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Cancelled (South Park)
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"Cancelled" is the season 7 premiere episode and the overall 97th episode, although intended to be the 100th, of the Comedy Central
series South Park
. It originally aired on March 19, 2003.
", with Cartman
arriving and talking about a dream where he was abducted by aliens. There are some minor differences from the previous episode such as Cartman calling Ike Broflovski a "semen
-puking asshole
dickhead" after Kyle
tells him not to call his brother a "dildo
" and Ike saying more profane statements like "Suck my balls" and "Don't kick the goddamn baby!" When the children realize they are stuck in a "repeat
," they and Chef
decide to do something about the anal probe Cartman has; they first see a proctologist
, then a scientist. Cartman then refuses to activate the satellite unless Kyle is the one who sticks his finger into his ass
. Cartman torments Kyle seven times by continually farting, and finally Kyle gets fed up and plugs him. The scientist, called Jeff
, discovers that he can reverse the polarity of the message that the alien ship is transmitting. A group of Visitors then show up, and the children and Chef flee in Dukes of Hazzard
form. However, the children are ultimately abducted.
The kids wake up on the ship, and meet Najix, an alien who looks like Stan's dad, explaining to them that he chose an appearance that would be most pleasing to them. The disappointed children say it is like the movie Contact
which "sucked." He shows his true form, a terrifying monster, so the children have him go through a series of transformations, mostly of celebrities
, until Cartman suggests "a taco
that craps ice cream
". Najix then explains he and the other aliens make a reality show
called Earth; all of Earth's species, such as Asian
s, bear
s, duck
s, Jews, deer
, and Hispanic
s, are taken from their respective home planets for the purposes of the show, and everyone around the world is unknowingly being filmed and watched. The scientist discovers this at the same time on Earth by translating the binary code that resulted from reversing the polarity of the message (deducing this via word association stemming from "butt sex," a parody of Jeff Goldblum's character in Independence Day
realizing to use a computer virus after hearing of a cold; Jeff's name and appearance are a reference to Goldblum) he proceeds to tell everyone, which leads the alien network heads to cancel the show and prepare to destroy the Earth. The scientist concludes that the show is cancelled thanks to associating the term "chaos theory" up to "cancelled", then uses his word association skills with the word "jackets" to come up with a plan to send the ship a computer virus to disable their computers. Chef responds, "That doesn't make any goddamned sense!"
The boys go to Planet Fognl to meet the alien heads, who are "Joozians", a species that control all media in the universe
. The aliens do not listen to the boys while explaining that after 100 episodes, the show should be cancelled. (Earth was a show, and cancelling it meant destroying the Earth and all humans on it.) This joke was used because this episode was originally meant to be the 100th episode, which is also why the beginning is an homage to the first episode. This is followed by scenes where they insist on taking the boys to lunch, go to a "hekma" (topless) bar, and visit a prostitute's
hotel room. The two Joozians then, very drunk and high on "blach", begin sucking on each others' "jaggons" and sticking their fingers in each others "thrushers", actions depicted as being highly erotic
and, seemingly, inappropriate. Kenny takes a picture of it, and the boys then blackmail
the aliens with it. The Joozians agree to erase everyone's memory of the truth about Earth, then send the oblivious boys back to their own planet. Kenny still has the picture, and though no one can remember what it is, Chef tells Kenny to keep it, as he feels sure that it's something very important. The episode ends with another advertisement for Earth, promising that on next episode the "American
s and Iraqi
s have an all-out brawl" (The coalition invasion of Iraq was launched the night of this episode's original airing).
Comedy Central
Comedy Central is an American cable television and satellite television channel that carries comedy programming, both original and syndicated....
series South Park
South Park
South Park is an American animated television series created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone for the Comedy Central television network. Intended for mature audiences, the show has become famous for its crude language, surreal, satirical, and dark humor that lampoons a wide range of topics...
. It originally aired on March 19, 2003.
Plot
This episode begins almost identically to the very first episode, "Cartman Gets an Anal ProbeCartman Gets an Anal Probe
"Cartman Gets an Anal Probe" is the first episode of the animated television series South Park. It first aired on Comedy Central in the United States on August 13, 1997...
", with Cartman
Eric Cartman
Eric Theodore Cartman is a fictional character in the American animated television series South Park. One of four main characters, along with Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, and Kenny McCormick, he is generally referred to within the series by his last name...
arriving and talking about a dream where he was abducted by aliens. There are some minor differences from the previous episode such as Cartman calling Ike Broflovski a "semen
Semen
Semen is an organic fluid, also known as seminal fluid, that may contain spermatozoa. It is secreted by the gonads and other sexual organs of male or hermaphroditic animals and can fertilize female ova...
