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Ep. 116 Mr. Hankey 3: Triple Christmas Poo Deluxe · Privycast

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>> Speaker A: And he'll say, jeep boy, that was a swell
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tune. And he'll just have these pithy
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little Mr. Hanky isms throughout the
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episode.
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Welcome back to privy.
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Privy is a podcast about
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bathrooms recorded from
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my home bathroom. I'm your host, hunter
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Hoover, and I love
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bathrooms. Happy privy.
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Christmas. Uh, and
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hattie ho. A
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regular part of what we do here
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every year at Christmas time
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is we take
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yet one more special look
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into what really is becoming
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Hunter's narrow window into
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the world of south park. Um, for
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those who do not or may
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not yet know, south park is an american,
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uh, animated comedy. Uh, it is
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an adult comedy. So some of the things that we
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discuss in today's episode might not be
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for kids. I try to really focus
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it in so it is as family friendly as
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a conversation about these things. Possibly could
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be, but it is an
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adult animated comedy, uh, here in the
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states. And, um,
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to date, I have seen exactly
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three episodes of south park.
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Um, and namely, they are the three
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episodes featuring this week's topic
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of conversation, Mr.
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Hanky the Christmas pooh. Now,
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to catch you up to speed, in season
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one of south park, we are
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introduced to Mr. Hanky.
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Um, and I think,
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if I remember correctly, again, I
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watched this two years ago. I believe a
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character named kyle,
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um, poops a
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sentient Christmas turd
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who seems to
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then also be like, the one who
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saves the Christmas pageant. Um,
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and the gag of that episode is like,
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Kyle takes this Christmas chaz
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and puts m the turd in the box and
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calls it Mr. Hanky the Christmas poo. And
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whenever he shows it to somebody, they don't believe in Mr.
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Hanky. And so, like, Mr. Hanky is just, again,
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a turd in a box. Uh,
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but then the school chef, which
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from what I can tell, is called chef,
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uh, his name's chef, uh, actually
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vouches for Kyle and says, oh, yeah, like, Mr. Hanky's
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real. Um, and so then Mr. Hanky
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solidifies himself in the hearts and minds of the
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citizens of south park
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in season two, our last year's venture
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into the world of Mr. Hanky the Christmas
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poo. Um, it was kind of a two part
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outing. Ah. First, uh, a
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bunch of hippies descended on south
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park, and as a result,
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due to their grain fed and grass fed
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diets, um, they were wreaking
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havoc on the sewer
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system of south park.
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And as a result, Mr.
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Hankey's home in the sewers was under attack.
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Now, the episode's called
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Chef's chocolate salty balls. It's
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good lord.
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But in this episode, we find out that Mr.
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Hanky actually has wizard powers and can
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fly and shoot lightning. So that's fun. Um, so
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not only is he a sentient talking Christmas
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turd, but he also has the power of chain
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lightning, like Gandalf. Uh, so that's
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fun. Um, but later in that
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same season, um, Mr. Hanky has a brief
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appearance in the Christmas special featuring
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Charlie Manson, wherein the kids are trying to
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go to, uh, the mall to see Mr.
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Hanky. Um, and we find out that there's like a
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whole world of Mr. Hanky isms. There's like
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movies and tv shows and things based on
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this Mr. Hanky character. And
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so the character Mr. Hanky
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really, um, even just in the two
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seasons that we've looked at, has really solidified
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himself in the lore and legend
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of the world of south park. Again,
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these yearly adventures into south
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park, uh, are
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me hunters,
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limited interactions wherein I
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attempt to gather
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what information I can about the
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show simply via this one turd
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character. Uh, it's probably
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not a good idea, but it is an
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idea.
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In the past on the pod, we have discussed
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how perhaps Mr.
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Hankey's concept and idea was,
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again, perhaps not.
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Nothing official here, but
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Mr. Hankey does seem
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vaguely familiar to a character
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called Nutty the Friendly dump, who was
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created before Mr. Hankey bears a
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similar resemblance and is a sentient talking
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turd. Now, uh,
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I think at this point what south
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park has done with the character of Mr. Hanky, it would be a
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far stretch to try to say that the Mr.
