Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes

Infobox Television episode
Title = Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes
Series = South Park


Caption = South Park as a ghost town
Season = 8
Episode = 120
Airdate = November 3, 2004
Production = 809
Writer = Trey Parker
Director = Trey Parker
Guests =
Episode list = List of "South Park" episodes
Season list = Infobox South Park season 8 episode list
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"Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes" is episode 809 of Comedy Central's "South Park". This episode originally aired on November 3, 2004.

Story

The episode begins with Cartman betting Kyle five dollars that when people die they "crap their pants". Kyle says it's a stupid idea and never agrees to the wager. In the meantime, a Wall-Mart opens in South Park (where Starks Pond used to be) with much fanfare and everyone in town starts shopping there. Cartman is especially delighted that one can buy three copies of Timecop for $18 though Kyle wonders why you would need three copies of the same movie. The popularity of Wall-Mart forces the local businesses to shut down, including Jim's Drugs. Cartman mocks this by playing a violin which Kyle snaps in half. Soon, the now-unemployed residents start to work at Wall-Mart for minimum wage, including Stan's father Randy.

South Park turns into a ghost town and the townspeople decide they no longer want the Wall-Mart in South Park. They fail to resist, as they start to miss the bargains. The townspeople ask the Wall-mart President to shut the Wall-Mart down. He asks them to meet him outside in 5 minutes. As the people stop outside his office, the manager is thrown though the office in an apparent suicide by hanging and then "craps his pants". Cartman, uncaring of the fact a man has died, gleefully tells Kyle he owes him five bucks.

The townspeople decide to burn the building down, only to see it rebuilt. A man rebuilding the Wall-Mart tells the boys that the rebuilding order came from Bentonville, Arkansas. The three of them then travel to Bentonville to stop the Wall-Mart.

The Wall-Mart starts "speaking" to Cartman, telling him his friends are trying to destroy it. He catches up with the other boys at a bus station, where he tries to stop them from succeeding by slashing the bus' tires, but they still reach Bentonville. They reach Wall-Mart HQ and talk to Harvey Brown, the current president of Wall-Mart. The boys ask him how they can stop it, and he tells them they need to find and destroy its "heart". As the boys leave, Brown puts a gun to his head, says "boys, tell the world I'm sorry," and pulls the trigger. He then dies and "craps his pants". Cartman again laughes that Kyle owes him ten bucks now.

The Boys try to enter South Park Wall-Mart but Cartman confronts them. Kenny is then assigned to hold Cartman off while Stan and Kyle enter the Wall-Mart. Once in the Wall-Mart, they find Stan's father, who tells them how to get to the television department, which is where Brown told the boys the "heart" is.

In the television department, the boys are confronted by a man who says he is Wall-Mart. After a confusing dialog, he finally tells the boys that the heart "lies beyond that plasma screen television". The boys walk over to find it is a mirror that the boys then smash to "destroy the heart." The actual building of Wall-Mart then begins to fall apart, and the man who says he is Wall-Mart assumes his "true form" (which is just the man without his mustache) and starts to laugh diabolically.

After the Wall-Mart disappears, it "craps its pants". Cartman then laughs because of the fact that Kyle now owes him 15 dollars and he now knows that when stores die they "crap their pants". Randy then gives a speech about how if they want to keep the small town charm, they need to spend a little more. The townspeople shop at Jim's Drugs, which grows bigger and bigger before being burned down. The townspeople vow not to shop there again and go to True Value to start again.

External links

* [http://www.southparkstudios.com/show/episodes/display_episode.php?episodeid=809 South Park Studios Episode Guide]