Hippy Infestation

This past week on Wednesday I was watching an episode of South Park called Die, Hippy Die, were the plot line was about a hippy infestation in South Park, Vermont. The hippies invading South Park Vermont then once feeling comfortable in the town, they decided to hold a music festival to raise awareness about the horrible aspects of large corporations. I find it funny how people hold a music festival to solve a problem, and all they are doing is sitting on their butt say “let them hear you over there in Washington”. They think they are accomplishing something by smoking pot and jamming. The writers based there idea for this episode off of popular music festivals such as Burning Man and Bonnaroo. I watch this episode I was cracking up because it was exactly like Bonnaroo I attended last summer. The aspect of the hippy festival that I find so funny was how realistic the festival was to a real one. The town of South Park was all excited and for the festival, until they saw what type of people attended the concert and how they never leave because their music is just one continuous jam. I experienced this same switch of feels towards the festival when I ate at the same diner before and after Bonnaroo. The waitress we talked to before was excited about how much business they were getting since they were right on the highway heading to Bonaroo. By the time we traveled back the waitresses all looked very tired and almost pissed off. Our waitress was complaining about how she just wanted the festival to end and for things to get back normal. She was complaining about how no one was tipping because, according to her, they spent all their money on drugs. One of the funniest parts of the episode was when Carman and two others try to get into the front of the stage to put on a Creed CD to disperse the hippies and get them out of South Park. If you have ever been to a concert where there are estimated 70,000 attendees, you would know it is an impossible task to make it from the back all they to the stage. In order to accomplish the task, they build a tank with a drill in front to take the hippies out and drill their way to the front. The whole episode is just terrible funny because although they are bashing hippies, they have the personality of a hippy down to the t. There have been many shows were I wish I could drill my way to the front, but instead friends and I grab hands and push our way up until attendees just won’t let us threw anymore. I also love how the town people decided to put a stop to the “Phish” band jamming by putting in a Creed album. If there is one way to disperse hippies bad music will definitely do it.