Dead Celebrities - Plot

Plot

Ike is terrified by frequent encounters with the ghosts of recently deceased celebrities. He is haunted by people such as Farrah Fawcett, David Carradine, Ed McMahon, Adam Goldstein (DJ AM), and especially Billy Mays, who repeatedly tries selling Ike products from the afterlife. When Kyle finds out about the ghost his brother is encountering, he is terrified. He tells Stan, Cartman and Kenny about the encounters and Cartman does not initially care, but suddenly changes his mind when Kyle mentions that one of the ghosts haunting Ike is Billy Mays. Cartman is an enthusiastic supporter of a product which Mays promoted, called "ChipotlAway", which cleans bloodstains from people's underwear caused by eating food from Chipotle Mexican Grill, and therefore decides to help. The boys call the team from the reality television series Ghost Hunters in to help, but they quickly become frightened and run away after urinating themselves. Eventually, Ike goes into a coma because of his multiple experiences with the ghosts.

The boys seek help from a medium (a parody of Zelda Rubinstein's character in Poltergeist, who, ironically, has also died), who explains the celebrities are trapped in purgatory, which she compares to being stuck on a plane waiting endlessly on a runway for permission to take off. The ghosts of these annoyed celebrities are shown in this purgatory, which resembles the interior of an airplane, complete with seats, flight attendants and pilot voice-over announcements. The medium manages to contact the spirits and Walter Cronkite, another recently deceased person, tells her that they are trapped because Michael Jackson refuses to acknowledge his death. The medium and the boys try to convince Jackson that he is dead, but Jackson insists he is not only alive, but also a little Caucasian girl. His denial is so strong that he emits a very powerful force which knocks the medium off her feet and through the open window of Ike's hospital room. She then falls to her death.

After the energy disturbance, Jackson's spirit takes over Ike's body, causing Ike to speak, sing and dance like Jackson himself. The boys find from online research that the only way to make Jackson accept his death is to make him experience the acceptance he sought in life, so they take him to a child beauty pageant for young girls. Dressed like a little girl, Ike/Jackson impresses two of the male judges by singing a tune sounding similar to Jackson's "You Are Not Alone," but they are promptly arrested for masturbating while watching the children, leaving a single, unimpressed female judge (much to the shock of the boys, who were unaware of the men's lewd acts and considered them the best judges). When Cartman notices the judge eating Chipotle, he bribes her with knowledge about the ChipotlAway product, and she declares Ike/Jackson the winner as a result. One of the other contestants is physically beaten by her mother for losing. Having found his acceptance, Jackson leaves Ike's body, and Ike is extremely surprised and annoyed to find himself dressed like a little girl. Jackson and the other celebrities in purgatory are finally able to lift off. Initially happy, they are soon taken to Hell. To their annoyance, however, a flight attendant tells them that they must again wait as Hell is a tow gate.