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The base of Treasure Cove's side of South Park |
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| Episode no. | Season 4 Episode 16 |
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| Directed by | Trey Parker | ||
| Written by | Trey Parker | ||
| Production code | 416 | ||
| Original air date | December 13, 2000 | ||
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"The Wacky Molestation Adventure" is sixteenth episode of the fourth season of the animated television series South Park, and the 64th episode of the series overall. "The Wacky Molestation Adventure" originally aired in the United States on December 13, 2000 on Comedy Central.
Cartman has four tickets to the "Raging Pussies" concert and the boys all want to go. When Kyle asks his parents for permission they characteristically forbid him from going. After negotiating relentlessly with them, Kyle's mom sarcastically agrees that Kyle can go if he cleans out the garage, shovels all the snow from the driveway and brings democracy to Cuba, all of which Kyle manages to achieve, the latter by writing a letter to Fidel Castro, during a parody of The Year Without a Santa Claus and its song Blue Christmas. It is later announced on the news that Kyle has brought independence to Cuba and American tourists are now allowed in. Despite his success, his parents still refuse to let him go. In his fury, he questions his parents' authority and angrily wishes that he had no parents at all.
When Kyle shares his frustration with his friends, Cartman suggests that he call the police and tell them that his parents have been "molestering" him, which will make them go away (a trick he played on his mother's ex-boyfriend). After some practice to get the accusation right, Kyle makes the call and the police arrest his parents, despite Sheila's tearful pleas that she nor Gerald did such a thing as they are taken away. The boys then go to the concert and Kyle later hosts a party at his parent-free home and dances in his underwear to the song "Old Time Rock and Roll". Seeing how liberated they are without parents, all of the children begin calling the police on their parents and teachers resulting in the adults being taken to prison. Even Shelley, Stan's sister, is arrested after she is about to attack Stan as he celebrates their parents' arrest (though it is never shown what happens to her whilst the adults are in jail). Before long, nearly all of the town's adults have been arrested, many even having moved away over fears of being arrested and only the children populate the town.
Meanwhile, a couple from out of town, Mark and Linda Cotner, are having car trouble as they approach the limits of "Smiley Town" (the South Park sign has been overwritten with "Smiley Town"). They make it to a garage where they meet Butters and Craig. They ask for the nearest phone and are told that it is in "Treasure Cove". They also discover that South Park has been divided into "Smiley Town" and "Treasure Cove" by a long white line. Mark and Linda attempt to enter "Treasure Cove" but are attacked and driven back into Smiley Town. Craig and others come to their rescue and take them to meet the mayor of "Smiley Town" a.k.a, Cartman. Knowing that a ritual called "Carousel" is going to be held that night, Cartman asks Mark and Linda to go to Treasure Cove and retrieve a book for him. Getting the book will force a member of Treasure Cove to be sacrificed to The Provider. Mark and Linda agree to help, find the book, are attacked by residents of Treasure Cove, and taken back to the elementary school where Stan and Kyle are in charge.
Stan asks why Mark and Linda are helping the "fat ass" and offers to get them to the nearest phone if Mark and Linda agrees to help them instead. He then tells them the story of "the before time", which includes the reasons for the existence of Smiley Town, Treasure Cove, "Carousel", "The Provider" (who turns out to be a statue of John Elway), and "The M Word". Mark and Linda then agree to get the book from Smiley Town. Meanwhile, their parents are in prison working out their "sick sexual urges" with a counselor who helps them identify alternative activities to molesting their children.
Back in South Park, Mark gets Cartman's book for Stan and Mayor Cartman chooses Butters to be sacrificed. Realizing the danger to Butters, Mark and Linda attempt to interfere with the ceremony. In response, Cartman threatens to call the police and claim that the couple "molestered" the children. Mark realizes that the town has descended into anarchy because the parents were all falsely accused of molesting the children. He explains to the kids in a speech that their parents, the "birth givers", are their providers. The word "parents" resonates with the children and causes them to begin to remember. It turns out it has only been ten days since the town's parents and adults left. They allow Mark to make his important phone call and to also call to the police, clearing their parents of all wrong doing. Mark tells Linda that maybe they should have children, but after all they have been through, she decides to get her tubes tied.
As the children await the return of their parents, and Mark and Linda drive up and reveal that Mark got the job that his "important call" was for: the manager of a Denny's restaurant in Breckenridge. When the parents arrive they now believe they are "cured" of the "sick sexual urges" that they never had (even though they now believe they actually had molested their kids). The parents are reunited with their children and Cartman, Stan, and Kyle, are confused by their parents' actions. Ultimately, and to Mark and Linda's horror, the boys decide that they do not care about their parent's odd behavior since the problem had seemed to resolve itself.
The entire episode is a spoof of Stephen King's Children of the Corn where the children of the town killed the adults and a couple get lost in the town with the sinister children in charge of their fates. Cartman is supposed to be the leader, Isaac. There are also references to Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome & the Star Trek original series episode Miri.
When Kyle dances in his underwear (with Bob Seger's "Old Time Rock & Roll" playing in the background), this is a parody of the same scene with Tom Cruise in the 1983 film Risky Business.
Many references are made to "Carousel" which is taken from 1976 film Logan's run. When it was time for people to die they were taken to "Carousel."
Kyle's letter to Castro is a parody of the 1974 Christmas special The Year Without a Santa Claus where the children wrote into Santa about how they would have a blue Christmas without him.
Mark (the husband of the couple) calls Craig by the name Spaceman Spiff - This is a reference to Calvin and Hobbes, namely one of Calvin's alter egos.
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