South Park

South Park (1997)

11 mistakes in Weight Gain 4000 - chronological order

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Weight Gain 4000 - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: When Mr. Garrison is carrying around his gun, it is not the wood finished gun with the wood colored hand grip that he bought, it was the other one that had the grey hand grip. (00:14:20)

Sol Parker

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Suggested correction: He says he will have it (wood finish) then it shows him walking through town. Plenty of time for him to change his mind again.

Ssiscool

Perhaps, but later when Stan and Wendy interrupt him, his gun exhibits wood furniture again. Unless he purchased both, some error has been made here.

Weight Gain 4000 - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: After Mr Garrison announces Kathie-Lee will be presenting an award for Cartman, you see the next scene in the Mayors office. There we can see cleary the curtains are red, then she looks out the window and looking in the office from outside, they are pink, but it goes in the office again and now they are back to red.

Ssiscool

Weight Gain 4000 - S1-E4

Revealing mistake: Right after Wendy tries to convince the crowd that Cartman's actual paper was 'Walden' with Cartman's name on it, Stan mentions something about Kyle's mom making tuna fish sandwiches. When he does this, you can kind of see him 'lift' off the background.

Weight Gain 4000 - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: When Mr. Garrison asks Officer Barbrady where he can get the best shot or view of Kathy Lee. Barbrady's pants are black. In the next scene when Barbrady takes the next guy's camera his pants are blue.

Ssiscool

Weight Gain 4000 - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: When Wendy finds her report paper, it has "good effort" and her grade written in red marker pen on it, with a short note underneath it also written in red pen. In the next shot the "good effort" and grade number are still on the paper but the note underneath has vanished.

Hamster

Weight Gain 4000 - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: When Mr. Garrison is having the kids rehearse the play, Bebe is standing in front of Kenny. When they cut to a closer view she is no longer there but should still be visible. She returns in the next wide view.

Hamster

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Trivia: The creators of the show, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, based the Stan Marsh and Kyle Brosfloski characters after themselves (Stan being Parker and Kyle being Stone.) The Eric Cartman character was partly based on Archie Bunker.

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Margaritaville - S13-E3

Question: Can someone explain the subplot with the Margaritaville and Stan going to a bunch of places trying to return it? It's really confusing. And this sounds stupid, but in a recession, wouldn't spending money be bad?

Answer: Essentially Stan was trying to return the blender that his dad, Randy, had bought because he knew his parents couldn't afford the extra debt. The blender, which represented mortgage-backed securities, had been bought on payment plan, meaning Randy had to make monthly payments, with interest, on something that wasn't essential. The episode represented the recession that was occurring at the time, including the housing bubble and mortgage crisis going on, so there's a lot going on. However, the payment plan (which is to say the debt) had been sold to another company by the store that sold Randy the blender. (To explain why, because of the recession, the store needed cash on hand, and they would only be getting a little money each month, if Randy paid his bill. So the store sells the debt to a company who gives the store the money upfront. Think of the J.G. Wentworth commercials, "I have a structured settlement, but I need cash now".) Because the store sold the debt, in ridiculous fashion, Stan had to return the blender to the company that bought the debt, although they too sold the debt to another company. Finally he gets to the U.S. treasury who tells him his blender is worth $90 trillion (again a ridiculous exaggeration) meaning that the debt owed is greater than the product is worth and to deride the way government agencies set up their budgets (which requires much more complex economic lessons). Kyle's whole point was people shouldn't fear the economy or see it as a vengeful being, but continue to spend and live as they normally do. Economically speaking, not spending money during a recession creates a longer lasting recession, and to solve a recession, people should spend money, although people and businesses shouldn't acquire debt during a recession because interest rates are higher. But on a personal level, individuals are fearful of losing their jobs during a recession, so they save money in case that should happen. But again, this is complex economics lesson.

Bishop73

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