How to Eat with Your Butt
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| "How to Eat with Your Butt" | |
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| Episode no. | 75 |
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| Airdate | November 14, 2001 |
| South Park - Season 5 June 20, 2001 – December 12, 2001 |
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"How to Eat with Your Butt" is episode 510 of the Comedy Central series South Park. It originally aired on November 14, 2001.
[edit] Plot
The episode begins with the South Park children having their class pictures taken; it is here that we see Stan and Kyle's hair for the first time (and with a full head of hair, rather than shaved, as in "Super Best Friends"). We see that Kyle has a auburn "Jew-fro" and Stan has a plain mop of black hair, like his dad. During the course of this, Kenny wears his parka upside down and stands on his head with his feet through the sleeves so that his "ass shows through his hood."
Ms. Choksondik says that one boy spoiled their photo and will not get it back. However, the photo is of Butters, who made a normal face, and not Kenny. His parents ground him for making silly faces, and are convinced that his normal face is a silly face. Butters becomes a recluse and starts self-loathing his face.
To compound this trick, Cartman then turns in Kenny's photo to a missing children's center, which places it on a milk carton. Cartman's description of him includes that he has a "brown eye", "blonde hair", and "rosy cheeks."
Astoundingly enough, the photo draws a response from a couple, Martha and Stephen Thompson, who lost their son some years earlier. They suffer from a fictitious congenital condition known as "torsonic polarity syndrome" or "TPS" which has them born with their faces replaced with human buttocks. With the syndrome, however, they still retain all normal functionality of their faces (including noses, eyes, etc.).
When the Thompsons appear looking at Cartman's house for Kenny, he is stunned and can no longer laugh, believing he has seen something so incredibly funny, that nothing else will ever be able to make him laugh again.
At the end of the episode, the South Park milk company officially announces that Ben Affleck was the missing son of the Thompsons. When Cartman finds out, he starts to laugh again. Stan and Kyle decide that he couldn't laugh before because he actually felt guilty for making the Thompsons believe their son had been found – which Cartman vehemently denies, of course.
[edit] Kenny's Death
After finding out Ben Affleck was the son of the people with TPS, Cartman makes joke about calling him "Ben Assfleck", he gets his sense of humor back. He tells Kenny to come home with him, and while they are crossing the street, Kenny is hit by a motorcycle and Cartman laughs again (there was a news report earlier in the episode about people being run over by motorcycles).
| Preceded by: "Osama Bin Laden Has Farty Pants" |
South Park episodes | Followed by: "The Entity" |
