Episode no. Season 2
Episode 18 Production code 218 | Directed by Eric Stough Original air date January 20, 1999 | |
Written by Trey Parker
Nancy M. Pimental Featured music "All That She Wants" and "The Sign"
by Ace of Base | ||
"Prehistoric Ice Man" is the eighteenth and final episode in the second season of the American animated television series South Park. The 31st episode of the series overall, it originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on January 20, 1999. The episode was written by series co-creator Trey Parker, along with Nancy M. Pimental, and directed by Eric Stough.
Plot
Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny are inspired to go hunting for crocodiles by watching a Steve Irwin television programme. Kyle falls into a cave and finds a man frozen in ice. The boys retrieve him and take him to Dr. Mephesto to be dissected. Stan and Kyle get into a fight about who really discovered the frozen man. Dr. Mephisto thaws the ice covering the man and discovers that he is alive and was frozen for only 32 months. Despite this, Mephisto and all adults treat him as a prehistoric man and appear to be unable to understand him. To make his research more lucrative, Mephisto is persuaded by FBI agents to display the man to the public.
Stan and Kyle become upset at the ice man's inhumane treatment, so they decide to set him free. Upon being released, the man, named Larry, returns to his home, only to discover that his wife has remarried. Later, as he attempts to refreeze himself, Kyle comes up with a solution for Larry, which consists of him taking the train to Des Moines, Iowa. Dr. Mephisto, Cartman, and the FBI, who have hired Steve Irwin as a tracker, catch up with Larry at the train station, just as he boards a train to Iowa. Irwin wrestles Larry, but the train crashes into a helicopter, killing Irwin. Larry escapes in the helicopter, thanks Stan and Kyle, and heads to Iowa. Kyle and Stan decide to bury the hatchet.