More Crap

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“More Crap”
South Park episode
Bono
Episode no.	Season 11 Episode 162
Written by	Matt Stone
Directed by	Trey Parker
Production no.	1109
Original airdate	October 10, 2007
Season 11 episodes
South Park - Season 11 March 7, 2007 – November 14, 2007
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"More Crap" is episode 1109 (#162) of Comedy Central's South Park. It was originally telecast on October 10, 2007.^[1]^[2] It parodies The King of Kong, a documentary about an underdog who is attempting to beat Billy Mitchell's infamous Donkey Kong record. Bono's personality in the episode is much like Mitchell's, including how he is allowed to play by different rules than other world score competitors.^[3]

The episode is one of very few where neither Cartman, Kyle, Kenny or any of the other children appear, except for Stan who has a minor role. The plot revolves primarily around Randy Marsh and the other adults in South Park.

1 Plot
2 Detail
3 Reception
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Plot

When Stan's father, Randy Marsh, makes a turd of record-breaking weight, the previous record-holder, U2's Bono, declares that he has re-claimed his record, citing a photograph. Marsh's friends convince him to try to break the record again.

While he prepares, Stan visits Bono and tries to convince him to let his father have the record. Bono hysterically declares that he will never settle for being "number 2" and sends him out, but his butler takes Stan and tells him the truth: Bono is not the record-holder, he is the record.

They explain further when they arrive at the record keepers' office, where Marsh and the record keepers are waiting. Bono tries to stop them, but a record keeper comes forward: he is Bono's father, and it was he who took "the world's largest crap" making what would grow up to be Bono. He offers Bono his nipple, which he explains is what made Bono grow.

Randy Marsh then makes a pile larger than him. He receives his award, an Emmy trophy pulled right from what had appeared to be the station overlay announcing South Park's recently-won Emmy Award.

[edit] Detail

Randy contacts Guinness World Records, believing he has passed the largest recorded bowel movement. They direct him to Zürich's "European Fecal Standards & Measurements Institute", who measure his feces in "Courics,"^[4] Randy discovers his excrement weighs 8.6 Courics (21.5 lbs.), beating the world record of 7.5 Courics (18.8 lbs.). The society contacts previous record holder Bono, who spends the episode singing "Hello, hello!" and "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!" from U2's "Vertigo." As Randy is the first American to ever receive the award, the American government holds a ceremony to honor his achievement – however, it is interrupted by a video of Bono, claiming he has just taken a crap weighing 9.5 Courics (23.8 lbs.) and is therefore still the record holder.

Randy mourns the loss of his record like the loss of a child, feeling that his failure made him worthless compared to Bono, and saying that his crap was the only thing that came from him that was any good (which insults Stan). His friends convince him to train hard and reclaim the record, and he spends three weeks eating at P. F. Chang's until an ultrasound reveals his feces has reached about 14 Courics (35 lbs.) in weight. Bono demands he takes the crap in Zürich (against his doctor's warning against flying during his "turd trimester"). Stan visits Bono's mansion and tries to ask Bono to relinquish the first place record, saying Randy has never won anything, forgetting he won the Nobel Prize and that his boy band topped charts in the 1980s. Bono, however, hates being "number two" and threatens Stan. Bono's butler takes Stan to Zürich and informs him of the truth – Bono set his record in 1960, the year he was born. Bono doesn't hold the record–he is the record.

In Zürich, the society leader explains he took the world's biggest crap in 1960 and was so proud, he raised it as a child. Over time, it grew up into Bono, explaining why Bono is ashamed of being called "number two" (a play on a defecation euphemism) and can help so many people while still seeming "like such a piece of shit." Bono's father starts breast feeding him with his "bitty" (a Little Britain reference^[3]) and says that, though Bono faked his newest record, Bono himself is over 80 Courics (200 lbs.) in weight, and thus is still bigger than Randy's old record crap or any other crap in the world.

At that moment Randy finally takes his crap, which is so large it lifts him several feet off the toilet seat and is estimated to weigh more than 100 Courics (250 lbs.). Randy is hailed as the new record holder, and the society awards him an Emmy. (Several times during the episode, such as when Randy first tries to take a crap, a spinning Emmy award is seen on-screen along with the text "Emmy Award Winning Series". When the spinning Emmy appears during the last seconds of the episode, one of the society's members grabs it and sticks it in Randy's crap.)

[edit] Reception

TV Squad gave the episode an overwhelmingly positive review, stating that "it's low taste but it's South Park low taste, which makes it funny," and that "they [Trey Parker and Matt Stone] are on a roll. Possibly a toilet paper roll." ^[5] IGN had mixed feelings about the episode, calling it "amusing, but not terribly so", giving it a rating of 7.4. ^[6] The episode currently has a score of 8.0 on TV.com, as voted for by viewers. ^[7]

P. F. Chang's spokesperson, Laura Cherry, responded positively to the episode, saying that "It's the third or fourth time. We've appeared in many of their episodes". She also stated that the creators themselves enjoy eating there.^[8]

The "bitty thing" was based on one of the characters appearing in British comedy series Little Britain, as it is admitted in the South Park FAQ.^[9] This episode was released two months before it was announced that Little Britain would move to America.