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Needs: Aliens in Towelie (South Park Episode) Aliens in The Biggest Douche In The Universe -->The '' South Park '' television series includes a number of elements from science fiction, fantasy, and folklore despite its contemporary theme. This includes aliens, mechanical beings, and scientific experiments. CRAB PEOPLE The Crab People are evidently evil beings, given that their appearance is emphasised by the lyrics to their ominious people, crab people, taste like crab, talk like people.''" They are a species of what appears to be mutant crab. They are crabs that stand about four feet tall that speak English. They have appeared in the ''South Park'' episodes " South Park Is Gay! ", " Quest For Ratings " and " Two Days Before The Day After Tomorrow ." History All the history that is known about crab people is that they were banished a thousand years ago by man during the Kindling Wars, to an underground cavern. Something to note is that a thousand years ago is during the Middle Ages; long after the Stone Age era implied by the Kindling Wars. This may mean that the Crab people have a different time measurement for year than humans, lost track of the years underground, or are just really bad at keeping track of time. No one seems particularly shocked that crab people exist, which implies, alternately, that the kindling wars did occur a thousand years ago, and are an accepted part of history inside the South Park universe. Plan for world domination Crab people want domination of the world, but are too weak and small to destroy or take down man by force. So the crab people created an ingenius way to take down man: turn all men into metrosexuals. As one crab person said, "If you can't beat man, change man". By changing men into metrosexuals, man would be too weak and "gay" to beat the crab people. They went about achieving this goal by dressing up as gays themselves. The people they dressed up as were the five men from '' Queer Eye For The Straight Guy ''. Unfortunately for the crab people Kyle would not become metro. So he, Mr. Garrison , and Mr. Slave went to ask the men of ''Queer Eye for the Straight Guy'' to stop turning people "gay," but they refused. Mr. Garrison could not understand how gay people could do this to their own kind, but then realized that they weren't gay at all. The crab people were forced to reveal themselves, and thus, took Mr. Slave, Mr. Garrison, and Kyle down to their underground cavern. Since they couldn't turn Kyle into a metrosexual, they turned him into a crab person (all they did was put him in a crab person outfit, put red makeup on his face, and stick fake antennae and eyes on his head). With no one knowing the truth, it looked like the crab people's plans would actually succeed. Eventually, the women of South Park got fed up with their husbands being metro, so they went to kill the ''Queer Eye for the Straight Guy'' men (they used bats). Once they started beating the men, Kyle, Mr. Slave, and Mr. Garrison started also beating the crab people. Once dead, everyone found out the truth about the crab people, and their plans were foiled. The television network president regretted that he should have realized this from the start, as the Crab People had once already tried this tactic with '' The Jeffersons ''. Song The is usually played whenever the crab people appear. It is basically low chanting of "Crab, people, crab, people..." though at one point, some additional lyrics are chanted: "Taste like crab, talk like people", shining a little light on the physiology and linguistic abilities of the Crab People. Another one of the crab people's song is,"Gregra, Gregra he is gay yes he is." Trivia Other than the episode " South Park Is Gay! ", the Crab People are also mentioned briefly in " Quest For Ratings ", when the boys and their friends are trying to come up ideas for school TV shows. Cartman suggests doing a show about Crab People, to which Stan replies, "I think we can do a little better than Crab People". Later, in " Two Days Before The Day After Tomorrow ", Crab People are the most ridiculous suggestion as to who caused the Beaverton flood (a parody of Hurricane Katrina ). The most logical interpretation of these is that Matt Stone and Trey Parker , ''South Park's'' creators, are poking fun at their own inability (or unwillingness) to come up with a logical show idea, and now use Crab People to represent any nonsensical concept. It is also mentioned in the episode South Park Is Gay! " that they tried the same thing with the TV show "The Jeffersons". It is possible these characters are based on the creatures from a '' Doctor Who '' plot, " The Macra Terror " {Link without Title} . The crab people also bear more than a passing resemblance to the 'crab-like builders' from the book ''Valis'' by Philip K. Dick. Matt Stone mentioned in an interview once that crab people are an "inside joke" between the staff. It is often mentioned as a reference to what results when the staff procrastinates on an episode. Matt Stone and Trey Parker originally put the crab people in as a placeholder when they were making the episode. As the time before airing ran out, they became more "desperate" and decided to leave the crab people in. JOOZIANS Joozian s are a fictional alien species that control all media in the universe. Two of them apparently serve as the heads of an intergalactic television network. They are a parody of Jewish people (or at least people's stereotypes thereof), with exaggerated features traditionally attributed to Jews . GELGAMEKS Little is known about the Gelgameks, except that they are greenish creatures from another planet. In the episode " Red Hot Catholic Love ", they were represented at the Vatican , where a collection of Priest s and Cardinal s are discussing the priest sex abuse scandal, which, in the ''South Park'' universe, is fully known of and accepted by all Catholic priests (except Father Maxi, the priest from South Park). The head of the Gelgamek Catholics angrily objects to Maxi's suggestion of allowing priests to have sex with women so as to not encourage molestation, saying "The Gelgamek Vagina is three feet wide and filled with razor-sharp teeth! Do you really expect us to have sex with ''that?''" It is unsure where the Catholic Gelgameks came from, though Christians on South Park had made attempts to proseltyze an alien race before, the Marklar s. Also, according to the episode " Cancelled ", a popular alien Reality Show is titled "Who Wants to Marry a Gelgamek"—though details are not mentioned, one can speculate that their Genitalia may be the source of some of the show's drama. GENETIC EXPERIMENTS Dr. Alphonse Mephisto has been known to create a number of genetic experiments, however, most of these experiments involve pairing an existing animal with five posteriors.
