Original air date: 11/1/2006
Cartman freezes himself to keep from waiting for the Nintendo Wii. Meanwhile, Ms. Garrison is mad over having to teach evolution.
Tropes:
- And I Must Scream: Lampshaded by one of the future people, who proudly mentions that many people have frozen themselves cryogenically, and were never unfrozen solely because they didn't grow up in Cartman's time.
- Artistic License – Biology: Garrison is forced to give an evolution lesson and, holy cow, was it a crazy and horribly biased one.Ms. Garrison: Now I, for one, think evolution is a bunch of BULL CRAP. But I've been told I have to teach it anyway. It was thought up by Charles Darwin and it goes something like this: In the beginning we were all fish. Okay? Swimming around in the water. And then one day a couple of fish had a retard baby, and the retard baby was different, so it got to live. So Retard Fish goes on to make more retard babies, and then one day, a retard baby fish crawled out of the ocean with its mutant fish hands... and it had butt sex with a squirrel or something and made this...retard frog squirrel, and then that had a retard baby which was a... monkey fish-frog... And then this monkey fish-frog had butt sex with that monkey, and... that monkey had a mutant retard baby that screwed another monkey and... that made you! So there you go! You're the retarded offspring of five monkeys having butt sex with a fish-squirrel! Congratulations!
- Didn't Think This Through: Neither Butters nor Cartman thought about how freezing Cartman could go wrong. Surely enough, Cartman ends up buried in an avalanche and Butters can't find him. Cartman ends up waking up centuries after the Wii would've been released, much to his horror.
- Fan Disservice: Not only do we get to see sex scenes between Ms. Garrison and Richard Dawkins, but there's even a full uncensored shot of Garrison's saggy, misshapen breasts.
- Flat-Earth Atheist: Atheism still exists, even after God showed himself to the world in "Are You There, God? It's Me, Jesus".
- Human Popsicle: Cartman tries to freeze himself for three weeks, and ends up frozen for over 500 years.
- Humans Are Flawed: The overall message of the episode-even without religion, people would still find reasons to hate each other.
- Hypocrite: The people of the future think their ancestors were stupid for quarreling over religious differences, even though they're quarreling for even pettier reasons.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Butters is horrified with himself for getting Cartman buried in an avalanche.
- Oh, Crap!: Butters has this reaction when Dougie tells Butters that being frozen for three weeks would kill somebody.
- Oh, My Gods!: Because religion is abolished in the future, the atheists evoke Science in place of all usual theistic exclamations. To really drive the point home.
- Opinion Flip Flop: Garrison is initially hostile to the whole idea of the theory of evolution and everyone who believes in it, teaching it with furious reluctance and as inaccurately as possible. However, when Richard Dawkins expresses romantic interest and they start a relationship, Garrison does a complete 180 overnight and becomes a full-blown Hollywood Atheist, ridiculing anyone who express more religious or moderate views on the subject of evolution and science.
- Shout-Out: Considering all the sci fi shout-outs in the following episode, the resemblance between a line in this episode and a line in the 2003 Battlestar Galactica TV movie/miniseries is likely not coincidence.Baltar: It puzzles me that an intelligent, attractive woman such as yourself should be taken in by all that mysticism and superstition.Dawkins: You have so much spunk, so much life. If only you were an atheist. Why has someone as outspoken as you given themselves over to the whole God thing?
- Silly Reason for War: The people of the future are entangled in a war because they can't agree what name their society should have.
- Slow Laser: The atheists' blasters in the future seem to fire these, only for them to actually turn out to be long brightly-colored needles that result in Your Head A-Splode.
- Straw Hypocrite: Garrison's fickle ethics are on full display this episode, being incredibly antagonistic towards anyone with different opinions, but still feeling entitled to change her own for any reason (such as being in a relationship with an atheist). Garrison's belligerent effect on Dawkins is shown to have negative effects on the future, where religion is abolished and laughed upon, but there are just as many fractions murdering each other over the pettiest of disagreements.
- Take That!: To atheists who are just as evangelical as the religious people they belittle.
- The War Has Just Begun: "So it begins."
- Toilet Humor: Garrison acts like a monkey to mock evolution, and attacks Richard Dawkins with her own poop.
- Too Dumb to Live: Cartman is so desperate and impatient to get a Nintendo Wii, he resorts to freezing himself to get through the next few weeks of waiting. Too bad he never did his research to perform it properly. If not for an avalanche, he would have frozen to death.