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Hanky we know and love in the year 2023
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of our lord. And at the point of the episode that I watched, the
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year 1999 of that same lord,
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uh, is at all related to
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nutty the friendly dump. We're
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worlds apart. I don't think Nutty the friendly dump can shoot
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lightning out of where, I don't know where Mr. M Hanky, he seems to
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have arms in that episode, but it was hard to tell.
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And I have to say, whether or not
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taking in the show of South park
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based on this one character is a good idea is
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yet to be said. But what I do know
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is I'm picking up on some things about the
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show. The first
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is a character, cartman, I
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think is the fat one. Um, he's a
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real shyster, and we're going to get to that. Uh,
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I'm pretty sure also that one of the kids
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dies. Because
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at the end of this week's episode, which we're going to talk about
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briefly here in just a moment, this kid
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definitely does die. And
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as I watched it, I was like, I'm pretty sure
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I've seen this kid die. And I think this is like one of
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those ongoing gags. I don't know. I
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did miss chef in this episode. Uh, he did not
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make an appearance, um, nor his chocolate
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salty balls. Um, in
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the episode of Interest this
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week, Mr. Hankey plays the role
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of host. So
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without, uh, too much further
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ado, I want to take you to my response
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to the episode live from the
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toilet, Mr. Hanky's Christmas
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classic
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in the tv show. In the
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tv show. This is season three, episode I believe
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15. And. And the episode
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opens up, uh, with this sweeping musical
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number, uh, that is reminiscent of kind
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of the style from Frosty and Rudolph of
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old, except as the mailman, who
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is leading the musical number, introduces the
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episode. He sings and reminds us
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that, well, those shows are gay.
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Uh, those are his words, not mine. Now, again,
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this episode was made in 1999,
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and to varying degrees,
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maybe some of the jokes don't,
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uh, age well. I think most of the jokes
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age pretty well,
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but it really sets the tone for what this episode
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is going to be. Um, and they all
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sing the Mr. Hanky the Christmas. Mr.
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Hanky the Christmas pooh.
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He loves me and I love
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you. You know the rest.
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And in this song, uh, in this opening
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number, again, we're leading this episode
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out with this notion.
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Mr. Hankey himself
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in front of God and the mailman,
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insinuates that one of his holiday
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games and traditions that he plays with the
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kids is, quote, to see if he fits in
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their mouth. Now,
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lest we forget, Mr. Hanky
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is a
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animator. It's so gross. Uh,
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the animators at South park really went for it as
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Mr. Hanky jumps into each individual
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child's mouth, leaving a brown,
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I'm going to say, chocolate stain around their lips. It's
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so bad, it's whack.
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It then cuts to Mr. Hankey sitting
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fireside, uh, presumably from
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his home in the sewers that the kids of South park
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saved in season two. And Mr.
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Hanky tells us that he is going to be sharing
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in this episode, this Christmas
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episode of South Park, a number of musical
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Christmas and other holiday songs. Now, I got to tell you,
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at this point, I was getting hopeful. I was getting
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hopeful, primarily that we were going to be hearing
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a whole south parks episode of
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Bathroom Christmas related songs. It would have
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quite literally been the treasure trove for our
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pod. But Mr. Hankey
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does invite us to enjoy these songs, and we're going to run down
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these songs because they're something else. Um,
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but he says, if you don't like it, you can anyway.
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Uh, but the scene cuts then immediately away from
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Christmas to Hanukkah with a
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song about the dreidel overlaid with Cartman. Again,
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the fat one, the one that I think is the shyster of the
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episode, making fun of jewish people.
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Now, from what I can tell,
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based on the humor that I've observed in South park so
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far,
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South park seems to make
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fun of everybody. They don't pull any
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punches. And in the
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first three minutes of this Christmas episode of
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South park, again, right before y two k, like,
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this episode came out and like, two and a half weeks later,
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everybody thought maybe the world was going to end. But in
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the first three minutes, they've made fun of gay people and now jewish
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people. So here we are,
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and the first musical number ends, and then
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they finish their dreidel song.
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And then, as if, good lord.
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It's both intelligent as a comedic
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device. So what you have
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is it opens up with
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Kyle, I think, the jewish
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one, um, and
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him and his family and him trying to teach his
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brother about the dreidel. And then you have
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Cartman being an idiot in the background.
