Taking Cartman's words literally, Butters sneaks into the school gym and hides to record the members of the South Park Vampires' Club on his dictaphone.
Butters goes home, only to have his father, Stephen yell at him due to the fact that the food pantry is not organized and because of this, he mistakenly put Hamburger Helper in his glass of milk.
The initial idea for "The Ungroundable" was created the week before production, when the team at South Park Studios was working on "Elementary School Musical".
[2] In that episode, Parker had planned to have the school children simply move on to the next fad, which would have been the Twilight Saga film series.
[2] Twilight had opened in theaters several weeks before and was a phenomenon among tweens and teens, and Parker and Stone realized parodying it would be stronger material for a full episode, rather than a throwaway joke.
In addition, they found that a reaction from the Goth kids to everyone suddenly dressing their style would be a "big emotional thing" for the characters, and decided to save it.
It's clever, and well put together and makes a few good points – but it's just not as laugh out loud funny as you'd expect South Park to be.
"[4] "The Ungroundable", along with the thirteen other episodes from South Park's twelfth season, were released on a three-disc DVD and Blu-ray set in the United States on March 10, 2009.
The sets included brief audio commentaries by Parker and Stone for each episode, a collection of deleted scenes, and two special mini-features, The Making of 'Major Boobage and Six Days to South Park.