Cannibal! The Musical Trivia Quiz

Answer: Trey Parker and Matt Stone

Trey Parker and Matt Stone are the comedic geniuses behind "South Park", several movies and two amazing musicals. In fact, this musical was their very first project, save for a short film, "Jesus vs. Frosty".

Answer: Liane - his horse

While the main character sits in jail, a female newspaper reporter comes in trying to get him to talk about his crimes. She has been told to ask him about what we all find out later is his horse who ran off with a fur trapper, abandoning him. The name of this horse, and the whole plot point in general of an unfaithful beast who runs off with another man, was directly inspired by Liane Adamo, Parker's, at that moment, freshly ex- girlfriend.

Answer: a baked potato

I have to admit a whole lot of love for this crazy musical. I only discovered it years and years after its 1993 debut, but the catchy tunes, the crazy acting, the catchy tunes, the insane premise, and the catchy tunes make it seem like a much later and more mature work than it is in their oeuvre.

By the way, in this wonderful earworm of a song, the main character's heart is noted as being "as full as a baked potato".

Answer: Lucky Larry is struck by lightning and killed

Yep, out of the clear blue sky, Lucky Larry is killed by a bolt of lightning - his still burning corpse makes a graphic appearance during the departure song. Packer, who has only really ever visited Colorado, is given all the group's trust and we see that almost instantly Packer gets them all lost and wandering about the western US until the inevitable end.

Answer: Trappers

The trappers take an instant liking to Packer's horse and tell him that, as an Arabian, his horse belongs with them. Very soon, Packer loses his horse to the trappers and mopes around for most of the rest of the musical with a broken heart. The trappers will hound and attack the miners or "diggers" as they call them throughout the rest of the musical. We will see them several more times in the show, especially at the end.

Answer: on top of you

Packer really loves his horse, and misses her constantly. As you will see in the remaining parts of the musical, he leads the party astray and ultimately to their deaths in pursuit of his horse. It is simply too bad that the horse doesn't reciprocate that love.

Answer: Japanese

In another theme that shows up regularly in the "South Park" series of shows, the Indians are actually Japanese. Stone and Parker have made no secret of their love for Japan and Japanese culture and the theme of Japan shows up often in their work. The fact that this tribe is Japanese has NO bearing on the story except that it is just played for extreme silliness and gave Stone and Parker a chance to employ some of their Japanese friends on their project.

Answer: Beowulf

In another great short of a song, this ditty is full-on madness and not only features the line, "We can call him Bob, or we can call him Beowulf," which arhythmically scans in the best possible way, but is interrupted with a tap dance number partway through.

While this song is being sung, the rest of the group simply stares slack-jawed at the madness unfolding in front of them. When the song ends, one of the miners destroys the snowman with a pickaxe. Days wear on and the miners eat their shoes for sustenance. When the musical suggestion to "build a snowman" is brought up again, they shoot the singer to death...our first victim, our first meal.

Answer: The Mormon Missionary

In a turn of events that is absolutely predictable, the most pious of the group, the Mormon (again, see "Book of Mormon" - their hit musical) has murdered the entire group in the mountains and eaten them braised over a fire. The missionary tries to justify himself to Packer and when that doesn't work he tries to eat him. Packer tries to kills the Mormon in a series of increasingly slapstick ways including stabbing him through the skull with an awl, cleaving his skull with a machete, and throwing horseshoes at him.

The Mormon, of course, keeps on coming until he is finally stopped with a pickaxe through his chest.

Answer: The "Indian" chief rescues Packer, who marries the reporter.

If this was the hardest question to answer, I am glad. Parker and Stone are so weird that any of these outcomes could be correct. In the end the "Indian", who is actually Japanese, rescues Packer from the scaffold. However, the very last thing that happens is that the Mormon, blind and impaled but not yet dead, rises up behind them and chases the heroes off the stage.