The Wacky Molestation Adventure
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| “The Wacky Molestation Adventure” | |
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| South Park episode | |
 Cartman, the mayor of "Smiley Town" |
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| Episode no. | Season 4 Episode 64 |
| Written by | Trey Parker |
| Production no. | 416 |
| Original airdate | December 13, 2000 |
| Season 4 episodes | |
| South Park - Season 4 April 5, 2000 – December 20, 2000 |
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"The Wacky Molestation Adventure" is episode 64 of the Comedy Central series South Park. It originally aired on December 13, 2000.
[edit] Plot
Cartman has four tickets for a Raging Pussies concert and the boys all want to go, but Kyle stupidly asks his parents if he can go, and, of course, his parents forbid him from going. When he tries to negotiate, Kyle's mom says (sarcastically) that Kyle can go if "you clean out the garage, shovel all the snow from the driveway and bring democracy to Cuba". He then proceeds to write a letter to Fidel Castro who after reading the letter, is reduced to tears and runs out of his office to declare Cuba democratic. Of course even though he completed this impossible task, which left Mr. and Mrs. Broflovski speechless when they saw Kyle being given credit on the news, Kyle's parents still won't let him go to the concert, explaining he wasn't supposed to do it, as it was supposed to be impossible. In his fury, he questions his parents' authority and shouts out his wishes of not having parents as he leaves the house, shocking his parents. While hanging with the guys at Kenny's house, Kyle tells of his wishes that he didn't have any parents to his friends, who agree with him. Cartman suggests that he call the police and tell them that his parents have been "molestering" him, which will make them go away for a while (a trick he played on his mother's ex-boyfriend). Kyle does this and the police take his parents away. Kyle and Ike are left on their own (the authorities believe that his grandmother, who is in fact dead, will look after him). Of course, as the Broflovskis have never molested Kyle in any way, shape or form, they are shocked by the injustice. The boys go to the concert; later, Kyle hosts a house party. After discovering how liberated they are without their parents, all the children soon call the police on their parents and teachers, and the adults in South Park are taken away, including Shelley (Stan's sister, who was about to attack him for taking their parents away); those that weren't arrested leave town. Before long there are only children populating the town. From this moment on, the town parodies Lord of the Flies.
A week later, a couple from out of town, Mark and Linda Cotner, has a breakdown with their car and they find the town of "Smiley Town" (the South Park sign has been overwritten with "Smiley Town"). They get to a garage where Butters greets them. They ask for the nearest phone but are told that it is in "Treasure Cove." Soon they discover South Park has been divided into Smiley Town and Treasure Cove by a long white line. Mark and Linda are attacked by kindergartners when they enter Treasure Cove. Driven back to Smiley Town, they are taken to meet the mayor, Cartman. Knowing that a ritual called "Carousel" is going to be held that night, Cartman asks Mark and Linda to go to Treasure Cove to retrieve a book for him. Getting the book will force a member of Treasure Cove to be sacrificed to The Provider. Mark and Linda find the book (and Kenny's dead body). They are attacked when they retrieve the book.
Mark and Linda are taken back over to the Treasure Cove (the elementary school) where Stan and Kyle are in charge. They want to know why Mark and Linda are helping the "fat ass." If Mark and Linda agrees to help them out, Stan agrees to get them to the nearest phone. He then tells them the story of "the before time", which includes the reasons for the existence of Smiley Town, Treasure Cove, "Carousel", "The Provider" (who turns out to be a statue of John Elway) and "The M Word". Stan and Kyle's less civilized, yet more benevolent tribe is at war with Cartman's more civilized, yet less benevolent tribe. Mark and Linda agree to help the Treasure Cove kids get the book from Smiley Town. Meanwhile, the parents are in prison, working out their "sick sexual urges" with a counselor who helps them identify what activities there are besides molesting their children.
Back in South Park, Mark gets Cartman's book for Stan and Kyle, but Mayor Cartman has his wife, who is now bound and gagged and being led forwards with Cartman's group. Cartman isn't given his book back, so one of his own must be sacrificed and he chooses Butters. When Mark and Linda starts to interfere with the ceremony, Cartman threatens to call the police and say they "molestered" them. Mark realises that the town is in this state and the kids have all but lost their sanity because the children have accused all their parents of molesting them. He explains to the kids in a Shatner-esque speech that their parents, the "birth givers", are their providers. The word "parents" triggers memories in the children, which cause them to change their minds. It turns out it's only been ten days since the town emptied of all grown ups and parents and turned the town into Smiley Town and Treasure Cove and caused horror. They allow Mark to make his important phone call and a phone call to the police, clearing their parents of all wrong doing. Mark tells Linda that maybe they should have children, but after all they've been through, she decides to get her tubes tied.
The children await the return of their parents, and Mark and Linda drive up and reveal that Mark got the job that his "important call" was for: the manager of a Denny's restaurant in Breckenridge. When the parents arrive they now believe they are "cured" of the "sick sexual urges" that they never had (even though they now believe they had molested their kids). As the parents are reunited with their children, Cartman, Stan, and Kyle, confused by their parents' actions, decide to go build a snow igloo.
[edit] Censorship
When this episode first aired, during the prison therapy sequence, the counselor uses a cardboard cutout of The Beaver from Leave It to Beaver and tells the parents to suppress their urges to rape him. All reruns and the DVD version change "rape" to "molest", though the closed captioning does retain the original line.
[edit] Cultural references
- When Stan speaks about how the children ended up alone, and presents their religious system, this is a parody of the feral children's ritual "tell" in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.
- "The before time" and the Shatner-esque speech are references to the "Miri" episode of Star Trek.
- According to the audio commentary, this episode originally had Cartman trying to block the sun out of "Smiley Town". This was planned for the whole weekend of production before this episode was made. On that Monday, however, a writer revealed that The Simpsons 'already did it'. The show was eventually changed, but this event eventually inspired the plot for the episode "Simpsons Already Did It".
- The ritual known as "Carousel" is a reference to the 1976 film Logan's Run. In the movie, people who have reached the age of 30 are sacrificed in the ceremony of Carousel, which ostensibly holds the possibility of "renewal."
- Mark calls Craig by the name Spaceman Spiff. This is a reference to Calvin and Hobbes, referring to one of Calvin’s alter egos.
- Much of the episode draws on the Stephen King movie Children of the Corn.
- When Kyle slides across the hallway wearing his underwear and a pair of sunglasses, it's a reference to the same act by Tom Cruise in Risky Business.
- When Kyle writes a letter to Fidel Castro to persuade Cuba to adopt democracy, the song he sings sounds similar to "Blue Christmas" and the illustrations are very similar to those from the TV special The Year Without a Santa Claus. It is also possibly a reference to the letter that Castro wrote to Franklin D. Roosevelt asking for an American $10 bill when he was twelve.
- The fact that there are two sides, one civil and one savage, may be a reference to William Goldings "Lord of the Flies". Ironically however, the savage tribe is more kind than the civilized tribe.
- Stan spreads his arms in the middle of town and says "Its ours", this might also be a reference to "Lord of the Flies".
| Preceded by: "Fat Camp" |
South Park episodes | Followed by: "A Very Crappy Christmas" |
