Terrance and Phillip: Behind the Blow

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“Terrance and Phillip: Behind the Blow”
South Park episode
Cartman stresses out
Episode no.	Season 5 Episode 70
Written by	Trey Parker
Directed by	Trey Parker
Production no.	505
Original airdate	July 18, 2001
Season 5 episodes
South Park - Season 5 June 20, 2001 – December 12, 2001
Scott Tenorman Must Die It Hits the Fan Cripple Fight Super Best Friends Terrance and Phillip: Behind the Blow Cartmanland Proper Condom Use Towelie Osama Bin Laden Has Farty Pants How to Eat with Your Butt The Entity Here Comes the Neighborhood Kenny Dies Butters' Very Own Episode

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"Terrance and Phillip: Behind the Blow" is episode 70 of the Comedy Central series South Park. It originally aired on July 18, 2001.

[edit] Plot synopsis

The episode begins with the boys watching an episode of Terrance and Phillip; while they complain about all the reruns they see a commercial for Terrance and Phillip live at the Denver Coliseum on Thursday night. They are hysterical, and are determined to see the show. At school the next morning, Kyle tells the other three he got them all tickets. Ms. Choksondik announces that Earth Day is coming up on Friday and that the national Earth Day organization has chosen South Park to be the location of the Earth Day Brainwashing Festival. Three environmentalists speak to the class, using Jedi mind tricks to force their message — a fairly even mixture of environmentalism and anti-Republicanism — upon the children ("You care very much about the earth, don't you?"). The boys, however, anger them, claiming they can't help set up for the festival since they'll be seeing Terrance and Phillip. When this fails to sway the environmentalists, Kyle claims that they will be there to get Terrance and Phillip to perform at the festival. The environmentalists agree to let them go, but warn Kyle that he had better not promise things to the Earth Day people that he cannot deliver.

At the show, the boys discover that Terrance has grown incredibly fat and is now performing with a Phillip stand-in who neither looks nor sounds like the real Phillip. Determined to find out what's going on, the boys try to visit Terrance in his dressing room, and end up sneaking through in the pants of an extremely obese groupie. Once inside, the boys ask Terrance about performing at the Earth Day festival and about Phillip's absence. Terrance turns angry at the mention of Phillip, and explains to the boys that he and Phillip have gone their separate ways, and Phillip is currently in Toronto, doing Canadian Shakespeare . Back in South Park, the boys tell the environmentalists that Terrance and Phillip are no longer performing together. The environmentalists become violently angry, as they have already heavily promoted the appearance. The boys are told to go to Canada immediately to convince Phillip to perform, or else. After sitting through a Canadian performance of Hamlet (Consisting of the original lines, with 'guy' and 'buddy' on the ends), the boys confront Phillip and ask him if he will appear at the Earth Day festival. Phillip is receptive until Kyle mentions performing with Terrance, which Phillip flatly refuses to do. Kyle again lies and says that the people of South Park only want to see Phillip anyway, not Terrance. This placates Phillip and he agrees to come, but all four boys worry about what will happen when Phillip finds out that Terrance is at the festival too.

At the festival, the boys assure the environmentalists that Terrance and Phillip will both be there any minute. Determined to keep up the pressure on the boys, the environmentalists use a meat cleaver to chop off Kenny's arm. Kenny screams as blood slowly pours out. A moment later Phillip shows up, followed quickly by Terrance. The two are initially furious to see one another, but they reluctantly agree to work together. During their rehearsal, Terrance and Phillip begrudgingly do a routine, which eventually boils down into an argument until they both leave in a huff. The boys are dismayed by this, but not nearly as much as the environmentalists, who tell the boys that they had better get Terrance and Phillip back together before the show starts, or else. For good measure, the environmentalists chop off Kenny's other arm and Kenny shouts out more in pain. When the show finally starts and Terrance and Phillip are introduced, Kyle instead puts on a video of the documentary Terrance and Phillip: Behind the Blow. The crowd seems pleased by this, but the environmentalists are furious and begin chasing the boys. While the chase is in progress, Terrance and Phillip both notice the film that is playing, and both stop to watch the story of their career.

As the boys were being chased, the environmentalists soon chop off one of Kenny's leg and Kenny bleeds furthermore as he's hopping on his remaining leg to catch up to the boys. Back at the festival, Terrance and Phillip eventually happen upon one another in the crowd and, after seeing what an incredible career they've had together, apologize to one another and decide to perform for the crowd. At this point, the boys and the environmentalists both arrive back at the festival, where the environmentalists chop off Kenny's last leg. Kenny falls limbless and quickly bleeds. Just as the environmentalists move in to finish off the other boys, Terrance and Phillip take the stage and begin performing their routine. This thrills everyone, even Kenny, who was still alive.

[edit] Miscellaneous

One of the jokes in the Terrance and Phillip show has Phillip's stand-in ask "Who passed gas?", a reference to the Abbott and Costello skit "Who's on First?"
Cartman tells Phillip that he'll make him eat his parents. This is a reference to the previously aired episode, "Scott Tenorman Must Die"
The "Behind the Blow" documentary makes references to both "Terrance and Phillip: Not Without My Anus" and "South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut".
Also in the "Behind the Blow" documentary is a brief allusion to the cliffhanger ending of Cartman's Mom is a Dirty Slut.
The Behind the Blow documentary states that eight million people lost their lives in the war between the United States and Canada; however, this appears to be a continuity error, since all of those people should have been revived at the end of South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut.
All of the Earth day people try to convince the public of the hazards of pollution by attempting to use the force.