Culture continued from page 11 will soon, since Parker and Stone purchased the place a year ago. Colfax Avenue “Erection Day,” S9, E7; “Butters’ Bottom Bitch,” S13, E9; “My Future Self ’n’ Me,” S6, E16 Colfax Avenue fi rst appears in season six, when Stan meets his “future self” — who turns out to be an actor from a business called Motivation Corp., located at 3451 Colfax Avenue, that’s part of a scheme by parents to keep their kids from using drugs. In season nine, Jimmy is excited to do his comedy routine at the talent show, but stiff challenges arise when he discovers that his hormones are setting in, and he’s terrifi ed his penis will become erect during his per- formance. After Butters tells him he needs to have sex to get rid of it, Jimmy consults Offi cer Barbrady, who suggests that he go to the red-light district of “Colfax Point,” where Springs, where they’re trapped in a cave-in after Gore mistakenly confuses the wind-like sounds for MBP and fi res a gun. The episode aired in 2006, when many people were still doubting the authenticity of climate change; Parker and Stone note that MBP is all too real in the season 22 episode “Time to Get Cereal.” Cheyenne Mountain “Trapper Keeper,” S4, E12 Cheyenne Mountain is a key setting in this episode, in which Cartman is very excited about his “Dawson’s Creek Trapper Keeper Ultra Keeper Futura S 2000,” a new binder whose features include an electronic pencil sharpener, a music player, a fl at- screen TV and photos from Dawson’s Creek. A man who attempts to steal the Trapper Keeper (and sleeps with Cartman’s mom) turns out to be a robot from the future sent to destroy Cartman’s binder because it has the ability to wipe out humanity. After the robot breaks into Cartman’s computer and becomes one with Cartman himself, it goes This Denver venue, formerly known as the Pepsi Center, has been in several epi- sodes. In season ten, the Park County Pee- Wee Hockey Team fi lls in for the Colorado Avalanche, only to be shown no mercy by the Detroit Red Wings. In “The Ring,” Kenny takes his new girlfriend to a Jonas Brothers concert at the venue in hopes that he will be able to seduce her. And that isn’t the only concert celebrated on South Park: Kyle takes his brother, Ike, to see Yo Gabba Gabba in “Taming Strange,” and in “#REHASH,” Stan’s sister, Shelly, attends a “Women of Rock” concert, where none of the perform- ers are rockers. The boys also attend a WWE wrestling event there in “W.T.F.,” and they catch an NBA game in “Cartman Finds Love.” Coors Field “Professor Chaos,” S6, E6; “The Losing Edge,” S9, E5 When the boys fi re Butters as their new friend — unleashing Butters’s evil villain side, Professor Chaos — they enlist the British babies. The McCullough proponents make their way to the Capitol, where they argue that the murderer was acting in self-defense. Randy and fellow geologists meet at the Capitol to speak about a global-warming emer- gency in “Two Days Before the Day After To- morrow,” after Stan and Cartman accidentally break the world’s largest beaver dam, causing a town to fl ood. The Capitol is also seen in background shots of the South Park stream- ing movies Post Covid: The Return of Covid and parts one and two of The Streaming Wars. Governor’s Mansion “Follow That Egg!,” S9, E10 Mr. Garrison is reeling from the news that his ex-boyfriend, Mr. Slave, is engaged, so he visits then-Governor Bill Owens in an effort to get him to deny gay marriage. But Owens wants scientifi c proof to back the decision, so Mr. Garrison has his students split into teams of two to act as parents to an egg, and pairs Kyle and Stan together. Although he believes the two will destroy the egg and thus Ball Arena and Five Points have made several notable appearances. Jimmy meets a prostitute named Nut Gobbler. Although the street isn’t mentioned in season thirteen’s “Butters’ Bottom Bitch,” the Playas Ball where Butters meets other pimps certainly seems to be located on the notorious street. And Colfax gets a nod in several other episodes, including season nine’s “Bloody Mary,” when one of Randy’s AA buddies declares that he is healed from alcoholism and shouts, “No more blowing guys on Colfax Avenue for a pint of vodka for this cowboy!” Five Points “Krazy Kripples,” S7, E2 Jimmy and Timmy (the inclusive charac- ters added to South Park before such things were necessary in order for shows