The Wacky Molestation Adventure
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| Episode no. | 64 |
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| Airdate | December 13, 2000 |
| South Park - Season 4 April 5, 2000 – December 20, 2000 |
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"The Wacky Molestation Adventure" is episode 416 of the Comedy Central series South Park. It originally aired on December 13, 2000.
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[edit] Plot
Cartman has 4 tickets for a Raging Pussies concert but Kyle's parents forbid him from going. When he continues to complain, Kyle's mom sarcastically replies that if Kyle cleans out the garage, shovels the entire driveway and brings democracy to Cuba, then he can go to the concert. So he writes a letter to Fidel Castro who after reading the letter declares Cuba democratic. Of course, even though he completed this impossible task, Kyle's parents still won't let him go to the concert. While hanging with the guys at Kenny's house, Kyle wishes that he didn't have any parents. Cartman suggests that he call the police and tell them that his parents have been "molestering" him, that will make them go away for a while. Kyle does this and the police take his parents away. Kyle and Ike are left on their own. The boys go to the concert and have a party at the Broflovskis. After discovering how liberated they are without their parents, all the children soon call the police on their parents and the adults in South Park are taken away - those that weren't arrested left town. Before long there are only children populating the town.
A couple from out of town has a breakdown with their car and they find the town of "Smiley Town" (the South Park sign has been overwritten with "Smiley Town"). They get to a garage where Butters greets them. They ask for the nearest phone but are told that it is in "Treasure Cove." Soon they discover South Park has been divided into Smiley Town and Treasure Cove by a long white line. The couple are attacked by kindergartners when they enter Treasure Cove. Driven back to Smiley Town, they are taken to meet the mayor, Cartman. Knowing that a ritual called "Carousel" is going to be held that night, Cartman asks the couple to go to Treasure Cove to retrieve a book for him. Getting the book will force a member of Treasure Cove to be sacrificed to The Provider. The couple finds the book (and Kenny's dead body). The couple says Kyle and Stan's catchphrase in a different way, first the husband: "Oh my God, they killed him" and then the wife: "Those bastards", at the base of the John Elway statue (later identified as "The Provider"). They are attacked when they retrieve the book.
The couple are taken back over to the Treasure Cove (the elementary school) where we find that Stan and Kyle are in charge. They want to know why the couple are helping the "fat ass." If the couple agrees to help them out, Stan agrees to get them to the nearest phone. He then tells them the story of the "before time", which includes the reasons for the existence of Smiley Town, Treasure Cove, "carousel" and "The Provider." The couple agrees to help the Treasure Cove kids get the book from Smiley Town. Meanwhile, the parents are in prison, working out their "sick sexual urges" with a counselor who helps them identify what activities there are besides molesting their children. Back in South Park, the man gets Cartman's book for Stan and Kyle, but Mayor Cartman has his wife. Cartman isn't given his book back, so one of his own must be sacrificed and he chooses Butters. When the couple starts to interfere with the ceremony, Cartman threatens him with the "M" word. The man finds out that the children have accused all their parents of molesting them. He tells the kids in a Shatner-esque speech that their parents, the Birth Givers are their providers. The word "parents" triggers memories in the children, which cause them to change their minds. It turns out it's only been ten days since the town emptied of all grown ups and parents. They allow the man to make his important phone call and a phone call to the police, clearing their parents of all wrong doing.
The children await the return of their parents, and when they do arrive they are cured of the "sick sexual urges" that they never had.
[edit] Kenny's Death
Kenny is found dead at the John Elway statue along with two other kids. Instead of Stan's "Oh, my God! They killed Kenny!" the man says "They've killed him." and the wife simply says "Those bastards." Kenny was possibly sacrificed during carousel.
[edit] Alternate versions
According to the audio commentary, this episode orignally had Cartman trying to block the sun out of "Smiley Town". This was planned for the whole weekend of production before this episode was made. On that Monday, however, a writer revealed that The Simpsons 'already did it'. The show was eventually changed, but this event eventually inspired the plot for the episode Simpsons Already Did It.
[edit] Trivia
- The letter to Castro with the crayon drawings is a reference to The Year Without a Santa Claus, and also to a letter Castro wrote as a young boy to American President Franklin D. Roosevelt asking him for a ten-dollar bill. The song sung by Kyle heard while he writes Castro resembles "Blue Christmas," which was the song heard as Santa read a young girl's letter in "The Year Without A Santa Claus."
- This episode parodies Children of the Corn, Logan's Run, Lord of the Flies, Pet Sematary, Risky Business, Army of Darkness, Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome and especially the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Miri."
- Kyle dancing around in underwear is a reference of Risky Business. It includes Bob Seger's "Old Time Rock & Roll."
- First appearance of Butters' parents.
- Mark (the husband of the couple) calls Craig by the name Spaceman Spiff. This is a reference to Calvin and Hobbes, referring to one of Calvin's alter egos.
- The wife from the stranded couple's name is "Linda", a reference to "Children of the Corn" star Linda Hamilton.
- When the couple returns at the end of the episode, the man mentions that his job interview was in Breckenridge, the same town used as the location in Cannibal! The Musical.
- This episode parodies the phobia over child molestation that the US is thought to have. The kids so easily get their parents in prison for molestation (and when the parents are arrested, the press covers the cases far more severely than a murder case).
| Preceded by: "Fat Camp" |
South Park episodes | Followed by: "A Very Crappy Christmas" |
