This episode sees Mr Garrison's class visit Frontierland; a living museum where they can learn what life was like for the earlier settlers of 1864. Before entering the park everybody must pair up and they are told they must keep holding hands until they get back on the bus to go home. Nobody wants to be partnered with Cartman and he is eventually forced to go with Butters... who won't let go of his hand for any reason. While most of the class get told about frontier life by the annoying volunteers who won't break character Cartman drags Butters off to the indoor play park next door. If this wasn't enough Frontierland is overrun by escaped criminals who are desperate to find a way of evading the police... there is a mineshaft they could use but the volunteers refuse to break character and tell them the combination for its lock... even when the criminals start shooting them!.
This was a rather fun episode; the way the criminals took over Frontierland nicely parodied films like 'Die Hard' and when we learn just what they had stolen it became even funnier. The volunteers were a bit annoying but that just served to make it amusing when they started getting shot. Cartman and Butter's story was distinctly a sup-plot but it was still amusing; who'd have guessed that Butters could have held on to Cartman's hand so tightly?
This was a rather fun episode; the way the criminals took over Frontierland nicely parodied films like 'Die Hard' and when we learn just what they had stolen it became even funnier. The volunteers were a bit annoying but that just served to make it amusing when they started getting shot. Cartman and Butter's story was distinctly a sup-plot but it was still amusing; who'd have guessed that Butters could have held on to Cartman's hand so tightly?
