Death (South Park episode)

Infobox Television episode
Title = Death
Series = South Park


Caption = Death appears.
Season = 1
Episode = 6
Airdate = September 17, 1997
Production = 106
Writer = Trey Parker
Matt Stone
Director = Matt Stone
Guests =
Episode list = List of "South Park" episodes
Season list = Infobox South Park season 1 episode list
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Next ="Death" is the sixth episode of Comedy Central's animated series "South Park". It originally aired on September 17, 1997.

Plot

The Marsh family is celebrating Grandpa’s 102nd birthday but Grandpa isn’t having a good time. He wishes he was dead, and tries to accomplish this goal while he and Stan watch "Terrance and Phillip" after the birthday festivities. As Grandpa is too old to do it himself, he asks Stan to help, but he refuses.

Meanwhile at Kyle’s house, Kyle and Ike are also watching "Terrance and Phillip" when their mother, Sheila, comes in and gets upset by the content of the program. The next day at school Kyle discovers that Sheila has called everyone else’s parents and is leading a boycott of "Terrance and Phillip" in front of "Cartoon Central's" headquarters in New York City. During the school day, Stan seeks out various adults to find out whether or not he should assist his Grandpa in killing himself, but no one wishes to discuss the issue (not even Mr. Garrsion, Chef, or Jesus Christ himself), so Stan talks to the guys about it.

Meanwhile Kenny is experiencing a bout of explosive diarrhea. The condition eventually spreads to the whole town, particularly to the adults protesting "Terrance and Phillip". Despite their protest of the show, they are shown laughing at various bits of "real life" toilet humor.

At home, the boys have been left alone to watch "Terrance and Phillip" at their leisure, as most of the community has followed Sheila to Cartoon Central to demand the show be taken off the air. All the while Grandpa Marsh is trying to convince Stan to kill him. In order to show him what it's like to live like him he traps Stan in a room playing a gibberish version of Enya's "Orinoco Flow," at which point he and the rest of the boys agree they must do it. They hang a cow from a tree to drop on Grandpa when Death shows up and begins to come after the boys. Meanwhile, Grandpa is yelling, "I'm over here, you son-of-a-whore!"

Back in New York, the protesters have given the network an ultimatum: take the show off the air or they will kill themselves. Although thirteen people have been slingshotted and smeared on the face of the network building(the first of which being Kenny's father), the network refuses to take "Terrance and Philip" off the air until an executive comes out (in a gas mask) and announces; "Ladies and gentlemen, your nazi-esque tactics of trying to stink us out with rancid faeces... has worked. Therefore, today we will be officially taking "Terrance and Phillip" off the network and replacing it with reruns of "She's the Sheriff" starring Suzanne Somers."

In South Park, while chasing the boys, Death stops at the window of a TV store and watches an episode of "Terrance and Phillip". The boys join him in watching until the announcement of its cancellation. Extremely angered at this development, Death kills Kenny, and Grandpa argues with Death about not taking him. Grampa demands Death to kill him, but Death refuses. Then, Grandpa’s Grandpa shows up and tells him to not kill himself or he'll end up in limbo like himself; it must be from natural causes. The parents come back and put on "She's The Sheriff", are dismayed by the content, and go back to New York for another protest. As the boys brood over what they will do for entertainment (breathe gas fumes, smoke crack, or watch "those porno movie thingies"), Grandpa Marsh comes in and tell them he's taking his Grandpa's advice and is planning a trip to Africa where over 400 people are "naturally" eaten by lions every year. The boys laugh at this, then Kyle farts similar to the way Terrance and Phillip fart and the laughter increases.

Censorship

* Canadian network Global censored two lines in this episode. Cartman's line "Kyle's mom is a dirty Jew!" was omitted (even though "dirty" was bleeped for comic effect). Later, Grandpa Marsh's line to Cartman about his mom, "...and I humped her like a little bitch!" cuts the line off after "...and I humped her..." As with other cuts made to the series by Global, both of these lines are uncut when aired on The Comedy Network.Fact|date=September 2008

External links

* [http://www.southparkstudios.com/guide/106/ Death] on the South Park Studios Episode Guide
* [http://www.tv.com/south-park/death/episode/2422/summary.html?tag=ep_list;ep_title;8 "Death" at tv.com]