Original air date: 6/10/1998
Mr. Garrison assigns his class a paper on Vietnam, so the boys go see Jimbo and Ned, since they were in Vietnam but the story they tell gets the boys an Fâ and a week's detention. In retaliation, the boys send in false tapes to Jimbo and Ned's local access hunting show about the Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka, which makes the producer of Jesus and Pals try to make her show hipper.
This episode contains the following:
- Accidental Misnaming: The man in the Jesus and Pals audience who calls Jesus Montel, since he seems to think he's at a taping of The Montel Williams Show.
- Artistic License â Geography: The map shown during the Vietnam flashback is actually a map of Italy. This might be intentional, considering Jimbo embellished at least part of the story. (Or it may simply be a case of Freeze-Frame Bonus, as the map isn't on-screen that long.)
- Asshole Victim: The producer for Jesus & Pals is sent to Hell for being a corrupt ratings-chaser.
- Blatant Lies: The producer claiming she couldn't help but overhear Stan and Jimbo confessing to their lies would've been believable if she hadn't still been wearing the device she used to eavesdrop.
- Then there's Jimbo's claim about defeating the entire Viet Cong army.
- Brown Note: The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka is said to kill you immediately if you so much as look into its eyes. It's unknown if this also applies to video recordings, so Jimbo and Ned always avert their eyes when they play supposed sighting of it on their TV.
- Characterization Click Moment: Satan initially acts like the Card-Carrying Villain he appeared to be in the first season, then switches to Lighter and Softer once it's revealed he's Saddam Hussein's boyfriend. This would continue in Bigger, Longer & Uncut and every subsequent appearance.
- The Dreaded: The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka. So much that thinking he's seen one sends Ned into catatonic shock.
- Foreshadowing: The episode's ending depicts Satan and Saddam Hussein as lovers, setting up the events of South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, which wouldn't be released for another year.
- Heroic BSoD: Well, maybe not heroic, but Ned is catatonic due to a psychosomatic effect after staring at the fake frog the boys used to send in the tapes.
- Insane Troll Logic:
- Jimbo tells the audience that shooting wildlife assists in keeping populations to a manageable number, which he sums up as "we need to kill them or they'll die."
- The women in the audience who think that a woman on stage with her husband who managed to survive a near fatal accident should dump her husband.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Jesus sends his producer to Hell for screwing up the show and making the boys and Jimbo lie for the sake of ratings.
- Loophole Abuse: Since they can't use "It's coming right for us!" to justify their hunting anymore, they now have to "thin out their numbers." or else the animals they hunt will die.
- Mistaken for Profound: The Jesus and Pals producer thinks Jimbo and Ned's hunt for the titular frog is a brilliant ratings stunt.
- Mooning: When the boys create their video of the Mexican Staring Frog, Kenny faces away from the camera and pulls down his pants, revealing his bare butt.
- Oxymoronic Being: Whoever named the Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka must have failed geography. To say nothing of the fact that it was apparently sighted in the snowy region of South Park when both Mexico and Sri Lanka have much warmer climates
- Precision F-Strike: Jesus gets the audience to stop rioting and fighting first by yelling "Shut the fuck up!", then by taking his own name in vain.
- Reality Is Unrealistic: In-universe; while Mr. Garrison dismisses the entirety of Jimbo's story as "some ridiculous lie", in a conversation that Jimbo and Ned later have with their cameraman it's implied that the story was actually mostly true, aside from the bit about defeating the entire Vietcong army.
- Stylistic Suck: The video the boys send to Uncle Jimbo, with a toy frog, Cartman dressed as an old lady, and Kenny Mooning the camera for added laughs. Jimbo and Ned fall for it anyway.
- Shout-Out: Jimbo read Ned The Outsiders in the hospital.
- Terrifying Pet Store Rat: Spoofed with the Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka in the boy's video, which isn't even a real frog, just a stuffed toy on a string.
- They Killed Kenny Again: Kenny's pulled apart by audience members at Jesus and Pals rioting.
- War Has Never Been So Much Fun: Jimbo and Ned tell the boys that their camp in Vietnam had a water park, and a conversation later with another veteran seems to confirm that. Also, Mr. Garrison fantasies about being in the war and getting washed by other soldiers, an early example of his latent homosexuality.
- Younger and Hipper: What the producer of Jesus and Pals tries to do to the show.
