Here Comes the Neighborhood
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| Episode no. | 77 |
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| Airdate | November 28, 2001 |
| South Park - Season 5 June 20, 2001 – December 12, 2001 |
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"Here Comes the Neighborhood" is episode 512 of the Comedy Central series South Park. It originally aired on November 28, 2001.
[edit] Plot synopsis
Token Black, the token minority child of South Park (Token is black), also happens to be the richest kid in South Park, and becomes upset when he can find no other kids in the school he can relate to. He therefore arranges for dozens of rich people (who also happen to be black) such as Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, Oprah, P. Diddy, Kobe Bryant, Snoop Dogg, etc. to move into South Park, which leads to Mr. Garrison complaining about "rich people" or "richers" blockbusting the town, which in turn leads to ire among the other, less affluent members of the community. However, Token discovers that the rich kids are as different from him as he is from the poorer kids in town, and he feels so much like an outcast that he goes to live with lions in the South Park Zoo.
The situation between the rich and poor residents of town continues to escalate, with the poor majority pushing various laws against the rich (that they cannot eat in certain restaurants, drink in certain bars and have to sit at the front of all the buses since the front seats are first-class seats). However, at one point the black "richers" invite Chef, the only recurring black character other than Token, to join their marches, assuming because he is black, he is rich and, when Chef explains that he wasn't rich, they offered him $100 to join anyway.
Token eventually decides he doesn't want to live with lions anymore, and leaves; however, he discovers that the poor kids in town who initially made fun of his money didn't really dislike him, but only picked on him because they all pick on each other on a regular basis. They wind up deciding to stop picking on him for his money though, and instead mock him for how sensitive he was to their initial teasing. Meanwhile, the poor people in town (led by Mr. Garrison) dress up as "ghosts" to scare away the rich people (their ghost costumes resemble Ku Klux Klan outfits), and burn a lower-case 't' (as in "time to leave"). The rich flee town discovering that it was "hainted" (haunted), and Mr. Garrison plots to sell all their houses to become rich. When others point out that would make him become what he himself hated, he replies, "Well, yeah, but at least I got rid of all those damn ni---", and is cut off by the credits before he can finish his final word.
[edit] Kenny's death
- Kenny's corpse appears in the episode, but his actual death is not depicted or explained. This is his final death before his "permanent" death in the next episode, "Kenny Dies."
[edit] Goofs
- When Butters is demonstrating his volcano project, he refers to the goddess Pele as a god.
| Preceded by: "The Entity" |
South Park episodes | Followed by: "Kenny Dies" |
