Imaginationland Episode III

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“Imaginationland Episode III”
South Park episode
Eric Cartman, dismissive of the national emergency, dressed as the pope.
Episode no.	Season 11 Episode 165
Written by	Trey Parker Matt Stone
Directed by	Trey Parker
Production no.	1112
Original airdate	October 31, 2007
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"Imaginationland Episode III", or "Moistening of the Scrotum" (as it appears on DVD), is episode 1112 (#165) of Comedy Central's animated TV series South Park. It originally aired on October 31, 2007.^[1] It is the last episode of the Imaginationland trilogy.

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The episode begins with a prologue of Aslan remembering the events leading up to this moment akin to The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

As an army of evil, violent imaginary creatures are marching towards the castle, Aslan, Gandalf and Luke Skywalker inform Butters that, as a real person, he has the ability to manifest things in Imaginationland by using his imagination. Initially, Butters has trouble, manifesting his own father and a mutated Santa.

In the real world, Kyle wakes up at Washington DC Memorial Hospital, where Cartman is undergoing preparations in anticipation of Kyle sucking his balls. Kyle establishes a telepathic link with Stan, who hears a foghorn like trumpet playing bout to go down..."

The trumpet, it turns out, heralds the arrival of the evil imaginary army. Luke Skywalker, who is leading the army with Jesus marvels about how they are greatly outnumbered. The two sides clash in a bloody battle, and Butters finally manages to imagine appropriate backup and weaponry for the defending good guys.

The Pentagon is forced to admit the events about Imaginationland and their plan to nuke it, because Al Gore has leaked a video about ManBearPig. To proceed, the Supreme Court overturns the "Cartman vs. Brofloski decision" that imaginary creatures are real. Now, Kyle legally no longer has to suck Cartman's balls, but Stan instructs Kyle to stall the launch. Kyle leaves the hospital, Cartman follows.

Cartman sneaks into the Pentagon again, quickly followed by Kyle. The latter convinces the officials to withdraw the launch by arguing that imaginary creatures are just as real as real people because of their impact on the real world. Cartman sneers that if what Kyle just said is true, then he still has to suck Cartman's balls. Kyle snaps at last and scathingly tells Cartman that he's been ignorant about the danger his friends are in, just because of a stupid bet and that regardless of who won the bet, Kyle would rather go to jail than humiliating himself by sucking Cartman's balls, ("They can throw me in jail for the rest of my life, but I am NEVER going to suck your balls EVER! So there!"). Al Gore breaks in, asking why the nuke hasn't gone off yet. The General says that their plan for nuking has already been stopped for good, but Al Gore's desire to kill ManBearPig having overwhelmed him, and he pounds at a control panel to try and launch the nuke, which destabilizes the portal. The contents of the room, including all the people and the nuke, are sucked into Imaginationland.

The good characters' victory is interrupted by the nuclear explosion from the nuke, destroying everything and everyone, including the fleeing evil characters and the people from the real world (including Stan, Kyle, and Cartman) and leaving nothing but vast white. Butters, on the other hand, survives the explosion and restores the realm via his imagination, back to where it was before the initial terrorist attack. Everyone is back alive, the evil imaginary characters are imprisoned once again, and everyone cheers for Butters for saving the day. Cartman acknowledges Butters for using his imagination to restore everything, realizing the power of the realm, and as a treat, he manifests duplicates of himself and Kyle, in which imaginary Kyle sucks imaginary Cartman's balls (off screen). Kyle angrily states the scene is imaginary, to which Cartman insists that, in one's imagination, imaginary creatures are "real," as Kyle himself said earlier. This angers Kyle a lot, seeing himself so humiliated by this.

Butters wakes up in the real world. He is grounded by his parents for not coming back from Imaginationland in time to do chores, even though they acknowledged him for the events of Imaginationland. Angered by this, Butters tries to use his power to end the grounding, but is told by his parents it only works in Imaginationland, not in the real world. Disappointed, Butters lays back in bed and ends the episode with a low, unhappy mutter of "Aw, shit" which is uncensored.