The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs
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"The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs" is the second episode of the fourteenth season of the American animated television series South Park, and the 197th overall episode of the series. It originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on March 24, 2010.[1] The episode lampoons the controversy and literary analysis of The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger.
Plot
The students at South Park Elementary are assigned to read The Catcher In The Rye, and are excited to do so after learning about the controversy surrounding the book. Butters finishes reading the novel and immediately goes into a trance-like state and becomes convinced that he must kill John Lennon. However, Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny hate the novel, not finding it offensive and wondering why it was banned in public schools. They decide to write their own novel, entitled The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs, with the intention of making it the most profane and controversial book ever.
Stan's parents find the first draft, and they both consider it to be capable of winning the Pulitzer Prize, despite its content causing them to repeatedly vomit while reading it. Fearful of getting in trouble for what they wrote, the four boys convince Butters that he wrote the book while sleepwalking. However, their plan to shift blame over to Butters backfires when the novel is published and becomes a huge success. Anyone who reads the book is unable to keep from vomiting, but still heralds it as a brilliant masterpiece. Jealous of Butters, the four boys unsuccessfully campaign to have the book banned, and are shocked to find readers interpreting passages from the novel in ways they did not intend. Cartman and Kenny plan to get Sarah Jessica Parker (who is referenced in Scrotie several times) killed, thinking this will help get the book banned. They abandon her in the woods when they learn that Butters has written a second novel called The Poop That Took a Pee, which consists solely of simple descriptions of scatological acts. The boys think this will expose Butters as not being the true author of Scrotie, but to their surprise, readers consider it to be even better and more profound.
A crazed reader finishes reading Poop and murders the Kardashian sisters, causing Butters much distress. Both novels are banned as a result, and Stan suggests that instead of reading books and possibly discovering the wrong message in them, people should watch television instead. Meanwhile, Parker is killed when a hunter mistakes her for a moose, and once again the boys convince Butters that it was the result of actions he performed while sleepwalking.
External links
- "The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs" at SouthParkStudios.com
- "The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs" at SouthParkStudios.co.uk
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