to be picked up) create a club for disabled kids called the Crips, but realize there already is such a group. The two make their way to Five Points to meet the gang, and join it after unwittingly blowing up a gas station where the rival Bloods are hanging out. Cave of the Winds “ManBearPig,” S10, E6 In one of the most well-known South 12 Park episodes, Al Gore comes to South Park to warn everyone about ManBearPig (cli- mate change). In exchange for a day off of school, the boys agree to help Gore hunt down the beast at Cave of the Winds in Colorado to a secret military base inside Cheyenne Mountain to break into the government’s system. Because the robot looks so much like Cartman, Kyle has a diffi cult time differ- entiating between it and Rosie O’Donnell, who has also come to town. Aspen “Asspen,” S6, E2 “If you French fry when you’re supposed to pizza, you’re gonna have a bad time.” Another fan favorite, “Asspen” focuses on a ski trip that the boys take with their parents. While the parents attempt to escape time-share salesmen, Stan is just trying to have fun skiing without being harassed by adult ski bros who end up challenging him to a race. At stake if Stan loses: Ski bro Tad’s father will bulldoze the Aspen Youth Center. The race occurs on the most dangerous trail, K-13, but Stan isn’t deterred — even when a mysterious man tells him that 35 people have died on the run, that it’s home to an Indian burial ground occupied by vampires who eat children, and that a “wolf boy” murdered a group of students there after escaping from an asylum. Ball Arena “Stanley’s Cup,” S10, E14; “The Ring,” S13, E1; “W.T.F.,” S13, E10; “Cartman Finds Love,” S16, E7; “Taming Strange,” S17, E5; “#RE- HASH,” S18, E9 character Pip to join them at a baseball game at Coors Field to see if he’ll make a suitable replacement. Cartman kicks Pip out when he asks for tea and crumpets from ballpark vendors. It’s a season six classic. In “The Losing Edge,” we see how the South Park Little League team is suffering from playing such a boring sport. But with every team in the Little League also trying desperately to lose, South Park ends up play- ing Denver’s Little League team in the state fi nals at Coors Field. Randy doesn’t let the boys’ boredom stop him from getting drunk and fi ghting other Little League dads. Colorado State Capitol Building “Free Hat,” S6, E9; “Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow,” S9, E8; “Follow That Egg!,” S9, E10; “Eat, Pray, Queef,” S13, E4 South Park may be the only series that dedi- cates an episode to comparing queefs and farts, and the debate ends up at the Colorado Capi- tol in “Eat, Pray, Queef.” But the gold dome is fi rst seen in season six, when Stan, Kyle, Tweek and Cartman form the club “Save Films From Their Directors” after seeing multiple edits of The Empire Strikes Back. They make a poster with the words “Free Hat” to encour- age people to join the club, but many people begin showing up because they believe it is a group campaigning to free Hat McCullough, a character who is in prison for killing 23 prove that two men wouldn’t be fi t parents, the egg survives — even after Mr. Garrison hires an assassin to kill it outside the Capitol. Denver City and County Building “Time to Get Cereal,” S22, E6 When the boys realize that Al Gore was correct about ManBearPig, they set off to Denver to fi nd him. They ask a receptionist in City Hall whether she’s seen him, only to be redirected to a bowling alley. Spoiler alert: Nobody gets “cereal,” though the boys are able to get through to Satan by reminding him how much people provide him each year. F.E. Warren Air Force Base “Funnybot,” S15, E2 When Jimmy hosts a comedy awards show, Germany is angered that the country receives the award for Most Unfunny Peo- ple. So the Germans create a robot called Funnybot, which comes to South Park and then becomes famous nationwide, making comedians — from Jimmy to Adam Sandler — fear for their careers. When the boys discover Funnybot plans to obliterate the world as its fi nal joke, they fi nd a loophole to disable the robot. They are later joined by the Germans, comedians and Barack Obama at the F.E. Warren Air Force Base, where they bury Funnybot and, acciden- tally, Tyler Perry. continued on page 14 AUGUST 4-10, 2022 WESTWORD | MUSIC | CAFE | CULTURE | NIGHT+DAY | NEWS | LETTERS | CONTENTS | westword.com
