History Recap / SouthParkS3E1RainforestSchmainforest

* AnAesop:
** People who try to be environmentalists should actually visit the areas they're trying to protect instead of just blindly joining environmental groups. It may seem odd because a lot of TV shows before ''South Park'' have always championed environmentalism and rainforest conservation, but see RealLifeWritesThePlot on the Trivia subpage to find out why the writers chose to take the episode into a different direction.
** Regardless of how important the rainforest is, it's still a ''very'' dangerous place for outsiders and it should be left alone.
* ApatheticCitizens: Kyle and Stan are so used to Kenny being dead and gone that they just say "Oh my God! They killed Kenny!" "You bastards!" and are completely baffled when Kelly tells them to help Kenny. Kelly does CPR and manages to revive Kenny, something Stan and Kyle never tried. (Granted, Kenny usually dies in ways where CPR is obviously useless.)

* ApatheticCitizens: Kyle and Stan are so used to Kenny being dead and gone that they just say "Oh my God! They killed Kenny!" "You bastards!" and are completely baffled when Kelly tells them to help Kenny. Kelly does CPR and manages to revive Kenny, something Stan and Kyle never tried.

* ApatheticCitizens: Kyle and Stan are so used to Kenny being dead and gone that they are completely baffled and nearly unresponsive when Kelly asks for their help, refusing to get involved.

* ClusterFBomb: Miss Stevens after the humanoid tribe captures her and preps her to be sacrificed to a giant.
** Supposedly, this was Jennifer Aniston's requirement for agreeing to voice her; that she survive the entire episode and get to let out a cluster f-bomb. Both requests were obviously granted.

* DeconstructiveParody: PlayedForLaughs. The episode hilariously subverts the usual route of "protect the rainforest" morals by having the kids and guides encounter over-the-top yet rudimentarily realistic rainforest dangers (deadly flora and fauna, anti-government militia groups engaged in a shoot-out, and a tribe who misidentifies them as threats), nearly killing themselves in the process. The ending maintains its comedic tone by having the kids tell the rainforest activists to "Go fuck themselves" and completely deviate from their message by telling them to [[SpoofAesop decimate the rainforest.]] 

-->'''Cartman''': (After Ms. Stevens is attacked by a monkey) This is bullcrap, I am ''not'' following this stupid hippie around anymore!
-->'''Ms. Stevens''': Eric, where are you going?
-->'''Cartman''': I'm going this way!
-->'''Ms. Stevens''': Young man, I am the adult here, and I say you go this way!
-->'''Cartman''': Look, you can stay over nyah, but I'm going over nyah!
-->'''Ms. Stevens''': Young man, I have ''had it''!
-->'''Cartman''': Nononono! You nyah, me nyah! Screw you guys, I'ma goin' home.

* VerySpecialEpisode: {{Parodied}}. The boys are forced to join a choir class whose teacher is using them to spread the message of saving rainforests. When the group gets lost in a rainforest and nearly killed by everything but the kitchen sink, the teacher snaps and screams "That's it! F**K rainforests!" and proceeds to change their message to destroy them rather than save them. The whole thing caps off with a PSA urging viewers to help "join the fight to destroy all rainforests before it's too late." While the anti-environmentalist message may make viewers angry or upset, you have to admire the balls it took just to say that, when most other shows would go the pro-environmentalism route.

* NeverMyFault: Miss Stevens endangers herself and a group of children and the conclusion she draws is that the environment should pay for her mistake.

* PetTheDog: At the beginning of the episode, Cartman smiles when Stan and Kyle laugh. First from Kenny and eventually Cartman.

* OffModel: During the first and last "Getting Gay With Kids" choir performance, Heidi Turner's hair color changes from black to her modern dull brown hair.

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The choir bus route. The map has it going southwest, crossing the Mexican border around Mexicali and then running down the Baja California peninsula. From there, it crosses the Gulf of California, drives through mainland Mexico, goes across the Gulf of Mexico to the Yucatán Peninsula, and zigzags the rest of the way to San José. Going across the Gulf of California can be forgiven since there are ferries from La Paz, but there is no way a bus would be able to drive into the Gulf of Mexico. On top of that, even the most direct route from Colorado to Costa Rica would take at least a week to drive.

* OffModel: During the "Getting Gay With Kids" choir performance, Heidi Turner's hair color changes from black to her modern dull brown hair.

* ThisIsGonnaSuck: While on the bus to Costa Rica, Cartman says,”The nightmare begins".

'''Airdate:''' April 7, 1999

** Kelly repeatedly failing to call Kenny by his proper name due to his being TheUnintelligible.

* ThisIsGonnaSuck: While on the bus to Costa Rica, Cartman says, "And so, the nightmare begins".

As punishment for disrupting class, Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny are sentenced to join a travelling kids' choir called "Getting Gay with Kids," headed by a GranolaGirl choir teacher named Miss Stevens (voiced by Creator/JenniferAniston).

* BoltOfDivineRetribution: Happens to Kenny, but he fortunately gets revived by Kelly.

** RunningGagged: Cartman smacking animals come to a stop after the coral snake chases him.

* PresicionFStrike: Kyle lets one out to Cartman when the latter tells the former that Jewish people don’t have any rhythm.

* PresicionFStrike: Kyle let’s one out to Cartman when the latter tells the former that Jewish people don’t have any rhythm.