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And then right after the jewish Dreidel song
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ends, who is the next
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person on the screen? It's none other. Uh, I'm going to
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let you guess. If you haven't seen the episode, I'm going to let you
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guess. Go ahead in your brain, come up with
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who you think is the next person on that screen.
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It's Hitler.
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Uh, gosh, they know what they're doing. It's
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not an accident that it's like juxtaposing
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Hitler against the jewish song right out of the gate. This
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episode's really going for it.
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And we are opened up with an
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image of Hitler in Hell,
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and he is sad about his tree,
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which apparently is a tannin bomb. I had to look it up. I've
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heard the song oh, tannin bomb a number
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of times, never put together that it was a tree.
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It's a Christmas fur tree, and he's sad
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he doesn't have it. It's like a german
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tree. That's fun. German,
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german Christmas tree, a tannin bomb.
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I don't know what I thought a tannin bomb was.
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Uh, but as they.
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Satan shows up in hell to sing
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a song called Christmas in hell. Uh,
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and in hell, we see a number of
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characters, uh, and real life people
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depicted in hell. Um, and
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we also, I want to note, in hell, the boys of
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south park have stockings hanging above the fire,
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which doesn't bode well
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after Christmas. In hell, a
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character I don't know plays the role
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of a number of bells as he
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sings a multi part version of carol of the
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bells. And I can't stress, I'm not sure who this character is.
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I had to look him up and just see if I had a name.
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And they said his name is Mr. Mackie, so I'm
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guessing that he's like some sort of teacher. Uh,
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but that was funny.
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Him as all of the parts of carol of the,
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like, almost around was too
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good. Then here
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we go, cartman. Uh, they then
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cut Mr. Hankey's holiday classics.
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Cut to ancient bethlehem,
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where Cartman is heralding the birth
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of Jesus, and he notes, jesus is born.
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So now we get presents. Uh, and here's
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the deal about this song. I gotta tell you something.
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It's good. And I think it actually
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captures how so many people
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is, and we have to remember,
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Cartman's a kid. Um, and
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so I think for a lot of kids, unfortunately, there's this
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idea of, like, the birth of Jesus is important
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at Christmas, but also
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presents. Uh, and this song
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really does a lot to capture this.
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Cartman definitely did steal the presents.
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Bad. He's a little shyster.
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Um, also, the
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artists for south park, I think this
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is kind of entertaining, but they draw baby
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Jesus with adult Jesus's head. It's kind
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of weird and funny. It reminds me of,
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it actually came out later, but I saw it before. This
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is on iCarly when you would have baby
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Spencer, and it's just like adult Spencer's head
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shoved through the bottom of a crib. And it looks like baby
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Spencer, but it's like adult Spencer's head. That's what it
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reminded me of. Um,
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so Cartman steals the gifts and he sings a song
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about how Jesus is born, but also so
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he gets presents. He forgets the words of, like, oh, holy night or
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something. Now,
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the next song
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jumps to the kids in school and
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their teacher teaching them
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about different countries of the world. And
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then it jumps to their teacher telling
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them in song that he
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goes to all of these various
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countries and wishes them a merry
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effing Christmas, whether they believe in it or
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not. And truly,
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this is probably the most catchy song in the whole
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thing. Uh,
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they really went for it.
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Next, it is a song
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about, it's this girl playing piano, and I think
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her name's Shelly. They call her Shelly. I had to go back and
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listen to who they say she's. I don't know who Shelly
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is. I assume it's one of the
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boys'relatives. I think
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she's
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one of the boys'relatives. Because she's
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depicted in their house.
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Um, but she is
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playing on the piano and singing. I saw three
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ships come sailing in. Um, but
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she has braces, so she talks like this and
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she sings like this, and she has a lisp.
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And it's so
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good because the two boys are sitting in the back on the
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couch behind her making fun of her.
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And by the end of it,
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um, she gets mad and
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throws the piano at them. It's pretty good.
