Chinpokomon (Brand)
Chinpokomon is a major children's franchise originating from Japan, selling merchandise such as toys and games. It also has its own TV show. It is seen in the Season Three episode, "Chinpokomon".
Background
The Chinpokomon Toy company attempts to take over the world by enticing children into collecting Chinpokomon toys using subliminal advertising through the television anime and video games.
The boys become obsessed with the new toys, which begin innocently enough, until it escalates into Japan declaring a new war with the United States by re-bombing Pearl Harbor.
The goal of collecting all of these will reward the consumer with the title Royal Crown Chinpoko Master. After this stage is the Primary Main Objective, which is the Big Weekend Chinpokomon Camp, which turns out to be recruitment into a military service flying jet planes and destroying the "The Evil Power".
The adults put an end to their kids love for Chinpokomon by pretending that they love Chinpokomon themselves.
Chinpokomon
These are the characters presented in the episode. Characters marked with an asterisk (*) were not named until South Park: The Stick of Truth.
- Furrycat
- Donkeytron
- Pengin
- Shoe
- Lambtron (once incorrectly referred to as Lambtor)
- Roo-stor (it is mentioned within the episode that Roo-stor is capable of transforming into a Chinpokomon known as "Roo-stallion")
- Chu-Chu Nezumi
- Monkay*
- Fatdactyl*
- Poodlesaurus Rex*
- Pterdaken*
- Gophermon*
- Stegmata*
- Mouse-tik*
- Ferasnarf*
Video Games
South Park: The Stick of Truth
The dolls are collectible items within the video game. Many more were invented for the game.
Chinpokomon
These are the characters presented in the game.
- Accountafish
- Beetlebot
- Biebersaurus
- Brocorii
- Chu-Chu Nezumi
- Cosmonewt
- Donkeytron
- Fatdactyl
- Ferasnarf
- Fetuswami
- Flowerpotamus
- Furrycat
- Gerbitoad
- Gophermon
- Gunrilla
- Lambtron
- Monkay
- Mouse-tik
- Pengin
- Poodlesaurus Rex
- Pterdaken
- Rabbitech
- Roidrat
- Roo-stor
- Shoe
- Sna-kat
- Stegmata
- Terribovine
- Vamporko
- Velocirapstar
South Park: The Fractured But Whole
Call Girl's Ultimate attack is her leading a flash mob using Chinpokomon Go (a parody of the smartphone game Pokémon GO).
- Images of Chinpokomon
Stegmata
Furrycat
Donkeytron
Fetuswami
Pterdaken
Poodlesaurus Rex
Gunrilla
Beetlebot
Fatdactyl
Biebersaurus
Rabbitech
Gerbitoad
Mouse-tik
Monkay
Terribovine
Cosmonewt
Ferasnarf
Vamporko
Lambtron
Roo-stor
Sna-Kat
Roidrat
Brocorii
Flowerpotamus
Gophermon
Accountafish
Shoe
Velocirapstar
Pengin
Chu-Chu Nezumi
South Park: Snow Day!
During The Test of Strength chapter, a box of Chinpokomon is one of the possible items that can be tasked by Jimbo to retrieve.
Prominence
- "Chinpokomon"
- "Imaginationland" - Several Chinpokomon reside within imaginationland (Location).
- "The End of Serialization as We Know It" - Listed as part of Ike's internet history.
- "South ParQ Vaccination Special" - A backpack featuring Lambtron was seen in Food 4 Little.
- "Wok is Dead" - Several Chinpokomon are seen in the City Anime Sculpture bin at City Wok.
Trivia
- The dolls and plot of the episode are a satire of Pokémon franchise owned by Nintendo and Game Freak.
- A direct translation of "Chinpokomon" is "Penis Monsters", as Chinpoko in Japanese is a slang term for penis.
- Chinpokomon was seen in a cameo in "The End of Serialization as We Know It" as part of Ike's internet history. He searched for "Chinpokomon Sun and Moon", a reference to the mini video game series Pokémon Sun and Moon, which was released a few weeks before the episode airing.
- Many of the Chinpokomon bear resemblance to real Pokémon:
- Accountafish resembles Magikarp.
- Beetlebot resembles Ledyba.
- Biebersaurus resembles Deino.
- Brocorii resembles Roselia and Pansage.
- Chu-Chu Nezumi somewhat resembles Charizard.
- Donkeytron somewhat resembles Scraggy.
- Fatdactyl and Lambtron somewhat resemble Pikachu.
- Ferasnarf and Poodlesaurus Rex resembles Jolteon.
- Fetuswami somewhat resembles Reuniclus.
- Furrycat resembles Meowth.
- Monkay resembles Nidoking.
- Pengin resembles Piplup, who was not created at the time of the episode's airing.
- Pterdaken resembles Charmeleon.
- Roo-stor somewhat resembles Skarmory.
- Stegmata resembles Wartortle.
- Terribovine resembles Miltank.
- Vamporko resembles Clefairy.