Fat Camp (South Park)
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| South Park episode | |
| "Fat Camp" | |
Can Cartman survive fat camp? | |
| Episode no. | 63 |
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| Airdate | December 6, 2000 |
| South Park - Season 4 April 5, 2000 – December 20, 2000 | |
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"Fat Camp" is episode 415 of the Comedy Central series South Park. It originally aired on December 6, 2000.
[edit] Plot
The episode begins in class, where the children are dissecting manatees. During the class, the boys dare Kenny to eat a manatee's spleen, which Kenny does in exchange for money. He then commences to eat other disgusting things for money, and expands outwards into all sorts of bizarre acts, until he gets his own program, The Krazy Kenny Show, to showcase his disgusting acts. He also appears on Jesus 'n' Pals, the local talk show, where Jesus comments on this behavior by saying that Kenny (for simply doing outrageous acts for money that require no real talent) is a prostitute. The boys try to discover what one is, including by asking Chef, who sings them "The Prostitute Song."
Meanwhile, Cartman's mother and others from the town pay to send him (against his will) to Fat Camp, where a pair of overenthusiastic counselors try to teach him and other overweight children to exercise and live a healthier life. Though Cartman resists, he soon reappears in South Park, looking scores of pounds thinner. The children are shocked by this, and also that this Cartman seems more mature and less mean; however, when nobody is looking, this character takes and collects junk food, and it is eventually revealed that this is not Cartman, but a similar-looking kid from the drug rehabilitation center next door to the Fat Camp; apparently, he has escaped and makes a deal with Cartman, in which he returns to South Park and collects food, then brings it back to the Fat Camp and gives it to Cartman; Cartman then sells it to the other kids in the camp. As a result, none of the kids get any thinner, and their parents decide to take all of their kids home.
Kenny (after an appearance on The Howard Stern Show) is arrested for prostitution, right before a big show where he intends to go into Mrs. Crabtree's uterus and stay there for six hours; when thin Cartman says that their encouragement of Kenny was wrong in a moralizing way, Kyle declares that he can't take it anymore and takes off thin Cartman's hat; the thin Cartman has red hair rather than brown which proves this is not Cartman. At the same time, back at Fat Camp, one of the kids reveals Cartman's plan, which saves the camp. After listening to a compassionate speech from one of the kids, Cartman says that he will no longer sneak in food, and together, they all can lose the weight. However, because he was responsible for making the kids fatter, he is kicked out. Cartman gets mad, but after everybody goes in, he starts to cry and eats a donut. The imposter, however, is forced to dress up as Kenny and spend the time in Mrs. Crabtree's uterus.
When the six hours is up, it is revealed that the imposter has died. It is notable that Kenny does not die in this episode, though his proxy does; as Stan says, "They killed Kenny!...sort of." The episode ends when another kid (Unknown) comes out of Mrs. Crabtree's uterus.
[edit] Trivia
- Multiple scenes from this episode that aired on network TV involving Kenny's disgusting acts (such as eating his own vomit) were "edited out for your protection" in syndication.
- This is the ninth episode before Season 7 in which Kenny does not die. However, the kid who did die at the end of the episode was wearing Kenny's orange parka. This gives us the illusion that death follows Kenny's parka and not necessarily Kenny himself (although Kenny does die in "The Jeffersons" and "Super Best Friends" without his parka). This is also evident in the episode "Cripple Fight" where Timmy gives Jimmy an orange parka, then we see planes crashing, bear attacks, and other various deaths that have killed Kenny narrowly miss Jimmy.
- When Chef asks why the children want to know what a prostitute is, the following shot of Kyle shows his mouth vertically inverted.
- When the parents and kids are invited to Cartman's house to see "the new Eric Cartman", you can hear dialogue from Two Guys Naked in a Hot Tub while they're waiting.
- Cartman's mom states that he is the only fat child in the family. However, in the episode Merry Christmas Charlie Manson! the rest of the family is shown, all similar in stature and behavior to Cartman.
- We can briefly see Kenny's mouth in this episode.
- The Krazy Kenny Show storyline of this episode satirizes The Tom Green Show and Jackass.
- In the background of the room where Howard Stern is interviewing Kenny, Tom Green and Johnny Knoxville, theres an Antonio Banderas blow-up sex doll from the episode Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery.
| Preceded by: "Helen Keller! The Musical" | South Park episodes | Followed by: "The Wacky Molestation Adventure" |
