As I was waiting for my rehearsal to begin tonight I decided to watch a little South Park and wouldn't you know; it related to class again. In this episode the boys create their own gang of super-heros (ties back to older episodes) and this time BP has drilled into the Gulf causing an oil spill. To stop the leak they decide to drill again but drill into the underworld releasing Cthulhu. Who is a beast who has come to send the boys into eternal oblivion. His followers have a chant which ends with, "That is not dead which eternal lie." This relates to Kenny's (Mysterion) superpower, which if you have seen the show know, he cannot die. Each superhero creates his own story there is Tupperware, Human Kite, Coon, and the rest of the gang and they even attempt to join with the prominent superhero, Hindsight who has 20/20 hindsight because of an experiment gone wrong when a poisonous spider enters the machine he created to give the Newsman hindsight.
South Park has numerous references to mythology in this episode (Coon 2: Hindsight and Mysterion Rises) you can watch on www.southparkstudios.com and I will add more later when I get time.
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