Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics

Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics

Season s03
Episode e15
Written By Trey Parker
Production Code 0315
Original Air Date 1999-12-01

Episode Chronology

Story

Description

A collection of timeless holiday songs, South Park-style - each handpicked from South Park's musical album also called Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics. The lineup features Kyle and his family, plus Cartman, offering a heavily revised version of Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel. Other highlights include Hitler singing O Tannenbaum, Satan knocking out a surprisingly high-spirited Christmas Time In Hell, and Jesus and Santa performing a slightly strained medley of holiday favorites. Mr. Hankey serves as the narrator, sitting in a tiny chair in front of a fireplace. Kenny doesn't appear until the closing number, during which he's killed by a falling light fixture.

What I Learned Today

"Instead of our normal thing, we're just gonna sit back and enjoy some holiday songs! And if you don't like it, well, I guess you can suck my tiny little balls."

Memorable Quotes

  • "Joy to the world, for I have come. Let earth receive me." Jesus Christ
  • "Ah, fuck you, Jesus." Santa Claus
  • "Stick me in your mouth and try to say 'Howdy Ho, Yum Yum Yum'!" Mr. Hankey
  • "Sometimes he hangs off the end of your ass and won't fall in the toilet, 'cause he's just clinging to your sphincter and he won't drop off and so you shake your ass around and try to get it to drop into the toilet and finally it does...!" (Man in Portable Toilet)
  • "Jews play stupid games. Jews, that's why they're lame!" Cartman
  • "Let's not forget that for some people, Christmas is about the birth of Jesus." Mr. Hankey
  • "Oh holy night! The something something something. And is the night with Christmas trees and pie." Cartman
  • "Merry fuckin' Christmas!" Mr. Garrison

Characters

Body Count

Just Kenny.

Locations

Behind The Scenes

Where Did The Idea Come From

Matt and Trey were still producing episodes without the services of Mary Kay Bergman. In this case they got around the problem because the pre-recorded songs included her numerous characters.

Pop Culture References

Shout Outs

Cowboy Timmy, the mailman that sings the opening song Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo is an homage to the classic animated character Postman Pat.

Kyle's Dad joins in the collaborative performance of Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel by singing "Courtney Cox, I love you. You're so hot, on that show." I believe he's referring to Friends.

During Jesus and Santa's Duet, they slip in a little Duran Duran, with their cover of the band's hit single "Rio".

Pwn'd

During Christmas Time In Hell, John F. Kennedy, Princess Diana, Michael Landon, Jimmy Stewart, and film critic Gene Siskel are all shown burning in the fires of perdition, alongside world leaders Hitler, Ghengis Khan, and Kim Jong-il. Also Andy Dick, who (at the time of this writing) isn't even dead. In the final, joy-filled moments of this episode, Hitler and John F. Kennedy share a hug.

Bonus Factoids

Pointless Observations

In their most obscure reference of all time, Matt and Trey included a live-action news anchor at several points in the show who says, enigmatically, "Fighting the frizzies at 11." It refers to a bootleg copy of the 1978 Star Wars Christmas Special, a bizarre CBS production that's unavailable in any format, save for a much-duped videotape that someone made while the thing aired for the first (and only) time. It comes with commercials intact, including a news anchor saying "Fighting the frizzies at 11," on several occasions. Matt and Trey went this one better by showing their anchor actually fighting a frizzy monster at the end of the show.

Much like Chickenlover, this is another classic "Robert T. Pooner" production. This alias has been used various times by Parker and Stone, including in their pre-South Park short The Spirit of Christmas.

During the opening song, the Postman can be seen holding two pieces of construction paper that correspond to the colors he's singing about ("brown" and "greenish brown"). This is a reference South Park's animation style, as all textures and colors are based off of scanned pieces of construction paper.

During the final number, Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, most of the major characters portrayed by Mary Kay Bergman are shown singing together. It marks the final episode in which Bergman's voice appears

Season 3

e1 Rainforest Shmainforest
e2 Spontaneous Combustion
e3 The Succubus
e4 Tweek Vs. Craig
e5 Jakovasaurs
e6 Sexual Harassment Panda
e7 Cat Orgy
e8 Two Guys Naked in a Hot Tub
e9 Jewbilee
e10 Chinpokomon
e11 Starvin' Marvin in Space
e12 Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery
e13 Hooked on Monkey Fonics
e14 The Red Badge of Gayness
e15 Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics
e16 Are You There, God? It's Me, Jesus
e17 World Wide Recorder Concert