Terrance and Phillip in Not Without My Anus

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"Terrance and Phillip in Not Without My Anus"

Episode no.	14
Airdate	April 1, 1998
South Park - Season 2 April 1, 1998 – January 20, 1999
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"Terrance and Phillip in Not Without My Anus" is episode 201 of Comedy Central's animated series South Park. It originally aired on April 1, 1998, and is a parody of the movie Not Without My Daughter. Because the airdate was on April Fools Day, the creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, decided to air a completely irrelevant Terrance and Phillip episode instead of the finale of the cliffhanger of season one (Cartman's Mom Is Still a Dirty Slut), which was originally promised to air.

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

This episode begins with a notice that although viewers have waited four weeks for the answer to the mystery "Who Is Cartman's Father," they're not going to get it. Instead is a presentation of "Not Without My Anus" starring Terrance and Phillip.

The drama opens in a courtroom in Canada with Terrance on trial for the murder of Dr. Jeffrey O'Dwyer. Phillip is acting as his lawyer while Terrance and Phillip's sworn nemesis Scott is acting as the prosecution lawyer. Scott uses a group of airtight exhibits to prove Terrance's guilt but after a series of farts during the verdict reading Terrance is found innocent. Upon hearing the verdict Scott promises to get Terrance and Phillip soon.

Terrance and Phillip return home where they enjoy some Kraft Dinner and a bout of dressing up as pirates. Terrance is interrupted by a courier who delivers a telegram informing him that his daughter Sally has been kidnapped in Iran. Terrance and Phillip both decide they will go to Iraq ("Iran? Iraq? What's the difference?") to rescue her but first must visit Celine Dion, who is revealed to be Terrance's ex-wife and the mother of Sally.

Terrance and Phillip head out to Tehran, where they manage to find Sally within a few seconds of landing and quickly head back home. Meanwhile back in Canada it is revealed that Scott has struck a deal with Saddam Hussein to take care of Terrance and Phillip for him in exchange for helping his troops begin an invasion of Canada. (The kidnapping of Sally in Tehran was orchestrated by Saddam in order that his troops could be smuggled back to Canada on the return flight.)

Terrance and Phillip are outraged by the changes they see in Canada upon their return. Scott, after realizing he has been double crossed by Saddam, visits Terrance and Phillip to tell them that they are to blame for his impending invasion and informs them that the only way to stop it is to suicide bomb him and his troops at the Roughriders vs. Rough Riders game. However they decide upon a different plan which will both get rid of Saddam once and for all and save them from certain death.

Meanwhile, Celine Dion is now sleeping with, and has become pregnant by, a friend of Terrance and Phillip named Ugly Bob. He almost always wears a bag on his head, and despite the fact that under it he looks just like every other Canadian on South Park, people inexplicably scream in horror at the sight of him. In the words of Phillip, his face looks like "Somebody tried to put out a forest fire with a screwdriver." To consolidate his power, Saddam kidnaps Celine Dion to sing the Iraqi national anthem at the game.

At the game, Saddam signals his intention to begin his hostile takeover of Canada and forces Celine Dion to begin singing the Iraqi anthem. Terrance and Phillip, who are sitting in the crowd, then prompt everyone to put on gas masks and fart in unison. Eventually Saddam and his troops are overpowered by the gas and die. They are then disemboweled by the crowd, which finally celebrates its freedom with a rendition of the Canadian national anthem.

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This episode aired as an April Fools joke to the fans who were expecting to see the conclusion to Cartman's Mom is a Dirty Slut. Matt Stone and Trey Parker mistakenly assumed that no one would be actually interested in seeing who Cartman's father is, and thought the fans would appreciate the joke. Instead, the episode prompted an angry response to Comedy Central, prompting the pair to produce the episode Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Slut very quickly.
The title and storyline are both a parody of Not Without My Daughter starring Sally Field.
In an interview, Matt Stone and Trey Parker state that 'Not Without My Anus' is their favourite South Park episode of all time.
In this episode, there's a reference to Star Wars episode V. When Scott asks why Saddam didn't keep to his side of the deal, Saddam reacts like Darth Vader does by saying: "I changed my mind, pray that I don't change it any futher." Scott then reacts like Lando Calrissian by saying: "This deal is getting worse all the time."
Several times Saddam refers to his country as "Iran".
One of the Canadians seen in the airport singing the Canadian National Anthem with Terrance and Phillip is the Canadian Mountie later seen in It's Christmas in Canada. This is also the first time Saddam Hussein tries to take over Canada. The second is in the same episode mentioned above.