Fat Camp (South Park)
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| “Fat Camp” | |
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 Cartman meets the other children at "weight management camp." |
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| Episode no. | Season 4 Episode 63 |
| Written by | Trey Parker Matt Stone |
| Production no. | 415 |
| Original airdate | December 6, 2000 |
| Season 4 episodes | |
| South Park - Season 4 April 5, 2000 – December 20, 2000 |
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"Fat Camp" is episode 63 of the Comedy Central series South Park. It originally aired on December 6, 2000.
[edit] Plot
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The episode begins in class, where the children are dissecting manatees. During the class, the boys dare Kenny to eat a manatee's spleen, which Kenny does in exchange for money. He then commences to eat other disgusting things for money, and expands outwards into all sorts of bizarre acts; this leads to him getting his own program, The Krazy Kenny Show, to showcase his disgusting acts. He also appears on Jesus 'n' Pals, the local talk show, where Jesus comments on this behavior by saying that Kenny (for simply doing outrageous acts for money that require no real talent) is a prostitute. The boys try to discover what the term means, by asking Chef. After initial reluctance to explain, he sings them "The Prostitute Song," with James Taylor. This is based on Taylor's song "Your Smiling Face."
Meanwhile, Cartman's mother and others from the town pay to send Cartman (against his will) to Fat Camp. There, a pair of overenthusiastic counselors try to teach him and other overweight children to exercise and live a healthier life. Though Cartman resists, he soon reappears in South Park, looking scores of pounds thinner. The children are shocked by this, and also that this Cartman seems more mature and less mean. However, when nobody is looking, this character takes and collects junk food, and it is eventually revealed that this is not Cartman, but a similar-looking kid from the drug rehabilitation center next door to the Fat Camp. Apparently, he has escaped and made a deal with Cartman, in which he returns to South Park as Cartman's doppelgänger and collects food, then brings it back for Cartman to sell to the other fat campers. As a result, none of the kids get any thinner, and their parents decide to take their children home.
Kenny appears on the Howard Stern radio show, where Stern attempts to prove that Kenny is not a prostitute by offering him money in exchange for oral sex. To Stern's surprise, Kenny accepts and is subsequently arrested for prostitution.
This leaves a vacuum on The Krazy Kenny Show, where Kenny had intended to go into Mrs. Crabtree's uterus and stay there for six hours. When thin Cartman delivers the episode's moralizing statement, saying that it was wrong for them to have encouraged Kenny, Kyle gets suspicious enough to pull off thin Cartman's hat — revealing that the boy underneath is not the real Cartman. At the same time, back at Fat Camp, one of the kids reveals Cartman's plan, which saves the camp. After listening to a compassionate speech from one of the kids, Cartman says that he will no longer sneak in food, and together, they all can lose the weight. However, because he was responsible for making the kids fatter, he is kicked out. Cartman gets mad, but after everybody goes in, he starts to cry and eats a donut. As punishment for impersonating Cartman, Kyle sends the impostor to his death by forcing him to dress up as Kenny and spend the time in Mrs. Crabtree's uterus. After six hours, it turns out that the impostor has died. It is notable that Kenny does not die in this episode, though his proxy does; as Stan says, "They killed Kenny!...sort of.". Suddenly another kid who looks similar to Harry Potter falls out of Mrs. Crabtree's uterus, also dead. At this Stan asks: 'Who the fuck was that?' and the credits roll.
[edit] Censorship
- In syndicated versions of this episode, the scenes where Kenny performs vulgar stunts, such as eating dog feces, being defecated on, and eating his own puke, has been censored. However, on South Park: The Complete Fourth Season, these scenes were left uncensored.
[edit] References to popular culture
- Cartman's plan to sell candy to the other campers is reminiscent of the plot of the 1982 young adult novella Jelly Belly.
- While Cartman was making himself a toaster pastry chocolate-mix butter bar he was humming the song You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine by Lou Rawls
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