Original air Date: 2004-04-28
Humans from the year 4035 are arriving in droves in South Park! Everything gets a little too crowded when people from the future arrive through a recently discovered time portal. When the boys try to earn some extra money, the time immigrants, who are willing to do the same work for next to nothing, take their jobs.
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"Goobacks" is episode 807 of Comedy Central's South Park. This episode originally aired on April 28, 2004.
Early in the morning, a mysterious, almost alien man appears, entering from some kind of portal. Unfamiliar with his surroundings, he is hit by a car.
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When the boys offer snow-shoveling again, they find that time immigrants have been hired to do most of the shoveling jobs for very low pay (the one who took the boys' job offered 25¢).
We see CNN again to explain the future Americans. They are a "hairless, uniform mix of all races" with the same skin color, and their language is also mixed from "all world languages," sounding guttural.
Working men are arguing at a meeting with various unions in attendance, discussing their intolerance of the immigrants. The foreman of this meeting, construction worker Darryl Weathers, addresses that "we worked long and hard" to get their pay high enough to "make a decent living." He then angrily states that the immigrants are looking to do that work for low wages. "THEY TOOK OUR JOBS!!" The other men agree and yell out, "They took our jobs!" The men repeat (and mangle) this line throughout the episode. The chants decline to sound like the now infamous "day tik dir jabs" chant.
As the immigrants from the future continue to come in more and more, Stan reports to his parents that he was attending that rally to protest them. The Marshes have hired one such immigrant as a housekeeper for 10¢ an hour. Stan calls the people from the future "goobacks," a pejorative term referring to the goo on their bodies, which is a side effect of time-traveling. Stan's parents are shocked with what he's saying. Randy says, "They're only taking the small menial jobs that nobody else really wants to do." He lectures that it's wrong to judge the immigrants, because they came from crappy conditions compared to the present day.
On The O'Reilly Factor, Weathers speaks as "pissed-off white-trash redneck conservative" opposite "aging hippie liberal douche." After some "They took our jobs!", the douche speaks in his liberal fashion. "Your ancestors came to America as immigrants. What right do you have to turn these people away?" All the bewildered redneck can say is, once again, "Dey turk errr jerrrbs!", along with some help from fellow rednecks in the audience.
Life in South Park is accommodating itself to the immigrants to a point where Mr. Garrison must teach in both current English and the future language. The kids object to it, but the hippie speaks in the immigrants' defense. The goobacks continue to adopt the stereotype of the disaffected immigrant, right down to the gooback teens, cruising around in a futuristic lowrider.
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