Proper Condom Use
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| Episode no. | 72 |
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| Airdate | August 1, 2001 |
| South Park - Season 5 June 20, 2001 – December 12, 2001 |
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"Proper Condom Use" is episode 507 of Comedy Central's South Park. It originally aired on August 1, 2001.
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[edit] Plot
Stan and Kyle are playing with their Jennifer Lopez play set when Cartman comes over to demonstrate something he learned from the Fifth Graders. The trio then run to Kenny's house where he then begins to masturbate Kenny's dog which leads to ejaculation, which they think is milking it.
Stan, not knowing what masturbation really is and thinking that what Cartman did was cool, demonstrates the technique "Red Rocket" on his dog Sparky in front of his parents' company, after which he is then grounded for ten months. Stan does not understand why he is being punished and when his parents try to explain to him what sex is, they don't really know how to explain it. They then decide with other parents that the schools should be teaching sex education at a younger age, apparently forgetting about Stan's punishment.
Mr. Mackey and Ms. Choksondik instruct the fourth graders on sex-ed and while Miss Choksondik is teaching the girls about the perils and horrors of sexually transmitted diseases, Mr. Mackey tries to explain to the boys how to have sex. Not remembering what to do from his last encounter, Mr. Mackey comes up blank, while Miss Choksondik tells the girls that they will catch an STD and die if the boys are not wearing condoms. Meanwhile, Mr. Garrison is tasked with teaching proper condom use - to kindergarten children. His preferred method of applying one using the mouth shocks his students.
The boys, not having learned anything, ask the girls what they learned. The girls, still horrified from their lesson with Miss Choksondik, back away and tell the boys that they need to wear condoms at all times. The boys then go to the pharmacy where the male pharmacist refuses to sell the boys condoms. However, the female pharmacist is on the boys' side and sells them the condoms because she wants them to be safe if they are in fact having sex.
The boys then buy the condoms and wear them at all times, but when they get too uncomfortable, they talk to Mr. Mackey who tells them they only have to wear them when they are having sex. Angry that the girls misled them, they go to a fort where the girls are hiding and tell them to come out a la The Road Warrior. When the girls refuse, it leads to a violent confrontation. The boys and girls start fighting and explosions erupt, which gets everyone's attention.
While Miss Choksondik and Mr. Mackey are preparing the lesson plan, they swap stories about their sexual past, both come up empty and they start a foreplay. The two then undress, kiss passionately and then have a rather grotesque sexual encounter.
After this, Chef explains that sex is emotional and needs to be taught by family, rather than at schools through textbooks and diagrams. When asked when children are ready to have sex, he responds with an unconditional, "17—you're ready," a reference to the age of consent in Colorado.
[edit] Kenny's Death
- Kenny dies when Bebe throws a boomerang at him.
[edit] Trivia
- The stand-off at the girls' fortress is a reference to The Road Warrior.
- The sex positions that Mr. Garrison describes – Hot Karl, Hot Lunch, Filthy Sanchez, Glass-bottom boat, and Chili Dog – are real and all involve feces.
- In Australia, this episode received an MA rating (similar to the TV-MA rating on American TV) as opposed to the usual M rating (similar to the TV-14 rating on American TV), due to its strong sexual content throughout the episode and the graphic violence near the end of the episode (the sequence where the boys attack the girls at the fortress). Because of its content, this episode also aired at 9:30 at night instead of its usual 8:30 timeslot. However, the British channel Sky banned this episode for its strong sexual and violent content (despite airing a TV trailer with scenes from the episode). The UK terrestrial channel Channel 4, however, aired this uncut. Paramount Comedy 1 has also shown this episode.
- In the television airings of this episode and the Best of South Park DVD, the afterbirth scene had a fart sound effect, but on the Season 5 DVD boxset, it was replaced by a squishing sound effect.
- A study by the Parents Television Council on violence, sexual content, and profanity on cable television briefly referred to multiple scenes in this episode.[1]
- According to DVD commentary, the Comedy Central censors told Trey and Matt to drastically shorten the part where Mr. Garrison demonstrates how to put on a condom by using his mouth with a condom around the lips and deep-throating the model penis used in the lesson.
[edit] Goofs
- In the girls' first sex-ed lesson, Miss Choksondik is shown standing in front of the words "Sexually Transmitted Diseases" written on the blackboard immediately before she writes them, so it's possible that she could have written them while the kids were outside at recess.
- When Cartman says "Red Rocket" when he shows Stan, Kyle, and Kenny how to "milk" a dog, his mouth moves but he doesn't speak. This was corrected in the Comedy Central reruns, but not on the season five DVD.
- In this episode, Mr. Mackey explains that his head swelled because he never had any confidence in talking to girls, but in the season two episode Ike's Wee Wee, Mr. Mackey loosened his tie, which caused his head to shrink to normal size and in the season six episode Child Abduction Is Not Funny, Mr. Mackey's parents are shown to have the same large head as Mr. Mackey.
- In this episode, it is implied that Mr. Mackey had limited experience with sexual intercourse: first when he is teaching sex-ed to the students; again talking to Ms. Choksondik, planning their sex-ed curricula; finally, on the closing of the episode, Chef says that Mr. Mackey doesn't know anything about sex. However, in the episode Ike's Wee Wee, it is implied that he has sexual intercourse, and subsequently get married to a rather attractive woman. Also, in the episode Cat Orgy, it's implied that he is going to have sexual intercourse with Mrs. Cartman. In "Something You Can Do With Your Finger" we see a video clip of Mrs. Cartman and Mr. Mackey involved in bondage. However, in most of these cases he appears to be high or drunk, so this could have been blanked out of his mind.
- With weight-to-density ratios, bone is harder than wood, so Kenny would not have died from the boomerang splitting his skull (since the boomerang would have broken before it even reached its target).
- The child who was shot with a nail gun is first shown with brown hair but in another shot, has red.
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