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Next, it jumps to a Karaoke open
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mic night wherein Santa and
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Jesus are performing together. Now,
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both of them are trying to sing songs for Christmas
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that are about themselves. And I think
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there's a pretty good commentary here about the war
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on Christmas and how
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I think people really want to pin
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Santa and Jesus Christmas against each
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other. And what I love about
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this is in
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this song, jesus seems to
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have had the upper hand. Like, he comes out and finally
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Santa's like, I'm done, I'm leaving. And he walks
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off. And then
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Jesus chooses to
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sing a generic winter song
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and invites Santa to join, and they
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both wrap up performing.
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You know, I interact with a lot of folks that I
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think want to have it out for
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Santa and
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this episode. And the way that they have
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set this up is it's such a good
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commentary of, like,
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you can have Santa
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and worship Jesus
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at, like, it's all about
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the birth of Christ, but it's okay to do
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the Santa thing. I think that's my
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takeaway. Um, and
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then the episode,
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and in between many of these, it'll cut to
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Mr. Hankey in his little
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den in his sewer home, and
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he'll say, jib boy, that was a swell
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tune. And he'll just have these pithy
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little Mr. Hanky isms throughout the
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episode. And the episode ends
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with the crew, the cast singing have
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yourself a merry little Christmas. And at
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the end, Mr. Hanky is flushed down the drain
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back to the sewers for another
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year. When I
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began this venture this year, I had
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no idea that this was
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the South park episode I was in
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for. Uh, and if I didn't know better,
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I would have thought that the writers and the
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animators had got mixed up in those reindeer
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mushrooms from last episode.
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What's also weird, and I didn't really look, I had to go
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find this is the title screened for the Mr.
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Hanky Christmas classics Christmas special.
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Looks like Star wars, and
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apparently it's homage to some Star wars
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special that came out in, like
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the. Also in
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this, the news broadcaster happens like,
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three times throughout Mr. Hanky's Christmas
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classics is he'll come on and it's like
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a live looking, live
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action news anchor, and he'll say something about
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fighting the frizz or fighting the fuzz.
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Now, apparently, when the Star
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Wars Christmas classic aired
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in, the guy would
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come on the screen, he'd say, don't forget to fight the frizz
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or the fuzz. I can't remember which. Um,
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and he was talking about hair.
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Now, at the end of Mr.
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Hankey's Christmas special, the news anchor
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says multiple times, and at the end, he is fighting a man in a
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fur suit. It's quite an episode. Um,
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in fact, when it came out, and
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still today, it was deemed one of South Park's
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most offensive episodes. It
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is reported in 2008, nine
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years after the episode's release,
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that the russian prosecutors, they
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tried to ban the entire series of South
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park based on complaints related to this
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episode. Later, the tv show was
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allowed to keep its license, promising not to air the
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show. In other words, you can keep your license to air,
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but you cannot air South park due to,
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again, the, uh, quote, offensiveness of this
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episode. And they really do
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seem to have tried to make the most offensive
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Christmas special they could, complete
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with Mr. Hanky leaving poo stains around
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kids'mouth for goodness. Like, chill the
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heck out, Mr. Hanky. Like,
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go back to electric wizard Hanky.
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I like him. I don't like Mr. Hanky popping in and
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out of kids'mouths. It's wildly gross.
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So the episode was controversial. And, uh,
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there's a few weird background
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things that add to this. The first is,
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um, the episode is dedicated to Mary Kay
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Bergman. Now, this may be one of the
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last times that her voice was heard or
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recorded in media, um, because she committed
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suicide less than a month before
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the episode was released.
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Uh, also releasing a couple
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weeks before the episode was an
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album of Christmas songs
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by the same title, Mr. Hanky's
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Christmas classics. And when I learned
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this, I went out, I had to do my research, had to do my due
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diligence, and I went out and I
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sought this. Now, I'm an apple music.
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I'm an apple music man. And so I
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hopped on apple Music. And
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it's often frustrating when I get on Apple Music and it doesn't
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have the offering that I'm looking for. But this happened. And so
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sometimes I have to eat my humble pie and go peek at
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Spotify. Now, I'm here to tell you, it's not on Spotify either. It
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is, but not really. Like, you can't listen to all of it.
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And so I had to go listen to this
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entire album, 40 something minutes. Like
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a plebeian on YouTube. Just like some
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peasant crouched in the corner
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listening to the street fair on YouTube.
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Had to have YouTube. I couldn't even multitask. I
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had to commit to this.