JAKOVASAURUS Jakov and Junjun (the latter renamed "Hope" by the Mayor) were the only known living pair of an extremely rare species known as the ''Jakovasaurus'' (pronounced "Jack-off-a-saurus"). They resemble a cross between a human being and a rubber chicken, and at first possess linguistic patterns similar to those of Gungans . Though arguably good natured, the loud and obnoxious Jakovasaurs are despised unanimously by the residents of South Park, with the only exception being Eric Cartman, who inexplicably finds their moronic slapstick antics to be downright hilarious, and their personalities completely likeable; Kyle speculates it may be because they are the only creatures as annoying as he is. The pair and their offspring were eventually tricked into relocating to France , where their Jerry Lewis -esque behavior was much more appreciated. MARKLAR The Marklars are a fictional Alien race that appear in several episodes. The word ''marklar'' is also a Generic word used by the Marklars, similar to '' Smurf ''. In the ''South Park'' episode " Starvin' Marvin In Space " much of the action involves the Marklars, who use the word "marklar" to represent the meaning of any Noun , including Proper Noun s. The Marklars say that on the planet Marklar, every person, place, or thing is referred to as "Marklar." For example, all Marklars are named Marklar, and everything on the planet Marklar (or the "marklar Marklar") is also called Marklar. This technique was previously used by the Smurf s, but they only applied the word "smurf" to verbs. Physically, the Marklar species is similar to humans, but with orangish skin, large, bald heads and somewhat large hands. They seem to be a fairly kind race, in that they allowed the starving Ethiopians to move to their planet. They were seen briefly in another episode, " The Red Badge Of Gayness ", and were mentioned in the episode " Cancelled ", where it was revealed that they hate the unnamed aliens from the Horsehead Nebula . They were also shown in the retelling of the story of Xenu in the episode " Trapped In The Closet " as victims of Xenu's Evil Plan . Linguistics For some reason, the variety of meanings of ''marklar'' was no problem for the Marklars; just as humans are able to understand Homophone s based on context, the Marklars seemed to understand their language fine. This was demonstrated when the Marklar leader, Marklar, simply said, "Hey, Marklar," and one particular Marklar stepped out of the crowd, knowing somehow that he was the one being referenced. ''Marklar'' is not used as a Conjunction or Article , nor is it normally used in the place of a Pronoun , although pronouns may reference marklar. Unlike a pronoun, the referenced word need not appear in the same sentence, nor even ever have been used by the speaker at any time. The Plural form is ''marklars''. Quotes :On being welcomed to the planet, Marklar (the leader of the Marklars) said: ''Greetings, Marklar! I am Marklar! This is Marklar.'' You see, young marklar. Those marklars don't care about marklar marklar. They just want to take your marklar and marklar their own marklar. The only marklar for this is to marklar. :Kyle: ''Marklar, these marklars want to change your marklar. They don't want this Marklar or any of his marklars to live here because it's bad for their marklar. They use Marklar to try and force marklars to believe their marklar. If you let them stay here, they will build marklars and marklars. They will take all your marklars and replace them with Marklar. These marklars have no good marklar to live on, so they must come here to Marklar. Please, let these marklars stay where they can grow and prosper without any marklars, marklars, or marklars.'' SCUZZLEBUTT Scuzzlebutt is a creature that lives on the mountain and kills anyone who dares to climb to the top, because it likes the taste of blood and likes to add pieces to its deformed body. Instead of his hand he has a piece of Celery and one of his legs is missing and instead replaced with Patrick Duffy . He weaves Wicker Basket s as a hobby. Scuzzlebutt is a creature that Eric Cartman originally made up in a campfire story in the episode " Volcano ". To Cartman's surprise, the creature was real. Scuzzlebutt saved the day by helping Cartman, Kyle, Stan and Kenny cross a river of lava. Following his heriocs, Scuzzlebutt was shot in the head by Stan Marsh . Stan did this because he was under pressure by his Uncle Jimbo to hunt and kill any animal he sees. SEA PEOPLE Sea People are the accidental hybrid of Sperm and Brine Shrimp , created by Cartman. GENETICALLY MODIFIED TOWELS (TOWELIE) Genetically modified towels were a government creation of the United States Military, whose goal was to make a super dry towel in the labs of Secret Government Base. Or they were created as super-advanced drying devices. Or as part of an alien plot. Many explanations are given; the fact is no one really cares much what's correct. See information at Towelie .'' MANBEARPIG Manbearpig or MBP as refered in the Sixth Episode of the 10th season named after the animal. A Manbearpig as described by Al Gore is a Half Man, Half Bear, Half Pig, even though it doesn't add up. In the episode, Al Gore is on a mission to rid the world of Manbearpig and to do so the boys reluctantly agree to help. The hunt for Manbearpig signifies Al Gore's fight for Global Warming awareness rather uncogently. At the end of the episode, when he says he wants to make a movie starring himself about a subject other than "MBP" (Manbearpig) it refers to the Indie Movie '' An Inconvenient Truth '', set to open on May 26 , 2006 . MBP could stand for the Blue Marble Photo that Gore loves so much. His appeal to the boys can be compared with his attempts at winning youth support through his television network, Current TV , although most of the network's content is Viewer Created . |
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