So, Conan O’Brien popping up in South Park, right? It happened a few times, wasn’t just one thing.
You had him in that whole Imaginationland saga, which was pretty wild. Then there was that whole ‘Fishsticks’ thing where Kanye West didn’t get the joke, and Conan was kinda caught up in the commentary around it, even if not directly in the episode dissing him, people talked like he was part of that whole late-night reaction vibe South Park was riffing on.
Finding the exact clips or references back in the day wasn’t always simple, though. You’d hear about it, maybe catch a rerun, but nailing down the specific season and episode? Sometimes tricky.
It actually reminds me of this one time, why was I even thinking about this so hard? Ah yeah. I was stuck at home, must’ve been laid up with a bad cold or something minor like that, totally bored out of my skull. Decided to finally tackle the mountain of old junk in the spare room closet. You know how it is, boxes full of stuff you haven’t seen in years.
Found this old dusty binder, stuffed with printed-out emails and notes from way back. Seriously, who prints emails anymore? Anyway, buried in there was this printout, like, a list of funny TV moments someone had sent me. And boom, there it was: “Conan in South Park Imaginationland”. No episode number, no season, just that.
So, being sick and bored, I made it my mission. Fired up the old computer, which took forever to boot, mind you. Trying to search for it back then was a pain. Slow internet, sketchy fan sites, half the links dead. It wasn’t like now where you just type it into a search bar and get ten perfect video results instantly.
Spent maybe an hour, clicking around, getting frustrated. Almost gave up. Then finally stumbled onto some forum thread where people were arguing about the best cartoon cameos, and someone mentioned the Imaginationland episodes. Got the season and episode numbers from there. Felt like a huge victory, you know? All that effort just to confirm a cartoon cameo.
It’s funny thinking back. All that digging for a South Park clip while surrounded by actual boxes of my own past I was supposed to be sorting. Priorities, right? Now, finding that stuff is easy peasy. But sorting that closet? Yeah, probably still haven’t finished it properly.
