to see the miss nat to Elton John's house. Hi
are you Elton John? Sir Elton John, I was knighted. You know.
We're trying to raise many for our school. Chef. We have chatlet
Naggie. Thank m Cranky. I'm sorry, but I'm not a big candy
bar fan. Why could you just buy a couple anyway? Our friend Chef
is really chef. You mean chef Chef? Yeah, dude, well you
remember him? Of course. I haven't seen him in so long. I
remember when I first met him. It was about twenty five years ago.
I was just a struggling musician who couldn't get a break. Oh oh,
y'all a chatta cheese girl. You're stuff out firm and you go well with
wine. Oh oh, chatta Cheese Girl, Chedda Chatta cheese Girl. Hey,
Alton, don't feel so down, baby, have some of my Scottish
haggis. It'll cheer you. Thanks, Chef. I just don't understand what
my music is missing. Look, Elton, you are a great singer,
but a returned Muckert could write better lyrics. I really thought I had it
this time with Chedda Cheese Girl. What you need is a guy to write
really good lyrics for you. I knew a guy named Bernard Tupin who's working
at Mouthburger right now, give McCall that's a great idea. Why don't you
get yourself some new threads, you know, some slick glasses and ship and
so I got Bernie to write my lyrics. If it wasn't for Chef,
I would never have had a career in musing. So will you buy some
of our candy bars to help him out? Yes, of course, I'll
buy three Crispy Yum Yums, three Crispy Unions. Hey, Elm, if
I give you these lyrics, will you write a song from my girlfriend Wendy?
Sure? Kid, But I would retain exclusive worldwide right, including but
not limited to Asian territories with a twenty percent commission on all domestic sales and
sole ownership of any and all publishing. Okay, tell chef, I said,
Hi, it's nice. This is a thing. We recently did the
review of the worldwide privacy to it. Right, and they take the mickey
out of out in John there? What do they call him? Smelly John?
I'd like to think that Alton washed that with a smiley's face. When
you watched this one, you know that obviously he was either a fan of
South Park or he's he's a friends of You're got to be friends with my
guests. By the point, you wouldn't turn down a friendship with training Matt
in nineteen ninety eight, right, I don't think you would. So twenty
was it twenty five years later? Twenty four years later? I had to
think that he saw smelly John and just went because what does he QUI quick,
quick, quif I didn't think that he just just laughed at it.
I'll tell you one thing I did enjoy though about this flashback about cheddar Cheese
Girl. It almost sounds like an Elton John song before he became Elton John.
It's like you're on the way to becoming Elton John. I mean,
it doesn't sound like it sounds like an Elton John song. But just you
know, one of the Bernie Tauk didn't write the lyrics for Yeah, it's
yeah, So I don't know it's they're smart guys like that Parker and Stock.
Next person they have, actually before they get to the next person,
stand gives him some lyrics. Um, you know, can you write a
song with these lyrics? Of course, Alton's going to own the rights to
all those songs. I taught that perpetuity. Yes. However, Chef is
now rooting Sheila. Well he's finished rooting Sheila. And I love his montage
with the various women, you know, just laying in bed. It's just
enough cleavage to to sort of let the viewer know, you know, what's
been going down right now. I missed a minute. I was like,
she like pack and hate. So the only unsettling thing about this was the
photo of Kyle in the background. Well, yeah, it's like Chef is
just going at it with Shiela. With Kyle's looking at this photo of Karl
Hi, he's just going for it. And Jard entering with the hot wasn't
honey, was just fantastic. Then they go to say mate life, the
kids and me get the flashback from the pit. Hello, are you meet
love? Yeah? What the hell do you want? Mister live? We
are selling candy bits for our dying friend. He's not dying, carming check,
goddam math, we have Nana Cranky's very bad. What's this for a
friend? Chef chefs in trouble? Yeah? Do you know him? Do
I? Nobody came again? They're couscous He'll be all right. Maybe you
just need to change your image. What do you mean nobody wants to see
a guy named couscous You need a big, strong, beefy name beefy like
uh, try tip, that's not bad? Yeah, how some meat loaf?
I owe every thing to chef. Wow, so you'll help him?
