The Succubus
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| Episode no. | 34 |
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| Airdate | April 21, 1999 |
| South Park - Season 3 April 7, 1999 – January 12, 2000 |
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"The Succubus", also entitled "Chef's Mama", is episode 303 of Comedy Central's animated series South Park. It originally aired on April 21, 1999.
[edit] Plot
The episode begins with Cartman going to the local eye doctor, whom he hates because the doctor always refers to him as "Piggy" due to his obesity. Cartman is prescribed unusually large glasses which Stan and Kyle seize upon to taunt Cartman the next day. Later, he and the other boys discover that Chef has quit his job at school and has been replaced by Mr. Derp, a cliché cartoon character who tries to win them over with his slapstick comedy gags. They then find out that Chef has a new girlfriend, Veronica, who causes his entire life to change from that of a soul-singing hipster to a mediocre paper pusher; she also sings the love theme from The Poseidon Adventure, "The Morning After." They feel she is trying to steal Chef away from them, and are dismayed when they discover that the two are planning to get married.
The boys ask Mr. Garrison for advice, and he suggests that Veronica may be a succubus, an evil demoness sent from Hell to suck the life out of men. The boys try to go and warn Chef of this, but are unable to talk to him; instead they meet his parents, who are unusually obsessed with the Loch Ness monster (they claim the beast is stalking them, constantly pestering them for "tree fiddy" or $3.50). A botched attempt at laser eye surgery leaves Cartman temporarily blinded, and at this point Veronica visits the boys at his house; she manages to convince them that she is not a monster, until she is about to leave and suddenly takes on a demonic face, declaring that they could not stop her from marrying Chef and laughing maniacally. The boys try to tell Chef this at the rehearsal dinner, but he shuts them out, and they go home to try to come up with a strategy to stop the wedding.
The boys discover that a succubus controls men's minds with a song, and that playing it backwards will harm them; they remember the song that she always sings, and in the middle of the wedding, they play a tape of the song backwards while Stan and Kyle sing the words in reverse order. The song begins to cause her to lose her hold on her human form, but when the tape gets jammed, she peels off her human disguise and becomes a bizarre monster (looking humanoid but larger, with bat wings, red eyes, and being incredibly ugly), flying around and wrecking the church. Cartman unsticks the tape, and the boys finish the song; Veronica gets sucked into Hell, and with her gone, Chef is out of her spell.
Cartman's predicament is solved by getting an eye transplant with the donor being Kenny, who died during the succubus' attack (as well as previously in the episode). The doctor, while preparing for the operation, asks for $3.50.
[edit] Kenny's Death
It is possible that Kenny dies twice in this episode, once when the kids wait all night for Chef to show up for a ball game, Kenny either dies from hunger or gets eaten by rats and then again when he is crushed to death by the Succubus.
[edit] Trivia
- According to the mini-commentary for this episode, Mr. Derp was based off the term "derp" they invented on BASEketball to describe a stupid joke that could be seen a mile away. This term was made popular in the episode "The Biggest Douche in the Universe".
- The voice Mr. Derp had was the same voice to preview Rob Schneider in his movies in The Biggest Douche in the Universe episode. This voice is also the voice of the character in the "Stanley's Cup" episode who walks around with the record player.
- Mr. Derp is a reference to "Spookyfish" where Anti-Cartman says in his dimension Chef is a "skinny white guy"
- When the boys go to talk to chef at his new job the name plate of his cubicle is J. McElroy.
- Kenny doesn't usually do much in each of the episodes (usually because of his constant deaths) but he was the one who saved Chef from the Succubus. Cartman hadn't got enough sleep, so when he was supposed to play the song backwards, he fell asleep. At first, it may look like Kenny won't do anything, but he quickly punches him in the face to wake him up, thus making his death noble because it was the Succubus who had killed him, so he wouldn't have died if he hadn't punched Cartman.
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