Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls

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Season	s02
Episode	e09
Written By	Trey Parker
Production Code	0209
Original Air Date	1998-08-19

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==Story=====Description===Robert Redford decides to move the Sundance Film Festival from Park City, Utah, to South Park. The town which is immediately overwhelmed by tourists and celebrities. Mr. Garrison tells his class to see and write a report about one independent film, while Chef makes money by selling a special confection called Chocolate Salty Balls. That evening Kyle thinks he hears Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo, calling from inside the toilet. Stan, Cartman and Kenny join him on a trip into the sewers, where they find a very ill Mr. Hankey. It seems that the influx of out-of-towners with strange, healthful diets has dangerously disrupted the sewer's "ecosystem."The boys try to tell the town's guests about the problem, but everyone thinks they're trying to pitch a script. An agent even convinces Cartman to sell the rights to Kyle's story. Within hours a Mr. Hankey movie appears, with Tom Hanks as Kyle and a monkey as Mr. Hankey. Meanwhile, the real Mr. Hankey has turned ghostly white and lingers near death. But the timely consumption of one of Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls revives him. After giving Robert Redford one last chance to take his festival elsewhere, Mr. Hankey causes sewage to inundate the town, killing Redford and his wife and sending the festival's attendees fleeing for their lives. South Park's residents are happy to have their town to themselves -- even though it's now covered in human feces.===What I Learned Today===What Wendy Learned: "Sometimes I forget that even though a few independent films are great, most of them suck ass." What Cartman Learned: "Being a sellout is sweet, because you make a lot of money, and when you have money you don't have to hang out with any poor-ass losers like you guys."===Memorable Quotes===* "You show me one independent film that isn't about gay cowboys eating pudding!" (Cartman) * "Does poo go to heaven?" (Kyle) * "You've got the best balls in the whole world, Chef." (Stan) * "Don't forget to change your sheets once a week." (Mr. Hankey) * "I'll always love you, Mr. Hankey." (Tom Hanks) * "If you work in the entertainment business and you make money, you're a sellout." (Stan) * "One time, when you were sleeping, I put myself in your mouth and had my friend take a picture." (Mr. Hankey) ==Characters=====Body Count===Kenny is trampled by an audience leaving a movie screening. Because Stan and Kyle aren't around, a passerby says, "Oh my God, I found a penny!" To which his companion replies, "You bastard!" Also Robert Redford and his wife are drowned by raw sewage.==Locations====Behind The Scenes=====Where Did The Idea Come From===A couple of years earlier the Sundance Festival rejected Trey and Matt's film Cannibal! The Musical. Actually "rejected" doesn't quite cover it. The Sundance people never even bothered to respond to their submission.==Pop Culture References=====Shout Outs===The movies Godzilla (the American remake) and Independence Day are singled out for scorn. Also, when Mr. Hankey seems about to die, he motions Kyle toward him and says, "There is another Skywalker." Yoda says this to Luke Skywalker in Return of the Jedi. Finally, Mr. Hankey's climactic sewage assault is an homage to the Sorcerer's Apprentice segment in Fantasia. Mr. Hankey even wears a wizard's robe and hat. In the exploratory, independent lesbian film "Witness to Denial", one of the women is wearing a "Lillith Fare" t-shirt. This is a reference to the "Lilith Fair" concert tour, which only featured bands with female vocalists. Robert Redford "honors" South Park by demolishing the town library to make way for a Hollywood Planet Restaurant. This is a take off on the popular tinsel-town themed chain Planet Hollywood.After Mr. Hankey dries out and "dies", a man in a HAZMAT suit comes by and scoops him up. This, as well as the following scene in the white containment room, is a take off on the film "E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial", where the sick alien is taken away from his friend Elliot and put into a containment facility.Pop Culture Reference That Now Seems Strangely Prophetic: One of the films screened at the festival was called A Bunch of Gay Cowboys Eating Pudding. This was long before 2005's Brokeback Mountain, which made gay cowboys (though not pudding) a big deal.===Pwn'd===Robert Redford, who gets a steaming plate of payback with a side order of cous cous for blowing off Cannibal! The Musical. Also Tom Hanks, whom Cartman asserts " can't act his way out of a nutsack." The movie he stars in, Mr. Hankey and Me, is a parody of Philadelphia. Finally Fred Savage, diminutive star of TV's The Wonder Years, is singled out for mockery. When he exits a limo, the nearby crowd groans in disappointment. Pointless Observation: Chef develops several other suggestively named products besides Chocolate Salty Balls, including Fudge Ems, Fudge This, Go Fudge Yourself, I Don't Really Give A Flying Fudge, and I Just Went and Fudged Your Mama.The boys run into Mr. Garrison in the sewers, covered in poo and in full snorkel gear, saying he was "just hanging out". Stan holds hands with Wendy for the first time in this episode .and pukes all over the movie patron in front of him.==Bonus Factoids====Public Reaction==The song Chocolate Salty Balls (P.S. I Love You), performed by Isaac Hayes, hit No. 1 in Great Britain and Ireland.== Season 2 ==

e1 Terrance and Phillip in Not Without My Anus
e2 Cartman's Mom Is Still a Dirty Slut
e3 Chickenlover
e4 Ike's Wee Wee
e5 Conjoined Fetus Lady
e6 The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka
e7 City on the Edge of Forever (Flashbacks)
e8 Summer Sucks
e9 Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls
e10 Chickenpox
e11 Roger Ebert Should Lay Off the Fatty Foods
e12 Clubhouses
e13 Cow Days
e14 Chef Aid
e12 Spookyfish
e13 Merry Christmas Charlie Manson!
e14 Gnomes
e15 Prehistoric Ice Man