You bet? Give me a box of Nelly yum yums and a couple of
berry bars. I did like the backstories for how they all met him.
You can tell they would have had a bit of fun. How does chef?
How does chef help meat loaf? And how did he help out in
John? Let's make it as wacky as possible and just fattening up meat leaf
was just a great way to go about it. Yep, you've reminded me
something though. I mean, I was hanging out with Lovely Luise, you
know, a couple of weeks ago. We're up late watching music videos or
whatever meat Loaf's on, and she's asking me why why is he called meat
Loaf? How did he come up with her name Meatloaf? And she was
just fixated on she couldn't get past Yeah, but why meat Loaf? I'm
like, I wish I could. I wish I had an explanation. I
mean, I'm sure I could google it. I'm sure there's a reason that
it's something in the seventies. I mean, you know, she was there
for it, and so was I. But isn't it why Meatloaf? I
know the reasons in my head somewhere, I can't think about it. I
know I googled it, of course, That's why I remember, because my
dad is a huge meat Loaf fan. I mean, I mean that meat
Loaf's real name is Marvin or was Marvin Lee a day? Yep, so
that's m l right there. I'm googling why meat left called that? Not
the offentype musician, not the dish because Google's going because it's meat and it's
in a loaf ship. Come man, Okay, So the musician said on
open went through his show Where Are They Now in twenty sixteen that he was
born bright Red, explaining that his father told the hospital to put a meat
tag in front of his crib because he looked like a nine and a half
pounds of ground chuck as a newborn. Thanks that that can't be right.
Um. So he was later called m l in reference to his initials.
So, yeah, so it's mlia the initials there. But when he when
his weight increased, his seventh grade classmates referred to him as meat Loaf.
Believe whenever you want to believe, Probably I'm taking it back. I'm gonna
call me Meatloath. Yeah, I'm going to own it. Yes. It's
one of those things though where I would love to think that every time he
did an interview, because you know everyone, at one point he's gonna go
why meat loaf? Just why meat loaf? And every time he had a
different answer, that would have been a good good Um. But yeah,
so they've got to see meatloaf. And yeah, Chef helped him fatten up
and he became the real meat loaf. And that's how he became successful,
and he was a big fan of m of Chef as a result. Then
the kids go to I don't actually know. We then see Chef and he's
made the love to Miss Crabs. He always about to before he Chef's pleasure
bag got a breakout of chefs fleashure. He sold it to her, he
sold it to meet Oh yeah, I mean yeah. He Chef is a
very seductive gentleman. He can sell you on just about anything. By the
way, the next celebrity visit one of my favorites. I mean, we
don't really, we don't see thanks Rick James. Correct, what does he
spend like thirty five I don't They've made thirty five bucks. He spends thirty
five bucks on their candy, doesn't he do? They say, I've got
thirty five dollars in brackets after Rick James, I've got ninety five dollars because
that's how much the kids made. I was at ninety five. Maybe I've
got that wrong anyway, yeah, Rick jameson banks Rick James. Then we
get Chef. He's now made the Love to the Mayor. But he's now
starting to get tired. He's had enough He's just he can't keep sleeping with
everybody. He can't keep doing this. It's not a way to make two
million dollars. Meanwhile, Garrison has called it off as a Barb Brady because
he set up a camera and he wants to show him the photos. I'm
like, he didn't look at the photos before showing him to Barb Brady.
He's got to the trouble of printing these photos, having them developed, you
know, holding them in his hand. Why is he not showing him to
Barbara. Barbara, He's like, you're serious, and he's like it can't
be I'm like, wait, he took the photos and went, I'm going
to wait until Barb Brady arrived and then I'm going to have a look at
them. It's like, just felt a bit silly to me. Chef is
now he's getting arrested because he hasn't been able to come up with the money.
The kids have raised. Ninety five dollars he's made four ten three hundred
is a ship load of money. The capitalist records guy he takes his money
as well because he is above the law. And then they started beating Chef
for telling them how to do their job. The police do a bit of
police brutality there here on South Park. The kids they can't believe that chefs
gone. Compman cries about it because can't this can't be how many times he
got us out of trouble four. I'll like that because it feels like it's
more. But really that's not that much because they always got I guess gonna
say, always go to him for advice, so it feels like it's more.
