Insecurity (South Park)

"Insecurity"
South Park episode
Randy hijacking the UPS man
Episode no.	Season 16 Episode 10
Directed by	Trey Parker
Written by	Trey Parker
Production code	1610
Original air date	October 10, 2012 (2012-10-10)
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"Insecurity" is the tenth episode of the sixteenth season of the American animated sitcom South Park, and the 233rd episode of the series overall. It aired on Comedy Central in the United States on October 10, 2012.^[1]

The story concerns Kyle Broflovski's belief that his mother is having an affair with a UPS delivery man. When public suspicion falls upon the delivery man, package delivery to the neighborhood is threatened, and Eric Cartman purchases a home security system in response.^[1]

Plot

Gerald Broflovski dresses up as a UPS delivery man in order to engage in sexual roleplay with his wife, Sheila. Their three-year-old son, Ike, sees this and is convinced that his mother is having an affair with a real delivery man, not knowing that the man was just his father in disguise. He draws a picture of what he saw, and tearfully shows his older brother Kyle, who also mistakenly believes this. Soon, all the children and men in South Park, led by Randy, are under the impression that UPS delivery men are sleeping with their wives. Cartman decides to have a home security system installed to protect his mother, but after accidentally triggering the device, is infuriated with the company's nonchalant reaction.

An old man at Skeeter's Bar convinces the men that the convenience of ordering products online has brought this situation upon them, relating the UPS delivery men to milk men of the 20th century. He goes on to explain that women often arrange for delivery of products they do not even remember ordering. When Randy observes Sharon having made such an order without remembering it, he finds Ike's drawing in Stan's room. Convinced that UPS delivery man is sleeping with their wives, Randy and the men ask the old man for advice. He tells them the only way to solve the problem is to kill the delivery man and resolve to returning to purchase products in brick and mortar stores, as his generation did with milk men.

The men each don Bane-type masks, severely beat up the UPS delivery man, and leave Ike's drawing on him to indicate that they know what he did. When the deliveries continue, the men decide to install the Wolf Home Security personal alarm system, INSecurity, which is physically installed inside the user and triggered whenever the user feels insecure. This leads to rampant false alarms caused by the men's insecurities. Kyle attempts to address the issue of his mother's "affair" by having his parents sit down with the UPS delivery man, but after the delivery man's UPS truck is destroyed by a bomb, he retreats deeper into the Broflovski's home, before jumping out of a second story window to his death. The men tell the police that the delivery man killed himself because he was a psychopath who had been forced to have sex with his mother, and illustrate this by showing the police Ike's drawing, which they say they found in the man's pocket. When the police find a UPS uniform in the Broflovski's closet, Kyle and the men realize that Gerald was the UPS man that Ike saw.

When the men inform the old man he was wrong about the trappings of modern convenience, and merely need to be secure with themselves, the old man suggests that the security salesmen are having sex with their wives. As a result, Cartman and the men, again disguised as Bane, confront the security technician.

References

External links

• "Insecurity" at South Park Studios