-puking asshole
Asshole
The word asshole, a variant of arsehole, which is still prevalent in British and Australian English, is a term used pejoratively to describe the anus.-History:...
dickhead" after Kyle
Kyle Broflovski
Kyle Broflovski is a fictional character in the animated television series South Park. He is voiced by co-creator Matt Stone. Kyle is one of the show's four central characters, along with his friends Stan Marsh, Kenny McCormick, and Eric Cartman...
tells him not to call his brother a "dildo
Dildo
A dildo is a sex toy, often explicitly phallic in appearance, intended for bodily penetration during masturbation or sex with partners.- Description and uses :...
" and Ike saying more profane statements like "Suck my balls" and "Don't kick the goddamn baby!" When the children realize they are stuck in a "repeat
Rerun
A rerun or repeat is a re-airing of an episode of a radio or television broadcast. The invention of the rerun is generally credited to Desi Arnaz. There are two types of reruns—those that occur during a hiatus, and those that occur when a program is syndicated. Reruns can also be, as the...
," they and Chef
Chef (South Park)
Jerome "Chef" McElroy is a fictional character on the Comedy Central series South Park. He was voiced by Isaac Hayes. A cafeteria worker at the local elementary school in the town of South Park, Colorado, Chef was generally portrayed as more level-headed than the other adult residents of the town...
decide to do something about the anal probe Cartman has; they first see a proctologist
Proctology
Colorectal surgery is a field in medicine, dealing with disorders of the rectum, anus, and colon. The field is also known as proctology, but the term is outdated in the more traditional areas of medicine...
, then a scientist. Cartman then refuses to activate the satellite unless Kyle is the one who sticks his finger into his ass
Buttocks
The buttocks are two rounded portions of the anatomy, located on the posterior of the pelvic region of apes and humans, and many other bipeds or quadrupeds, and comprise a layer of fat superimposed on the gluteus maximus and gluteus medius muscles. Physiologically, the buttocks enable weight to...
. Cartman torments Kyle seven times by continually farting, and finally Kyle gets fed up and plugs him. The scientist, called Jeff
Jeff Goldblum
Jeffrey Lynn "Jeff" Goldblum is an American actor. His career began in the mid-1970s and he has appeared in major box-office successes including The Fly, Jurassic Park and its sequel Jurassic Park: The Lost World, and Independence Day...
, discovers that he can reverse the polarity of the message that the alien ship is transmitting. A group of Visitors then show up, and the children and Chef flee in Dukes of Hazzard
The Dukes of Hazzard
The Dukes of Hazzard is an American television series that aired on the CBS television network from 1979 to 1985.The series was inspired by the 1975 film Moonrunners, which was also created by Gy Waldron and had many identical or similar character names and concepts.- Overview :The Dukes of Hazzard...
form. However, the children are ultimately abducted.
The kids wake up on the ship, and meet Najix, an alien who looks like Stan's dad, explaining to them that he chose an appearance that would be most pleasing to them. The disappointed children say it is like the movie Contact
Contact (film)
Contact is a 1997 American science fiction drama film adapted from the Carl Sagan novel of the same name and directed by Robert Zemeckis. Both Sagan and wife Ann Druyan wrote the story outline for the film adaptation of Contact....
which "sucked." He shows his true form, a terrifying monster, so the children have him go through a series of transformations, mostly of celebrities
Celebrity
A celebrity, also referred to as a celeb in popular culture, is a person who has a prominent profile and commands a great degree of public fascination and influence in day-to-day media...
, until Cartman suggests "a taco
Taco
A taco is a traditional Mexican dish composed of a corn or wheat tortilla folded or rolled around a filling. A taco can be made with a variety of fillings, including beef, chicken, seafood, vegetables and cheese, allowing for great versatility and variety...
that craps ice cream
Ice cream
Ice cream is a frozen dessert usually made from dairy products, such as milk and cream, and often combined with fruits or other ingredients and flavours. Most varieties contain sugar, although some are made with other sweeteners...
