sentences:  The episode is rated TV-MA, and is a parody of the film "300".When the episode begins, Mrs. Garrison storms into her classroom enraged over a failed date, and takes her anger out on her male students with an essay assignment over the weekend, making them read "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway in its entirety.At Cartman's urging, they hire local Mexican laborers looking for work to read the book and write their essays for them.