Cancelled (South Park)

Infobox Television episode
Title = Cancelled
Series = South Park


Caption = A giant taco that defecates ice cream
Season = 7
Episode = 100
Airdate = March 19, 2003
Production = 704
Writer = Trey Parker
Matt Stone
Director = Trey Parker
Guests =
Episode list = List of "South Park" episodes
Season list = Infobox South Park season 7 episode list
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"Cancelled" is the 100th episode of the Comedy Central series "South Park" to be released. It originally aired on March 19, 2003.

In terms of air date, this is the 97th episode, though "I'm a Little Bit Country" was produced as such.Fact|date=August 2008

Plot

This episode begins almost identically to the first episode, "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe", with Cartman arriving and talking about a dream where he was abducted by aliens. There are some minor differences from the previous episode such as Cartman calling Ike Broflovski other names after Kyle tells him not to call his brother a "dildo" and Ike saying more profane statements like "Suck my balls" and "Don't kick the goddamn baby!" When the children realize they're stuck in a "repeat," they and Chef decide to do something about the anal probe Cartman has; they first see a proctologist, then a scientist. Cartman then refuses to activate the satellite unless Kyle is the one who sticks his finger into his ass. Cartman torments Kyle by continually farting, and finally Kyle gets fed up and plugs him. The scientist, called Jeff, discovers that he can reverse the polarity of the message that the alien ship is transmitting by saying one random thing (candy bars) and working his way through Word Association (candy bars usually come in a wrapper, like wrapping a Christmas present; Christmas comes when it's cold, as in Alaska, polar bears live there, and from there the scientist reaches the word "polarity"). A group of Visitors then show up, and the children and Chef flee in Dukes of Hazzard form. However, the children are ultimately abducted.

The kids wake up on the ship, and meet Najix, an alien who looks like Stan's dad, explaining to them that he chose an appearance that would be most pleasing to them. The disappointed children say it's like the movie "Contact" which "sucked." He shows his true form, a terrifying monster, so the children have him go through a series of transformations, mostly of celebrities, until Cartman suggests "a giant taco that craps ice cream". Najix then explains he and the other aliens make a reality show called "Earth"; all of Earth's species, such as Asians, bears, ducks, Jews, deer, and Hispanics, are taken from seventeen different planets for the purposes of the show, and everyone around the world is unknowningly being filmed and watched. The scientist discovers this at the same time on Earth by translating the binary code that resulted from reversing the polarity of the message (he realized it was binary through more Word Association stemming from "butt sex"); he proceeds to tell everyone, which leads the alien network heads to cancel the show and prepare to destroy the Earth. The scientist concludes that the show is cancelled thanks to associating the term "chaos theory" up to "cancelled", then uses his Word Association skills with the word "jackets" to come up with a plan to send the ship a computer virus to disable their computers. Chef responds, "That doesn't make any goddamned sense!"

The boys go to Planet Fognl to meet the alien heads, who are "Joozians", a species that control all media in the universe. The aliens don't listen to the boys while explaining that after 100 episodes, series start to decline in sensibility. This is followed by scenes where they insist on taking the boys to lunch, go to a "hekma" (topless) bar, and visit a prostitute's hotel room. The two Joozians then, very drunk and high on "blach", begin sucking on each others' "jagons" and sticking their fingers in each others "thrushers", actions depicted as being highly erotic and, seemingly, inappropriate. Kenny takes a picture of it, and the boys then blackmail the aliens with it. The Joozians agree to erase everyone's memory of the truth about "Earth", then send the oblivious boys back to their own planet. Kenny still has the picture, and though no one can remember what it is, Chef tells Kenny to keep it, as he feels sure that it's something very important. The episode ends with another advertisement for "Earth".

Censorship

* The syndicated version of this episode cuts the part where the Joozians get inebriated and suck on the phallic extensions on their shoulders (“jagons”) during the hotel scene because of the obvious resemblance to fellatio. Also, one of the Joozian’s lines, “I can’t believe I sucked on your jagon,” was cut.
* On Comedy Central, Ike says, “Don't kick the goddamn baby!” On syndication, he only says, “Don’t kick the damn baby.”

outh Park continuity

* In the Season 11 episode "Imaginationland", a giant taco that craps ice cream can be seen. This is the form that Najix takes on in "Cancelled" upon Cartman's request. As Cartman thought this up, it becomes an imaginary character.