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
Kyle Broflovski
Eric Cartman
Jerome "Chef" McElroy
Mr. Hankey
Robert Redford
Herbert Garrison
Wendy Testaburger
Fred Savage
Tom Hanks
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.
Kenny McCormick
Locations
Sundance Film Festival
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.
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 Disney's Fantasia. Mr. Hankey even wears Mickey Mouse's wizard 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." 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.
The movie Cartman stars in, Mr. Hankey and Me, is a parody of Philadelphia.
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.
Bonus Factoids
Pointless Observations
During the scene Kenny is ran over by the crowd leaving the theater, a Visitor is observed above Kenny's bloody hand. Another is spotted in the movie theater above a sitting man with a cowboy hat.
Stan holds hands with Wendy for the first time in this episode. He also pukes all over the movie patron in front of him.
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