![]() ![]() Kyle disagrees, but surprisingly, Stan sides with Cartman and seems to think it’s against the law. Cartman then takes exception to Kyle participating in the snow eating declaring that Jews can’t eat Christmas snow. The kids seem pretty happy about the whole thing, all except Kenny who has the misfortune of a bird defecating on his face. The kids react like it’s something special though and all run outside where Wendy suggests they catch snowflakes on their tongue because it’s, you know, fun! The kids do as they’re told while a facsimile of the music from A Charlie Brown Christmas is played from the same scene of the kids trying to catch snowflakes on their tongue in that one. This is intended as a joke since this is South Park where it snows constantly. Wendy, in another callback to a classic Christmas special, points out to the other kids that it’s snowing outside. Kyle is going to need confirmation from the law on this one. Hankey the Christmas poo / he loves me and I love you… Hankey song, which goes something like this: Mr. His mom suggests The Dreidel Song while Kyle proposes the Mr. As she explains that her son is Jewish, we cut briefly to Kyle looking ashamed and the other kids looking at him confused while Stan even asks “Dude, why are you Jewish on Christmas?” Garrison then gets back on his megaphone and asks Kyle if there is anything he can do in the play not related to Jesus. Garrison responds in a derogatory fashion concerned she’s about to lay that “Chanukah crap” on him which gets her even more flustered. Sheila is incensed that Garrison would stage a nativity scene for a school play and demands to know why he would cast her son, who is Jewish, in the role of Joseph. He explains he’s trying to direct the Christmas play, but points out her son was holding “baby Jesus fetus” by the head. Garrison sassed his way out of any compromise.Īs they get ready to try it again, Kyle’s mom Sheila (Bergman) shows up. ![]() Plus, she seemed willing to overlook it if her son was cast as someone else up until Mr. The show could have just said portrayed Sheila as being too uptight, but she’s right to object to a nativity scene for a school play. I suppose I could have planned it out better, but maybe they should be paired? I realize that Tuesday’s special revolved around a fart and this one will center its plot on a poop. ![]() This episode is also a musical, which is something the creators would obviously return to time and again both with South Park and outside of it. Hankey for something inoffensive and the special would work for any network, provided the swearing was also dropped. We’ll get more into it as we go through it, but it’s interesting that you could basically swap Mr. Since it’s also South Park, it subverts some Christmas tropes and adds a healthy amount of gross-out humor to the mix to make it something not broadcast network friendly. It tackles a relatable and sometimes overlooked aspect of Christmas which is how do the Jewish kids feel? This part of the special came from Stone, who is Jewish and had to deal with seeing all of his non-Jewish friends receive presents from Santa as a kid. Hankey the Christmas Poo” is the first of several Christmas episodes the show would air and it’s still the show’s best. It was so convincing that I recall many a friend at the time that would insist that’s how the show was animated, or it was only the first season that was, but in truth it was almost all of it as only the pilot contained some true stop-motion. The show had a very distinct style to it as it was animated on computers, but in such a way that it resembled stop-motion paper dolls like the original short that spawned the series. The show about four foul-mouthed kids who seem to live amongst the most over reactive collection of adults in the world was an instant hit and creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker suddenly found themselves amongst celebrities and the like. South Park burst onto the scene in 1997 and basically transformed the Comedy Central network from the get-go. Today we are continuing our look back at the best of the best when it comes to Christmas specials and today’s entrant comes from the quiet, mountain, town of South Park.
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