Mystery of the Urinal Deuce

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“Mystery of the Urinal Deuce”
South Park episode
Kyle and Stan in custody of the Secret Service.
Episode no.	Season 10 Episode 148
Written by	Trey Parker
Original airdate	October 11, 2006
Season 10 episodes
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"Mystery of the Urinal Deuce" is episode 148 of Comedy Central's South Park which first aired on October 11, 2006.

1 Plot
2 Reception
3 Trivia
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Plot

When someone at South Park Elementary defecates in a urinal, Mr. Mackey searches for the boy responsible. Cartman begins to rant that it was a conspiracy, "just like 9/11", which he had been ranting about for a while. The others, on the other hand, simply brush him off, claiming that he, and others that believe in a 9/11 conspiracy, are all "retarded". Meanwhile, Mr. Mackey continues to protest the fact that someone defecated in the urinal, and the rest of the town inexplicably decides the two are probably related. When the police decide they can be of no further help, they hire the Hardly Boys (parody of The Hardy Boys) to discover the results of the urinal incident. During the whole process they make barely concealed sexual comments in their investigation (e.g.: "I've got such a raging clue right now").

Cartman performs an investigation, which he presents to his class in an impressive presentation. He claims that the true culprit behind the 9/11 attacks was Kyle. He has no evidence to conclude this other than using numerological interpretation of Kyle's score on a test he earned a few days after the 9/11 attacks. Nevertheless, he manages to convince everyone that Kyle is guilty. Kyle tries to rebuff this, but nobody listens to him. When Kyle tells his mother that everyone thinks he is the 9/11 culprit, she calls a town meeting, arguing that children don't understand enough about the September 11th attacks. However, many of the townspeople also believe 9/11 might have been the result of a conspiracy.

Kyle enlists Stan's help, and they leave South Park to find an organization that can prove Kyle's innocence. The group they find, however, believes that the United States government orchestrated the 9/11 attacks. The conspiracy organization have bottles of anthrax, which they use as "evidence" of the attack. As Kyle is holding them, a SWAT team attacks and takes Kyle, Stan, and the leader of the conspiracy organization for questioning. They are then taken to the White House. Presidential officials, along with President George W. Bush, quickly admit that the government actually is behind 9/11. Bush explains the incredibly convoluted method of how they pulled the attacks off, which seems to greatly dishearten Kyle (who responds repeatedly with a comical, high-noted "Really?!"), who is usually more logical and skeptical than the other characters. Once Bush has admitted this information, he decides to kill Stan, Kyle, and the conspiracy leader, to conceal the conspiracy. The head of the conspiracy group is then executed by Bush, however the boys are not killed.

As Dick Cheney tries to execute Stan and Kyle with a crossbow, he misses (in a parody of Cheney's hunting incident) and allows the boys to escape. Meanwhile, Clyde is caught for the urinal incident, and while he admits to it, his parents tell Mr. Mackey he had a colostomy at age 5.

Later, in Chicago, Stan and Kyle run into the leader of the conspiracy group alive and well outside of a "WcDonald's". After a short chase by Stan and Kyle, he is cornered in a back alley and shot dead by the father of the Hardly boys, who reveals that his sons discovered that all the conspiracy websites are false and run by the government. Stan, Kyle, and the Hardly family congregate at the Hardly house as the Bush Administration arrives, and eventually admits that the government wasn't behind 9/11. He explains that the government actually runs all the websites that claim they were responsible, making the conspiracy theories actually a government conspiracy themselves. The point, Bush explains, is that, since one-fourth of Americans are "retarded" and will believe conspiracies, the government wants them to believe that it is all-powerful and could get away with the worst terrorist attack in history, while they tell the other 75% of the country the truth—that 9/11 was caused (in Stan's words) by "a bunch of pissed off Muslims."

When the father of the Hardly boys questions why everyone knew they were at the Hardly house, a gun is put to Kyle's head. When the camera shifts, it is Stan holding it. He admits that he was the one who defecated in the urinal ("All the stalls were full and I didn't want to miss recess! I didn't think it would turn into such a big deal!"); the whole point of going with Kyle on this strange mission, he explains, was so they could get the "proof" that the government was behind 9/11, and the urinal incident (which again seems to be illogically linked in most people's minds), which the government was willing to go along with if it made people think they were all-powerful. Thus in the end, the fundamentalists are concluded to be responsible for 9/11, the government admits to Stan, Kyle, and the Hardly family that they wanted people to believe the government was in full control of everything. Soon after Stan receives his punishment for defecating in the urinal: cleaning the urinal, while Mr. Mackey lectures him (and unwittingly making him laugh, to Mackey's annoyance).

(Note: After its initial showing, the character of Bush was redubbed. The first version of Bush had no accent and wasn't meant to be a true imitation. When reshown, the Bush character was revoiced with a more accurate imitation of President Bush's voice and manner of speaking.)

[edit] Reception

IGN gave the episode a rating of 7.7/10, calling the episode "topical and humorous", but felt the subplots involving the titular urinal deuce and the Hardly Boys were "awkward and really unfunny".^[1] The episode currently has a score of 8.7 ("great") on TV.com, as voted for by viewers.^[2]

[edit] Trivia

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The Hardly family is a parody of the literary Hardy family of super-sleuths created by Franklin W. Dixon by way of the 70s TV series, The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries starring Shaun Cassidy and Parker Stevenson. The TV show's title and bumper sequences are imitated. In both the books and the episode, a man named Fenton is the father of Frank and Joe. The boys also match the physical descriptions of the original Hardys, although the blond is referred to as "Frank" and the dark-haired brother as "Joe," a reversal from the books. A parody of the Hardy boys with the same title and idea once appeared in National Lampoon, along with another parody called The Retardy Boys. Parodic characters of this name similarly appeared in Nancy Clue and the Hardly Boys in A Ghost in the Closet, a GLBT-themed novel by Mabel Maney published in 2000.^[3]
In the original air date, George Bush did not have a Texas accent, but has one in all later airings.
When Stan and Kyle found the man in front of a fast food restaurant, the restaurant's symbol, a big W, is identical to McDonald's big M, just reversed.
The song that Cartman sings is a reference to "Broken" by the band Shadow Gallery.
Defecating in a urinal, and Kyle being blamed for it, was previously referred to in the episode, Starvin' Marvin in Space. The CIA agents working on the case of Starvin' Marvin stealing an alien spaceship enter the classroom and ask to interrogate Stan, Kyle, Kenny, and Cartman. Cartman becomes defensive, and trying to deflect getting in trouble, shouts, "That was Kyle that went number two in the urinal!"