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And the album, Mr. Hankey's Christmas
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classics, has some additions which were
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not included in the tv show episode. These
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include a song called dead, dead, dead, which reminds
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us to celebrate the holidays now because one day we
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will be dead. A song
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titled it happened in Sun Valley. I don't remember
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what that one was about. A song called what
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the hell child is this sung by
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chef? And truly,
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I didn't hear any weird
23:33
deviations from what child is. It's.
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It's chef, and he's getting funky and soulful
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and maybe a little bit, like,
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sleazy sax romantic, if you know what I'm saying.
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But wasn't that awful?
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Uh uh. Also a song
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called Swiss Colony Beef Log. And I didn't know what this
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was like. This one was lost to me. But I
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think it's a reference to those
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nasty half dried salamis
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that you get in the cardboard box this time of year.
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And finally, the most offensive
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song ever, which really just has a
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lot to do with Mary not really being a virgin,
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um, which is just facts. Like, she had
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other kids with Joseph. So
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I'm just saying. I mean, like,
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statistically, she was not. Do you know what I'm saying?
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For my money, the song
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Merry F and Christmas
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was leagues more offensive.
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But the folks at South park released
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a holiday album in their
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South park style
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and a tv show, Mr.
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Hankey's Christmas classics, Christmas special,
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coupled to go with it. And here's the deal
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about this. These
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parodies, these songs that the folks at
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South park have made, and all of their
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songs, they're good, they're
25:08
catchy, they're offensive.
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But my argument is this, don't be
25:14
mad at south park for making an
25:17
offensive song catchy. My
25:19
argument is, if you're so mad about that,
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like, yes, I don't agree with what they
25:25
said or how they said it, but
25:28
the songs were good. And my argument is,
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go make a non offensive parody that's just as
25:34
catchy or more catchy yourself. The problem
25:37
is, that doesn't exist. And so south park made the
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catchy one. Sadly,
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we don't get a lot of new Mr. Hanky lore
25:45
this year. Uh, season three doesn't offer
25:48
us up a lot of Mr. Hanky lore,
25:51
except that he sits by the fire in his home
25:55
until the Christmas season. This year, he hosts
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the holiday special, Mr. Hanky's christmas
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classics. It's not a bad deal
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until next year, Mr. Hanky.
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And with that said, uh, I
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take another year long step back
26:15
from the world of south park. Uh,
26:18
my Mr. Hanky sized window into their
26:21
world truly is special. But this
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brings us to the end of another episode of privy. Thank you
26:26
so much for being here. It's the holiday
26:29
season, uh, and if you would
26:32
give us the gift of a rating or review. Uh, the
26:35
five star options are preferred in all ratings and
26:37
reviews. Generate a dollar to the wounded warriors
26:40
project and living water international,
26:44
reminding, uh, you to keep pooping in the free world,
26:47
uh, and to pursue some
26:49
cleaner water for everyone. Send us an email,
26:52
privycast@gmail.com. We'd love to hear from
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you, uh, episode suggestions, ideas,
26:58
things like that. I do have an email, uh, that I want
27:01
to read. This came from
27:04
Jude Domini, former
27:07
guest on the show and friend of the show, Jude. Uh,
27:09
Jude sent me this email ways back. Sorry, Jude, I'm
27:12
a bit backed up and not like that.
27:15
Uh, but it's these
27:18
pictures of this
27:23
secluded bathroom in Fortnite. And it's
27:26
literally just a toilet on top of a
27:28
hill. Um,
27:32
and it's actually got like a sink and stuff. It's very
27:34
interesting. I'll save these pictures and
27:37
share them out, probably on privy socials. But Jude,
27:40
thank you for spotting the privies in the video
27:43
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27:46
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27:49
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Follow, uh, Randy Bowles, uh, if you
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I'm at Owlett seven. This has been
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another episode of Privy. Thanks to Kevin and Pottington for
28:05
the use of their music this week and the use of any other
28:08
music that we jumped on board of.
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Link in the ding dong thing below. This
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has been another episode of Privy. Thank you so much for joining
28:16
us. Keep pooping in the free world. Own
28:19
your stank, wash your butthole.
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And now, until next year,
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how.
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Don't forget to flush. Um.