Chef Aid

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article does not cite any references or sources. (October 2007)
Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed.

“Chef Aid”
South Park episode
Cartman doing "The German Dance"
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 14
Written by	Trey Parker Matt Stone
Directed by	Trey Parker
Guest stars	Joe Strummer, Rancid, Ozzy Osbourne, Ween, Primus, Elton John, Meat Loaf, Rick James, and DMX, Ol' Dirty Bastard
Production no.	214
Original airdate	October 7, 1998
Season 2 episodes
South Park - Season 2 April 1, 1998 – January 20, 1999
Terrance and Phillip in Not Without My Anus Cartman's Mom Is Still a Dirty Slut Chickenlover Ike's Wee Wee Conjoined Fetus Lady The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka City on the Edge of Forever Summer Sucks Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls Chickenpox Roger Ebert Should Lay Off the Fatty Foods Clubhouses Cow Days Chef Aid Spookyfish Merry Christmas, Charlie Manson! Gnomes Prehistoric Ice Man

← Season 1	Season 3 →
List of South Park episodes

For the album based on the episode see Chef Aid: The South Park Album

"Chef Aid" is the 27th episode of Comedy Central's animated series South Park. It originally aired on October 7, 1998.

1 Plot synopsis
2 Album release
3 Trivia
4 External links

[edit] Plot synopsis

Chef discovers that Alanis Morissette's (fictional) hit song "Stinky Britches" is a song that he wrote many years ago, before abandoning his musical aspirations. He contacts a "major record company" executive, seeking only to have his name credited as the composer of "Stinky Britches." Chef's claim is substantiated by a twenty-year-old recording of Chef performing the song. The record company refuses, and furthermore hires Johnnie Cochran, who files a lawsuit against him for harassment. Cochran employs the Chewbacca defense, resulting in a win for the record company and damages to be paid by the defense, so Chef now has 24 hours to come up with the money or face four years of incarceration. However, instead of allowing all his stuff to taken by the greedy record company executive, Chef decides to raise all the money by sleeping with all the women in town. Instead of paying the executive, he will pay Johnnie Cochran the money so this time he can sue the record company.

Meanwhile, Mr. Garrison witnesses many strange attempts on Mr. Twig's life; he finds him boiling in a pot of water, and later snapped in half. The evidence begins to point to Mr. Hat as the culprit, culminating in a showdown between Mr. Garrison and Mr. Hat which lands the former in jail.

The boys try to help Chef by rounding up various musicians whose careers have been boosted by Chef's advice to hold a benefit concert. The record company executive sabotages the concert, but the outpouring of support for Chef touches Johnnie Cochran, whose heart "grew three sizes that day." Cochran switches sides for free and successfully defends Chef, in a new trial, although he uses the Chewbacca Defense again, ending with Chef finally getting his name on the album. Mr. Garrison and Mr. Hat eventually make up their differences and get back together.

[edit] Album release

Full Article: Chef Aid: The South Park Album An album was released based on the episode. It featured 21 songs, some being extended and unaired songs from this episode and previous episodes in the series, others being completely original to the album. Many notable artists from all different genres made cameo appearances on the album.

[edit] Trivia

Trivia sections are discouraged under Wikipedia guidelines.
The article could be improved by integrating relevant items and removing inappropriate ones.

The song "Stinky Britches" is seen again in the season 2 finale, "Prehistoric Ice Man". In the episode, a man who was frozen in 1996 is walking by a store, and on the TVs in the store window is Marilyn Manson singing Stinky Britches in his Mechanical Animals costume. The man then continues to break the TVs in a fit of rage, because he cannot adapt.
Alanis Morissette, despite being Canadian in real life, is not animated to look like all other Canadians in the show.
Three of the artists that made guest appearances on this episode: Joe Strummer, Rick James, and Ol' Dirty Bastard, died at a relatively young age within years after its airing.^{[citation needed]}
Ozzy Osbourne is introduced as "TV's Ozzy Osbourne" approximately four years before the debut of The Osbournes reality show.
A running gag in the episode is having the company executive yelling, "I am above the law!," causing his hair to fall loose which he fixes by rubbing spooge on his scalp.