And stand suggests that they do. Chef aid did you think I would
just take you back like you can just walk out and then come back like
nothing happened. Oh, don't look at me like that, mister Hatt.
Remember you're the one that left, and I'm not going to take you back.
You can just go to hell. You go to hell and you die.
You are a lying ball of turn mister Hat. I hope you starve,
you lousy son of a bitch. What are you all looking at?
This is between me and mister Hatt. It's over, mister Garrison. This
is it. We've had enough. What do you mean? I'm afraid it's
the big house for you, froud cake? What jail? Compman's dancing for
Chef aidum And they tell them the dance better. It's not going well.
Thankfully out and John arrives and he's called all these buddies, I love that.
That is How can we get everyone in town at the same time.
Alton just out and just calls all these buddies. You know, that's it.
They all arrive and they put on a hell of a concert for chefs.
So Garrison a chef and now in prison together, and he tells Garrison,
you are a schizophrenic here. You must the hat, you must the
twig. You're fucking crazy guy. And Garrison thinks he's coming on to it.
Don't even think you're taking advantage of men. Think then they advantage me
in this prison. So can you remember who kicks off chef Aide? Was
it No? Not? Was it Primus? No? They sing rant It
yes Ruby, soho, yes, all right, let's get things going with
rett It California. So they wrote that song for this for this episode apparently,
So let's go to the album. So what were the track listings on
here? So we've got south Park theme? Yeah, what is the song
that rants is sang on the album? Let's find it bred Logan Brad Loan,
which was a song so yeah, so so here they wrote it for
the episode Chef Aide for south Park, and it appeared on the album Chef
a the south Park Album. So the only way to get this song was
to own the album, which I'm assuming many vanted fans when it bought the
album just for that reason, you know, I imagine, so yeah,
which cleverly marketed this episode, wasn't it and the way it was handled up
to tie him with the first south Park album because you know, as we're
saying, in late ninety nine, ninety eight, sorry, owning an album
for a TV show was a novelty. It was a really cool thing.
You know, you were the cool person if you had that album, to
have these songs, to be able to listen to whenever you wanted to,
to tie it in with genuine stars that felt like they suited the south Park
model. It wasn't just songs from south Park. It was songs from south
Park plus some fucking awesome songs from rock stars and musicians who you would associate
with the south Park brand. I thought it was just handled so well,
very very good synergy on their party. Absolutely yeah, the cuss going well.
Now they're making lots of money mister Hat then rescues Chef and mister Garrison
from prison. I was like, this is just getting weird now. Then
we get Rick James and Primus. Did you see mister Mackie was crowdsurfing during
Primus? I did having a great time. Then the executive arrived and he's
very pissed off of what's going down here, and Joe Strummer pump your lines
children, So Joe Joe Strummer LEAs singer from the Clash Clash. Yeah,
he also appeared in the Behind the Menu special. Then we get Chef he's
broken out of prison now courtesy and mister Haddie a rise with Garrison. He
can't believe what's happening here. You kids did all this, and the executive
as a way to sort of stop the concert, he starts cutting the stage
to try and make the stage can't collapse. And I'm like, that's still
going to stop people from wanting to give money, but whatever, it doesn't
matter. Sort of too far into it was Osborne though he's there. He
bites the head off them. What do they say, popadoor hat by head
off bat or something like that. Yeah, yeah, and then he bites
the head off for Kenny. You know, then we get Ween who don't
actually know Chef, but they in the special though, if you watched the
special, they're talking about how much Chef was instrumental with their career, so
it doesn't sort of the continuity there doesn't sort of really work because they're like
Chef, it doesn't matter. But in the special that promoted this episode,
apparently he saved your careers. But anyway, Ween a band he didn't really
hit you much about these days. Ween they sound very nineteen ninety eight.
They don't they they do indeed, And I mean, yeah, Wayne was
very bigger than it's just because I think we intertally thought they were a bit
of a comedy act because they had this song will Push the Little Daisies,
which is, yeah, it was one of those songs you couldn't get out
of your head as much as he wanted to. But apparently, you know,
they've done other albums and people are like, actually, Wayne's a pretty
solid band, but they've got that song to their credit and they're called Ween.
