“South Park” Landmark “Casa Bonita” Restaurant Closes Down

 

 

Casa Bonita is a chain of Mexican restaurants in America that’s sort of like Applebee’s but with a concentration on Mexican food. One of the restaurants, based in Lakewood Colorado, would gain further fame in South Park in an episode entitled “Casa Bonita”. In the episode, Cartman misleads Butters into going missing in order to gain an invitation to Kyle’s birthday part and has since been used as a locale in a few other episodes as well as South Park: The Fractured But Whole.The real restaurant even saw an increase in visitors after the episode had aired.

That said, like most restaurants in 2020, the last location had closed temporarily because of COVID-19, and the chain really never recovered with reports of their even being payroll checks bouncing for the employees. The corporation had filed for bankruptcy on April 6th, 2021 after being closed for most of 2020 and even the website having been shutdown since last summer. A GoFundMe has been launched by die-hard fans.

That said, this could make for a fun episode of South Park along with Lil Nas X’s pitch, why not?

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Synopsis:

“South Park,” created by comic geniuses Trey Parker and Matt Stone, features the breathtakingly irreverent and ruthlessly funny misadventures of four foul-mouthed, troublemaking young boys in a small town nestled in the Colorado Rockies. It has been praised by the prestigious Peabody® committee as “COMEDY CENTRAL’s notoriously rude, undeniably fearless lampoon of all that is self-important and hypocritical in American life, regardless of race, creed, color or celebrity status.” We couldn’t agree more.

“South Park” continues to surprise even its most devoted fans each and every week. Known for its unbelievably immediate and ruthless responses to world events, “South Park’s” new episodes bring up-to-the-minute news and pop culture icons (including Al Gore, J. Lo, Kanye West, Oprah, Sir Elton John, Tom Cruise, John Travolta, and P. Diddy) to the town of South Park for social commentary and good old-fashioned ridicule.

“South Park” launched on August 13, 1997 and is based on the animated short entitled, “The Spirit of Christmas.” Co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are Executive Producers, along with Anne Garefino and Frank C. Agnone II. Eric Stough, Adrien Beard, Bill Hader, Bruce Howell and Vernon Chatman are Producers. “South Park’s” Web site is www.SouthPark.cc.com.