Casa Bonita Birthday

 

For PB's birthday this year I went with the theme of South Park, his current binge.  Mr. Husband and I used to love watching South Park when it first aired in the 90s and thought it was absolutely hilarious.  I haven't watched it since then so I don't really know much about what's been up with it lately. Meaning I was going to need some help working out how to pull this into a party theme.  Surprisingly the internets were of no help as not a living soul has ever done this as a theme.  I found a few cakes (that were lame ornate fancy bakery decorated deals) but that was it.  I did remember that at one point there was an episode about a Mexican restaurant called Casa Bonita (which happens to be a real place).  I then discovered the episode was about Kyle's birthday, so perfect!

I turned our dining room into South Park's Casa Bonita by painting scenes from the episode on pieces of foam core. 

Cliff Divers!

"C'mon, c'mon dive!  Dive asshole!"

Black Bart's Cave

"Oohh!  Scary! Look a skeleton! Ah man, I'm so scared!" 

Mini set up on the table.

On top of the china cabinet I decided to represent the underlaying part of the episode which involves Cartman tricking Butters into thinking the world has gone through an atomic zombie attack resulting in Butters believing the town dump is South Park.

I made an old timey western jail prop as seen on the episode for photo ops.

For the snacky food I strayed from the Casa Bonita episode.

We had Chef's "Go Fudge yourself" And "I don't really give a Fudge" fudge.

And of course you have to have Cheesy Poofs!

"Hell yeah, I want Cheesy Poofs!"

For the cake I based it after one of Cartman's favorite treats his mom makes for him called Powdered Donut Pancake Surprise.  It's a surprise alright.  The base inside is actually a small round tall cake and then it's encircled with a bunch of pancake rings I made (that was a bit of a bitch to do).  I topped the cake with a large whole pancake.  There's also icing involved on the cake to hold everything together.  Lastly I flourished it with mini powdered donuts and a big pat of butter...and syrup.

Here is PB going down to South Park and having himself a time!