Original air date: 6/27/2001
The boys fight to get Big Gay Al reinstated as their scout leader, and Timmy is jealous of the new handicapped kid in town, Jimmy .
This episode provides the following:
- All Gays Are Pedophiles: It's this misconception among the the Mountain scout's parents that leads to Big Gay Al being fired as scoutmaster, and replaced with a hyper masculine, Drill Sergeant Nasty scoutmaster named Mr. Grazier... who turns out to be an actual pedophile.
- Berserk Button: Don't ever ruin Jimmy's standup routines. Timmy learns this the hard way.
- Brick Joke: One of the many things that tried to kill Jimmy (who was wearing Kenny's signature parka) was a giant eagle. Near the end after winning the court case against the Mountain scouts, that same eagle swoops in and (seemingly) kills Kenny.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Despite his flamboyant Camp Gay behavior, Big Gay Al is shown to be a terrific scoutmaster who commands Universally Beloved Leader status from his troop.
- Captain Obvious: Turns out the scout officials had no idea that Big Gay Al was... well gay. The latter even lampshades how obvious he made it.
- Dude, Not Funny!: Cartman calls everyone out for laughing at Stan's joke about his (Cartman) not having a dad.
- Early-Installment Weirdness:
- In this episode, Timmy hates Jimmy. However, by "Krazy Kripples", he's best friends with him, with no mentions of previous animosity.
- At least at the beginning of the episode, Randy seems to be the most sensible of the parents regarding gay scout leaders. This would be unlikely to happen in the later seasons which focus on Randy's ridiculousness.
- Establishing Character Moment: It establishes Jimmy being a nice guy who takes comedy seriously. It also establishes his Oblivious to Hatred.
- Even Evil Has Standards:
- At the beginning of the episode when Stan makes a joke about Cartman not having a father which makes everyone laugh, Cartman expresses how fucked up that joke was. Keep in mind, if we’re going by production code number, "Scott Tenorman Must Die" came before this.
Cartman: That's not funny! Jesus Christ!- He's also against the mountain scouts for kicking out Big Gay Al and starts a movement with the other boys to bring him back. Granted, this can be chalked due to Cartman hating the replacement scout master, which is also entirely valid.
- Fingore: Mr. Grazier intimidates the kids into not telling anyone about him taking naked pictures of them by smashing his own hand with a hammer as a demonstration of what he would do to them.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Timmy gets jealous of Jimmy for stealing the spotlight as the popular disabled kid and becomes increasingly angrier as other people keep praising Jimmy, to the point of screaming in one scene.
- Hate Sink: Mr. Grazier. He's a serial pedophile that takes naked pictures of the scouts and threatens to assault them if they tell their parents. He's played surprisingly seriously (the scene where Butters recreates the threat to Big Gay Al is particularly dark) and it makes his arrest during the titular fight cathartic.
- Honor Before Reason: Big Gay Al was devastated to be kicked out of scouts, but he turns down the court victory that would allow him to come back, as he firmly believes freedom of expression is a two-way street.
- The Horseshoe Effect: All the supporters of the trial wanted to take away the Boy Scouts Of America's right to refuse gay people into Boy Scouts, as Big Gay Al points out this is as bad as taking away someone's right to be gay.
- It's All About Me:
- Gloria Allred turned the whole issue of Big Gay Al's into a publicity stunt to make herself look good.
- Timmy, though to a lesser extent; he gets Jimmy kicked out of scouts because he's jealous he's not the only handicapped kid now.
- Kick the Dog:
- Seeing a girl sell puppies in front of the grocery store, Cartman tosses the box they're in so he and the boys can get signatures for their movement.
- The news reporter shows the naked pictures of the kids live on television just for the shock value.
- Timmy gets Jimmy kicked out of the scouts by photoshopping him on gay pornography, even after the latter tries to reconcile and wants to be friends.
- Stan, Kenny and their fathers take a cheap shot about Cartman not having a dad. Funny, but mean spirited.
- Left the Background Music On: Depressing piano music is playing during the scene where Big Gay Al is looking through some photos of him as a Boy Scout. Once he closes the drawer he put his Boy Scout uniform in, the scene changes to a literal piano being played by pianist Marc Shaiman. Al eventually tells him to stop and asks him to play something uplifting, which Marc interprets as a very upbeat arrangement of the Too Fat Polka.
- Mistaken for Gay: Timmy frames Jimmy as gay by photoshopping his head onto a gay man.
- Motive Decay: The scout officials' only reason for taking action against Big Gay Al was because they received so many complaints from parents in the first place. They oddly stick to this direction even when the public changes their mind and risk legal action.
- My God, What Have I Done?: The parents have this reaction after seeing the news report about Mr. Grazier getting arrested for serial child predation, realizing that they unintentionally left their kids with a pedophile.
- Nothing Personal: Big Gay Al objects to having the scout officials punished and humiliated for throwing him out, acknowledging it wasn't a personal vendetta against him.
- Out of Focus: Kyle doesn't appear in this episode at all. Even as his parents make a cameo later on.
- Scout-Out: The Mountain Scouts are the Boy Scouts of America with the Serial Numbers Filed Off.
- "Shaggy Dog" Story: All things considered, nothing really gets accomplished over the course of the episode. Big Gay Al remains banned from the scouts due to dropping his case immediately after winning it, the Mountain Scouts still abide to their policy of barring homosexuals from their ranks with no sign of that changing anytime soon, and Timmy still hates Jimmy (though they do become friends in later episodes). The pedophile scoutmaster who replaced Big Gay Al does get arrested, but not due to anything the boys do, meaning that things would have turned out roughly the same had they not tried their protest.
- Shout-Out: The aforementioned cripple fight between Timmy and Jimmy completely mimics the fight between Roddy Piper and Keith David in They Live!. It even went to the point of matching the dialogue, as shown in this video
. - Stylistic Suck: Jimmy's impressions.
- Take That!:
- They Killed Kenny Again:
- He gets carried off by an eagle. Interestingly, he appears in the scout meeting at the end, making this a rare case where he has an Unexplained Recovery within an episode. It is also possible that he survived the ordeal, since the eagle is never shown actually killing him.
- Timmy attempts to weaponize this by gifting Jimmy the same orange parka Kenny wears. After putting it on, Jimmy walks away and a bunch of things attempt to claim his life, but all of them narrowly miss him (even a plane crash) and Jimmy thanks Timmy for the gift, oblivious to the destrution behind him.
- Tuckerization: Marc, the piano player who Big Gay Al asks to play sad piano music while he's packing away his Mountain Scouts stuff, is named and modeled after composer Marc Shaiman, who'd worked with Trey and Matt on the movie.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Randy, Stuart, and any other parents who complained to the scout leaders about Big Gay Al and got him kicked out. Doing so left their children at the mercy of a pedophile.
