South Park, "Trapper Keeper"

"Trapper Keeper." South Park, #60, Season 4, #12, 15 November 2000.

Eric Cartman's "Dawson's Creek [. . .] Trapper Keeper Futura S-2000"—fancy school notebook—is sought by cyborg BSM-471 from 2034. Three years hence Cartman's Trapper Keeper "manifests itself into an omnipotent superbeing and destroys all of humomity" (sic on BSM-471's pronunciation of "humonity"). The allusion to CSM-101 in the TERMINATOR movies is explicit, especially to T-2, and developed with satire upon the themes of computer take-over, overdependence upon technology, The Descent of the Hero, and a killer-cyborg leaning compassion. Cartman is absorbed by the cybernetic monster Trapper Keeper, and he/they/It head off toward Cheyenne Mountain to assimilate with the supercomputer there and "fuse into all [US?] defensive computers." There are additional more or less witty allusions to the MCP control tower in TRON (1982), ROBOCOP (1987), the Borg in Star Trek, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (film), EVIL DEAD (? take-over by trees), Judge Dredd comics and film (? Trapper Keeper coded to Cartman's DNA, like Lawgiver guns); the logic of TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY is corrected when the BSM-471 disappears when the Trapper Keeper is destroyed (no Trapper Keeper means no war between humans and machines, which means the BSM-471 isn't invented, which means—by the logic of Back to the Future, that BSM-471 doesn't exist; either that, or he's just called back when his mission is complete for our time-line). The episode's subplot satirizes the recounts in the 2000 elections for US president. Rosie O'Donnell holds together the two plots, and the engorged Trapper Keeper is weakened by ingesting her sufficiently so Kyle can do a Dave-Bowman number of the Cartman/Trapper Keeper Central Processing Unit.