Story

Description

Ike just isn’t himself lately and he and Kyle are growing apart. Kyle goes to the guidance councilor for advice but Mr. Mackey is too busy dealing with the bugs in the school’s new integrated technology system to help. Kyle decides to take Ike to a live performance of his favorite show; Yo Gabba Gabba. He hopes it’ll make his little brother like him again.

Memorable Quotes

• “You don't know what's like to be a baby going through puberty! I don't know whether to watch Yo Gabba Gabba or go out and tame some strange!” Ike Broflovski
• "I knew this was a bad idea! I'm gonna go watch Yo Gabba Gabba in my roomsies!" Ike Broflovski
• "By now, you've probably noticed some changes in your body. For instance, when you fart your dick gets hard." Terry the Minister of Health
• "Have you ever had someone you love queef in your face?" Terry the Minister of Health
• “You're discovering that someone who was once your buddy is now your guy. And someone you used to call guy is quickly becoming- your fwiend.” Terry the Minister of Health
• "What's semen?" [[Terry the Minister of Health]
• "GET OUTTA MY ROOM, KYLE! I'M PLAYING TRUCKS!" Ike Broflovski
• "For my cool cool trick I'm gonna tame Foofa's strange." Ike Broflovski
• "Foofa's got that nice shaved strange that you just wanna get in and tame the second you see it.” Ike Broflovski
• "Have you ever had someone you love queef in your face?" Terry the Minister of Health
• "Before this meeting continues, I should have you be aware that my face has tested positive for queefy sores." Terry the Minister of Health
• “I’m afraid Intellilink mixed that up and your brother has been receiving large doses of hormones that were SUPPOSED to go to an athlete…” Terry the Minister of Health
• "Hut huuuuuuuut... Hut hut huuuuuuuut.... hot hot hot.. Huuuuut... HIKE!" Tom Brady
• "That's a nice crane, a nice whooping crane coming off his head there." Tom Brady
• "You know, this is the first time I've been able to do counseling AND go to the bathroom at the same time. Intellilink is amazing!" Mr. Mackey
• "My name is Cody, I'm your smartnician. You're having some intelliproblems with your astutelinks?" Cody the Smartnician
• "This is stupid bro. Foofa shouldn't be limiting herself to little kids. She's fuckin' fine, dude." Ike Broflovski
• "Well… How the hell are we all going to clean up Pat's mess?" Mr. Mackey
• "I just can't erase the memory of my helpless face being queefed on like that." Terry the Minister of Health
• “Anyone who thinks streamlining health care into an integrated computer system would go smoothly, DESERVES a giant queef in their face.” Terry the Minister of Health

Ike

"I'm ready bro. Come on Kyle, kick the baby…"

Sweet Strange

"But Foofa man... I'll bet she's got some sweet strange."

Terry, I'm your Fwiend

"Terry, I'm your Fwiend. And I'm not just your Fwiend, I'm also your Buddy."

Characters

Kyle Broflovski

Ike Broflovski

Mr. Mackey

Fancy Fwiend

Terry the Minister of Health

Tom Brady

Children's Characters

Brobee

Foofa

Muno

Plex

Toodee

Featured Celebrities

• Foofa (from "Yo Gabba Gabba") parodies Miley Cyrus' twerking performance on the 2013 MTV Music Awards.

• Tom Brady is also shown here, defecating on field during a football game.

Sinéad O'Connor

Sinéad O'Connor reached out to Miley Cyrus in response to Cyrus' Rolling Stone cover story, hence why she's parodied here.

Pop Culture References

• Mr. Mackey and Tom Brady are both shown "Bradying".
• The rocking tune playing on the cafeteria is "The Heat Is On" by Glenn Frey, made famous by the soundtrack to "Beverly Hills Cop".
• There is a pretty spot-on parody of Miley Cyrus' recent escapades in the news, right down to Foofa's twerking pose in this episode.
• Lionel Richie's hit single "All Night Long" plays in the beginning of the episode, when Mr. Mackey is using Intellilink. His music pops up several times in this episode.
• The kids' show "Yo Gabba Gabba" (as well as "Dora The Explorer") is featured in this episode.

Locations

Behind The Scenes

• On the 1st draft this episode was originally called "Ike Gets Older". It became “Taming Strange” on the 2nd draft.
• The character that sits with the Canadian Puberty Film Host is known at South Park as "Fancy Fwiend". He's a huge favorite in the Writer's Room.
• Why "Yo Gabba Gabba"? All the male writers now have kids. Their kids love "Yo Gabba Gabba", so they're forced to watch it all the time.
• The Intellilink storyline parodied the current situation with Obamacare. Also, Crestron Home Technology Systems — Matt and Trey hate them.
• From the writers: "There's lots of storylines in this episode...which is unusual for us. Haven't done many episodes like this since the early seasons."
• Matt does the voice of this bro'd out version of Ike. Ike's voice is normally done by a staff member's kid. The writers talked about having Ike continue speaking like a grown kid permanently. But the little kid voice wins them over every time.

Character Art: Ike

Prior to production, the writers toyed w/ the idea of making Ike look bigger, like a pubescent teenager.

Character Art: Kyle

This image of Kyle with a shlong on his head was actually based off on an original sketch by Trey (shown above, on the right).

Character Art: Mr. Mackey

Mackey's counseling lesson on the toilet required a special pose. It was worth it.

Character Art: Ike

Ike got a special "bro" pose for this scene in the show…

Storyboard

Check out the storyboard from this infamous football scene...

Character Art: Wet Kids

"Wet" versions of all the kids needed to be created prior to animating this scene.

Character Art: Foofa

Check out this behind the scenes Corel used while designing Foofa's special outfit and twerking pose.

Character Art: Foofa

Foofa's outfit went through several rounds of changes, like adding lights to arrows around her strange.

Bonus Factoids

• For the first time ever, we learn here that the kids are in Fourth Grade, Classroom 7.

Grandpa Marsh

Yep, that's Grandpa Marsh reading an article about Mysterion.

MTV VMA

The last time we saw a performance at the MTV Video Music Awards, it was during in "Britney's New Look"

Season 17

e1 Let Go, Let Gov

e2 Informative Murder Porn

e3 World War Zimmerman

e4 Goth Kids 3: Dawn of the Posers

e5 Taming Strange

e6 Ginger Cow

e7 Black Friday

e8 A Song of Ass and Fire

e9 Titties and Dragons

e10 The Hobbit