Toilet Paper (South Park episode)
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| "Toilet Paper" | |
 Stan plots his papery revenge. |
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| Episode no. | 99 |
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| Airdate | April 2, 2003 |
| South Park - Season 7 March 19, 2003 – December 17, 2003 |
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This article is about the episode of the TV series South Park. For other uses, see Toilet paper.
"Toilet Paper" is episode 703 of the Comedy Central series South Park. It originally aired April 2, 2003.
[edit] Plot
The four boys have to stay after school for building a penis out of clay in art class. Cartman and the others are pissed off, so they go to the store to buy lots of toilet paper. They take revenge by toilet papering Mrs. Dreibel's house during the night. When Kyle discovers that Mrs. Dreibel has kids, he immediately regrets their actions. He starts to get nightmares about their deed and the Dreibel family. The next day the boys are called to the counselor's office. They all agree to tell Mr. Mackey the story that "We were at the bowling alley when we saw that Ally Sheedy, the goth chick from The Breakfast Club was bowling in the lane next to us, so we asked her for her autograph, but she didn't have a pen, so we followed her out to her car, where we were accosted by five Scientologists, who wanted to give us all personality tests, which were submitted at the Denver Scientology Center until 10:45, when we accidentally boarded the wrong bus home, and ended up in Rancho de Fritas Rojan, where we caught a ride home with a man who was missing his left index finger named Gary Bushwell, arriving home at 11:46." Kyle is confused to whether the Goth chick from The Breakfast Club took a Scientology test, and Cartman, who doesn't want to get punished, grows concerned that Kyle might lose it and tell the principal or his parents.
Meanwhile Officer Barbrady starts to investigate the "crime" (as he apparently has nothing better to do) but is unable to come up with any solid clues. In a parody of Silence of the Lambs, he seeks help from Josh, a convicted toilet paperer, who is currently serving a sentence in Park County Juvenile Hall for toilet papering over 600 houses in less than a year. After several sessions with Josh, in which Josh applies psychological pressure to Barbrady, he comes a little closer to solving the case. The four boys are also interrogated.
Cartman fears that Kyle sooner or later will tell somebody, but rather than rely on Kenny or Stan to help him shut up Kyle, he decides to try to kill Kyle with a wiffle bat in a boat on Stark's Pond. Meanwhile, Barbrady arrests Butters after he confesses, but Butters' parents show up to bail him out and tell Barbrady that the confession was a lie. After seeing Butters get in trouble for their actions, Kyle is finally able to convince Stan and Kenny that they should confess. Kyle also tells Cartman that if he has any sense of a conscience, he'll do the same.
The next morning, Barbrady brings Josh along with him to Principal Victoria's office, but the Principal says that the true toilet paperer already confessed. Stan, Kyle, and Kenny also rush into the office, only to find out that Cartman already confessed to get a better deal for himself; each of them end up with two weeks of detention (Cartman gets only one week for "being brave"). Josh manages to trick the police and flee, then later calls Officer Barbrady saying he has to do something. The final scene shows him approaching the White House with toilet paper.
[edit] References to popular culture
- Kyle's line "You didn't say nothin' about no kids, man" is a reference to 1983's Scarface.
- The character Josh is a parody of Hannibal Lecter.
- The scene where Cartman takes Kyle out on a boat and tries to kill him with a wiffle bat is a parody of Fredo's death scene in The Godfather Part II. The background music playing behind the scene is reminiscent of the Godfather theme.
- Butters' statement that he was shot with sodium pentathol as a truth serum is a cliche' of Hollywood, as it is now mainly used in lethal injection, and its effectiveness as a truth serum is very low.
- Cartman's deal with Principal Victoria is reminiscent of the Prisoner's dilemma.
- There are a few references to the novel Crime and Punishment in this episode: the tp-ing of the art teacher's house (the crime), Kyle being haunted by the crime in his dreams, his wanting to confess, another person confessing to the crime before he can, and Kyle finally confessing.
- During Kyle's nightmare, footage of ice-skater Nancy Kerrigan screaming "WHY?" while being carried into an ambulance is shown.
- When Stan, Kyle, Eric and Kenny T.P. the art teachers house, the music in the background is closely related to the movie Platoon's main score.
- The scene where Cartman goes over the plan and Kyle gets confused is reminiscent of the scene from the Monty Python film The Meaning of Life where the school teacher is explaining the complex scheme to be able to play in the rugby game.
| Preceded by "Krazy Kripples" |
South Park episodes | Followed by "Cancelled" |