Yes take him seriously As a result, Garrison, now he's having a
conversation with mister Twigg. Don't worry, mister Twigg. Even though mister hatt
rescued me from prison, I'm still going to stick with you. Do you
love him? It doesn't matter, he laughed me. Do you love him?
Yes, then run to him. But I feel like I'd be making
the wrong decision. Love isn't a decision, it's a feeling. If we
could decide who he loved, it would be much simpler, but much less
magic going. I'll never forget you, mister Twigg. Thank you. This
is where Elton Johnny's now singing Stan's song wake Up Wendy that he wrote that
he wrote for out On. John now owns the rights too, and the
stage slightly tips when the executive cuts it, and it's like it's kind of
anticlimactic. It just sort of goes quiet and the lights go off. Yeah,
there's no sort of like carry on or anything. It's just like the
concerts over. Now, I guess nothing really happened. But then we get
the voiceover and what happened then? Which is is this a takeoff of the
Grinch? That the heart I think it is. Yeah, the Grinch's heart
grows there, yeah, in size three times because you know he's been shown
about the goodness. Yeah, so Cochrane's hardest grown three times the crunches.
You know, he's being compared to the Grench. He takes the case free
of charge, so all this money that he's made is now chefs. The
chefs now rich, and he gets to sue Capitalist Records, gets his name
on stinky bridges. Yeah, you know, Cochran once again pulls the chew
back of defense and has a little wrinkle. Look at the monkey, Look
at the silly monkey. It does not make sense to the point where when
he says look at that silly monkey, that the head explodes. The jemember
can't comprehend it. Such craziness, such legal wizardry. Yes, a chef
wins. He thanks the bands and thanks the children and says it's Tuesday.
Tomorrow is going to be Tuna cast Role Day. So the status quo has
been restored. We've had a bunch of guest stars and it's just an overall
a very and a monumental as I said at the start of the obvious of
this podcast, a monumental episode of South part that feels feels like an event
because it was it really what yeah, I mean, yeah, the build
up to it was like, Wow, this is a pretty wild they're getting
these guys, as he said, yeah with the special attacks on the album
attacks like wow, you're really going all out. Yeah, get us on
board with south Park. And we got on board and there we stayed.
I wonder if, um, I wonder what the ratings were for this episode
do they say do that for the south Park episodes on the Wikipedia page.
Let's find out. Let's go to um. South Park second season so averaging
about three point four. No, can you believe this had less people watching
than cow Days? That blows my fucking mind. That can't that can't be
right. This was I'm scrolling up the least viewed episode of the season so
far. Yeah, that's incredible. That's actually mind blowing. How if they're
sort of there's bleed over from the so so cow Days episode was like,
well, maybe south Park's off the boiler bit regardless though, this this this
is a stunt, a rating stunt essentially. You know, how does that
not work when you got the album coming out, Like surely everyone at the
time would have been talking about Chef when it came to the media, like
Chef A this week you got meat Loaf and Elton John, like they have
Elton John and south Park. That's a new story in itself to have the
least. I'm scrolling down, it's the second least viewed episode of the season.
That is that is crazy to me. That does not make sense.
Sense. Well, time has been kind to it, and yeah, here
we are some two decades later, just singing the praise as a chef on
going down to south Park. That's a real shame. I'm quite disappointed with
that because you think you got all these people coming onto the show. Maybe
I guess south Park fans just did not want stunt cut. They didn't want
a stunt show. They wanted they wanted the kids. They wanted more Cartman,
not enough Cartman anyway. So that is our review of Chef Aid.
A fantastic episode in its own little time capsule. If you ask me,
I really enjoyed watching this and just just put a smile on my face.
Side just all the nineties references and it's just a lot of fun. No,
I've got an absolutely kick out of it as well. It's good to
step back in time and not just feast on the eyes, but feast the
ears with Yeah, a little bit of ween, a little bit primus and
a little bit of Sir Elton John. All right, well, the next
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