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"Coon 2: Hindsight" (originally titled "The Coon 2: Rise of Captain Hindsight") is the eleventh episode of the fourteenth season of animated television series South Park, and the 206th episode of the series overall.
In the episode, The Coon now leads an entire team of crime-fighters. They are ready to take their place, among the world's most admired and beloved superheroes. But much to the Coon's dismay, someone else keeps beating them to the punch. The nation looks to another hero to get them through the BP disaster and dissension develops within the ranks of Coon and Friends.
The episode premiered on October 27, 2010 on Comedy Central and was written and directed by series co-creator Trey Parker. It is the second part of a four-episode arc, continued in "Mysterion Rises."
Cartman's alter-ego, The Coon, now leads an entire team of crime-fighters, which includes fellow heroes Mysterion (identity revealed in following episode), Toolshed (Stan Marsh), Iron Maiden (Timmy), TupperWare (Token Black), Mosquito (Clyde), Mintberry Crunch (Bradley), and Human Kite (Kyle Broflovski) (identity revealed in the next episode), although Cartman is intent on taking all the glory. A fire breaks out in a local apartment building, and Cartman gets his mother to drive them over. Before they can take any action, though, Captain Hindsight, a renowned hero, arrives at the burning hotel, telling them of safety measures that should have been taken and departs to a standing ovation. People are relieved, happy that Captain Hindsight has "solved" the problem and promptly abandon the still burning building, leaving fourteen people in the apartment to burn to death. In the aftermath, Cartman concludes that they will need to get Captain Hindsight to join them in order to regain their former glory. He is unsuccessful in recruiting Captain Hindsight and instead plans to blackmail him into joining by photoshopping Hindsight's face onto images of a homeless person having sex with Courtney Love (actually Butters in disguise).
Meanwhile, a BP drilling vessel drills a new hole in the Gulf, only to accidentally cause another leak, prompting one of the crewmen to exclaim "Oh, don't tell me we did it again!" The CEO of the company, Tony Hayward, immediately issues a "we're sorry" campaign to try and avoid a severe public backlash, changing the name from "Beyond Petroleum" to "Dependable Petroleum" (DP) and in addition to the campaign, he announces that "we no longer fuck the Earth, we DP it". On a Coon & Friends meeting, Cartman explicitly states that he has no care for the people suffering from the BP spill, prioritizing his plans to blackmail Hindsight. Disagreeing with Cartman's interests, the rest of the group vote, after which Cartman is reluctantly forced to go with Mosquito's idea to set up a fundraising event in order to help the people affected by the BP crisis. Cartman viciously beats up Mosquito and Mintberry Crunch to regain control.
DP's second drilling in an attempt to stem the oil spill accidentally opens up a gateway to another dimension, causing the entire gulf to be attacked by giant alien creatures. Hayward determines that they will need to drill on the Moon in order to change the gravitational pull on the Earth and quell the swells on the ocean, which will allow them to place a cap on the gateway. Unfortunately, in the act of doing this, they inadvertently release Cthulhu, making things worse, forcing Hayward to send out another "we're sorry" campaign. By that time, Cartman is unanimously kicked out of Coon and Friends and his mother grounds him for swearing and beating his friends up. With Cartman no longer in control, and Captain Hindsight too distraught to save the day, the Friends go to fight Cthulhu themselves. Under the delusion that the Friends have "turned evil", Cartman dons his Coon attire to take matters in his own hands.
The primary references are the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico by oil company BP (formerly British Petroleum), BP's subsequent efforts to contain the spill, and their attempts to reduce public backlash through an apologetic commercial featuring then-Chief Executive Tony Hayward.[1] The company name is changed from BP to DP the sexual act of double penetration.[1]
Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film A Clockwork Orange, is referred to when the Coon attacks Mosquito. The same music is also used: an excerpt from the overtureofThe Thieving Magpie by Gioacchino Rossini. [1][2]
Captain Hindsight advises the NFL about Brett Favre, professional American football player accused of sexual misconduct.[3]
The creatures emerging from the dimensional tear, come from the Frank Darabont movie The Mist. Cthulhu is a monster from the works of horror/science fiction author H. P. Lovecraft.[2]
The character of Mosquito covers his nose with a Vuvuzela. Vuvuzelas were used in protest of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.[4]
The episode also features self-references to the Season 9 episode "Free Willzyx"[1] and Season 14 episode "201" by showing Willzyx the killer whale and Tom Cruise dead on the surface of the moon.[2]
"Coon 2: Hindsight" premiered on October 27, 2010 on Comedy Central.[5]
In its original American broadcast, the episode drew 2.755 million viewers,[5] down from the previous episode's viewership of of 2.891 million viewers.[6] It received a 1.6 rating/2% share in the Nielsen ratings and a 1.6 rating/5% share in the 18-49 demographic,[5] consistent with the previous week.[6]
The episode received average reviews from critics. Josh Modell of the A.V. Club described the episode as "pretty one-note" giving the it a C rating.[1]
Ramsey Isler of IGN said "this BP spoof fits squarely in the 'meh' category" and gave the episode a "passable" 6 out of 10.[2]
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