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01 I'm A Little Bit Country

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First aired: 4/9/2003 Production Code: 701

After participating in a walk-out against the war in Iraq, Mr. Garrison tells the boys they have to write a report on the founding fathers. Cartman decides he's going to figure out a way to flashback to the past and learn all about history first hand.

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1 Plot
Written by BOT, on 09-24-2007 20:29
This episode originally aired during the build-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. When Mr. Garrison agrees to let anyone protesting the war out of school early for a rally, all the kids leave, even though they know little about the war. They are then interviewed outside the school for their views on what the Founding Fathers would think about the conflict and show their ignorance by not knowing who the founding fathers were. Angered at the embarrassment, Mr. Garrison gives everybody an assignment to figure out an opinion on the Founders' view of the war. Stan, Kyle, and Kenny begin to study for their projects; Cartman, however, decides to take a different approach, trying (and failing) to induce a flashback of the colonial era by dropping a large rock on his own head.

Meanwhile, the people of the town are divided about the war, and after splitting in two, they both plan rallies: one pro-war, one anti-war, both on the same day in the same place. They wind up having a great argument during both rallies, and in the end get into a huge fight where they begin to all kill each other. Meanwhile, Cartman electrocutes himself in water with a TiVo full of colonial documentaries from The History Channel in order to induce a flashback. He falls into a coma, and in his mind, he travels back to the colonial era. With a single murder (he takes a nearby log and brutally beats the messenger, while singing the Dawson's Creek theme) he manages to get the job of delivering the Declaration of Independence from Thomas Jefferson's home to the Continental Congress for a vote; there, a great argument breaks out about whether or not to go to war against Great Britain, paralleling the events in town, which Cartman recognizes as being "very, very relevant".

Benjamin Franklin shows up, as voiced by famed TV producer Norman Lear, also creative consultant for this episode; and he gives his opinion that both opinions were valid, as the new country they were trying to found would need strength from the hawks and compassion from the doves. He suggests that if they go to war but still allow protests (which in his opinion wouldn't actually stop the war) then it looks like they didn't want the war. Actually he refers to the need to found a nation based on "saying one thing" and "doing another one". One member refers to this as "having our cake and eating it too". Cartman wakes up and delivers his message to the town, who see the truth of that statement and then break out into song (a version of "I'm a Little Bit Country" by Donny and Marie Osmond). In it, they celebrate their differences and their achievement (100 episodes); ending the song with the line, "For the war, against the war- who cares! One hundred episodes!". The 100th episode of the series ends with Kyle saying "I hate this town. I really, really do".

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2 Trivia
Written by BOT, on 09-24-2007 20:29
* The guitarist playing on the anti-war side of the stage is Slash.
* The episode’s title and parody theme are based on the 1970s hit song I’m a Little Bit Country by Donny and Marie Osmond.
* During the singing, the pro-war side of town’s curtain had the bald eagle facing the bundle of arrows in its talon rather than the olive branch (which the eagle normally faces), showing that side of town’s favor in the war.
* In the end of the episode many characters from previous episodes appear in the choir. Santa Claus, Sally Struthers, the Marklar aliens, Towelie, and the Grim Reaper all appear, to name a few.

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3 Goofs
Written by BOT, on 09-24-2007 20:29
In this episode Cartman is incapable of pronouncing “Nazi” correctly when seeing it written, as though he had never come upon the word before, but it is made clear in many episodes before and after this one that Eric is a Nazi sympathizer and an admirer of Adolf Hitler.

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