". Najix then explains he and the other aliens make a reality show
Reality television
Reality television is a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded...
called Earth; all of Earth's species, such as Asian
Asian people
Asian people or Asiatic people is a term with multiple meanings that refers to people who descend from a portion of Asia's population.- Central Asia :...
s, bear
Bear
Bears are mammals of the family Ursidae. Bears are classified as caniforms, or doglike carnivorans, with the pinnipeds being their closest living relatives. Although there are only eight living species of bear, they are widespread, appearing in a wide variety of habitats throughout the Northern...
s, duck
Duck
Duck is the common name for a large number of species in the Anatidae family of birds, which also includes swans and geese. The ducks are divided among several subfamilies in the Anatidae family; they do not represent a monophyletic group but a form taxon, since swans and geese are not considered...
s, Jews, deer
Deer
Deer are the ruminant mammals forming the family Cervidae. Species in the Cervidae family include white-tailed deer, elk, moose, red deer, reindeer, fallow deer, roe deer and chital. Male deer of all species and female reindeer grow and shed new antlers each year...
, and Hispanic
Hispanic
Hispanic is a term that originally denoted a relationship to Hispania, which is to say the Iberian Peninsula: Andorra, Gibraltar, Portugal and Spain. During the Modern Era, Hispanic sometimes takes on a more limited meaning, particularly in the United States, where the term means a person of ...
s, are taken from their respective home planets for the purposes of the show, and everyone around the world is unknowingly being filmed and watched. The scientist discovers this at the same time on Earth by translating the binary code that resulted from reversing the polarity of the message (deducing this via word association stemming from "butt sex," a parody of Jeff Goldblum's character in Independence Day
Independence Day (film)
Independence Day is a 1996 science fiction film about an alien invasion of Earth, focusing on a disparate group of individuals and families as they converge in the Nevada desert and, along with the rest of the human population, participate in a last-chance counterattack on July 4 – the same...
realizing to use a computer virus after hearing of a cold; Jeff's name and appearance are a reference to Goldblum) he proceeds to tell everyone, which leads the alien network heads to cancel the show and prepare to destroy the Earth. The scientist concludes that the show is cancelled thanks to associating the term "chaos theory" up to "cancelled", then uses his word association skills with the word "jackets" to come up with a plan to send the ship a computer virus to disable their computers. Chef responds, "That doesn't make any goddamned sense!"
The boys go to Planet Fognl to meet the alien heads, who are "Joozians", a species that control all media in the universe
Universe
The Universe is commonly defined as the totality of everything that exists, including all matter and energy, the planets, stars, galaxies, and the contents of intergalactic space. Definitions and usage vary and similar terms include the cosmos, the world and nature...
. The aliens do not listen to the boys while explaining that after 100 episodes, the show should be cancelled. (Earth was a show, and cancelling it meant destroying the Earth and all humans on it.) This joke was used because this episode was originally meant to be the 100th episode, which is also why the beginning is an homage to the first episode. This is followed by scenes where they insist on taking the boys to lunch, go to a "hekma" (topless) bar, and visit a prostitute's
Prostitution
Prostitution is the act or practice of providing sexual services to another person in return for payment. The person who receives payment for sexual services is called a prostitute and the person who receives such services is known by a multitude of terms, including a "john". Prostitution is one of...
hotel room. The two Joozians then, very drunk and high on "blach", begin sucking on each others' "jaggons" and sticking their fingers in each others "thrushers", actions depicted as being highly erotic
Eroticism
Eroticism is generally understood to refer to a state of sexual arousal or anticipation of such – an insistent sexual impulse, desire, or pattern of thoughts, as well as a philosophical contemplation concerning the aesthetics of sexual desire, sensuality and romantic love...
and, seemingly, inappropriate. Kenny takes a picture of it, and the boys then blackmail
Blackmail
In common usage, blackmail is a crime involving threats to reveal substantially true or false information about a person to the public, a family member, or associates unless a demand is met. It may be defined as coercion involving threats of physical harm, threat of criminal prosecution, or threats...
the aliens with it. The Joozians agree to erase everyone's memory of the truth about Earth, then send the oblivious boys back to their own planet. Kenny still has the picture, and though no one can remember what it is, Chef tells Kenny to keep it, as he feels sure that it's something very important. The episode ends with another advertisement for Earth, promising that on next episode the "American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
s and Iraqi
Ba'athist Iraq
The History of Iraq , referred to as Ba'athist Iraq, covers the period of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party's rule over Iraq. Ba'athist rule in Iraq first occurred briefly in 1963 under Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr until overthrown that same year. Ba'athism was restored to power five years later after...
s have an all-out brawl" (The coalition invasion of Iraq was launched the night of this episode's original airing).