They're also mentioned at the end of Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow, where they were blamed for destroying the Beaverton dam.
In the episode Quest for Ratings, Eric Cartman suggested Crab People while brainstorming ideas for a news show. In the DVD commentary, Stone called Crab People "the worst idea we've ever had." Despite Parker and Stone's distaste for the characters, however, the Crab People have actually become fairly popular villains with fans of the show. It's like, you just know there's something better, but you can't think of it, and now you've just got to go with crab people." Executive producer Anne Garefino was particularly critical of the idea, deeming it "stupid." Parker later noted that "'Crab people' became this thing. Garrison leading the other gay people in South Park to "compete" with the metrosexuals), they were unable to come up with anything better than crab people.
Though they brainstormed for hours to improve the episode (after having deleted the initial subplot of Mr. Parker and Stone have since been critical of the third-act twist of "crab people" and consider the episode one of their worst. He walks away in the opposite direction, but then, he stops, turns around, and reluctantly goes to play with them, anyway. They decide instead to "bring back the Latin fad" - which the citizens of South Park slavishly adopt.Īt school, Stan, Kenny, and Cartman accept Kyle again, but when he expresses his anger that they previously forsook him, the others call him "gay" and go and play football. The Queer Eye producers are about to press charges on the women until they discover that the Fab Five were not human, noting that the Crab People tried this before with The Jeffersons. They explain that men need to be masculine and that is what really makes them attractive, even if they are gross. The five suddenly gravely turn to the others and their human bodies burst open, revealing that they are an ancient race of " Crab People".Ĭaptured by these Crab People (who chant "Crab People" repeatedly), the gay couple and Kyle are unable to stop the crabs from executing their plans of ruling the earth by destroying the human race (through changing men into metrosexuals) and the Crab People force them to become Crab People instead however, the wives attack and kill the Queer Eye guys. Garrison demands to know how gays could betray their own people, and then slowly realizes that they are not gay at all. Garrison then tries to talk the nonchalant gay stars out of selling out gay culture for mere ratings, which only falls on deaf ears. Their mission fails but the Fab Five decide to not press charges. Slave go to New York to kill the Fab Five, the hosts of "Queer Eye". When the wives confront the men about this, they are accused of being "metrophobic", and the men become even more feminine than before. The women of the town are initially in favor of their husbands' improved hygiene and willingness to communicate, but soon tire of the men's becoming increasingly self-absorbed. Slave, the town's gay couple, are excited at first but quickly become opposed to the fad when they realize that metrosexuals are straight men imitating gay culture and lifestyle, which Garrison believes is insulting to actual gays. Cartman, Kenny, and even Stan abandon Kyle. Kyle, who does not want to conform, is beaten up by Craig, Token, Jason, and Tweak at school.
At the school bus stop, instead of their usual winter clothing, Stan, Cartman, and Kenny wear unmasculine clothing.
Īfter the TV show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy begins showing, metrosexuality becomes a major fad among both the men and the boys, and they all begin to act effeminate. In 2011, he and co-creator Matt Stone listed it as one of their least favorite episodes of the series.
The episode was written and directed by series co-creator Trey Parker. The episode features a parody of the TV show, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. In it, Kyle struggles to understand a new metrosexual fad that has sprung around the men and boys of South Park and is the only one who does not want to conform to it. It originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on October 22, 2003. " South Park Is Gay!" is the eighth episode of the seventh season and the 104th overall episode of the American animated television series South Park. " All Things (Just Keep Getting Better)" by Widelife From left to right: Kenny, Stan, Kyle, and Cartman as metrosexuals.