Drawn Together: Lost in Parking Space (also known as it's episode title name, Lost in Parking Space) is the very last television special of the Drawn Together and also the tv show's 29th and 30th episodes of Drawn Together Season 3. The tv special starts when Clara preaches to her housemates about the rapture. When they later get trapped in a parking space, she thinks they have been taken off to Heaven.
The episode/tv special itself was aired on the Comedy Central network on November 15, 2006, and for part 2 on October 4, 2007.
Plot[]
Clara preaches to her housemates about the rapture. When they later get trapped in a parking space, she thinks they have been taken off to Heaven. Meanwhile, the rest of the gang leaves her behind to go to the mall, but end up getting trapped in the van. While trying to save his friends from the van, Xandir becomes a derelict hobo and abandons them. Meanwhile, Foxxy is captured by a goth cashier at Hot Topic and Clara forgets her religion and becomes a rebellious, sinning henchman of a mailman who she has mistaken for Satan.
Animated cameos[]
- When the housemates are trying to find a parking space at the mall, three potential spaces are taken by three different characters:
- Speed Racer in the Mach Five.
- He-Man riding on Battle Cat.
- Wonder Woman, who yells at the housemates after they crash into her invisible jet, which was parked in a space that they thought was empty.
Cultural references[]
- The title of this episode is a reference to Lost in Space.
- Clara's story in this episode is inspired by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins' Left Behind book series, which follows the lives of those left behind on Earth following the Rapture.
- Kirk Cameron, whose voice is heard on the Rapture Hotline, is the star of Left Behind: The Movie, and one of the most outspoken born again Christians in the entertainment industry. The website Cameron mentions as he jumps out the window, www.wayofthemaster.com, is a real website; it is the homepage of The Way of the Master, a Christian evangelical group in which Cameron is a partner.
- Kirk Cameron, on his hotline message, refers to himself and his good friend Richard "Boner" Stabone as examples of cool people who are going to heaven. Stabone was the best friend of Cameron's character Mike Seaver on the sitcom Growing Pains. He then gives Tracey Gold as an example of someone who is damned to hell, Gold being the actress who played Mike's sister Carol.
- The housemates watch a show called The Amazing Race Riot, a dual reference to The Amazing Race and race riots—specifically, the tension between blacks and Koreans during the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
- Xandir's mall trip, complete with matching T-shirts and a title by year ("Drawn Together Mall Trip '06"), strongly resembles a semi-organized student vacation, particularly spring break.
- The Jesus doll Clara talks to is a parody of the Jesus doll from Stephen King's Carrie.
- The scene with the voice chip mix-up in the Barbie-type doll and the Jesus figure is similar to a large-scale prank where a group known as the Barbie Liberation Organization replaced the voice chips in a number of Barbie dolls with voice chips from G.I. Joe figures, and then placed the dolls on store shelves.
- Additionally, the voice chip in the Talking Jesus (which was meant to go into the fashion doll) says phrases such as "Just pretend you're eating a banana" or "If you don't let him do it, he'll break up with you." This is a reference to Mattel's Teen Talk Barbie, which caused controversy because some models could say, "Math class is tough." This was interpreted as a reinforcement of offensive and outdated gender stereotypes.[1]
- Many elements of Clara's story in this episode parody the film Home Alone:
- After searching the empty house, Clara goes into the confessional and says, "My roommates left me all alone" twice. The first time she sounds shocked and dismayed, but the second time she is obviously pleased with the situation. Macaulay Culkin's character delivers the line "I made my family disappear" in exactly the same way.
- She then indulges in a series of childish antics, including putting on winter clothes and sledding down the stairs, the way Culkin did.
- When she sees the housemates' clothes and thinks they have been taken off to heaven without her, Clara puts her hands to her cheeks and screams. This was the trademark holler of Kevin (Culkin's character), which became the signature image of the Home Alone series.
- The various booby traps Clara tries to use to evade the delivery guy parallel those Culkin used against the burglars who broke into his house. The delivery guy even mentions Home Alone by name when he explains that he saw through all of Clara's traps because he had watched the film so many times.
- The company for whom the delivery driver works is not named, but his brown uniform suggests the United Parcel Service. The connection would be made clearer in Part Two when the character mentions competitor DHL by name.
- The scene where Xandir is looking for a parking space and drives into the compact spot is a parody from The Simpsons episode "Colonel Homer".
- After Hero chops his head off and invites the viewers at home to try it themselves, a musical cue plays. This cue, which was previously used in "Unrestrainable Trainable", is similar to the one on Sesame Street that played at the end of a lot of sketches.
- Hero states that if the housemates want his gun, they'll have to pry it out of his cold, dead hands. This is a reference to Charlton Heston, who at the 2000 NRA Convention said that those who sought to take his gun away would have to take it "from my cold, dead hands!".[2]
- When Wooldoor attempts to seduce Hero, he is dressed as the Dutch Boy, the mascot of Dutch Boy Paint
- When Wooldoor stretches out his badly fractured leg, Hero says to him, "You're trying to seduce me." This is a reference to The Graduate, where Benjamin makes this same accusation of Mrs. Robinson. A parody of the song "Mrs. Robinson" plays in the background during the scene.
- Wooldoor's dummy says, "Just like the Grateful Dead, you've gotten us into yet another stupid jam!", a reference to the band's propensity for long instrumental jams.
- Hero refers to his limp right hand as his Bob Dole hand, a reference to Dole's right hand, which sustained nerve damage and over which he has limited control. This is why Dole is often seen gripping a pencil. In Germany, where Dole is little known, the line was changed to Hero's Stephen Hawking hand.
- Ling-Ling says, "Help us, Foxxy Love, you're our only hope!" as his image flickers. This is a reference to Princess Leia's line "Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope!" in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. The flickering is a reference to the way Leia's image flickered during the scene in question. Ling-Ling also looks around after he says the line, as did Princess Leia in the original.
- In the back room of Hot Topic, Foxxy finds a King of the Hill "Boredom Helmet" and indicates that it is almost as boring as the show itself.
- When the Hot Topic employee attacks Foxxy, he says, "Nighty-night, Foxxy Love." This is a reference to the 2005 film Hostel. The subsequent scene of Foxxy waking up bound to a chair in a basement is animated to resemble a scene in the film, down to the background and the slow backwards pan away from Foxxy as she looks around.
- The ending of the episode, with the Drawn Together logo floating toward the viewer, is a reference to the TV series Lost. In Lost, the opening title follows the same angle toward the viewer. It also references the way many Lost episodes end in cliffhangers.
Goofs[]
- In the beginning, while being grabbed by Hot Topic clerk, we see foxxy's arms are tied up, then her arms and legs, then her arms again.
- Before getting Killed, Wish bear's Legs were tied up as well, but when she was trapped by the bear's trap, the rope disappeared.
- As usual, Wooldoor's Angel Wings are Yellow, then they go back to White.