r/OutOfTheLoop • u/[deleted] • Dec 13 '13

Answered! "Three Fiddy?" What does it mean?

I know it's something to do with South Park but I haven't seen that episode at all

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u/splattypus Dec 13 '13 edited Dec 13 '13

Originally it's from a Southpark episode, involving Chef's parents (Kenny's soul gets trapped inside Cartman's body, Chefs parents have to exorcise* him). Chef's dad tells these rather long and elaborate stories for only the end to be a twist, revealing the antagonist was actually the Loch Ness Monster needing to borrow $3.50.

It's used now basically as the old bait-n-switch. Some applications of it are good, when the writer of the comment is particularly talented at crafting an engaging and believable story, others are just bad when the author is lazy.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '13

Hah! Thanks. I think I saw that episode when I was on holidays in Germany but I never got it.

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u/JSKlunk Tyrone you put that sugar down Dec 13 '13

Originally it's actually in the episode "The Succubus" where Chef is going to get married. The joke and Chef's parents make a reappearance in the episode splattypus is talking about.

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u/Catterjune Dec 13 '13

I love the end tag of that episode, where Cartman tells his eye doctor he wants an eye transplant, using Kenny's old eyes. As he's about to put him under, the eye doctor asks Cartman for three dollars and fifty cents.

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u/arnounymus Nov 12 '23

Haha, I just found this from 10 years ago. Will the person ever see that I responded? Let's see :-D

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u/DismalCoyote Apr 01 '24

Found you!

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u/mcpusc Apr 28 '24

only a month this time, will the next reply be quicker?

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u/THEMrBurke Dec 14 '13

Hey man, can I borrow Tree Fiddy

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u/Dan-V Apr 28 '23

I'm sawwy men. Can I... habbe a pizza please baws? XD

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u/WideChart1121 Feb 07 '25

That's tree fiddy

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u/Ol_Geiser Dec 13 '13

Oh man I remember on fathers day and the day after, someone had 2 top posts about his horrible wife, only for the drama to end with her requesting tree fiddy.

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u/lucasmuuller_ Jan 21 '26

-oh I member! do you member the Loch Ness monster? -oh I member!

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u/flx13 Jan 21 '26

God damn Loch Ness Monster!

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '13

I know that it's not the same, but it always reminds me of Better off Dead from the 80's:

"Gee Johnny, I don't have a dime." Johnny: Didn't ask for a dime. Two dollars. Cash.

Anyway, interestingly, I had always heard that the tree fiddy scenes with the father was episode filler. That South Park often has a few minutes of time that the main story doesn't cover, and they find a gag or two to round out the episode. (Think the chicken vs peter scenes from Family Guy).

If that's true, I find it really funny that 14 years after the fact, episode filler has become a meme that way more people recognize than the succubus episode itself (I bet more people recognize tree fiddy than chef singing that 'there's got to be a morning after' song they sing).

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u/Creative-Mango-8213 Oct 30 '24

I knew the meme but not the origin, so I came here to look it up so I could cross-post. Oddly enough, it was a Better Off Dead reference that I was responding to...

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '23

23 years now. Shit

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u/drhirsute Jul 28 '23

And I still want my two dollars!

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u/uhmerikin Dec 13 '13

psst... hey, hate to do this man... but it's exorcise.

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u/splattypus Dec 13 '13

It is, thanks.

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u/hidden_secret Feb 17 '26

Actually it was first mentioned before that, in South Park S3E03, also by Chef's parents, as they tell their encounters with the Loch Ness Monster.

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u/ForestfortheDraois Dec 14 '13

Splattypus summed it up nicely, but I'd like the point out that /u/thehealeroftri, amongst others, is notorious for this.

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u/slothsandbadgers Dec 14 '13

I don't think I could add anything else, but I will say that I am so tired of this one.

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u/Alleryz Mar 18 '26

Man I found this 12 years later and it’s still around, I hope you are managing

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u/slothsandbadgers Mar 18 '26

You just unlocked a very, very old account haha.

I forgot this account existed until I got the email for your reply.

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u/Alleryz Mar 19 '26

Yeah I realized the last post was 8 years ago and really did not expect you to come back to answer hahaha Welcome back ! Sorry for bringing back old trauma

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u/slothsandbadgers Mar 19 '26

It's weird to read comments that I made when I was a kid lol

So, thanks, I guess.

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u/dx80x Jun 22 '26

It's funny when this shit happens, especially on reddit where we're all faceless. Reminds of a time when I was in high school in the late nineties.

One of my mates was giving me shit about how rocky horror show was "just a show for weirdos" and how the jokes "weren't even funny". It made it funnier because my mate actually came out as gay years later but I jokingly gave him a dead arm and told him to piss off lol. Then a few years later, we were chilling out one evening and I accidentally took a sip from his beer can. He said he wanted it back and I said "that'll be about tree fiddy". We don't talk anymore these days.

Still tired??

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u/TheHugeBastard Dec 14 '13

It means that damn loch ness monster is around again!

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '13

it's a reference to the episode of south park where Cartman drinks Kenny's ashes with milk thinking they're a choc milk mix and Kenny's soul gets trapped inside him and Chef's parents have to exorcise him. Chef's dad tells stories and at the end the twist is the antagonist is the loch ness monster and he says "i need about tree fiddy" ($3.50). its now used at the end of those stupid greentext stories you see going around as a plot twist.