Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics

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"Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics"

Episode no.	46
Airdate	December 1, 1999
South Park - Season 3 April 7, 1999 – January 12, 2000
Rainforest Schmainforest Spontaneous Combustion The Succubus Tweek vs. Craig Jakovasaurs Sexual Harassment Panda Cat Orgy Two Guys Naked in a Hot Tub Jewbilee Chinpokomon Starvin' Marvin in Space Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery Hooked on Monkey Phonics The Red Badge of Gayness Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics Are You There God? It's Me, Jesus World Wide Recorder Concert

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Both a South Park episode (315) and a CD, "Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics" is a collection of comic holiday songs featuring the characters of South Park.

1 Episode
2 Kenny's Death
3 CD
4 Footnotes

[edit] Episode

The episode version of "Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics" is episode 315 of South Park, and originally aired December 1, 1999. It features Mr. Hankey, the lovable Christmas feces, as the host; he sits by the fire in his sewer home and introduces shorts featuring very unusual Christmas carols. The episode was dedicated to Mary Kay Bergman, the voice of most of the female characters on the show, who committed suicide less than a month earlier.

The list of songs from the episode is as follows:

Mr. Hankey The Christmas Poo, performed by a postman who resembles the narrator of the Christmas special Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (which was voiced by Fred Astaire) and the residents of South Park, none of whom are part of the regular cast.
Dreidel Dreidel Dreidel, performed by Kyle, with Cartman, Stan, Sheila and Gerald Broflovski
O Tannenbaum, performed by Adolf Hitler *
Christmas Time In Hell, performed by Satan and the damned *
Carol of the Bells, performed by Mr. Mackey (Youtube video)
O Holy Night (a severely botched version), performed by Cartman
Merry Fucking Christmas, performed by Mr. Garrison
I Saw Three Ships, performed by Shelley, with interruptions by Kyle and Stan
Let It Snow (and other songs), performed by Jesus and Santa Claus
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, performed by Mr. Hankey and the cast **

[edit] Kenny's Death

Although this episode is merely a showcase of holiday songs, performed by various characters of the series, it still includes a fatal occurrence for Kenny. During the episode's final song, "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" sung by Mr. Hankey and the cast, the four boys sing "Through the years we all will be together, if the fates allow..." and the decorated overhead lighting fixture falls and kills Kenny. The boys are visibly shocked, but the song is not interrupted and there is no usual acknowledgment of Kenny's death by Stan and Kyle.

[edit] CD

The CD, which was the basis for the episode, features more songs than the show. They are as follows:

Mr. Hankey The Christmas Poo
Merry Fucking Christmas
O Holy Night
Dead, Dead, Dead
Carol of the Bells
The Lonely Jew On Christmas
I Saw Three Ships
It Happened In Sun Valley
O Tannenbaum *
Christmas Time In Hell *
What The Hell Child Is This?
Santa Claus Is On His Way
Swiss Colony Beef Log
Hark, The Herald Angels Sing
Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel
The Most Offensive Song Ever
We Three Kings
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas **

[edit] Footnotes

Though listed separately, "O Tannenbaum" and "Christmas Time in Hell" are basically two parts of one song.
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" is the only un-altered song, and is sung by the entire "cast" in tribute to Mary Kay Bergman. During the lyric "Faithful friends who are dear to us," clips of most of the characters that Bergman voiced are shown in a white haze.
Although Hooked on Monkey Phonics was the last episode to feature new recorded lines from Mary Kay Bergman, this episode is the last to feature her voice being that the album the songs in this episode come from was recorded well before Bergman's death.
Before and after every commercial break, a live action segment featuring a news anchor is shown, saying "Fighting the frizzies, at eleven." This is a reference to a bootleg tape of The Star Wars Holiday Special which is the source for most of the bootlegs currently available online. The original tape featured a brief clip at the end from WCBS-TV featuring a newscaster informing viewers, "Fighting the frizzies, at eleven." As a novelty, those who reproduce the tape for others have customarily left this unusual clip intact, rather than editing it out. However, while the original news ad was apparently referring to "frizzy" hair, the ending credits of this episode of South Park features the news anchor boxing a man in a giant fuzzy suit.
After seeing this episode, Courteney Cox Arquette thanked them for "mentioning her in that episode" (referring to Mr. Broflovski's line in "Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel") at a dinner of a mutual friend.
While most of the songs are featured on the CD, the only song not featured on the CD but on the episode is the duet between Jesus and Santa, which was going to be on the CD, but some of the songs couldn't be legally cleared in time.