Douche and Turd
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| "Douche and Turd" | |
 The Turd Sandwich campaign rally |
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| Episode no. | 119 |
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| Airdate | October 27, 2004 |
| South Park - Season 8 March 17, 2004 – December 15, 2004 |
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"Douche and Turd" is episode 808 of South Park. It originally aired on October 27, 2004.
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[edit] Plot
During a pep rally at South Park Elementary School, a local PETA group protests the use of a cow as a mascot. The school agrees to pick a new mascot, and the students are told to vote for a new mascot. Embarrassed by the bland choices, the kids decide to fill in a joke candidate but disagree as to whether it should be a "giant douche" or a "turd sandwich." Kyle rallies his friends to fill in "giant douche", and Cartman gathers support for the turd sandwich. Kenny joins Kyle, possibly because Cartman had recently broken his cat's leg, and Cartman wins Butters' support. The result is a tie between the two joke candidates and a runoff election is to be held. Stan decides that he doesn't like either candidate, and declares that he won't vote at all, much to everyone's dismay.
The turd sandwich supporters rally against the giant douche supporters, using bribes and scare tactics to gain support. Meanwhile, Stan's decision not to vote disgusts the entire town. Puff Daddy terrorizes him with his literal Vote or Die campaign, and the school administration decides that he must be banished from the town for all eternity (or until he decides that voting is important). He's placed, bound and battered with a bucket over his head, on horseback and sent off into the woods. Eventually he reaches the PETA encampment, where he finds that the humans have grown vaginally intimate with the animals to the point of bestiality. They teach him that an election is always between a giant douche and a turd sandwich, because they're the only people who suck up enough to make it that far in politics. P. Diddy shows up at the camp to kill Stan, but is distracted by a PETA member who throws a bucket of blood on his fur coat. This angers him, and he takes his rage out on the PETA camp, killing all the members. As he does so, Stan runs home to cast his vote for the turd sandwich. The giant douche wins the vote 1410 to 36 and Stan is initially dismayed that his vote didn't matter, but Randy informs his son that all votes matter even if it's for the losing side. Suddenly Mr. Garrison runs in with the news that the PETA members have been discovered murdered and the cow is reinstated as South Park Elementary School's mascot. Randy tells Stan that now his vote didn't matter.
[edit] Trivia and Pop Culture
- Mr. Garrison says that it was the 47th time the school was attacked by eco-terrorists.
- The horn blown by Butters' father which is used during Stan's banishment has already been used in the episode Child Abduction Is Not Funny.
- Stan placed, bound and battered with a bucket over his head, on a mule and sent off into the wilderness like a scapegoat, is a pastiche of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.
- The introduction music for the giant douche is "Get Ready for This" by 2 Unlimited. For the turd sandwich, it is "Who Let the Dogs Out?" by the Baha Men.
- The goat from Afghanistan that was mistaken for Stevie Nicks in the Season 5 episode Osama bin Laden Has Farty Pants can be seen in the background of the PETA compound.
- This episode was re-aired in the USA the day of the 2006 Midterm Election.
- This episode marks the remix of the South Park theme slightly, at the start when Stan is cut out the music echos.
- The hybrid child of a person and an ostrich says "Kill me." This is a nod to a similar scene in the movie Alien: Resurrection when the mutated Ripley/Queen fetus says the same thing. The scene was parodied similarly in the episode Towelie.
- PETA is often printed as: PeTA. The shirt worn by the fictional members is written as pETA however, which may have been to avoid copyright infringements.
- Stan is told to talk with Dr. Cornwallace, this was also the name of one of Mr. Hankeys children in A Very Crappy Christmas.
[edit] References to the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election
- This episode references the 2004 US presidential election and the rallying around it to raise the participation of young voters.
- During the 2004 US presidential election, music mogul P. Diddy's "get out the vote" slogan really was "Vote or Die!".
- Giant Douche and Turd Sandwich were based on John Kerry and George W Bush.
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