"HELP! We are Angels" (HELP!二人はエンジェル, HELP! Futari wa Enjeru lit. Help! Two People Are Angels) is the twenty-second episode of season one and the twenty-second overall episode of Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt. It first aired on December 3, 2010.
Synopsis[]
This episode consists of a music video, featuring the main characters performing "D City Rock".
Plot[]
The episode starts with Brief putting up posters advertising Panty, Stocking, and Garterbelt's performance at a concert.
Later, Garterbelt puts out his cigarette, prompting the others to gather their instruments and walk onto the stage. The trio, known as PSG., begin performing D City Rock, a song by TeddyLoid.
Panty giving the middle finger to the officers.
However, as their performance comes to a close, several fans in the crowd begin fighting each other, and a riot soon begins.
The police then show up to arrest Panty and the rioters, but Panty kicks a cop in the jaw. She was eventually arrested, and as the episode ends, Panty flips off the cops.
Features[]
Characters[]
- Anarchy Sisters
- Garterbelt
- Chuck
- Brief
Objects[]
Music[]
- "D City Rock" - Insert song
Trivia[]
- Stocking is playing a fairly uncommon left-handed bass guitar, possibly implying that she is either left-handed or ambidextrous.
- The sign on the Virgin Megastore reads "Virginia", likely to avoid copyright.
- At an event held by the Gainax staff on December 28, 2010, this episode was voted as the fourth best episode of the series.[1]
- It was revealed in Datencity Paparazzi that this is Atsushi Nishigori's favorite episode of the series.
- A censor bar is used twice in this episode:
- When Panty says "Damn, he's got a big one", her mouth and the line are both censored.
- When Panty lifts up her shirt after landing on a plane, her breasts are censored.
- A frame from this episode was later used as the cover for Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt The Bonus Soundtrack.
- This is the first episode where Panty gets arrested, the second being "Longest Bitch Yard".
Cultural references[]
- The music video's title is a reference to the musical movie Help! starring The Beatles and its Japanese title (ヘルプ!4人はアイドル Herupu! Yonin wa Aidoru, lit. Help! Four People Are Idols).
- The locations that are shown behind the band after the first chorus are:
- Statue of Liberty in New York, United States
- Taj Mahal in India
- Uluru in Australia
- Northern Lights in the Arctic
- Sagrada Família in Spain
- Parthenon in Greece
- Kinkaku-ji in Japan
- Times Square in New York, United States
- When the band is seen playing at Times Square, a billboard for UFC 96 can be seen, as well as the storefront for the now-defunct Virgin Megastore.
- As the band march into the venue, the shot and sound are highly reminiscent of Pink Floyd's The Wall rally scene.
- The logo shown at the top left of the video, is a reference to the popular American music channel MTV.
- At the start of the music video, Panty can be seen wearing a skull ring that bears a resemblance to Yoko Littner's hair-clip.
- When the band is playing beneath the Northern Lights background, Chuck is seen wearing Kenny McCormick's parka.
- Near the end of the music video, a chain breaks in a Black Rock Shooter-like fashion.
- Stocking smashes someone away with a bass swing, which is a reference to FLCL.
- The framing device of the rowdy punk concert closes the video in the same fashion as the music video for My Chemical Romance's cover of "Desolation Row".
- The scene where the group is being interviewed before Panty suddenly has sex with the host behind a couch is modeled after the set used for The Oprah Winfrey Show.
- The following are a list of artist parodies:
- The Doors - Arriving at Heathrow in 1964
- Elvis Presley
- KISS
- The Beatles - Help! and Abbey Road album covers
- Oasis - "D'You Know What I mean" music video
- Lady Gaga - "Telephone" music video
- Queen - Wembley performance in 1986
- t.A.T.u. - "All The Things She Said" music video
- Jimi Hendrix - Performing at Woodstock in 1969 and lighting his guitar on fire during the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival
- Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the U.K. single album cover and "God Save the Queen" music video
- Ozzy Osbourne
- Marilyn Manson
- Gorillaz
- The following is a list of album art parodies:
Errors[]
- When the song's credits appear before the song begins, it is incorrectly called "D Rock City".
- When the camera zooms out during the lyrics "freaky girl comin' your way", it zooms out from Japan, even though they are in the desert.