Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics

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“Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics”
South Park episode

Jesus and Santa Claus sing.
Episode no. Season 3
Episode 15
Written by Trey Parker
Matt Stone
Marc Shaiman(songs)
Directed by Trey Parker
Production no. 315
Original airdate December 1, 1999
Season 3 episodes
South Park - Season 3
April 7, 1999 – January 12, 2000
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  10. Chinpokomon
  11. Starvin' Marvin in Space
  12. Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery
  13. Hooked on Monkey Phonics
  14. The Red Badge of Gayness
  15. Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics
  16. Are You There God? It's Me, Jesus
  17. World Wide Recorder Concert
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"Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics" is an episode of the animated comedy television series, South Park (episode 46), and a CD collection of comic holiday songs featuring the characters from that show.

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[edit] Episode

The episode version of "Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics" is episode 46 of South Park, and originally aired December 1, 1999. It is a variety show and features Mr. Hankey, the Christmas poo, as the host; he sits by the fire in his sewer home and introduces shorts featuring very unusual holiday songs. The episode was dedicated to Mary Kay Bergman, the voice of most of the female characters on the show, who committed suicide less than a month earlier. Since this episode features audio from the Christmas Classics CD that was recorded months earlier, this episode marks the final episode in which Bergman's voice was used.

The list of songs from the episode is as follows:

  1. Mr. Hankey The Christmas Poo, performed by a postman who resembles the narrator of the Christmas special Santa Claus Is Coming to Town (which was voiced by Fred Astaire) and the residents of South Park, none of whom are part of the regular cast.
  2. Dreidel Dreidel Dreidel, performed by Kyle Broflovski, with Eric Cartman, Stan Marsh, Gerald and Sheila Broflovski and their adopted son Ike
  3. O Tannenbaum, performed by Adolf Hitler
  4. Christmas Time In Hell, performed by Satan and the damned
  5. Carol of the Bells, performed by Mr. Mackey
  6. O Holy Night (a severely botched version), performed by Eric Cartman
  7. Merry Fucking Christmas, performed by Mr. Garrison
  8. I Saw Three Ships, performed by Shelley Marsh
  9. Medley performed by Jesus and Santa Claus:
    1. Joy to the World
    2. Up On the House Top
    3. Away in a Manger
    4. O Come All Ye Faithful
    5. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
    6. Silent Night
    7. Rio
    8. Let it Snow
  10. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, performed by Mr. Hankey and the cast
  11. During the ending credits a reprise of Dreidel Dreidel Dreidel plays.

[edit] Kenny's death

Although this episode is merely a showcase of holiday songs, performed by various characters of the series, it still includes a fatal occurrence for Kenny. During the episode's final song, "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" sung by Mr. Hankey and the cast, the four boys sing "Through the years we all will be together, if the fates allow..." and the decorated overhead lighting fixture falls and kills Kenny. The boys are visibly shocked, but the song is not interrupted and there is no usual acknowledgment of Kenny's death by Stan and Kyle. During the final line of the song, rats can be seen eating Kenny's corpse.

[edit] CD

Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics
Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics cover
Studio album by Various Artists
Released November 23, 1999
Genre Comedy
Length 36:34
Label Sony
Professional reviews
Various Artists chronology
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics

The CD, which was the basis for the episode, features more songs than the show. Those marked with one asterisk (*) are featured in the show (though some of them are slightly different than the aired version, due to content and running time), those marked with two asterisks (**) are not featured in the show and those marked with three asterisks (***) were featured in other episodes. They are as follows:

  1. Mr. Hankey The Christmas Poo - Cowboy Timmy*
  2. Merry Fucking Christmas - Mr. Garrison*
  3. O Holy Night - Eric Cartman*
  4. Dead, Dead, Dead - Juan Schwartz**
  5. Carol of the Bells - Mr. Mackey*
  6. The Lonely Jew On Christmas - Kyle Broflofski Ft. Guest***
  7. I Saw Three Ships - Shelly Marsh*
  8. It Happened In Sun Valley - Stan Marsh And Wendy Testaburger**
  9. O Tannenbaum - Adolf Hitler*
  10. Christmas Time In Hell - Satan*
  11. What The Hell Child Is This? - Chef**
  12. Santa Claus Is On His Way - Mr. Hankey***
  13. Swiss Colony Beef Log - Eric Cartman**
  14. Hark, The Herald Angels Sing - South Park Choir***
  15. Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel - The Broflofskis Ft. Cartman*
  16. The Most Offensive Song Ever - Kenny And Mr. Hankey**
  17. We Three Kings - Mr. Ose**
  18. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - Mr. Hankey*

There is also a rare promo-CD version of the album, titled Mr. Hanky's Christmas Classics (Dirty Version). This version contains the Christmas medley by Santa Claus and Jesus (longer version that the one in the show, including clips from 11 different songs, holding exclusive "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town", "The First Noel" and "Ludacrismas" between "Away in a Manger" and "O Come All Ye Faithful"), as well as a "Most Offensive" (sung completely by Mr. Hankey) version of "The Most Offensive Song Ever" (titled "The Most Offensive Story Ever Told" on the promo-CD),.

[edit] Footnotes

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  • "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" is the only un-altered song, and is sung by the entire "cast" in tribute to Mary Kay Bergman. During the lyric "Faithful friends who are dear to us," clips of most of the characters that Bergman voiced (Wendy Testaburger, Sheila Broflovski, Mayor McDaniels, Mrs. Crabtree, and Liane Cartman) are shown in a white haze.
  • Although Hooked on Monkey Phonics was the last episode to feature new recorded lines from Mary Kay Bergman, this episode is the last to feature her voice being that the album the songs in this episode come from was recorded well before Bergman's death.
  • Before and after every commercial break, a live action segment featuring a news anchor is shown, saying "Fighting the frizzies, at eleven". This is a reference to a bootleg tape of The Star Wars Holiday Special which is the source for most of the bootlegs currently available online. The original tape featured a brief clip at the end from WCBS-TV featuring newscaster Rolland Smith informing viewers, "Fighting the frizzies, at eleven.". As a novelty, those who reproduce the tape for others have customarily left this unusual clip intact, rather than editing it out. However, while the original news ad was apparently referring to "frizzy" hair, the ending credits of this episode of South Park features the news anchor boxing a man in a giant fuzzy suit.
  • While most of the songs are featured on the CD, the only song not featured on the CD but on the episode is the duet between Jesus and Santa, which was going to be on the CD, but some of the songs couldn't be legally cleared in time.
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