As I’ve been going through every South Park episode, listening to the commentary before I watch each one, I learn a lot of fun factoids about what Matt & Trey’s inspirations were for each joke, etc. (the best place to listen to all the commentaries is through The Commentary Man).

One particularly specific inspiration was for the Season 6 episode, “Freak Strike”, Butters gets forced by the boys to go on Maury’s “freak” special as a real “freak” and gets caught up in a Freak Union strike, and appears in a “Check for the Union Label” advertisement. It’s based off of an ad almost exactly the same from the 70s. In this video, I’ve put together:

Matt & Trey explaining this (full commentary) the REAL version of the ad from the Star Wars Christmas Special (the ad is at the timestamp 41:58) the Butters version from the episode

Enjoy!!